Have you ever thought what to do with all your gigabytes of image files?  In my case I have a couple of hard drives filled with pictures I have taken through out the years.  The only way I can access them is through my laptop or website.  I haven’t taken the time yet to print them and have them available for display offline.  Many times I have thought of printing them either as postcard size photos or photobooks.  Recently I have found a cheap and easy way to print them in high quality and it is with an online service offered by Vistaprint.

Vistaprint is a printing company that offers various types of printing services, from business card design and printing to photography high quality printing.  One of their services is photobook printing, which they offer in various sizes and designs. In my case I am planning on printing my photobooks on an L size 28×21 format, large enough to view my photo details and small enough to handle and store at home.  The good thing about it is that a 24-120 page photobook goes for as low as €8 per photobook!   This is a very reasonable price that makes possible the printing of all the pictures on your hard drive.  Im sure that in my case I wont spend more than €100 printing most of my important travel, family and friend pictures.

You can check more details about printing your photobook here.

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These are the images of the amazing project “Back to the Future” by argentinian photographer Irina Werning.  The photographer has collected old pictures from friends and volunteers and has re-enacted the photo scene with the same subject 20 and even 30 years later.  In the work the Werning copies not only the clothes, and setting but also the facial expressions, and aged filmed textures.  This is probably the best before and after portrait photo documentary ever done.

Check the gallery Back to the Future with some of the subjects

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The Simpsons have also come up with their Harlem Shake version, the Homer Shake.  Check it here!!

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When we think about the Second World War we always picture everything in black and white.  Back then most of the films available were monochrome, however there were color films and development techniques which were not that popular.  Here are some pictures I found of real color WWII photography from Kodak color film.  Development of color was so expensive that most of the pictures and movies available were in black and white.  Here you can see a sample of color pictures that bring the Second World War to our present times.

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The Polar H7 and Polar Beat app are the latest products released by Polar, they are a step forward into heart rate monitors and mobile technology integration.  These products use as a heart rate monitor your mobile device, they are compatible with iPhone iOS and Android OS phones.  The Polar H7 connects via Bluetooth through a chest strap that monitors your heart rate and communicates to the Polar Beat, a heart monitor app that tracks your heart beat, distance, and  coaches you through different fitness stages while keeping a record of everything on the Polar Personal Trainer.


One of the great features of the Polar Beat app is the Smart Coaching which keeps track of your training, calories burnt, % fat burnt, and the aerobic zones you have been hitting on your runs or activities.  Also you can choose from a series of sessions from free training to Maximum training to increase you aerobic conditioning and fitness.  You can see all the details on the video review below with examples on how to use your Polar Beat app and your Polar H7 chest strap.

Polar H7 video review

The Polar H7 and Polar Beat transforms your mobile phone into a powerful fitness device that is also compatible with other mobile apps like Runtastic, Runkeeper, Endomodo, Digifit.

Polar Beat Smart Coaching showing the results of a week of training.

History of my most recent runs

These are some of the features of the Polar H7

- GPS based speed, distance and route (if your reveicing device includes GPS)
- Distance or time based training targets
- Voice guidance
- Sharing to Facebook, Twitter and polarpersonaltrainer.com
- Training history
- Polar Smart Coaching features: Training benefit, Sports Zones and Calories
- Calorie based training target
- Heart rate vs. speed graphs in training history

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The American musician Jorge Gonzalez has shown that you can make music with anything including Latin jazz percussion with the girls back. Gonzalez is part of the band Patax fusion band of 5 members that combines Latin jazz, funk, flamenco and contemporary music. In this video you can see how Gonzalez becomes the butt of 4 girls in panties in a battery of Afro-Caribbean drums.

Jorge Gonzalez playing percussion with girls booties

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Like two fighters on a UFC match these 2 squirrels fight for their lives on a tree stump on what seems to be a dispute over a peanut.  Russian photographer Andre Morozov took this amazing shots of 2 squirrels while taking pictures in a Botanical Garden in Canada.

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Increase your WordPress blog organic traffic

Driving traffic to your website can be one of the most challenging tasks for a blogger and specially for a photographer. Photography websites due to the nature of their content tend to be rich in image files and low in text density. This can affect the website’s SEO performance and impact its incoming traffic. To avoid this the best thing is to combine good image content with relevant texts. In Tokyography.com for example I try to balance images with text, usually enough text to describe the images and gallery and let google understand what the images are about.

The key rules to have good text content are to write at least a 300 word post and focus on keywords that can drive traffic. In my case I use a couple of keyword tools essential to find out which are the best keywords to increase your organic traffic:

• Google Keyword Tool
• Hit Tail

Google Keyword Tool

Google Keyword Tool provides me with an overall analysis of the monthly traffic an specific keyword can have. So for example if I am trying to write about iPhone photography apps, I would research this keyword phrase in the Google Keyword Tool and the tool will provide me with the monthly traffic for this keyword and a list of keyword suggestions with their traffic. This is pretty useful for finding opportunities on other keywords similar in theme. I try to chose keyword with moderately high traffic and low competition which have a strong potential to rank.

HitTail

The other tool I use is HitTail, this is a tool that will provide you with long tail keyword suggestions. Long tail keywords are usually keyword phrases of 3 or more keywords that define very specific topics. The software crawls your website and after analyzing the content gives you a list of keyword suggestions that will show you the most promising keywords you should target based on your existing traffic.

This cloud application will give you reports were you can analyze the existing keywords on your blog and will give you suggestions for keywords with potential to generate traffic.

The image below is of my Hittail dashboard showing me my most valuable keywords with the top ten keywords and long tail keywords.  The Hit Tail report shows that  my top ten keywords are 39.4% of all your search traffic and long tail keywords are 60.6% of all my search traffic. Once the tool analyses my blog content it automatically creates a list of suggested keywords I can use for future posts.  I can choose from the list the keywords I would like to use for a post or request the HitTail team to write me a post about the keyword.

Long tail keyword traffic has proven to bring most of the traffic to blogs, mastering what long tail keywords are going to bring you traffic is essential.  HitTail is one of the best tools to increase your organic traffic and will help you find those keyword opportunities that can build up your monthly traffic to your blog.  On your photography blog it can be useful to find those hidden terms on your blog with strong potential.

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