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15 timeless flower themed MACRO shots to inspire

Gary Hartley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:48:54 +0000

Macro photography allows photographers to get up close and personal with a subject, capturing detail and allowing the viewer to see the world from an unseen angle. This collection is themed on flowers and light and is a beautiful collection to both aspire and inspire, enjoy.

10 Individually Brilliant Photographs!

Gary Hartley — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:16:28 +0000

A picture paints a thousand words and here are 10 that do that with flair. I love the photo of the storm over the island, such a tremendous image. If you like them why not give it a “Thumbs Up!”

Storm over an island

Massive Butterfly

Penguin Army

Clever cement advertisement

Crazy Soil erosion

Traffic deadlock in downtown hell hole

BIG wave coming

Weird Lego

Summit view

Massive Coconut Crab

A room covered in thousands of white post-its

Gary Hartley — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:25:04 +0000

A superb creation entitled “Winter 1972″ by a student studying visual communications in Switzerland, called Adrian Merz. A portfolio piece using thousands of white posts-it notes in a living room.

Original reference and credit to Fubiz

Random act of kindness

Gary Hartley — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:29:43 +0000

A random act of kindness is a selfless act performed by a person or persons wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual or in some cases even an animal. There will generally be no reason other than to make people smile, or be happier. Either spontaneous or planned in advance, random acts of kindness are encouraged by various communities. An oft-cited example of a random act of kindness is, when paying the toll at a toll booth on a highway, to pay the toll for the vehicle behind you as well.

I’m challenging myself to do an act of kindness everyday throughout the month of March. The purpose is to distract myself from my 27th Birthday (4th March) and bring some joy into other people lives.

The last few months have been hard, I’ve had money issues, I’ve had a few scares with my living situation and I’ve been overly stressed/underly appreciated at work. So instead of falling down into a web of depression and grouchiness I thought I’d set myself this mini-challenge and do some good.

I hope I have your support, I’ll report next month with an itinerary of my daily acts.

If you want to give your support why not join in? Why make March the month of positive thinking and acts of kindness, afterall, spring is the end of winter and a step towards summer, beer gardens and holidays in the sun.

Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008

Gary Hartley — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:21:10 +0000

Boston.com, the online newspaper of the Boston Globe, has a special advent calendar on their website on the moment, counting down the days till Christmas 2008. Every day they upload a picture of Space, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. Now if you know me you’ll have noted at some point my passion for Astronomy, Space and Beyond (well had to finish the sentence off somehow).

First day of Advent 2008

In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our galaxy. The star, called V838 Monocerotis, has long since faded back to obscurity, but observations of a phenomenon called a “light echo” around the star have uncovered remarkable new features over the following years (this animation covers two years’ time). The light echo is light from the earlier explosion echoing off dust surrounding the star. Light from the outburst traveled to the dust and then was reflected to Earth. Because of this indirect path, the light arrived at Earth months after light from the star that traveled directly from the star. (NASA, ESA) More (see this on Google Sky)

“On the second day of Christmas”

In early January of 2000, Hubble took this image of Galaxy Cluster Abell 2218, and its massive amount of “gravitational lensing”. Abell 2218 lies some 2 billion light-years away in the Draco constellation and is so massive that its enormous gravitational field deflects light rays passing through it, much as an optical lens bends light to form an image. These magnifying powers provides a powerful “zoom lens” for viewing distant galaxies that could not normally be observed with the largest telescopes. The visible “arcs” are the distorted images of very distant galaxies, which lie 5 to 10 times farther away than the lensing cluster itself. (NASA, Andrew Fruchter and the ERO Team, STScI) More (see this on Google Sky)

20 Halloween ideas for photographers – make this year special

Gary Hartley — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:55 +0000

Yearly events like Halloween, Christmas and Bonfire night gives photographers the perfect chance to experiment with their photography and capture some memorable moments on camera. To inspire us all to get our cameras out this year I have put together 20 fantastic photographs to inspire and excite even the most experienced photographer. Take inspiration, then get creative as you only get one chance a year to get this right.

It started with a kiss…

A dread spread

Tonight’s Moon

“Horned Hamster”

Welcome hoooome

Pumpkin Pile

The Awakening

Dead Dolls

Ghost Train

Have a happy pumpkin day

The Grudge

The Children

Zombies on the orange line

Drunken pumpkin

Pumpkin lamps

Bee

Nightmare Before Christmas

Busting at the Seams

Teschio

Creepy

Have fun this Halloween