Thought provoking and sometimes disturbing, photojournalist images from Reuters here.

Some shots of the cathedral and nearby University of Surrey.

Looking like a sort of amphitheatre enclosed by a wall, this is a view looking vertically up the side of the cathedral from within an arched recess.

Sculpture (University of Surrey).

Stained glass reflection on wall
(colours enhanced).

Security Camera (University of Surrey).

Alan Turing (University of Surrey).

“Seven joined in one”, motto of the Household Division
(referring to the seven regiments).

Dalek?

Playing around in Paint Shop Pro I added a bit of drama to these shots of an electricity sub-station.

Amazingly clear and sharp photos provided courtesy of NASA - click the image below to go to the gallery.

Note: NASA images are not generally copyrighted and may be used freely on the Internet. More details here.

This has to be the most affectionate cat I’ve met. A regular visitor to the golf driving range, it goes from one mat to the next, rolling on its back waiting for a tummy rub. It makes it rather tricky to hit the golf balls without whacking the cat! Having my pocket camera with me, I resigned to just photographing it for a while. The shots were pretty mediocre so I played around with them in Paint Shop Pro. All except the first one are clickable.

Proving that the local council have a sense of humour. Taken on the seafront at Bognor Regis.

If only all graffiti was this helpful! Taken at a temple in Thailand.

This restaurant in Thailand had a somewhat relaxed approach to hygiene! (Or was this the “dish of the day”?)

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Some Photographs

By Mark Graves

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I was impressed with animoto.com, a site that enables you to very easily create a dynamic video from your photos set to music. You can choose images from your computer or online from sites such as Flickr. Music can be chosen from a selection provided or uploaded. Once created the video can be saved to your computer or uploaded to video sharing sites such as YouTube (you can leave it hosted with Animoto but they place a watermark in the corner throughout the video).

It’s free to create a 30 second video, $3 for “full length” (determined by number of images) or $30 unlimited use for a year. Here’s a sample I created in minutes based on my shots from Thailand.

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