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The Metallic Starling (Aplonis metallica) also known as Shining Starling, is a bird in the starling family. It is native of New Guinea and nearby Australasian islands, and a limited area of northeastern Australia. The adult has brilliant red eyes, a long tail and green-glossed black plumage. Immatures are pale below with dark streaks.

The Superficial Flickr

For many Flickr users, the Holy Grail is get in . Explore is a showcase of what is supposed to be better on Flickr, but it must be that we are pretty far off. The thing being automated, everyone's (well almost…) trying to break through the algorithm behind the feature. Thus small groups of people […]

Spotting in 1976

Shortly after arriving in Dakar and learning the coming of Concorde, my parents came together on the runway, and this without violating any prohibition! Suffice to say that nowadays, be present and “on” a runway would be impossible!

Rabbits

Well, after several days of work on my new function Rewind|Forward, I post these two small simple pictures that I was able to post-process very fast. I spent too much time on the back-end of the blog lately, so I wanted to be quick, I hope you will forgive me;-)

Rewind|Forward Animation • Source code

Available for free: the source code of my Rewind|Forward Animation Feature. With a gesture and greatest ease, animate a set of pictures and increase the value of your content by offering to your customers a simple but real technical structure. Rewind|Forward • Animation Feature offers a wide range of uses. Whether you are a photographer, illustrator, 3D artist, web designer, trainer, etc., it will help you to showcase your own creations, training or tutorials, without ever losing sight of efficiency and simplicity for the user. Many examples in this article will be hopefully varied enough to fully appreciate the field of application offered.

Well, this photo is what it is, basically it does not break three legs of a duck. It would have been more pleasant if I had checked my aperture before releasing the shutter (ƒ8 here). At ƒ5.6 @400mm with the would have given a less present background, thus enhancing the subject. The framing in cons-diving […]

One of the photos taken for my friend Christoph Vogelbusch. Natural lighting for the main part, plus a flash triggering (@ -1 EV). Ok, I admit it, with such a , you're not standing close to the subject, but… what a pleasure! About adjustments, I stuck with something natural, first because of the needs, also […]