The Nile Delta at Night.

Great set of pictures.  Go check it out here: http://triggerpit.com/2010/11/22/incredible-pics-nasa-astronaut-wheelock/

Great home made pictures by a space enthusiast.

Robert was trying to take aerial photos of his house, using a remote control helicopter. When that didn’t work, he looked into high altitude balloons – the kind used for weather observation. He has since sent up 12 of the balloons, each toting a cheap digital camera, taking incredible photos and video capturing 1,000 miles of the Earth’s surface.

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/3/30/one-man-s-diy-space-photography-has-nasa-calling

Now that is commitment to a hobby.

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/

Brilliant use of technology.

CNN takes all submitted pictures from the public and stitches them together using Microsoft’s Photosynth technology.  Go check it out.

This is a great, fun, intuitive website that walks you through choosing a list of tags attached to Flickr photos and displays them to you in a neat globe like UI. [linky]

Kinda feels a bit like Photosynth-lite.  All online and well worth the visit.

Check this out.

An enterprising midwesterner, George Lawrence, devised and patented this ingenious system of kites and wires, right, that carried a 46-pound panoramic camera 800 feet into the air.

Kites!  Brilliant.

This is brilliant. 

Eye-Fi.

Here's how it works.

1. You get the Eye-Fi card. 
2. You plug the Eye-Fi SD card into your machine. 
3. Onboard software initializes the SD card. 
4. You put that card in your camera and you're done.

When you use it.

1. Take pictures.
2. The Eye-Fi card uploads the picture automatically to your computer.
1. You don't  have to connect any wires
2. you don't have to tell it
3. no buttons
4. it just does it
3. You can also tell it to automatically upload those photos to an online photo account of your choosing.
4. Sweet.

The only hitch is you need a wireless network.  I have Cat-5 all through my house so I would need to turn on my wireless router, but most people are wireless now I expect.

This is a brilliant implementation because it does not require you as a user to buy a new camera to get this automatic functionality.  All you need is to replace you SD card and you are good to go.

Great product design.