A gift 'Free to the World.'
Aug. 19th, 2011 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustAugust 19th is World Photography Day, it says here; date chosen because on August 19th 1839 the French government, having had time to consider the daguerrotype, announced that it was "Free to the World" - no, I don't know what that means, either. I could stop and research it, but I'm going to post and run, because I have a couple of photo related things I've been meaning to post, and today must be the right time.
First, Google's new image search feature - hours of fun for all the family! When I click the 'images' option, Google now offers me the choice of dragging an image into the search box. They offer me van Gogh's Starry Night which, if dropped in the search box, produces lots more images of, yes, van Gogh's Starry Night. I'd been trying to identify a flower I had photographed growing wild by Tunstall Reservoir (this one, in fact) so I thought I'd try dropping that in the search box:
Pretty, but not exactly helpful. (I suspect I'm using the feature for what I would like it to be, rather than what it is. Oh, well...)
Second, via this gallery of wonderful photos on Flickr, a blog of pictures from the Caucasus (not sure how active it is, but there's plenty to see there already).
First, Google's new image search feature - hours of fun for all the family! When I click the 'images' option, Google now offers me the choice of dragging an image into the search box. They offer me van Gogh's Starry Night which, if dropped in the search box, produces lots more images of, yes, van Gogh's Starry Night. I'd been trying to identify a flower I had photographed growing wild by Tunstall Reservoir (this one, in fact) so I thought I'd try dropping that in the search box:
Pretty, but not exactly helpful. (I suspect I'm using the feature for what I would like it to be, rather than what it is. Oh, well...)
Second, via this gallery of wonderful photos on Flickr, a blog of pictures from the Caucasus (not sure how active it is, but there's plenty to see there already).
