visual ramblings of a cheesehead...

2009-01-12T19:08:00.000-08:00

This past fall, Google teamed up with Life Magazine to undertake the massive task of making the over 10 million photos in the Life archives acessible online. As of November, Google had digitized and uploaded only about 20% of the photos and were steadily adding more each day. One nice feature is that you can search the photos not only by simply typing in a keyword into a search box, but also by clicking on any of the different categories that are linked on the main page. The other feature I really like is that it presents your search results on a page that looks exactly like a normal Google Image search. The only difference is that when you click on a give picture it pulls it up on your screen in a nice large format, complete with a caption on the right hand side that includes a description of the picture and also photographer information and links to other related photos in the database. Love it.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

2009-01-04T10:45:00.000-08:00

(Rome, Italy)

Calatrava Bridge (Bilbao, Spain)

2008-11-08T14:47:00.000-08:00

Prayer Candles for the death of John Paul II

(Madrid, Spain)

(Milan, Italy)

2008-10-06T17:27:00.000-07:00

Catedral de la Almudena (Madrid, Spain)

Alhambra (Granada, Spain)

2008-09-23T19:52:00.000-07:00

Ponte dei Sospiri (Venice, Italy)

Roman Aqueducts (Segovia, Spain)

2008-09-13T18:23:00.000-07:00

Catedral de la Almudena (Madrid, Spain)

Techeles Artists Colony (Berlin, Germany)

2008-09-10T16:51:00.000-07:00

Royal Palace (Madrid, Spain)

2008-09-09T17:57:00.000-07:00

(Milan, Italy)

Dome at the Reichstag (Berlin, Germany)

2008-09-07T08:00:00.000-07:00

(Toledo, Spain)

2008-09-07T07:54:00.000-07:00

Roof Detail at Gaudi's "La Pedrera" house (Barcelona, Spain)

Wall detail at Gaudi's Catedral de la Sagrada Familia (Barcelona, Spain)

2008-08-28T19:13:00.000-07:00

Beginning anew once again.

2008-08-03T08:44:00.001-07:00

I will be the first to admit that I am not the most prolific or dedicated writer. I honestly forget that I have this blog sometimes and it grates on me every time when I remember that I haven't written in months (it makes me feel lazy and undedicated...which, lets face it, I am).

So I'm trying something different. One of the things I really do love is photography. When I go on trips (and, less often around my city) I take tons of pictures. I take so many pictures to the point that my friends get annoyed and ask me to stop. I'm in no way a pro but I like doing it and dream of getting a better camera and love to share what I see. Sooo...I figured a better use of this blog would be to share pictures I've taken . I'll probably start by putting up some older pictures (since I've been pretty busy lately and haven't taken a lot of new stuff) and then eventually move into current pictures.

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