It’s remarkable to think that to entities as large as galaxies could actually collide, but it does happen. It has happened in the past, as far as we can tell. Photo Credit: NASA, APOD The image above is of the Mice Galaxies taken by Hubble two large spiral galaxies which are circling each other and [...]
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Lunar Eclipse 2008 – Amazing Perspectives
February 24th, 2008 1 Comment
There were some great views of the Lunar Eclipse this past week. I had the opportunity to take a break from a class I’m taking and watch the eclipse reach totality. The event lasted quite a bit longer than I had anticipated (admittedly, I’ve never spent the time to watch a full eclipse event before. [...]
Tags: Astronomy · Photography
Flickr Fight Follow-up: The proof
January 26th, 2008 No Comments
After the post I did a couple of days back about FlickrFight using images and not attributing them to the photographers who took and own the images, I thought it might help to actually point to some of the things that FlickrFight is doing. First off, they’re not copying the images, they are getting them [...]
Tags: Development · Flickr · Internet · Open Source · Photography · Programming · Web 2.0
Picasa for OS X in 2008
January 19th, 2008 No Comments
It’s been a busy week this week, and there’s some news items that I just didn’t get to yet. This one comes to us courtesey of TechCrunch. One of the most popular photo editing programs for Windows has to be Google’s Picasa. Though it’s not the most full-featured image editing on the market it’s free [...]
Tags: Google · Mac OS X · Photography · Tech News · Utilities
Now I’m a Published Photographer!
January 15th, 2008 2 Comments
[[Welcome to this, the 200th post on kdmurray.net!]] I got confirmation today that the folks over at Schmapp have selected one of my photos for inclusion in their 2007 Los Angeles travel guide in the “Best of the Beach” section. The photo is one I took of the Santa Monica pier when we were in [...]
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