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    The e-mail that arrived Monday night in the inboxes of two organizations tracking hate crimes in Russia carried a disturbing message and an even more disturbing photo — that of a man’s severed head resting on a wooden chopping block.

    “This surprise was prepared for Moscow officials by concerned Russian people who can no longer tolerate the invasion of foreigners in their native city,” the message declared, accusing darker-skinned migrant workers from the Caucasus and Asia of “an unprecedented wave of criminality that has swamped our capital.”

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    “At an age at which I should be putting on a wedding dress, I am asking for someone’s eyes to be dripped with acid,” she said in a recent interview, as rain poured against the windows of her parents’ small apartment in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Tehran. “I am doing that because I don’t want this to happen to any other women.”

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  • Our system does not assume the photographs are of a single real 3D location, nor that they were taken at the same time. Instead, we organize the photos in themes, such as city streets or skylines, and let users navigate within each theme using intuitive 3D controls that include pan, zoom and rotate…

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    LensAlign from RawWorkflow.com is a precision designed and built device that allows you to accurately measure and then adjust the focusing accuracy of your camera (assuming it has Micro-AF capability) within just a few minutes

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  • Our first effort an interview with Benjamin Lowy on his epic foray in to the fashion world for New York Magazine’s Look, their bi-annual fashion spectacular.

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  • A source tells the publication, “Pete and Ashlee have approached every single celebrity magazine with offers to sell their first photos, but nobody wants them. Covers of them tend not to sell well.”

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    “I think there’s a certain arrogance that goes with wanting to do something like this.”

    That’s Chris Buck telling me what it takes to become a photographer; it’s one of many astute insights he had when I talked to him on the phone several weeks ago.

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    I think this is the most expensive lens in the world: the LEICA APO-TELYT-R 1:5.6/1600mm is worth 16 million HKD (2,064,489 USD)

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    Photo and caption by Shibnath Basu, India.

    CLICK NOTE: I found a lot of these winners to appear highly ‘Shopped. Can someone please explain to me how the clouds in this National Geographic International Photography Contest winning photograph are true reflections? Sure looks like a hideous photoshop job to me.

    These shallow waters are mainly famous for flamingos at Nal Sarovar near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The picture shows the reflection of clouds on water.

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    Yes, even in bad economic times, there’s room for creative risk-taking and innovation. We continue this month’s Create feature online by asking more ad agency creatives and magazine photo editors to describe the undertaking their most proud of this year. Many shared their thoughts on how to stay creative and innovative in times of uncertainty.

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  • he registration area while attendees stand in line. No problem, I thought: I’ve got all of the original iMovie projects backed up on DVD, in clear cases, neatly arrayed in a drawer next to my desk. (My hard drive wasn’t big enough to hold those 50 videos a year.)

    Guess what? On the Mac I use for video editing, most of the DVD’s were unreadable. They’re less than four years old!

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    by Matt Mallams

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    At the time of this review I’ve spent about 1 month with the 5D Mark II between preproduction and production cameras. The images in this review represent what I have shot over the last week with a full production camera. I’ve included links to CR2 raw images and some HD footage. All images were processed with Adobe Camera Raw 5. The movie was edited in Premiere CS4.

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  • Benjamin Lowy’s take on fashion after spending years in such highly glamorous places as Iraq and Darfur is quite stunning.

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