We experienced a bit of the same thing with the death of vinyl albums. Sure CD’s were supposed to be indestructible and unscratchable, but there was still something about listening to audio with a bit of a hiss and crackle to it.

The Rollip website allows you to upload your digital photos and make them look like the old-school, vintage Polaroids. Not just look like them with the shape and border though that gives it the immediate memory, but also the faded, somewhat mis-colored image as well.

Relive a bit of history. Make your current photos look like classics from that family vacation when you were a kid.

Uncover your own, new photographic memories with Rollip.

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The Be Funky website allows you to upload a photo and completely transform it into a pencil drawing, an oil painting or even "Andy Warhol-ize" your photo.

The site requires no money and doesn’t even force you to register in anyway at all. Just click on the button to get started and then choose the effect you want to apply to your image. You can choose from on of the following options currently:

• Cartoonizer
• Warholizer
• Charcola
• Patriotic
• Inkify
• Line Artopia
• Stenciler
• Sunburst
• Scribbler

Don’t worry about choosing the wrong effect and wanting to change your mind though. You can very easily switch among the different options. Each option also has different variations you can select from to tweak your end photo just the way you want.

The Be Funky site gives you the option to apply your new artwork into a personalized coffee mug or t-shirt as well. Just what your family was wanting for a Christmas present this year right?

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The Microsoft Professional Photography website has collections of beautiful images, articles to improve your skills, photography event listings, photo related software downloads and more. If you’re looking for answers to that question that’s been bugging you for quite sometime, you might just find it on their website. The layout and organization is nicely presented and very easy to find what you’re looking for all this time. There’s also a variety of opportunities to accidentally stumble across some information that will further expand your expertise as well.

There are a variety of interesting photo and file management related programs available in their downloads area. Application for managing color in Windows XP, photo assignment information to include in your Microsoft Outlook and a variety of tools for managing and manipulating images in the RAW image format.

All-in-all the Microsoft Professional Photography website is a very rich and useful resource for any budding photographers out there.

Uncover some new tips and tricks for yourself at the Microsoft Professional Photography website. You can use the information you gather on your next photo shoot, or when you’re just out having fun with your camera on that next photowalk.

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If you’re going to be making some photographic memories, visit the Microsoft at Home website and read through their tips for super vacation snapshots. They say 8, but that’s actually 8 different categories of tips, with more little tweaks and hints you can take advantage of while you’re there.

The benefit of these tips and resources provided by Microsoft is that they can be used with just about any digital camera you may be using these days. These are tips on how to compose and make the most of your camera and the situation around you to take some great photos.

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15 Awesome Pictures

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Who are these people? They were all in attendance as Barack Obama became our nation’s 44th president. What’s impressive though is the photograph that this little picture came from.

The image above is a SERIOUSLY reduced image of what is originally a 1,474 MP image that was taken on inauguration day. See the little red box I’ve put in there on the far right? That’s the approximate location of the original image above zoomed in to view.

You can see this photo in all it’s detail and glory at the Gigapan.org website.

Uncovered by Ragamuffin Soul

Images: Photosections of giant image found at Gigapan.org website

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Actual Olan Mills portraits

Uncovered by @loubegnel on twitter.

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned as I’ve continued to explore the online world of social media and blogging, the one hobby that seems to go hand-in-hand with many of the individuals involved is photography.

My boss shared the Opacity website with me and he was intrigued by the images that were caught on film of the numerous buildings and other man-made structures that have since begun their retreat back to the dust from which they’ve come.

Once a building no longer serves its purpose, and all of its functionality ceases to exist, it becomes truly fascinating. Each room is transforming into something new at its own rate, yielding to the forces of nature as it reclaims man’s creation.

The corrosion and decay paint vibrant colors across otherwise dull surfaces, lit only by natural sunlight spilling into the spaces at unaccustomed angles. Each object left behind becomes more significant than it has ever been, hinting at the life prior to its disuse. Floors collapse and walls cave in without care; if you get hurt, no one is here to help you.

This is a lonesome alien world whose dark corners and peeling walls have gotten a hold of me and many others; this affinity for derelict structures and often dangerous excitement is the core essence of urban exploring, in my opinion.

On the one side you’ve got places that most of civilization has forgotten and doesn’t see anymore. On the other, you’ve got models in a still life that can speak volumes about the civilization that’s being left behind and forgotten.

Even adding more to the thousands of words that are being spoken by these images, is the fact that many of the locations photographed are old hospitals, asylums, hospitals and morgues.

Uncover more amazing images at the Opacity website.

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Have you heard of Photrade? I uncovered the Photrade website awhile back through another website I’d visited and an email newsletter I received about the upcoming blogINDIANA conference coming up in Indianapolis. I then realized they were also advertising on this blog here so decided to check them out.

I was quickly impressed with what you could do with sharing your photos and even making money from them as well.

Photrade is where photographers reclaim ownership of their photos. Photraders decide how, when, where and at what cost their photos are used online. We provide unprecedented protection for photos and offer a free photo marketplace where photographers can sell stock, prints and merchandise or use our Adcosystem (TM) where photographers get paid for every view of their photo, anywhere on the internet. Through Photrade, publications and blogs can access a fast-growing library of legally licensed, ad-supported photos. Reclaim your photos, start photrading.

Now they’ve expanded their offerings some more an can now provide an even broader range of border options available for your photos.

The Photrade site is currently in beta and you need an invite code to sign-up and join, but don’t worry, we’ve taken care of that for you as well. Just enter B5UTI as your invite code to let them know you heard about it here and check them out.

When you sign-up for an account look me up, I’m “bnpositive” on the site. I’d love to hear what you think.

Uncover your own photos and some money at

www.photrade.com

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I’m always on the look-out for new places to find some stock photography and other images to potentially use on some website for clients or just  get some inspiration for creating a completely new graphical element for design.

Photrade is a new website that’s currently available by invite only so I haven’t been able to really get into the site and see what it’s all about. However, after briefly browsing through their catalog it looks like they’ve got some great content.

Photrade is where photographers reclaim ownership of their photos.

Photraders decide how, when, where and at what cost their photos are used online. We provide unprecedented protection for photos and offer a free photo marketplace where photographers can sell stock, prints and merchandise or use our Adcosystem where photographers get paid for every view of their photo, anywhere on the internet.

Through Photrade, publications and blogs can access a fast-growing library of legally licensed, ad-supported photos.

Reclaim your photos, start photrading.

If anyone out there has already been using Photrade, let us know what you think. If you’ve got an invite code, just let me know as I’d love to get in there and really see what it’s all about from the inside.

Uncover more photos at

www.photrade.com

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