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Identifying Manipulated Images New tools that analyze the lighting in images help spot tampering. By Erica Naone   True or false? The tool used above spots whether an image has been manipulated by modeling the lighting in the image based on an analysis of visible surfaces. To analyze an image, a user indicates the surfaces to consider using contour lines (shown above in white). The system checks for inconsistencies in the way that those surfaces are lit. Credit: Micah Kimo Johnson, Hany Farid Photo-editing software gets more sophisticated all the time, allowing users to alter pictures in ways both...

Korea Delegation to China in 1863 The first photographs of Koreans are released to the public Thursday. The six pictures of the Korean delegation to China were taken at the Russian legation in Beijing in January 1863. Three members of the delegation appear in one of the pictures. A British missionary at the time collected the photos and took them to Britain. Recently, photography professor Park Ju-seok at Myongji University made them public after they came into his possession.

Found a great source of photographs from Iraq. Enjoy. Here: JPG magazine Photographer has a website.

They are the most remarkable pictures of one of the most hellish places on earth. Never seen before, these astonishing photographs, lovingly hand-touched in colour to bring to life the nightmare of Passchendaele, were released this week to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the battle that, between July and November 1917, claimed a staggering 2,121 lives a day and in total some quarter of a million Allied soldiers. Killing field: A German machine gun unit strafes No Man's Land at Passchendaele as artillery shells churn up hte ground and mustard gas billows over the front What was once pretty countryside...

An al-Qaida-linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed," as protesters raged across the Muslim world to demand more of an apology from the pontiff for his remarks about Islam and violence. The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified. The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross"...

Just in. I am looking at a picture of the WTC with smoke pouring out of the western tower. Looks like a huge amount of damage. Debris raining down on people in the street.

Here are some links from the FR archives in observance of the fifth anniversary of 9/11/2001 - Threads list of several breaking news items - Latest Articles The first post reporting the attacks by OldEconomyBuyer - World Trade Center Posted on the first anniversary - Associated Press newswire - September 11, 2001 - Chronology of news alerts, bulletins and flashes

Fifty black and white photographs bringing back the devastation of Sept. 11, 2001 hung on the walls of a North Berkeley church yesterday, providing what photographer X Bonnie Woods hoped would be "a time of remembrance and healing." The exhibit features photographs taken immediately following Sept. 11 when Woods worked with volunteer disaster-relief teams at Ground Zero and was asked to document their operations. The series, "Workers at Ground Zero: A Glimpse Behind the Scenes," will be on display at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley through Thursday. Woods said she strove to maintain the images in their original forms....

Amid the controversy over certain pictures from Lebanon, a longtime student of war photography asks, "I'm not sure if the craft I love is being murdered, committing suicide, or both." By David D. Perlmutter (August 18, 2006) -- The Israeli-Hezbollah war has left many dead bodies, ruined towns, and wobbling politicians in its wake, but the media historian of the future may also count as one more victim the profession of photojournalism. In twenty years of researching and teaching about the art and trade and doing photo-documentary work, I have never witnessed or heard of such a wave of attacks...

When Reuters was forced to sever ties with free-lance photographer Adnan Hajj and remove more than 900 of his photos from its database earlier this month, long-whispered questions about the reliability of Arab stringers and freelancers came to the forefront. But while the widespread use of Arab locals in covering the Middle East raises many legitimate concerns, the Palestinian propaganda machine has enjoyed tremendous success over the years hoodwinking supposedly sophisticated Western journalists. And Hezbollah appears to have done the same over the past month. In short, almost nothing that is purported to happen in the Arab world can automatically...

Via the EET comes word of a new technology called Photosynth, which can stitch together 2D snapshots of a location to build a 3D walkthrough. So for instance, you could do a Google Image or Flickr search for photos of the Eiffel Tower, dump all the resulting photos of the monument into Photosynth, and have the software recreate it and its surroundings in 3D. The software also lets you annotate an object in an image, and that annotation will follow the object as you view other photos in the same collection. Here's the abstract, which gives a summary of the...

Deep-sea robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck Deborah Halber, News Office Correspondent February 2, 2006Image © / Chios 2005 Shipwreck Survey -- WHOI, Hellenic Ministry of Culture: Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, Hellenic Center for Marine ResearchThis image shows a sample of the data collected by the SeaBed autonomous underwater vehicle as it swam over the Chios shipwreck in July 2005. The 3-D color mesh represents a topographic map of the sea floor, created using data collected by multibeam sonar. The brown strip shows the area captured in digital images, which were used to create the photomosaic of the wreck. Sometime in...

Be strong America. Be strong Israel. Happy New Year all. Thank you all

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Attorney General Mike Beebe says a proposed constitutional amendment to ban the sale of slave paraphernalia can be resubmitted for his review. Beebe rejected the proposal Thursday, saying it did not include a copy of the full measure for his review. He also noted several problems with the proposal including that it does not clearly define slave paraphernalia or slave items. But Beebe told Marquitta J. Corbin of Conway that she can submit the proposal again. Corbin wants to get the measure on the November ballot but the attorney general must first review the proposal...

ICE TO DEPORT HOSPITAL TECHNICIAN CONVICTED OF TAKING PICTURES OF WOMAN AWAITING SURGERY Secretly took graphic pictures of hospital patient under anesthesia; faces deportation to Mexico CHICAGO - A former hospital technician, who pleaded guilty last month to secretly photographing a woman under anesthesia and awaiting surgery, was arrested Friday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on immigration violations and faces deportation. ICE special agents arrested José C. Rostro, 23, a Mexican national, at his Bolingbrook home after receiving information from law enforcement authorities that he was illegally residing in the United States. Rostro was working as a...

The Top Ten Best GHOST PHOTOGRAPHS Ever Taken The other night I happened to catch Ghost Hunters on the Sci-Fi Channel. It’s an hour-long show that follows the members of TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) as they investigate reputedly haunted locations, in an attempt to document and de-bunk supposed ghostly infestations. I'd never seen the show before but I came away very impressed by these guys: they're regular working joes – the founders are Roto-Rooter plumbers by day – who do their investigations on nights and weekends in a completely professional and ethical manner. They scrutinize everything and make thorough...

Iraqi, U.S. Soldiers Keeping Sadr Streets Safe Travelling through the streets and alleys of Sadr City, U.S. troops search for signs of terrorist groups, and get acquainted with the neighborhoods. By U.S. Army Spc. Ben Brody 2nd Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs SADR CITY, Iraq, Aug. 24, 2005 - U.S. and Iraqi Army soldiers now patrol Sadr City, and the result is safer streets in what was once a hotly-contested area. After a change in their area of operations, troops from Company B, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division got to know their new...

AMW Capture #846 Fun in the Sun Comes to an End John Dallas Lockhart loved the beach and loved to party. But police say his quest for fun came at the expense of the most innocent of victims, including a 4-month old infant that Lockhart is accused of raping. The U.S. Marshals biggest concern was that Lockhart was the type of person who could blend in anywhere. But when he was profiled on America's Most Wanted on, June 4, 2005, tips came pouring in. Several were from the Venice Beach area in California. Akron, Ohio Police and the U.S. Marshals...

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2005 – Hundreds of color photos depicting the trials and triumphs of the Navy and Marine Corps troops during operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom adorn the pages of "Defending Freedom," a new hardcover coffee-table book. Seaman Apprentice Vincent L. Carrillo stands watch on the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman, Feb. 4, 2003. The Truman and Carrier Air Wing 3 were on a six-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Photo by Seaman Ryan O'Connor, USN Proceeds of the book's sale will be used to provide financial assistance to sailors, Marines and their...

Please take the time to watch this video, we must remember those on September 11, 2001. We can never forget, and we can not let those who wish us to forget to let us forget. Please, take 15 minutes from freeping, this is bookmarked on my home page, Thank you FReepers. Indy.Never Forget. If you let it run past the video, there are many good quotes after.

In yet another example of why journalists are held in such low esteem by most Americans, the Associated Press finds itself under legal challenge from six Navy SEALs and two of their wives over a series of photographs that the news agency published this month. The pictures, taken from a public Web site that was located by an AP reporter using a Google search, seemed to show the SEALs mistreating prisoners. Because the photos carried a date stamp of May 2003, the AP story said, they might have constituted the earliest photographic evidence of prisoner abuse in Iraq. The problem,...

WASHINGTON — Two photo-rich summaries of the battle of Fallujah — one produced by the U.S. military in Iraq, the other by an anonymous American blogger . . . [snip] Both presentations have gained increasing Internet audiences recently and attempt to convey, among other things, the suffering imposed on Iraqi civilians in Fallujah. That is where similarities end, however. The military's presentation depicts the fight for Fallujah as a liberation of a city from the insurgents. The Web log posts far more graphic photos, and it tends to point the finger of blame for civilian suffering at the military.

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

WATER CRYSTALS Water? The Earth is largely made up of it. As are we. And yet about it we know significantly little. Until the groundbreaking work of a pioneer Japanese researcher whose astonishing discovery about water, documented photographically, changed most of what we didn't know?and led to a new consciousness of Earth's most precious resource. Dr. Masaru Emoto was born in Japan and is a graduate of the Yokohama Municipal University and the Open International University as a Doctor of Alternative Medicine. His photographs were first featured in his self-published books Messages from Water 1 and 2. The Hidden Messages...

The (un)Official Kerry Campaign Diary

There are so many recent photos of John F'ing Kerry looking like a girlman that I think it behooves us to collect them all in one location. Please post them here. The recent NASA photos are just the latest. What about the ones were he attends a Red Sox game and throws the first ball like a girl. The video shows his wimpiness much more than any still photograph. How about the euroqueer photos of Mr. Kerry on a $10,000 bicycle? I'm sure there are more photos. We freepers need to have this threat accessible so that media lurkers and...

"...Warner also said he expects the Pentagon to surrender today or tomorrow a full copy of the military's scathing internal report, based on an inquiry conducted by Army Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba. The report, completed in February, was classified "Secret/No Foreign Dissemination" and approved by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, on May 1; that was a few days before its contents became public."

Landfill discovery leads to sexual assault charges BY LAUREL ALMADA Times staff writer A Laredo woman was indicted for alleged sex crimes Tuesday after someone found a box containing explicit photographs and other items at the city's landfill. Maria D. Martinez, 47, of the 2500 block of Boston, is charged with one count of indecency with a child by exposure and two counts of sexual performance by a child. The indictment alleges that Martinez exposed herself to a child under the age of 17 and induced the child to engage in sexual conduct on two occasions occurring on or about...

John Kerry's friend, George Butler, a New Hampshire filmmaker who has known Kerry for more than three decades is threatening legal action against Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.Com.  Butler is claiming ownership of  two photographs pertaining to Kerry's radical pro-Hanoi days.One is the cover picture that appeared on Kerry's book, The New Soldier which Kerry tried to suppress in 1972. It depicts several unkempt demonstrators crudely handling an upside down American flag to mock the famous photo of the U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima. Read letter below:   March 5, 2004 By Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested and By Email...

<p>PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The NASA rover Opportunity turned a camera skyward to photograph Mars' moon Deimos eclipsing the sun and also carried out the most complex movements yet of its robotic arm to record microscopic images of a rock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Thursday.</p>

LONDON (Reuters) - More than five million detailed aerial photographs from World War II go onto the Internet from Monday, giving the public their first views of some of the most dramatic and grisly moments of the conflict. From the smoke billowing from the incinerator of the Auschwitz concentration camp in which millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis, to the U.S. landings on Omaha beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the pictures tell dramatic stories. "These images allow us to see the real war at first hand," project head Allan William said. "It is like a live action...

p20 The Foundations of Interplanetary Unity 1993 The evidence that Earth is being visited by at least one ET civilization is extensive both in scope and detail. In its totality, it comprises a body of evidence which at the very least supports the general assessment that ET life has been deteceted, that a vigorous program of research and serious diplomatic initiatives is warranted. Consider the following overview of facts: * There are numerous daytime and nighttime photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been evaluated and deemed authentic by competent...

September 11, 2003 at Ground Zero

350 photographs of Yasser Arafat put on display in garden of Gaza`s Palestinian parliament

ROME, May 8 — Investigators analyzing computers seized from an Italian mosque say they have uncovered images of the twin towers that were downloaded just days before the 9/11 attacks, as well as a trove of pornographic photos they believe were used to conceal coded messages. On Sept. 4, 2001, according to investigators, pictures of the World Trade Center were saved as temporary files on one of the computers at the Via Quaranta mosque in Milan — the mosque frequented by Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed, also known as Abu Saleh, an Egyptian currently on trial in absentia in Milan on...

Rally For America in Washington, DC

NASA Releases Thousands of New Photos from Mars Global Surveyor The winds of Mars leave their marks on many of the 11,664 new pictures being posted on the Internet today by the camera team for NASA's Mars Global Surveyor mission. In one image, the pattern of sand dunes on a patch of southern-hemisphere desert resembles scales on a fish. On a larger scale, full-globe Mars images show wispy water ice clouds shaped by winds as the seasons change. Other new images reveal details of features such as gullies, landslides and seasonal frost. The new batch, taken between February and...

Instructions for Uploading Images and Video Related to the Columbia Accident For anyone who has recorded video or taken photos that they believe may be of aid in the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, NASA has established a special location on the Web where Internet users may upload their media files to be reviewed by NASA. Using the FTP method of your choice, log on to the server 38.201.67.72 as "anonymous," using your e-mail address as your password. Example: User ID: anonymous Password: john_doe@hotmail.com Along with any image or video file that you wish to upload, please include...

President Bush traveled to St. Louis, Missouri today and spoke at J.S. Logistics, a courier company, to promote his tax cut plan to middle America. He said that America relies on the strength of the small business community, and also said in comments about Iraq, that Saddam Hussein is a dangerous man, playing ‘hide-and-seek’ with no intention of disarming, and that for the sake of peace, he must not be allowed to play that game. He also spoke via telephone to the Pro-Life protesters in Washington D.C. expressing support for the culture of life they were seeking. Enjoy your Daily...

Instant photos capture crimes New tools help Dallas police increase arrests, prosecutions of abusers 12/27/2002 By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News The women in the photos look straight ahead, caught mostly expressionless in the camera's flash. The bruises, busted lips and torn clothing say plenty, and that's the idea for police and prosecutors. The impromptu portraits speak volumes even after the black eyes fade and - more often than not - the victims return to their attackers and lose any desire to prosecute, authorities say. Using simple instant cameras and a new detailed series of questions for...

The massive American-British air raid over western Iraq on the evening of Sept. 6 is almost certainly a precursor to an invasion of the country. An estimated 100 warplanes delivered a major blow to Iraq's various command and control systems that could deliver weapons of mass destruction and complicate an invasion by ground forces. That strike followed a raid on Aug. 5, when allied bombers demolished Saddam Hussein's air-command-and-control center southwest of Baghdad. Key Iraqi air-defense lines have been taken out, and the way is now clear for U.S. special forces. Israeli intelligence sources report that some 15 percent...

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Black Flags of Islam &nbsp; Portents of the Imam al-Mahdi, the Moslems' prophesied deliverer of Jerusalem? from Diane Alden… Afghanistan has special significance to the world of militant Islam. It was once called Khurasan, along with parts of Iran and Pakistan. Muhammad said: "If you see the black flags coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice, for that is the army of the Imam al-Mahdi and no one can stop that army until it reaches Jerusalem." That is one reason Osama bin Laden chose it as his base, or al-Qaida. Mohammed's ...

With so many memorial sites, graphics, photos, videos, flash movies, etc. proliferating on the internet since the 9-11 attack on America, it is almost impossible to keep track of them all. The purpose of this thread is to provide a convenient archive for posterity. Use this thread to post links to any sites you have found particulary memorable or that would be of interest to other FReepers. (Please post your comments and the links only to save bandwidth).

Men Flee Airport After Taking Photos Reported By: Joel Thomas Web Editor: Manav Tanneeru Last Modified: 6/22/2002 12:22:44 PM Fulton County police issued a Be On The Lookout, or BOLO, for two men who were observed taking pictures of the aircraft and facilities of Raytheon Aircraft Thursday at the Fulton County Municipal Airport-Charlie Brown Field. The two men fled when Raytheon employees approached them. The men drove away in a tan PT Cruiser bearing the Canadian tag AMMZ226. One of the men was described as a white male, about 40 years old, heavy set and standing about 5 feet 10...

Men taking photos at Navy base held by INSBy JACK DORSEY, The Virginian-Pilot© June 27, 2002 NORFOLK -- Five Hispanic men taking photos near a Norfolk Naval Station pier were detained Tuesday afternoon by police and immigration officials after obtaining access to the facility without permission. Four of the men were unable to provide authorities proof of citizenship, or their immigration status. A fifth, who could produce documentation, was released. ``They were down by one of the piers shooting photographs, like they were tourists, or something,'' said Cmdr. Mark McDonald, a spokesman for the Navy's Mid-Atlantic Region, headquartered in Norfolk....

I think newspaper photo morgues are a fantastic but vastly underused resource. My area of interest isn't in current news photos but photos of the past---pre-1950. Specifically my interest is in photos of South Florida taken before about 1940. Anyway, I would like to take a look at these types of photos and have copies made of them for personal use. I think they would make great displays for my walls.

Here is my description of the information at the web site above: An anonymous person has, through a FOIA request, obtained copies of the FBI photographs of three of the anthrax letters and envelopes. High-quality scans are posted on the web site in TIFF format. These are much higher quality than the images on the FBI web site, and the photos include rulers next to the letters, so the sizes can be measured. The images are much too big to be posted here. Go to the web site and download them if you are interested. (Links to the TIFF images...