McFarland Photography » cool links http://www.mcfarlandphotography.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:02:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Proof that books are his life http://www.mcfarlandphotography.org/blog/2009/01/29/proof-that-books-are-his-life/ http://www.mcfarlandphotography.org/blog/2009/01/29/proof-that-books-are-his-life/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:30:14 +0000 Carol http://www.mcfarlandphotography.org/blog/2009/01/29/proof-that-books-are-his-life/ Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'Array' was given in /home/billmcfa_1/mcfarlandphotography.org/blog/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166
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books are his life, originally uploaded by calligraphycarol.

My DH loves books! See how he’s totally immersed in this one?! HA
You can make your own fun, realistic photos here:
http://www.photofunia.com

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]]> Thanks to a flickr friend for the link to this website: obamiconme.pastemagazine.com. You can do your own poster! :) If you visit, add mine as a favorite! :) This is my daughter, Rebekah…she was a very willing model.

You can make your own Obamicon, too!

You can make your own Obamicon, too!

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]]> That title is the tag line for http://www.dumpr.net/
It IS a pretty cool place to go if you want to make an interesting avatar. You can have your face on a museum wall, or made into a puzzle or Rubik’s cube, or be the center of attention for the paparazzi.
Try it yourself, it’s fun!

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]]> Today I was googling (yes, it’s an actual verb now) different photography sites, and came across a couple of links I would like to share with you.

I started drooling when I saw the Hallmark Institute of Photography’s 40-week long Photography School. I read about it on a blog that turned out to be their Mamiya Award of Excellence winner for 2008, Paul Nordmann. Check out the student galleries..they are so impressive!

I was discussing photography with a friend who said she wanted to learn how to use her camera, and I pointed her to Digital-Photography-School website as a great place to start. I love the bite-sized topics he has on his blog giving tips and “how-tos” for all kinds of different effects, as well as basic photography.

Scott Kelby, the founder of NAPP and Photoshop User magazine, and author of LOTS of photography books, has been hinting at a special event coming up on August 23rd, and he released information about it today! He is sponsoring a Worldwide Photowalk, an event where local photographers of all different skill levels get together and walk around shooting pictures for two hours, and then go and oogle over them at a restaurant nearby. I knew Bill would LOVE doing that (except for the heat), so I signed us up. It sounds like a lot of fun, and there are some really exciting prizes for the grand prize winner. More drooling.!

One more link I found recently has been sucking me in more often than I like to admit – the Wordle.net site. It is an AMAZING website where you can demonstrate the old saying, “A picture is worth 1000 words” literally! It takes any text you write (even from a website or blog) and makes a word cloud out of them, enlarging the words you repeat to emphasize them. Try it out for yourself!

Make your own \"wordle\" at wordle.net--free!

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