Beautiful Beaches of Maldives

 

PARADISE! I wish to be there...

Thanks Linda! CHEERS!

Post your Pets!

 
Taking digital pictures of your pets can be a challenge, but worth it in the long run. While this how-to assumes you want to take a picture of your dog or cat, most of what is described below can be applied to other types of pets as well.

Steps
1.Find a time when your pet is most relaxed. If you know your cat is hyper right after eating, then it is best not to take the picture at that time. The hardest part about taking pictures of dogs or cats is getting them to sit still long enough to take the picture.

2.Get down on your knees or in the prone position. A good picture of pets will be from the pet's eye level, not yours with the pet looking up at you. (This also applies to small children.)

3.If your camera has a "sports" mode, turn it on. This might be needed for a happy-go-lucky pet that wants to keep moving around. Setting your camera to sports mode does two things. 1. It uses a faster shutter speed to "freeze" the subject. If your pet is moving around, a slow shutter speed might leave you with a blurry picture. 2. It will use a special focusing system that constantly adjust the focus of the camera. Without this, the camera focuses once and locks that way. If your focus is locked on your pet and he/she moves, you might end up with out of focus pictures.

4.Once you have your digital picture, you need a print to hang up on the wall. If you have a inkjet printer, then you can easily make the prints yourself using the digital cameras software. Otherwise use an online photo service such as Mpix, shutterfly, Snapfish or oFoto to buy prints of your digital pictures. Follow the instructions on the websites for uploading and ordering prints. Online photo labs like www.mpix.comare pretty cheap, with prices starting at .29 cents for 4x6 prints. They also offer different types of paper such as matte, glossy, and metallic.

Tips
*Take pictures of your pet in his/her natural surroundings. If your cat spends all his/her time sitting on the couch, then that is the best place to take the photo. If your dog spends all his/her time in the yard, then that is the best place to take the photo.

Things You'll Need
*A digital camera. ANY camera will work. It doesn't matter if it's a cheap, $99 Barbie digital camera, or a $1500 Digital Nikon. Obviously the better the camera, the better the image.
*A way to make prints. This could be a inkjet printer or an online print service.
*A pet!

Flickr Badge - cool!

Flickr introduced a new badge generator with a lot of new features, including the ability to restrict the photos displayed to a certain set or group pool. (see on top the side bar)

My first attempts met with some trouble. The code that the Flickr badge generator creates comes in two sections: the CSS for style, and the HTML code for the badge. Unfortunately, the CSS block was causing issues, breaking validation (under XHTML Transitional, you can’t have a block inside a element) and doing something else that resulted in a random string of characters displaying instead of the badge. (in step four of the HTML badge creator), the CSS code always stayed the same, and it was only variables in the Javascript call to Flickr that determined which photos were displayed. Try, try and try...bingo!

Although I've been on Flickr, heavily, for over a year, it has only been recently that I've picked up on some of the best ways to use the site to find truly spectacular photography. I'm on a mission of sorts to collect the very best photography that I can possibly find on Flickr. I'm not sure why I'm so obsessed with this mission but at present I have marked over 14,000 photos favorites of mine on Flickr. These are photos that I genuinely love, each and every one. Having looked over 14,000 photos I have certainly looked at many more. I'd guess I've probably looked at more than 100,000 photos on Flickr in the past year and so today's lesson will be on a lot of fun ways for you to play with Flickr and new ways of finding the very best photography on the site.
Hey Brain! I'm sure you will tag the dog section. Cheers!

Flickr - Found this cute!

Can see more here!

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

AURORA

Our world creation! Amazingly beautiful...

Aurora Borealis
This was taken on January 18 2005. January 18 was a spectacular solar weather day in 2005. There were two strong X-flares in the days preceding that set up an excellent night of auroras that were visible well into the 48 states. It wasn't the most spectacular day of the season in Fairbanks, but it was one of the two best of the season in general in the Northern Hemisphere. The location is apparently somewhere on Eielson AFB in Fairbanks, which is not the place I took a photo that looks very similar, but I think I may have a photo of that exact formation in the sky taken from a spot about 15 miles to the north. Joseph N Hall 08:41, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Aurora Australis
Appearing in the night sky (10:50 pm Australian time (GMT = 8:50 am) at Swifts Creek, 100km north of Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia.