This might look like a polluted river, or a field of flowers. But when zooming in, you can see that it is in fact tens of thousands of penguins gathered at the same place!

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Sethi, author of the “I Will Teach You To Be Rich” blog, and book of the same name, notes that most credit cards extend purchase warranties to one year automatically, on top of the 30- or 90-day standards included in the box.

So next time you buy some photography equipment, computer, etc. and the sales person tries to sell you an extended warranty, just remember you probably already have that for free!

The 2010 Pirelli calendar was just shot by Terry Richardson in Brazil with a whole new crop of stunning beauties (see 2009).

As you can see in the video after the break, Terry shoots with a Nikon and a bunch of fill-in flashes.

The calendar shows Miranda Kerr, Abbey Kershaw in boots and hat, Marloes Horst posing like a pin-up girl from the 1970s and Catherine Mcneil in a super sexy bikini. All models, according to our sources, will eventually get naked and roll in the mud – sexy isn’t it?

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Bonus (2204 x 1690) pic

Sydney Opera House as it appeared a few weeks ago during ‘Vivid Sydney’ festival.

I tried to capture the ’smoke’ streaming from the ‘rear’, it just looked particularly wonderful.

A huge 37 page document details Nikon’s planned releases until the end of 2010 was leaked on a Czech forum a few days ago.

2009

Nikon D3000
12.3MP
7 AF points
ISO 200-3200 extendable to 6400
3.5fps
Video unknown

Nikon D300s
12.3MP
7fps
HD video (1080p .mov h.264, 24fps)
CF and SD cards slots
920,000 pixel LCD screen

D700x
24.5MP
5fps
HD video (1080p .mov h.264, 24fps)

Plus a bunch of new lenses, mostly updating older classics with new G-version, the ones that come without an aperture ring, and adding internal autofocus motors to work with lower end models. These will be:

AF-S Nikkor 24 to 135 mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II
AF-S Nikkor 35 mm f/1.4G
AF-S Nikkor 85 mm f/1.4G

2010

Nikon D4
15.7MP (more sensitive and with less noise)
Up to 16fps with “double exposure”
ISO 200-12800 (plus extended range)
61-point AF
1080p video at 30fps
CLS control (although no flash is mentioned)

Nikon D400
13.8MP (more sensitive and with less noise)
8fps
Up to 12fps with “double exposure”
ISO 200-6400 (plus extended range)
61-point AF
1080p video at 24fps

Nikon D4x
30.2MP
ISO 100 – 6400
6fps
1080p video at 30fps

Plus lenses for 2010

AF-S Nikkor 14 to 28 mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
AF-S Nikkor 120 to 450 mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
AF-S Nikkor 300 mm f/4G VR
Nikkor AF-S VR 400 mm f/5.6G
AF-S Nikkor 70 to 240 mm f/3.5-4.5G VR
AF-S Nikkor 105 mm f/2G DC
AF-S Nikkor 24 to 85 mm f/4G VR
AF-S DX Nikkor 60 to 95 mm f/2G VR
AF-S DX Nikkor 17-60 mm f/2.8G VR

Leaks like this don’t happen very often; however, they do happen. The rumor mill is going to be rather boring for the next couple of years if the info are legit.

Personally, I’d see a D4 announcement for the summer of 2011, or 4 years after the announcement of the D3.

Then a Nikon D4x announced at the end of 2012 and shipping mid-2013.

I was out shooting pictures of this turn arrow for a movie poster when a lightning storm came through. I was actually not shooting the Capitol building at the time but in the other direction (see second photo) but I thought it would be really cool if a bolt of lightning happened to pop behind the Capitol. I set up, snapped a few pictures with the TS-E, but nothing really happened. I thought this might make a cool poster with just the storm clouds and arrow so I switched to the 35L, snapped the shutter, and literally half a second later this bolt popped behind the Capitol. The remaining 29.5 seconds was the longest of my life.

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Only a couple of days after George Hotz became the first hacker to release a jailbreak app for the iPhone 3GS on Windows, there’s a Mac-compatible version out too. This time, Hotz got some help from two fellow coders to be able to please the Mac folks, but he also made some improvements to the Windows version.

Click the image above and then click the logo you know all too well to download.

Happy jailbreaking, and in case you didn’t know yet: happy unlocking too.

Damn these guys are good!!

Elvis Presley performs outdoors to the adulation of a young crowd, circa 1957. His breakthrough performance on American Bandstand took place only months earlier.

From Elizabeth Taylor’s beach romps to Clark Gable’s schooner adventures, view a great gallery of classic images from a bygone era when famous names knew how to relax. Grab your seersucker and come along.

If you want to capture tonight’s fireworks, make sure to re-read this article.

It will be a good refresher on how to shoot at night with long exposures. Most important, don’t forget your tripod and pick a great location!

Happy 4th of July!!

I love Elena Kalis underwater photos! Between the children riding dolphins, elephants and lions you’ll quickly get that it’s an entire series of photos based on Alice in Wonderland.