Happy 150th Birthday to Russian Empire Photographer Sergei M. Prokudin-Gorskii!

Photographer Prokudin-Gorskii on the Karolitskhali River, Georgia. Color-composite photo from digitized glass negative by Sergei M. Prokudin-Gorskii, 1905-1915.

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FDR: “none of us can guess the future”, so let’s start securing copies of our best stuff.

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High volume sheet feeding scanner

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A New Commitment to Sharing the Getty’s Digital Resources Freely with All

free to all

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Roy Berns recognized by peers at international conference

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The future – remote photo assignment rig

Not pretty…
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 http://petapixel.com/2013/07/25/strobepa…

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Colonists’ 1767 petition uncovered in a Harvard library foreshadows the split with Britain

Women's signatures

“Harvard archivists have made what they call “a Revolutionary discovery” in the stacks at Houghton Library.”

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FREE OCR software: a survey of desktop and online tools


“We looked sat three ‘types’ of OCR tools: online OCR services, desktop OCR programs and other software (mostly screenshot taking programs that have an OCR component). All of the tools mentioned are either FREE or have a free version.”

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Lightzone RAW processing/photo editing software is now open source and completely free

haven’t tried it yet, some limits on camera compatibility, but it is a well reviewed (and not new) competitor in the wake of Adobe’s recent announcements…

 http://petapixel.com/2013/07/09/lightzon…

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Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rock Nest

NASA Photojournal

900 image composite taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

Full Res JPEG

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