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Mammalian encounter - (AP Photo/Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Nancy Chan) - click to enlarge.

A picture from the Big Picture’s note blog.
I just love it!

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Brussels First Balloon Day Parade

Yesterday, on Saturday 28th of February 2009, took place the first Balloon Day Parade in Brussels! According to Wikipedia, the first Balloon Parade took place in New York in 1924, an initiative from Macy’s Department Store employees, who were first generation immigrants. They wanted to celebrate US holiday of Thanksgiving with the kind of festival their parents had in Europe.
Live animals borrowed at Central Park Zoo were replaced with large anima-shaped balloons in 1927’s edition, and this was also the first apparition of Felix the Cat. That’s for history…
Here in Brussels, it was the first edition with about 16 balloons, from crocodile or dinosaur to Spirou, Smurfs or Agent 212, a typical belgian policeman from a comic strip… The parade was also followed by fanfare, as it should be. It went from South train station to North train station, the usual parcours for parades and demonstrations. Unfortunately for us photographers, the sun in front of us, which is never easy to shoot, even with a flash (which I urgently need to master by the way!).
(Click on the image to go to the gallery)

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Night photo session at Knokke - Belgium

I couldn’t resist to test Christopher Ward new little plugin for WordPress… So here it is! This plugin inserts  exif informations of a photo in the “alt” tag: if you hover your mouse over the above image, you’ll see this: “f/22, 12 sec, at 50mm, 100 ISO, on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II”, it’s the information of how the picture was taken… Well it doesn’t says I used a tripod for this, but everyone could have guessed that…
Please read more on Gavin Gough’s blog.

So thank you Christopher for creating this plugin; Gavin for the tip via your blog!

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A young girl warily eyes a guerrilla fighter in the Lubero district, where a rebel group meets with U.N. personnel. © James Nachtwey/VII

As always, James Nachtwey show us great photography, fantastic technic and cropping! Here a little serie on Congo, for Time, where he had travelled with actor Ben Affleck, who is writing on the situation over there.
And here another gallery on military frontline medecine, a situation he knows to have been on both side: injured and spectator.

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Image from JM Clajot Scarification gallery

Jean-Michel Clajot is a belgian photographer, born in 1971, began his pro career with his first trip to Somalia. He also worked 10 years with Reporters Press Agency. He signed with Cosmos Photo Agency (Paris) and Aurora Photos (USA).
He has been working for the past 3 years on “Scarification” in Benin, West-Africa. A book has been published in french.

Check out his website and the Scarification movie

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On Valentine's evening at Knokke, belgian coast

As the weather was sunny, I went saturday afternoon to Knokke, on the belgian coast, for a little photo session.
I was shooting long exposures of the sea after sunset when I heard some explosions. It was fireworks for Valentine’s day (or night).
(click here or on the above image to go to gallery).

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