Posts Tagged ‘Photo’

Near & by far: 4 Great Photos in the News

This Dead Nettle Leaf Beetle isn’t the smallest of the top ten winners in the Small World Competition but his colours are his own (not always the case with photos taken through a microscope) about 25 different shots are stitched together for the bug to be in focus, the photographer explains on The Times slide [...]

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The ascension of Panoramio star

Good news this week for a young Spanish start up – Panoramio, who find themselves part of the new Geographic Web layer in Google Earth.
Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar, launched Panoramio, a Google Maps mashup for geo-positioning photos, back in October 2005. It’s a photo sharing free service – up [...]

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World’s largest digital photo

An Italian company HAL9000 has just published on their web site a digital photo that comes in on the scales at 8,6 gigapixels! The company affirms that it is the biggest digital photo that has ever been produced & available on the Net.

It is a photo of ‘Parete Gaudenziana’ a fresque painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari [...]

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