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I found this site about Albumen prints at Stanford while discussing the use of paper vs. glass in photography to a co-worker that had no idea what I was talking about.

I’ve started yet another web site. Somebody stop the madness!

I’ve uploaded 5,000 photographs to my Flickr account. Almost half of those photos were shot in Paris, France. Hidden amongst the snap shots and bad food photos are some really good photographs.

MyParisPhotos.com is my new web site. It’s a photo blog that lets me highlight individual images. I’m still working on some formatting stuff, but it’s ready to be seen.

Flickr is working with the Library of Congress to integrate historic photos into Flickr Commons. This is a great way to add folksonomy, i.e. tagging, to a library of images. Flickr users are able to add new tags to the images.

Not only that, the images are amazing! I love this shot of generators in a Tennessee powerhouse

The recent TED conference featured this demo of a Microsoft sponsored project. It gathered photographs of Notre Dame on Flickr, analyzed the images to determine their spatial relationship to the building, and built a seamless, panoramic, three-dimensional representation.

Think about this concept. You are on vacation and take a picture of a landmark. After you upload it to Flickr, the image is matched with other images and the metadata is shared. Eventually, we will have virtual representations of the entire globe, not from an anonymous airplane or satellite but from the viewpoint of people.

Here’s a video that describes the project better.