Pictures And Photography

The biggest question for new photographers is how to take good pictures? Start with these factapedia links for references to great photos.
  1. The Year in Pictures 2000 – MSNBC picture editors combed through 750,000 images to put together a set of 25 that they think represent the past year.
  2. Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour
  3. American Museum of Photography, The – “Web exhibits bring great images from the history of photography to your computer screen, drawn from a private collection of more than 5,000 photographs. You’ll see everything from a frontier town in America’s Wild West to a century-old photo of mischief in a Japanese restaurant…plus important early portraits, landscapes, architectural images, art photography and pioneering photo-journalism.”
  4. American Society of Media Photographers
  5. Ansel Adams – This collection was compiled as a royalty-free resource of Ansel Adams’ early photographs, and will be especially useful to web designers, desktop publishers and graphic artists. The original photos were part of a massive project produced by the United States Department of the Interior. There are more than two hundred digitized photo images in this royalty-free collection.
  6. Ansel Adams: Best Of
  7. Astronomy Picture of the Day
  8. Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – 1995-1999 Winners
  9. Being There – photography focusing on climbing, kayaking, and other outdoor activities
  10. BetterPhoto.com
  11. Black Star Photo Resources
  12. Blind Spot – “a lavishly printed journal of contemporary photography.”
  13. Creative Commons – “CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.”
  14. CNN: New Years celebrations around the world – Revelers ring in 2019 with celebrations spanning the globe.
  15. California Views – holds the works of over 900 photographers from the 1880-1990’s
  16. Camera Works: Washington Post – newspaper website devoted to photography.
  17. Chan, Wendy – Photographer
  18. Churches ad hoc – Offbeat look at churches in America.
  19. Civil War Photographs – The Library of Congress
  20. Digital Camera Resource Page – news, reviews, and message boards
  21. Digital Image Database Project – The New York Public Library’s new database provides access to tens of thousands of amazing digitized images taken from the Research Libraries. And, according to the site, that number will grow to more than 600,000 images by the end of 2004.
  22. Digital Journalist – A multimedia magazine for photojournalism in the digital age
  23. Digital Photo Center – CNet.com
  24. Digital Photography Review – “Welcome to Digital Photography Review where you’ll find all the latest in digital camera and digital imaging news, reviews of the latest digital cameras, lively discussion forums, vast digital camera samples galleries, a digital camera buyers guide, side-by-side comparisons and the most comprehensive database of digital camera specifications and prices.”
  25. Fotographee – “Tips and tutorials on image retouching with HDR, luminosity masks and exposure blending. Learn how to edit landscape and travel photos with advanced technique.”
  26. George Eastman House – Museum of Photography
  27. Famous Photographers -“FamousPhotographers.net provides a list of world’s most famous photographers and an insight on their personal and professional life. Each photographer’s life story is a book with interesting chapters. The website gives a detailed account of their biographies, photographic styles, examples of their work, and lists of their exhibitions.”
  28. Fodor’s Focus on Photography
  29. FreeFoto.com – “FreeFoto.com is one of the largest collections of free photographs for noncommercial use on the Internet. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site features 40 main sections with over 600 sub headings.”
  30. Gutter Tribe: Kids on the Street
  31. Herman Krieger’s Photo Essays
  32. History of Photography, The
  33. IMGBOT – “Imgbot.ai is a free online tools for bulk image processing. Resize, crop, compress (optimize) your images or add watermark to your photos online.”
  34. Image Finder: FreeFoto
  35. Image Finder: ixquick
  36. Image Finder: Picsearch
  37. Image Finder: Yahoo
  38. Images from the Microscope – Site offers photo galleries that explore the fascinating world of optical microscopy. with color photographs taken through an optical microscope. Also contains a Photo Gallery with images from beer and ice cream to integrated circuits and ceramic superconductors.
  39. John Lehet’s Digital Art
  40. Light Factory, The
  41. Mary Ellen Mark Photographs
  42. Masters of Photography – This archive of photography includes biographies, articles, and scanned images that are viewable in three size formats. Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston are among the 19 visionaries and innovators currently represented.
  43. Millennium Photo Project, The – “The Millennium Photo Project wants to create a “community enterprise” that anyone with an interest in photography can join. The best 300 or so pictures taken by photo enthusiasts at the end of the year will be selected for a book.”
  44. Minolta Home PageNational Geographics Best Photos of 2019 – “National Geographic’s 100 best images of the year–curated from 106 photographers, 121 stories, and more than two million photographs.”
  45. National Geographic Photo of the Day – Daily National Geographic photos, including photos of animals, people, culture, adventure, science, travel, underwater, exploration, and more.
  46. NOAA Photo Library Collection – over 5,000 public domain photographs and images, dating from the early 1800’s to the present.
  47. NASA’s Planetary Photojournal
  48. National Museum of Photography
  49. National Press Photographers Association Online, The – “Across an ever-changing media landscape, the NPPA has fought to promote and protect integrity and excellence in visual journalism for more than six decades.”
  50. Nature Photography – by Gary D. Tonhouse
  51. New York Institute of Photography
  52. New York Public Library Digital Gallery – This site provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
  53. Nikon Historical Society
  54. Pandemonia
  55. Photo District News
  56. Pixir.com: Free Online Photo Editor – “Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Edit, adjust and filter your images. No registration jump right in!”
  57. Photoeclectia – A Collection of Photographic Images by Maureen Costantino
  58. PhotoForum WWW Home Page
  59. Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz – The Library of Congress presents a collection of more than 1,600 photographs of celebrated jazz artists. The photos document the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C.
  60. Photo MBA, The – “Sign up for our free 7 day course that will change the way you see photography and start making your photography business work for you.”
  61. Photo.net
  62. PhotoSecrets – Travel Guides for Travel Photography.
  63. PhotoServe
  64. PhotoStop
  65. Photography Tips – “PhotographyTips.com is for everyone with an interest in photography. It is intended to help beginners get started in photography, and become so good at it that they turn into advanced amateurs. But, accomplished photographers will also find useful tips and hints here. Our primary objective is to help people like you to take better photographs.”
  66. Photographs: America from the Great Depression to WWII – The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs. This release provides access to over 160,000 of these images; future additions will expand the black-and-white offering.
  67. Pinhole Visions – gathers the works of photographers who take pictures with pinhole cameras–cameras with a pinhole instead of a lens.
  68. Polaroid Home Page
  69. Presidential Portraits at The Library of Congress
  70. SocialBook Free Background Remover – SocialBook Background Remover is an online tool. You do not need to download software or install an application. Want to cut out a person from a photo but do not know how to use Photoshop? No problem. SocialBook Background Remover can do it for you with one click.
  71. Snapcity – Photographer and web designer Emilie Wilson presents a snapshot diary documenting several years of her life in San Francisco and New York City.
  72. Stock Solutions Top Photo Site of the Week
  73. White House News Photographers’ Association Award Winners – the White House News Photographers’ Association presents over 200 top newspictures taken in Washington and around the world.
  74. World Wide Web Photography Sites
  75. ZoneZero – a stunning online photography exhibition featuring a wide and constantly expanding group of international artists.

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Dictionary of Digital Camera Terms

GuruShots – ‘Upload photos and get critiqued by top professional photographers. First photo is FREE. Critiques, Photography Tips and Techniques by Professionals.’

Large format photography

National Geographics Best Photos of 2019 – “National Geographic’s 100 best images of the year–curated from 106 photographers, 121 stories, and more than two million photographs.”

ReVue

The Outdoor Photography Experience– Photographer Chris Burkard leads a Creative Live class on how to take better adventure photos.

White Cloud Photography Workshop, The