SNAPSHOTS

Hi, my name is Frank, I'm a photographer and I live in Chicago. If you give me a chance, I can make you fall in love with the best city in the whole world.

SNAPSHOTS is my one sided slideshow with you. This is where I post the photos I take that don't have anywhere else to go. Also, I reblog stuff that's too interesting not to post. I update daily and disappear without warning.

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Turn a Disposable Camera in to a Reusable Flash Slave

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The Chobi Mini Digital Camera ($150 USD) sports a 5 megapixel sensor and the ability to record video at 1280x960 30fps.

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Wildlife photographers will risk life and limb to get the perfect close-up, but a few ingenious hacks can make the process easier.

Shutterbug Will Burrard-Lucas and his brother Matthew rigged up a four-wheel-drive, remote-control buggy called BeetleCam that has a DSLR camera mounted on top. Almost Wall-E like in its appearance, the BeetleCam can click photos of African wildlife from a ground-level perspective.

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Cornell Maps the World's Photos

Cornell University computer scientists used a supercomputer at the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing to download and analyze nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by over 300,000 photographers from around the globe. Their main goal was to develop new methods to automatically organize and label large-scale collections of digital data. A secondary result of the research was the generation of statistics on the world’s most photographed cities and landmarks, gleaned from the analysis of the multi-terabyte photo collection:

• The top 25 most photographed cities in the Flickr data are:

(1) New York City
(2) London
(3) San Francisco
(4) Paris
(5) Los Angeles
(6) Chicago
(7) Washington, DC
(8) Seattle
(9) Rome
(10) Amsterdam
(11) Boston
(12) Barcelona
(13) San Diego
(14) Berlin
(15) Las Vegas
(16) Florence
(17) Toronto
(18) Milan
(19) Vancouver
(20) Madrid
(21) Venice
(22) Philadelphia
(23) Austin
(24) Dublin
(25) Portland.

• The top seven most photographed landmarks are:

(1) Eiffel Tower - Paris
(2) Trafalgar Square - London
(3) Tate Modern museum - London
(4) Big Ben - London
(5) Notre Dame - Paris
(6) The Eye - London
(7) Empire State Building - New York City.

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