Showcase: Dubai’s Improbable Tale - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com
by karlcowThere were new cars abandoned by fleeing expatriates and three-year-old housing developments being torn down to make room for even newer housing developments.
There were new cars abandoned by fleeing expatriates and three-year-old housing developments being torn down to make room for even newer housing developments.
A few people have been asking me how the LENS Blog on The New York Times site came to be and what software it was built on. I thought I’d shed a little light on the development process and answer some of these questions.
"After agonizing for weeks over which digital single lens reflex camera to buy, I bought the Canon XSi /450D, my first DSLR. The XSi has several improvements over its predecessor: a faster processor, improved nine-point autofocus, Live View with dual autofocus modes, spot metering, a larger LCD screen and a larger, brighter viewfinder. It also has an updated menu system. In these blog entries, I share my settings and experiences with the XSi, as well as what I’ve learned about using a DSLR."
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Laryngoscopic images of the pharynx and larynx obtained using a Kay Elemetrics Rhino-Laryngeal Stroboscope 9100, halogen light source, Olympus ENF-P3 fibreoptic laryngoscope, Panasonic KS 152 camera, and 28mm wide-angle lens: View from the naso-pharynx adjusted to view the glottis, pyriform recesses, arytenoids, and aryepiglottic folds, as far as possible behind the epiglottis.
Lens Culture is an online magazine celebrating international contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures. Discover photography from all continents and various points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, poetic, personal, abstract, human, and street photography.
Made from the innards of a broken Sigma 28-200mm lens. Cost £5 from the camera shop in watford, Bargain :)
World of Warcraft is a very popular MMORPG and the Burning Crusade is their first expansion module. This page contains links to the Blizzard Entertainment FAQ pages in Europe (The U.S. pages are generally bogged down by excessive traffic. ) It has recieved a lot of traffic, but absolutely NO sales, so there will be no Wrath of the Lich King "lens" from me.
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Thanks to Diggit-clone software, a lot of rankable directories are appearing, including some exclusively for Squidoo lenses. They're great places to promote your lenses. Many thanks to the lensmasters featured here for bringing them to my attention.
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Identify a font by appearance Identify a font by answering a series of simple questions about its appearance. You may find it helpful to use a magnifying glass or hand lens if the text size is small. Restricted set of letters If you have a restricted set of letters, such as in a logo or heading, enter them below. You will then only be asked questions that can be answered from the letters you specified:
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Behavioral Inference across Cultures: Using Telephones as a Cultural Lens
Eagle, N.
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
Volume 23, Issue 4, July-Aug. 2008 Page(s):62 - 64
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIS.2008.58
Summary:Most people carry mobile telephones, which automatically capture behavioral data and store it in service provider databases around the world. The different types of captured data can provide insight into human cultures. Examples from various cultures and hundreds of millions of individuals illustrate how phones can serve as a cultural lens, improving our understanding of social networks, outlier events, and a culture's pace of life.
I chose to use a 110A because I got a good deal on eBay. 110Bs are the most popular just because they have a couple minor improvements over the 110A. Some people convert the 'lesser' models as well. Here is my 150 next to my 110A. See the obvious difference in the lens quality.
How to create a circular electronic flash tube that fits around a camera lens to give shadowless lighting of a subject near the lens, esp. for macrophotography.
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imply mount a lens on the bedroom window. In this way, when you wake up in the morning, you will admire the outside scene projected on a wall of your bedroom
The Clickbank HopAds Module will display paying ads for digital products that match the topic of your lens. When a visitor clicks on one of these links and buys something from ClickBank, you get a share of the commission. The only thing you need is a lens and a ClickBank Affiliate ID - no other signups, no code and no experience required!
This Clickbank HopAds Module will display paying ads for digital products that match the topic of your lens. When a visitor clicks on one of these links and buys something from ClickBank, you get a share of the commission. The only thing you need is a lens and a ClickBank Affiliate ID - no other signups, no code and no experience required.
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L.A.’s Cartifact recently released Cartifact Maps, a Flash-based tilemaps viewer with custom cartography and advanced map browsing tools. The historic overlays and beautiful cartographic design are perhaps of most interest, but I’m equally impressed by their implementation of a novel map browsing UI featuring a magnifying glass or “lens tool”.