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Category: Photography

This subject is related or theory of photography, such as an analysis of a specific photograph or a technique or more broadly the philosophy, ethics, concepts, etc.

  • Readings on Social Networks, Media

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    Technology Review: Mapping Professional Networks Now IBM is exploring how different visualizations of the social graph could be useful within businesses, as a way of helping people work more efficiently and make better connections. Aimed at helping workers organize around common goals, the research focused on adapting popular social tools such as bookmarking and blogging…

  • Best in Category: Buildings

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    Best in Category: Buildings

    This category can be easily confused with the Cityscapes category so I need to be sure that anything included here is really about a building. This photograph was taken in Trier, Germany. The building is the Porta Nigra, locate just on the edge of the Mosel river. The Porta Nigra is one of the gates…

  • Best in Category: Flowers

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    Best in Category: Flowers

    This photograph was taken in my back yard, in May. I was lucky enough to get the subject in focus just as it came into the sun.While the boldness of the colour is spectacular; what impressed me most about this shot is how well the flower stands out from the background, offering an almost 3D…

  • Best in Category: Artistic

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    Best in Category: Artistic

    This photograph was taken in Brugge, Belgium. The subject was located in the lobby of the hotel that we were staying in. What I found impressive was that it was constructed of various used parts from other mechanical devices. Very much in keeping with its Bork-like resemblance; a sort of recursive element adding another dimension…

  • Year-end wrap-up: Photograph of the year

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    Year-end wrap-up: Photograph of the year

    Lots of things to wrap up for the end of the year. Beyond the mundane is reviewing my photographs and picking the best of 2007. This is a bigger task than I thought it might be when I first considered coming to this choice. My library has 10,504 photographs, 5,304 from 2007. Of those 5,304…