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Pocket-Sized Light Field Camera Takes Photos You Can Refocus Later

This week, the small but mighty Lytro camera was unveiled, which captures interactive photographs that can be shared and refocused online. The pocket-sized camera packs a powerful 8x optical zoom and f/2 lens, and its innovative light field sensor captures 11 million light rays of data, including the direction of each ray. The light field engine it contains then processes the data into an HD quality picture. This can be refocused on the camera, and when the photographs are shared online, the light field engine travels with them so others can interact with them on mobile devices, without the need for specialist software.

PSFK: Pocket-Sized Light Field Camera Takes Photos You Can Refocus Later

Snow across Great Britain

Snow blanketed Great Britain on January 7, 2010, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Snow covers most of England, from the east to the west coast. (The large image shows snow cover over the entire island of Great Britain.) The cities of Manchester, Birmingham, and London form ghostly gray shapes against the white land surface. Immediately east of London, clouds swirl over the island, casting blue-gray shadows toward the north.

NASA: Snow across Great Britain

Cityshrinker

My aim is to give that feeling of newness with each shot I take. My method is to take what was once large and shrink it down to model size. To take the familiar and get you thinking even if for a second “wait a minute, is that…”

Cityshrinker

Abandoned

From my really happy childhood I developed a liking for any rusty metal constructions, cement blocks and for the silence of the wind which walks through this. I like them because there is an infinite life that stays there throughout the years… Most abandoned buildings, plants and areas appeared in the Soviet Russia (’70-’80) because they belonged to the “state” (meaning nobody) and afterwards (’90) as a result of the economic crisis. But each place has its own story (in which I, to be honest, do not have much interest).

I think we are all not indifferent to abandoned things. The Abandoned have some sort of a strong and complicated connection with our souls; some people get scared and try to escape their impressions, some fight with them and try to destroy or rebuild or just leave their own footprint on the abandoned site to prove that they’re stronger than this world. And some do not try to do anything – they just look and listen to the Abandoned, enjoying those impressions, feeling the real meaning of time. I am one of them.

Abandoned