Astronomy pictures

A gorgeous gallery of astronomy pictures is available on the frame today.

Amazing images from the Iceland volcano

As by now everybody knows there is a volcano erupting on iceland (Eyjafjallajokull) that has brought down most air traffic in Europe. As annoying as that can be to travellers (and I have several friends stuck because of it) it does give rise to beautiful images. Later there will be some really nice sunsets and sunrises too because of the volcanic ash in the higher atmosphere. There is a really nice gallery on the big picture here. They show and link to extraordinary images from Belgian photographer Olivier Vandeginste. Well worth a look.
More pictures:
Earlier Big Picture gallery
The Frame 1
The Frame 2
Denver Post (love that picture of the icelandic horses before the cloud
NY times lens blog Superb images!

I like this image from flickr user Sverrir Thor, who has many more nice ones in his stream.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sverrir_thor/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Beautiful Iceland images

In this NYT profile of Ragnar Sigurdsson. I like the giant images placed in the landscape.

EDIT: Some great images of the erupting volcano are here.

New panorama gallery

Smugmug has a new feature where you can create galleries with virtual links to images in other galleries. I love this as I no longer have to reproduce the images in multiple places so that folks can find them. One example is shown in the little flash slideshow below, where I made a gallery of horizontal panoramas gathered from other places. They automatically get a link to originating gallery. Check it out. Full-screen slideshow in this link.

Photogalleries to visit

Fantastic images of New York and Las Vegas from the air at night.
Riots in Greece because of the debt crisis.
Fantastic image of water roaring over a dam in the Gunnison river
Devastating images of Chile after the earthquake.
The Pakistan Taliban. I like the first image of the Pakistani soldier with the enormous moustache.

Great images from a fun festival

The Frame comes through again with gorgeous images of Holi.

Absolutely gorgeous photos

From India's republic day, when they celebrate independence from the British and the anniversary of their constitution. Check them out. Well worth your while.

Galleries of winter and holiday images

Nice Solstice/Holiday/Christmas lights images at the Bee. I grew up near Gouda from which they have nice image of kaarsjesnacht.
Beautiful snowy images at the Big Picture.

Kodachrome

See this page for an absolutely fantastic slideshow of famous and less famous images taken on the legendary Kodachrome film. From Digital Story.

Amazing images of Sulfur mining in Indonesia

See where your sulfur comes from. As a chemist, I see the beauty in the sulfur and its red and yellow form, but those working conditions, hiking up and down into a volcano crater to the edge of a lake that is basically sulphuric acid mixed with hydrochloric acid, carrying big heavy chunks of sulfur with very little protection from the H₂S undoubtedly in the air are terrible. Beautiful images though.

Democracy at work

Gorgeous photogallery on elections in India.

Undersea volcano eruption pictures

Near Tonga and very impressive. Check them out here.

Holi in NYC

Some great pictures from Holi in NYC in this gallery from the Frame.

Want to see some crazy colors

Check out this gallery of images from Holi, the Indian festival of color. Be sure to use a color managed browser on this as the images are a mix of sRGB and adobeRGB.

Photos from Tibet

Tibetian uprising day on the Frame. Gorgeous images!

Renewable energy gallery

I have said before that I love the galleries at the frame. This one is no exception. But funnily this is one gallery where my two worlds meet. They focus on Renewables in Colorado and naturally that implies lots of pictures from NREL. I know all the folks in the images! Check them out. Some interesting images for sure.

The Boston Globe's awesome photo galleries - all in adobeRGB?

I always thoroughly enjoy the beautiful galleries that the Boston Globe publishes. This time is no exception. I am always struck by the beautifully saturated colors they appear to be able to hit. Of course I always use color managed browsers. Webkit/Safari is my favorite, although I also use Firefox 3 with the secret setting enabled. So I had never noticed this before but all the images on the galleries in the globe are in adobeRGB color space. Of course my browser is color managed so this doesn't matter and it even leads to even better colors on my wide gamut display, however, if you use a non-managed browser like internet Explorer (trash it!) or Chrome, you might want to fire up Safari or Firefox (don't forget to enable the color management) and check out their galleries. The difference is stunning, especially in the gorgeous reds and yellows they have such as the fires near Melbourne of a while ago. They are so much more amazing in a managed browser. This is especially true if you use a laptop with a small gamut display such as a Apple MacBook.

Roll over to see how much better this image looks in a color-managed browser, even on a fully calibrated screen! These are screenshots from the aforementioned bushfire galleries from Firefox using managed and unmanaged settings. The awesome (in the original sense of the word of inspiring apprehension or fear) destructive power of the flames really comes out in an unsettling manner in the managed rendering. Be patient, depending on your connection, the first time this can take a few seconds to appear. After that, it will be instantaneous.


Even though this is simply an error by the web people at that newspaper (they should use sRGB for everything), this is another big argument for using a managed browser at all times.

Photos from Australia's wildfires

Rob Galbraith compiled a list of galleries of images from the devastating wildfires near Melbourne. The images are at once hauntingly beautiful and immensely sad. My heart goes out to those affected.

Check them out.

Weekly Photography links

Snow blankets London
Beautiful weekly gallery from msnbc. I love 1 and 9.
Gallery of gorgeous scientific photography (mostly electron micrographs) and visualizations from Science Magazine.
What American "Socialism" brought us during the New Deal.
Van on the edge of Rim Rock drive. Rim Rock drive is another WPA project from the depression era. It's in beautiful Colorado National Monument.
Images from the Colorado Stock show. An annual event in Denver in January.
Heartbreaking images from economic collapse in Ohio (via Rob Galbraith)
Superbowl fans

Photographic links of the week.

Pictures of the central plains ice storms
Cool family shots (from John Nack's blog)
Amazing areal images from London. (From Rob Galbraith's blog)
Summer in the southern hemisphere.
Funny juxtaposition.
Rash of naked hikers in the swiss Alps? I thought this has always been popular and not something new?
Why icebergs are blue (this is the correct explanation!)
Gigapan released their panorama robot.
Capture video with any Live View capable Nikon DSLR, even those that don't support video capture!
Win good stuff in the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop contest.
Beautiful images from one of my favorite National Parks. I found this guy's website after searching for images of a lake I wanted to photograph this spring. I do lots of photography in RMNP myself as many of you will know.
Most poignant photos of the Bush presidency selected by some major photo editors.
Inauguration day (NPR).