Notes on a web journey

posted on: 03 May 2008

Cities at night from space

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To an observer in space, humanity's footprints on the surface of the Earth are large and varied. They include the regular patterns of irrigated cropland, straight lines of roads and railways running across continents, reservoirs on river systems, and the cement rectangles of ports and seawalls along coastlines. But what about humanity's signature footprint - cities? By day, cities viewed from space can blend into the countryside, or appear as gray smudges, depending on the style of development and size of the urban area.

The lights of Tokyo

Cities at night: the view from space

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posted on: 04 March 2008

Images of a changing world

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Fragile Earth, views of a changing world:

Fragile Earth

Fragile Earth

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posted on: 29 December 2007

Pieter Hugo

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I have seen these pictures before somewhere, maybe on the BBC:

Mallam Mantari Lamal with Mainasara - Nigeria 2005

Pieter Hugo Photography

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posted on: 13 July 2007

Travel photographer

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A selection of the best images from the first four years of the Travel Photographer of the Year competition:

Young boy Kolenze Mali

Travel photographer of the year

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posted on: 11 April 2007

Faces

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A photoblog by Ryan Keberly:

The Snowsuit Effort

Faces of Metropolitan Detroit.

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posted on: 14 February 2007

Microphotographs

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An annual contest for the best microphotographs of living (or once living) things.

Zinnia flower primordium

Microphotographs of Living Things

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posted on: 29 January 2007

Insects macros

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Macro shots of various insects or bugs. All the shots are taken in my garden.

Fly head

Insects macros

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posted on: 08 December 2006

Satellite imagery

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The Smithsonian's online exhibition of satellite imagery:

Venice

Earth from space

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posted on: 19 October 2006

Pictures and design

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Via Ace Jet 170:

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posted on: 12 October 2006

Images of nature

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In 1952, Thomas Eisner, a graduate student at Harvard, drove around North America for two months with a fellow student, Edward O. Wilson, to see the country and its insects. For the past half century, Dr. Eisner, now an emeritus professor at Cornell, continued his travels in the fields of entomology, evolutionary biology, chemical ecology and conservation. Some of his best-known research was on the explosive chemical outburst of the bombardier beetle, which he and his colleagues analyzed and photographed.

A carpenter ant and a leaf beetle - Thomas Eisner

Eye-Catching Images of Nature

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posted on: 25 September 2006

History in pictures

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We have compiled a collection of thousands of the most important photographs of the last 150 years; pictures of our struggles, trials, and triumphs. We can only fully understand our history by gazing into the eyes of the people that made that history.

Naples streets - ca. 1890

Picture History

The institution of photography in Ceylon was first established in the mid 1840's and was practiced quite extensively towards the end of the 19th Century. During that period there were dozens of local and foreign artist who took up the challenge to record the daily events which took place in the beautiful and mysterious island of Ceylon in the form of a photographic image.

A group of Veddhas

Images of Ceylon

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posted on: 17 August 2006

Insects photography

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Nothomyrmecia macrops - Dinosaur Ant - South Australia
Nothomyrmecia macrops - Dinosaur Ant - South Australia

Beautiful pictures of insects on myrmecos (and also links to other similar web sites).

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posted on: 25 July 2006

Never been photographed

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My heart feels heavy as I present these portraits of the poorest of the poor of India. My father documented these portraits, not for the Internet, not for the money or artistic effort, but with a sense of history in his mind. “In a few years, it will be hard for us to believe that we lived amongst people like these” he once wrote to me. The subjects in this series are mostly uneducated, poor, and never been in front of a camera.

Never been photographed

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posted on: 14 July 2006

Underwater Image Competition

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Underwater Image Competition 2006
link to a shortlist of ten entries per each of the five categories

SERPENT's permanent gallery of images split into regions: image gallery

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posted on: 14 February 2006

Earth images

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Beautiful Earth images:

Earth Globe - Eastern view Earth Globe - Western view

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posted on: 28 January 2006

The Cloud Appreciation Society

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A web site dedicated to clouds:

Clouds by Steve Maniscalco

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posted on: 11 January 2006

More Shanghai pics

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I have added some more pics of Shanghai in the photo archive.

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posted on: 08 August 2005

Serpent eagles

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I took a few pics of two serpent eagles flying over the house. I have published one in the usual place in the menu column, the other it's here:

Two serpent eagles - Bali

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CSS,Javascript and Php studies

Anti spam email
A solution to writing an anti spam email contact link
filed under: Javascript
Background image
A background image randomizer that I used in the second version of this site.
filed under: Javascript/CSS
Javascript menu
A menu that uses Javascript and session cookies.
filed under: Javascript/CSS
MiniSite
Experimenting with CSS and Javascript.A simple but, in my opinion, nice navigation “system”. The MiniSite is a one page site.
filed under: Javascript/CSS
Photo display
Done in a way that protects copyrighted material, protected photo display is a simple but effective solution.
filed under: Javascript/CSS
PHP menu
A PHP menu that can be updated without having to re-publish all the pages is on.
filed under: PHP
Pop-up menu
A very simple pop up menu powered by Javascript. It works also if Javascript is disabled.
filed under: Javascript/CSS
RSS feed
How to write and use an RSS feed
filed under: rss-xml
Tag replacer
The Tag replacer explained and a link to it.
filed under: PHP
Tags search
A search form build and powered using Javascript and the DOM
filed under: Javascript