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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Adibou — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:12:51 +0000

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Dangerous shark

Zazou — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:18:52 +0000

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Catch a glimpse of Lyon’s Festival of Lights 2012

Adibou — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:46:05 +0000

The Festival of Lights in Lyon expresses gratitude toward Mary, mother of Jesus on December 8 of each year. During this unique Lyonnaise tradition people place candles called lumignons in front of their windows. With over 4 million tourists coming to Lyon for this event, the festival includes other activities based on light and visual performance.

Ladybugs

Zazou — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:43:57 +0000

"Ces coccinelles marchent à côté. Oui, il paraît qu'elles s'aiment. Celle-ci aime à parler, Celle-là aime à penser. Inimitables pois verts, goût du voyage, Nul ne sait ce qui les fait s'aimer! Et pourtant, elles partagent paisiblement ces feuillages, Liant leurs sorts avec bonheur, Laissant libre court à leur bonne humeur! Entendez-vous leurs coeurs chanter ? Sans toi je suis perdue, sans toi je ne suis plus!"

Merry Christmas!

Adibou — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:52:48 +0000

The MakiPix team wishes you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Pixum personalised photo calendar review

Adibou — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:55:05 +0000

Pixum recently contacted us asking to review a photo calendar. Eager to try this kind of service, we kindly accepted their offer. For those of you who don't know Pixum, it is a leading german online photo printing company. Pixum offers a wide range of products that goes far beyond the classic photo prints on various supports and formats. They also propose for instance personnalised mugs, books, mouse pads or even backpack. Concerning calendars, they have a wide range of 30 products or so. We chose the Designer Photo Calendar (13x14.5) at 17.99£. It comes in a small metallic box that serves both as an elegant case and as a vertical support for the ongoing calendar month.

The designer photo calendar

The composition interface is performant and very simple. You simply need to upload your photos on your account without really taking care of formats or sizes and we directly uploaded our full size post-processed jpeg. You can then customize the appearance of your calendar, choosing colors, fonts, layouts and of course photos. You can personnalise each month and the main cover as well. Designs are sober yet quite modern.

The creating interface

We really liked how easy it was to make our own composition with the Flash interface by simply drag-and-dropping and zooming. We never had to upload a cropped version of an already uploaded photo in order to make it fit to our designs. This is good as choosing photos and making nice compositions is already a long exercice.

The 12 months of the year and the cover can be customised

We only had to wait a few days before receiving the product and the order was very quickly processed. Prints are of high professional quality. Colors are shiny and closely match our digital equivalent. The paper is of very good quality (Fuji Crystal Supreme) and the metal case is nice and well made. For a few criticism, we would have liked the box to open-up slightly more an look less vertical. In addition, the metal case is quite fragile. One of the four cases we ordered was slightly bended out of shape by transportation. Lastly, be careful when you choose your designs as certain layouts are not entirely translated into your own language. Days were correctly translated but the 'Week' title came in german.

The prints are of high quality but be careful of potential translation issues!

Overall, we are very satisfied by the product. The pictures look great, the product is original and it is quite cheap. I you need inspiration for Christmas and are looking for personnalised gifts, it is clearly a great idea! And if you are additionnally looking for nice photos for your calendar, we have all what you need on MakiPix ;) Thanks again to Pixum for letting us test their product!

TIME top ten photos of 2012

Adibou — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:02:47 +0000

The end of the year is the time of tops and reviews. TIME magazine did his own review of the top 10 journalistic photos of 2012. An impacting selection which is available here.

The Ottoman-venetian castle of Methoni

Adibou — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:48:51 +0000

The castle of Methoni was built by the Venetians in the 16th century in order to secure the silk road. The city was then destroyed by the Turks in 1500 and the castle partly rebuilt. The small octogonal annex which is shown here is called a Bourtzi (Μπούρτζι), it served both as an observation point and a prison.

Switch off the light so that I can better look at my planet

Adibou — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:45:27 +0000

NASA is clearly an unlimited source of amazing images of our planet. After the incredible timelapse of our planet seen by the ISS, that we presented last month, the American agency has just released some snapshots and videos of the Earth seen during the night by their latest satellite. Data acquired by Suomi NPP are incredibly clear and precise hence offering unprecedented evidence of our living patterns. Between the shiny US, Africa in the dark, perfectly well drawn borders, ships on the Nile or even wildfires in Australia, difficult not to ask ourselves a few questions on our footprint...

Selenium Butterfly

Adibou — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:56:12 +0000

Selenium butterfly

Harrod’s at Night

Adibou — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:04:43 +0000

Harrods is the biggest shop in London and is clearly among the most luxury retail stores of KnightsBridge.

Tatoo-In

Adibou — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:00:02 +0000

The dwarf armadillo of Patagonia, also called pichi, or Zaedyus pichiy for its closest friends, is an uncommon member of its genus. Covered with jagged scales linked by a flexible skin, he measures up to 1 foot and lives only in southern Agentina and Chile. According to the IUCN, it is a near threatened species.

Koroni’s monastery

Adibou — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:52:19 +0000

Koroni was once one of the most important venetian trading post of eastern Greece. Nested uphill, the monastery offers a spectacular view on the Gulf of Messinia.

Colorful Omaha Beach

Adibou — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:18:19 +0000

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The Child and the River

Adibou — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:16:25 +0000

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There was a garden

Adibou — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:21:55 +0000

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon

Photo critique #2

Adibou — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:21:10 +0000

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Above the clouds

Adibou — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:41:57 +0000

A young girl is exploding with joy after a hard climbing to the Piton de la Fournaise. Piton de la Fournaise, Reunion Island, 2011

Chocolate Hills or Bohol titties

Adibou — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:03:13 +0000

Chocolate Hills is a geological curiosity of Bohol Island in the Philippines. Hundreds of conical monds between 30 and 50 meters high are scattered in a 50 km² area. These domes were formed 2 millions years ago by the uplift of shells and coral. From shells to titties to chocolate, filipinos have a good sense of humour...

There, all is order and Beauty

Adibou — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:18:12 +0000

My child, my sister, Think of the rapture Of living together there! Of loving at will, Of loving till death, In the land that is like you! The misty sunlight Of those cloudy skies Has for my spirit the charms, So mysterious, Of your treacherous eyes, Shining brightly through their tears.

There all is order and beauty, Luxury, peace, and pleasure.

Charles Baudelaire

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