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Doctored Photos: 20 Memorable Picture Fakes

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:55:51 GMT

clipped by: victorlamp
clipper's remarks: For a description of each picture, the original post is at The Telegraph. the link is at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/09/04/nosplit/dlhoaxes104.xml

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The doctoring of photos, once considered the reserve of tyrants and UFO nuts, is becoming increasingly widespread.

Below we present 20 of the most striking, interesting and controversial fake photos, most of them produced in the last five years.

1) Shark lunges at helicopter

2) World Trade Center tourist

3) Iranian missile test

4) Ann Widdecombe's mixed messages

5) Chairman Mao airbrushes out his former friends

6) Snowball the monster cat

7) Smoke over Beirut

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8) Antelopes and trains in harmony

9) Tsunami captured from tower block

10) Bush reading upside down

11) Shark sneaks up on scuba divers

12) John Kerry with Jane Fonda

13) Giant skeletons discovered in India

14) Benito Mussolini, the fearless horseman

15) Karl Rove's 'secret file'

16) James Purnell doctored at hospital

17) Soldier doll held hostage in Iraq

18) Fidel Castro made to look like Hitler

19) Oil rig, tornado and lightning strike

20) Cottingley Fairies

Tags: fake photos

Lightning at Sunset

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:55:47 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: This may be a repeat as it appears to be popular; saving it for my records.

Clip Source: flickr.com

Tags: photography, photo

Blurb: Lightning

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:57:18 GMT

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Birth of the Blitzkrieg - September 1, 1939

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:20:31 GMT

clipped by: Kelika
clipper's remarks: "Success is achieved through surprise and speed, which keeps the enemy off balance. Maneuvering is coordinated through the use of radio, which was used so extensively by the Germans that individual tanks carried their own equipment. The French, by comparison, hardly used radio at all. The French High Command was not even connected by radio to units in the field. Instead, it dispatched orders by motorcycle courier from its headquarters outside of Paris.

Incidentally, the German Wehrmacht never officially used the word blitzkrieg -- literally, "lightning war" -- though it did appear in several prewar German military publications. It came into popular use after turning up in Time magazine's coverage of the Polish invasion."

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1939: Germany invades Poland, starting the second European war in a generation and introducing the world to a new kind of warfare: blitzkrieg.

This form of attack, which helped the Germans obliterate the Poles in three weeks and the French in only six, relies on rapid mobility and the coordination of massed armor and infantry, with fighter planes and dive bombers providing air support. It also depends on the element of surprise, one reason Nazi Germany never declared war prior to invading an enemy.

The concept of blitzkrieg was a matter of adapting 20th-century technology -- especially the tank, the airplane and the radio -- to the age-old tactics of mobile warfare. The Germans were not alone in exploring these possibilities -- military thinkers like Britain's Basil Liddell Hart and France's Charles de Gaulle also wrote extensively on the subject during the interwar years -- but conditions within the German army, and inside Germany itself, made for a more receptive audience.

Create fully customized desktop

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:20:40 GMT

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Clip Source: lifehacker.com

Roll Your Own Lightning at Sunset Desktop

Tags: windows, desktop, custom, skin, shell

test

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:32:14 GMT

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Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:50:02 PM

On August 22nd, Raser Technologies and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson broke ground on New Mexico’s first geothermal power plant. Situated at Lightning Dock near Animas, the new plant will incorporate an innovative binary liquid technology that allows it to make use of the site’s low levels of geothermal energy.

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St. Padre Pio on Despair

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:52:05 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado

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The most beautiful credo is that which come from your lips in darkness, in sacrifice, in pain, in the supreme effort of an unbending will for good. It is this which, like a stroke of lightning, penetrates the darkness of the soul; it is this which in the flash of the tempest lifts you and leads you to God.

Tags: sacrifice, despair, darkness, god

Cardinal Egan joins criticism of Nancy Pelosi’s abortion remarks

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:39:26 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado
clipper's remarks: “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception…Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.”

the Didache, an early Christian treatise from the first century AD, which reads: “You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.”

Clip Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

New York, Aug 26, 2008 / 03:37 pm (CNA).- Representative Nancy Pelosi has been a lightning rod for the ire of conservatives for some time, but now she has drawn fire of a different kind. Within the last 24 hours, the archbishops of Denver, New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., along with Bishop William Lori have all publicly upbraided the Speaker of the House for her erroneous comments on the Church’s abortion teaching.

“What the Speaker had to say about theologians and their positions regarding abortion was not only misinformed; it was also, and especially, utterly incredible in this day and age.”

Archbishop of Washington D.C. Donald Wuerl also criticized Pelosi’s comments. The archbishop emphasized that elected officials have the right to address matters of public policy, but added “the interpretation of Catholic faith has rightfully been entrusted to the Catholic bishops.”

Tags: abortion, prolife, catholic, church

Rice Criticizes Israeli Checkpoints and Restrictions

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:42:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh ho ho, what have we here? Will she be struck by neoconservative lightning?

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Rice Criticizes Israeli Checkpoints and Travel Restrictions

On her final Middle East tour as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice used the occasion to criticize Israeli checkpoints and restrictions on travel for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. When asked about them, she told reporters that “obviously there’s more that needs to be done.” At the start of her two-day tour, she praised the release of 198 Palestinian political prisoners on the eve of her visit. Rice is scheduled to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah today before flying back to Washington.

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15 Spectacular Lightning Images

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:59:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One Question that we’re regularly asked about here at Digital Photography School is ‘How do I photograph Lightning?’

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15 Spectacular Lightning Images

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Our wonderful forum administrator NaturesPixel has put together a brief how to photograph lightning tutorial in our forums that tackles the question. At a little inspiration in your lightning photography you might also enjoy some of these 15 great lightning shots.

One Question that we’re regularly asked about here at Digital Photography School is ‘How do I photograph Lightning?’

Tags: photography

15 Spectacular Lightning Images

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:47:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Somehow, I'm reminded of the song 'Greased Lightnin!'

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15 Spectacular Lightning Images

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Tags: lightning, electrical charge, physics, phenomenon, rain, clouds, s torm, photography

Lightning

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:45:06 GMT

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Clip Source: digital-photography-school.com

One Question that we’re regularly asked about here at Digital Photography School is ‘How do I photograph lightening?’

Tags: lightning, weather, photography, art

Spectacular Chile Volcano Eruption

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:09:11 GMT

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Clip Source: mysterytopia.com

Nature still has the best special effects....

Chile Volcano eruption!!
Several weeks ago, a volcano that had been dormant for 9,000 years near the
coast of Chile erupted spectacularly, hurling liquefied rocks many miles
into the sky with lightning. The results, which you see here, are called a

'dirty thunderstorm,' and are quite rare.

Nobody is certain what causes them, but according to National Geographic
it's believed to be 'the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in
the plume colliding to produce static charges-just as ice particles collide
to create charges in regular thunderstorms.'

Tags: science, volcanoes, chile

testing

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:41:44 GMT

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Every morning I look down and I'm wearing boots with lightning bolts on them and I think...where did I make the wrong turn?

lightning in sunset

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:33:56 GMT

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Shot at Toronto's Centre Island. A great example of being in the right place at the right time. My sister and I went to the Island after work for some photos and this amazing sunset started to form, so I quickly put the camera on a tripod and started shooting intervals (using the Pclix) for about an hour hoping to capture the lightning. I have 5 lightning shots out of around 600 photos and this is the best one.

For a bigger size suitable for desktop wallpaper, check out the flickr post.

A closer crop for lightning detail.

Tags: photography, lightning, weather, sunset, beauty, art