Gymnast's Optical Illusion

MoIllusions.com

I can't help it, I love optical illusions, especially when they are made via real life photos. This one kinda took a minute because I kept thinking she was supposed to be in the pool, but I'm a bit sleepy too. Anyway, there are more at that same link - click the photo or the link below.

Amazing Mind-Blowing Optical Illusion

I found this via Digg, but the actual image is at ICanHasInternets.com. It is just a simple image but when you take into account all that you see, it is very interesting. Really take a look at the details on this!

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Source: http://www.icanhasinternets.com/2011/07/if-this-picture-doesnt-blow-your-mind-you-dont-have-one/

Best Free Imaged Editing Software (When You're Too Broke for Photoshop)

Microsoft Blog News Channel

I recently developed an interest in creating some forms of art (God forbid). I've created some logos lately that I thought looked pretty good (including the one for my blog), which was encouraging. I've actually always had some interest in taking really good, professional looking photos and being able to edit them though. Taking the recent photos and videos of the tornado aftermath and taking some photos of storm clouds and lightning (to be posted here in the very near future!) has helped pique this interest, even though it's been underlying for some time.

Even more fun though is to mess with photographs of people. I have a nephew that takes amazing, magazine-worthy photos with his $300 digital camera. $300 is a bit pricey for a digital camera but not in comparison to some of the models out there. I don't have $300 to spend on a fancy digital camera and I'm too prone to breaking expensive toys so I wanted to opt for a cheaper route but still learn some good photographing techniques.