Birth of a chicken photo series

Cracked a bunch of eggs open to show the different stages of a chick's development.

Ash and lightning shot of Chilean volcano

Wow.

Seadragon (scaling way down or up through many images) and Photosynth (synthesizing disparate photos of given image)

YoungMe - NowMe

The link goes directly to page 10.

Life Before Death -- before and after portrait series

Short profile and a quote excerpted from interviews with the photographers.

Dear God -- public confessions

Some cool photography as well.

1888 photo of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

Recently discovered.

Detroit Public Schools book depository

Creepy.

FUH2 -- flipping off the Hummer

That's all it is. Photo after user-submitted photo of people giving the finger to Hummers all over the world.

Eddie Adams' contextualization of photo of Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting a Viet Cong prisoner

On not getting the whole story from that photo of the execution in Vietnam:

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?'"

The picture that Adams took, the picture that CNN thinks is such an atrocious and ignoble deed, ruined Loan's life. More to the point, it didn't expand on "our right to know." It didn't answer questions, or give us the story. It deceived. It gave no context. It confirmed the biases of the anti-war journalists, and they used it to further their agenda.

Catholicism and Nazism in pictures

Belief is not revelation or sight.

You pissed off the wrong pumpkinman, and Hallowe'en from around the world

Hallowe'en can be fun.
The title link is to Hallowe'en celebration variations from different countries.

Legal sources for free stock images

Sometimes, you just don't want to have to go out and photograph something yourself.

Ice caves

This one in Nepal was scalloped by air currents.

A shot of the world at night

Real big if you click .

Shorpy -- the 100-year-old photo blog

Updated daily, the site puts up shots of the first half of the 20th century. This is the guy after which the site is named. Apparently a coal miner in Alabama in 1910.

Gallery called Living in Three Centuries: The Face of Age

Usually with excerpts of things they've seen in their lifetimes. Navajo woman at 104 years:

Wiki's potato famine entry

Linked to the Wikipedia entry on the famine. Some controversy on British role. Just wanted to show the picture here:

Shots of water as fire

Grace Weston Photography

Some very interesting photos using dolls.