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Found some very cool photography on a few different sites and thought I’d share…

Time-lapse Photography

This guy did a pretty cool flash movie to show some of his time-lapse photography. I’ve seen time-lapse photography used a lot on TV and in the movies, but I think this one is cool because you can control it by moving your mouse across the screen.

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/flash/cntower_timelapse.swf

Transparent Screens

This one isn’t a website per se, but is actually a slideshow that someone put together on flickr. Looks like they took a picture, set the computer up in the scene, and set the original picture as the background on their desktop in just the right position so that everything lines up, making the screen look transparent. Then they took another picture to show the result. I think I may try this. I’ll post the results when I do.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/show/

Panoramas.dk

This site has all kinds of panoramas, form the Eifel Tower to MacWorld ‘07. Looks like the most recent is a memorial ceremony for those that died in the Virginia Tech shooting. It’s a lot like those virtual tours you see on real estate websites, but of much larger areas than a single room or a back yard. The quality is amazing on some of them.

http://www.panoramas.dk/

Change Me

What caught my eye about this site was the clever flash movie, but what the site is about is very interesting as well. It seeks to foster discussion through the use of images. As stated on the site itself:

Change Me is a worldwide project that brings people together to share ideas through powerful imagery. Each participant submits an image along with a short commentary explaining why that image has special meaning to them. The goal is to find an image that will make an impact on the people viewing it, an image that might Change Me in some way. The project is open to everyone.

The project is supported by Getty Images. They have volunteered to donate $10 for each entry (up to $250,000) in support of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Cool site for a very good cause.

http://changeme.gettyimages.com/

PBase

This is a huge collection of user submitted photos. It doesn’t sound like anything special, but what makes it so cool is that you can search by a few different things such as country, keyword, or the coolest of which (I think), by camera. It has a ridiculous number of different camera models to chose from, all with pictures of the actual camera, which is helpful if you know what the camera looks like, but can’t remember the exact model number. In most cases, EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) information is available, so you can also see details such as shutter speed, ISO, aperture, etc. for each picture.

http://pbase.com