Since July 2006, for over two years, the adventures of a feathered, part-time newspaper photographer, have been a source many readers' daily laughs.

On the tenth "Eco-Products 2008 Exhibition", which took part in December 2008 in Tokyo, tokyobling took these photos of a D3 with Nikkor 12-24 lens—cut in half. As he wittily put: "(…) the staff politely ignored my feeble attempts to take a decent photo through the counter glass. I felt slightly incestous: a Nikon D60 photographing a crippled D3."

When a little over a year ago Google announced that previously-unseen "LIFE" photos are available online, for many people it meant sleepless nights, spent in awe and countless discoveries. Let me introduce you to one of them—photos by Howard Sochurek, that he took in Moscow, during the Christian Dior's collection show in July 1959.

"On a stifling July day in 1918, 18,000 officers and soldiers posed as Lady Liberty on the parade [drill] grounds at Camp Dodge." (…) "According to a July 3, 1986, story in the Fort Dodge Messenger, many men fainted—they were dressed in woolen uniforms—as the temperature neared 105 degrees Farenheit [41 degrees Celsius]. The photo, taken from the top of a specially constructed tower by a Chicago photography studio, Mole & Thomas, was intended to help promote the sale of war bonds but was never used." (Grover 1987)

Making photos of a same person, appearing several times in it—is an enormous fun and a great way to express your own creativity.

Ringflash effect. The shadow halo. How is this effect achieved? Everything is about the equipment. Let us have a look at ABR800—an affordable ringflash from AlienBees…

Previous night I set up the computer to download some astronomy lectures and switched the room lights off. In complete darkness I noticed the interesting pattern of blue light, that was emitted by an external hard drive.

Bada bing!