Photo resources

Here's a nice collection of online services for your digital photos - everything from image search to hosting and sharing to photo editing.

Check out Photo Services on the "new to me" resource WebServicesWiki.org.

Young Me, Now Me

Here's a fun collection of winning photos from a contest where the object was to mimic a photo from your childhood. I really like this one, that one, and the one over here.

City of Light

A hi-res photo of Paris, France at night. Wow.

Experimentation is free

I take lots of digital pictures. Mostly of my kids. In the past I would have been more conservative because of the cost of film and processing. But today it's virtually free.

The same can be said for experimenting online. You can easily set up a Flickr site, a blog, or an email account. Build a wiki. Get a Second Life. Set up a store or start your own radio station.

In most cases, you can build these sites, try these new technologies, and learn for free.

Thomas Edison once said "To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." In that sense, the Internet is an incredible pile of free "junk" to power your imagination.

Friday fun: Zoom zoom

Check out the incredible hi-res imagery at Gigapan that allows you to zoom in to see astonishing levels of detail. The images are actually multiple high resolution photos "stitched" together to form a complete picture.

For a similar project from the folks at Microsoft, check out Photosynth.

Friday fun, Halloween style

A few good shots from Halloween 2007. Photos link to their source:

Sky play

Found this creative set of "sky play" photos on Flickr.

I think this one is my favorite.