Iceland : a new gallery on my website
http://dc.images.pagesperso-orange.fr/Islande/Islaccueil.htm
and also :
Afghanistan, Burma, Ivory Coast, Denmark, USA, Easter Island,  India,

Does anyone know where the "circle", "square", "ellipse" tool is on Gimp?
Likewise with the "arrow" tool?
Any basic photo editor should have this capability; but I can't seem to
find it on Linux "The Gimp" photo editing freeware, version 2.6.8.

http://www.pbase.com/swandy/infrared_photography
Recently had and Olympus EPL1 Pen camera converted for infrared
photography. (720 nm filter)
So far very happy with the results.

New Sony Alpha 55 with semitransparent non-moving mirror, only 30% light
loss but always on fast phase-AF, EVF.
No more issues with noise and vibrations caused by a slapping mirror,
phase AF available when shooting video.

And it has a plastic body.  Who are they trying to target with this
one?  The regular 4/3rds lens is about $275, optically excellent and
faster.  Even AFTER you add the $150 Panasonic 4/3rds to m4/3rds
adapter!!!

Can anyone suggest good ways to secure a collection of photos to be
displayed at an outdoor wedding reception where the wind could be
something of a problem?
I'm thinking of some little plexiglass or wooden stands or clips or

Forget for the moment the benefits of going away from phase focusing,
such as much lower cost going to contrast focusing.  Phase's main
important claim to fame is speed.  But that is diminishing, or
contrast is improving.  The main problem with phase focusing is the

Wow!  Good luck with the lenses, Canon.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1008/10082410canon120mpsensor.asp

A short time ago we had a discussion on overclocking:
I am posting a link, for those interested on how to do it safely:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2368074,00.asp

I'm not against plastic, I think it has many good uses, uses that
obviously can't be done with metal.
So we come to Rubbermade.
Rubbermade was a fantastic American company.  They produced home

one of the metal screw-in kind.
It came with a "LIFETIME WARRANTY, Against Manufactured Defects."
I can't begin to express how comforting it is to know that in the
coming years I don't have to worry about manufactured defects showing

Real ones, like they did in the 1960's, not spotting scopes?
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trur
l=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.yahoo.co.jp%2Ffk506%2F17272282.html&lp=ja_en&btnTrUrl=Trans
late