Archive for April, 2008

Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public

NASA’s Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), and the orbiter, a winged spaceplane which is the space shuttle in the […]

Why are we paying so much for petrol?

Dubai in 1990 prior to the craziness

The same street in 2003

The Souvenirs of Michael Hughes

Souvenirs is a selection of travel souvenirs photographed in their real locations by photographer Michael Hughes.
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The basic idea is that you take an image on a postcard or a souvenir of a place like a model or a plate, hold it up, and take a photograph so that the souvenir is overlaid on the real […]

A Closer Look on Insects

Macro photography is close-up photography; the classical definition is that the image projected on the “film plane” (i.e film or a digital sensor) is close to the same size as the subject. In insect macro photography, close-up filters and macro lens are some of the most essential items to compliment any digital cameras. In general, […]

Underwater Sports

What can you do under the water, here are some great underwater sports: