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This is fantastic. What a process.
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The Big Picture: Horses at work and at play.
A wonderful collection of images of horses in all corners of the world.

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The Big Picture has a wonderful set up: Days of Autumn.

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Irina Rozovsky Photography
Irina is a Russian ex pat who’s got a great collection of images including This Russia.
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David Katz of the Obama Campaign got access behind the scenes at the Nashville, TN debate and captured many candid moments of the Obama group getting ready: Barack at the 2nd Debate in Nashville, TN 10-7-08.
The photograph above is in the “green” (blue) room with David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist and another person I don’t [...]

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Internet Cafes Around The World
Fantastic collection.
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STS-116 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Check the Hi Res version.
Backdropped by New Zealand and Cook Strait in the Pacific Ocean, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (left) and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction continues on the International [...]

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The sapphire mines of Madagascar
The tiny village of Ilakaka, Madagascar had barely 40 residents before 1998. Then, a large deposit of sapphires was discovered along a nearby riverbed, and caught the eye of some Thai businessmen in the gem trade. Word got out, and Ilakaka swelled to tens of thousands of residents - the center [...]

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Los Angeles, California. There was some nice light and bokeh behind my glass of Sierra at the Getty Restaurant so the camera had to come out.
While I enjoy the ambiance in that restaurant I got the sense that it’s not doing all that well; unlike other dinner’s we’ve had there, the room was far from [...]

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Los Angeles, California. My mother is into Baroque period art so we went up to the Getty to see a show of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s work. Frankly, baroque doesn’t do it for me but Bernini’s drawings are spectacular and worth seeing if you’re in the area.
The main entrance to the Getty galleries is a wonderful, [...]

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Los Angeles, California. There are many things in bloom Inside the labyrinth that is Robert Irwin’s Central Garden at The Getty Center. I shot this plant hoping that the colorful blur behind it might be as or more interesting than the plant.
For those of you who are interested in such things, note that this was [...]

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For Rock-Climbing Guru, the Sky Is His Roof
He was known as the king of the Yosemite lifers, that proud band of rock climbers, tightrope walkers and seekers who made camp on the margins of the law, sleeping under the black oaks and sequoias and California stars.
Oh my, where to start. I don’t know if I [...]

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Hovis Bread TV Commercial
This video has been making the rounds and for good reason, it’s great. And, there’s lots to be learned even for us still photographers in the ad. Each scene is beautifully set up and choreographed, keeping the focus on the boy and the bread but showing the context, less to show how [...]

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The Big Picture has a fantastic collection of Scenes from India.
Timely given my recent post: It really is a small world.

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Backstory
In 1999 I went to India to do a series of lectures and some consulting on the use of technology in classrooms to help students with learning difficulties. I made this trip with a good friend and colleague Bart Pisha who is also an expert on the use of technology in classrooms. Neither of us [...]

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The Big Picture has a wonderful series on Observing Ramadan.
Muslim faithful throughout the world are currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Observant Muslims participate in fasting (sawm), one of the five pillars of their faith, this entire Lunar month (this year it extends from September 1st to the 30th). Eating, drinking, smoking and sexual [...]

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Jonathan Moreau posted a great image of a Kansas City Library parking garage facade up at flickr. I’m not holding my breath that the Warren Connecticut (pop 1300) Library builds a garage, let alone puts a great book facade on it.

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The Big Picture does it again: 2008 Summer Paralympic Games.
This is some of the best sports photography I’ve ever seen and of course, the subject is incredible.

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Tim Gasperak’s Mystery of Iceland.
This is why I want to go there: light, space, deeply saturated color. Wow.
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Convention Protest Photos
Democratic National Convention Images were created by either Tim Hussin or Noah Rabinowitz. Republican National Convention Images by Danny Ghitis.
Nice shootin’ guys.
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