Free your Shutterfly photos! 40% off!

For years I've wanted to download my original photos from Shutterfly, but they made it nearly impossible. At first you couldn't actually get your photos back at full resolution at all. In the last few years, I found that I could download my library, but I'd have to do it photo by photo, or I'd have to pay beaucoup bucks to have them send me a DVD. Both made me super huffy, so I did neither.

But today I discovered they're having a 40% off sale. Yay! In just a few minutes, I selected all my photos and ordered a CD of 2500+ photos at their original resolution for $8.50. I'm so psyched.

Use SHARE40 in the shopping cart for your discount. Sale ends 9/29, so scoot! Get over there!

Shutterfly | Archive Photo DVD and Digital Picture DVD

Inkless Polaroid.

Want. Wantwantwantwantwant. That is all.

Called the Polaroid Plus, the new camera will use Zero Ink Technology developed by the tech company ZINK. The special paper has cyan, magenta, and yellow ink dye crystals embedded inside it, and the camera's job is to activate the colored dye in the appropriate places. Afterward, the camera can spit out a 2- by 3-inch picture to show your friends. Since it's a digital camera, the Polaroid Plus can also save the picture on a memory card of up to 32GB. That way you can download the pictures later if you want to have them printed out a little bigger.

Polaroid Introduces a New Camera That Takes Instant Inkless Pictures | Mental Floss

Climbing Cubs.

Oh, Sharon Montrose, You crack me up.

Climbing Cubs - The Animal Print Shop by Sharon Montrose

BBC News - Science meets art in annual contest

These images are amazing. Like this one of a cucumber skin.

BBC News - In pictures: Science meets art in annual contest

Polaboy.

These are fabulous. Giant Polaroids! Choose from their stock or create your own. I'd love one, though the lack of prices on the site leads me to believe I probably can't afford them...



Polaboy

(via Thrillist)

Tree, Line.

"Tree, Line" is an ongoing series by Welsh artist Zander Olsen created by wrapping tree trunks with white material to "construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera's viewpoint." The pieces below were created in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales.

HUH. Magazine - Tree, Line

Klaus Pichler: Skeletons in the closet

Klaus Pichler spent three years roaming around behind the scenes and under the plastic of the Museum of Natural History, taking photos. In November 2012, the museum is hosting an exhibition of the photographs. Brilliant.






Klaus Pichler :: Projects

(via NYT: Natural History, Not-So-Natural Setting)

Sharon Montrose on 20x200 today.

AUUUGHHH! These tiny bears are killin' me with the cuteness.



20x200 : Artists : Sharon Montrose

Cheap DIY clip frames.

Do you (like I do) have a closet full of prints and artwork that've been there for ages because you can't bite the spendy bullet to get it framed?


You might want to check out DIY Picture Framing – they have good ol' glass clip frames on the cheap. I finally got around to framing a few 18x24 prints that I've had for ages (like the Public School print, above, and this Skinny Ships print). Two frames = $36 with shipping.

I feel so much better.

DIY PICTURE FRAMING :: CLIP FRAMES

Anne-Laure Maison photo collages.

Lovely.



[Anne-Laure Maison] - "Tableaux d’intimités"

(via sub-studio)

Floating Lacquer Frames

Lovely styling on these.


Floating Lacquer Frames | west elm

Happy Halloween, everybody!

The above photo – Death offers a hand – used with the kind permission of Graham Gangi. More of his photography here.

Instaprint - A location-based Instagram photo booth.

Oh, man. I'd love to rent one of these little Instagram printers for our next office event.




Instaprint - A location based photo booth for Instagram

Casetagram.

A phone case from your Instagrams. I like.


Casetagram :: Your iPhone case from your Instagram photos

(Thanks, Bradley!)

Lytro light field camera.

I'm drooling. I want one.




Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a conventional camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space.

Check out a sample image here. Just click on different parts of the photo to re-focus. So cool.



Lytro

(via Gizmodo)

TinEye Reverse Image Search.

Photographers – you might want to check this out. You can see who's using your photos or even submit your collection so it's credited/attributed properly.


TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.

TinEye Reverse Image Search

Printstagram.

My nerdy love for Instagram and my unending love of tiny things converge. And two books for 12 bucks? I'm sold.


Print your Instagram photos in a special little book. The photos are printed back to back on cardstock with a glossy photo-finish. Its a simple product, but a good one. Photos are printed at just about the same size they appear on your iPhone.

The minibook measures just 3.5" inches x 2.4" inches ( 90mm x 60 mm ) and each book has 50 photos in it. Each order comes with 2 books.

Printstagram - We Print Your Instagram Photos

(via Incredible Things – which totally lives up to its name. Such a great site.)

Chromatic RPM prints.

What an amazing gift for an audiophile. Prints of the artist's grandfather's LP collection. Gorgeous.



Chromatic RPM / Grandpa Jud Set / Paul Octavious

(via the lovely swissmiss)

DSLR Bank

A sweet way to save for your next camera.

Buy the DSLR Bank at the Photojojo Store!

Lytro Is Developing a Camera That May Change Photography as We Know It

I actually gasped when I clicked on the pictures. Go on. Do it. Then go read the story.

Click the background on this one:



...and the foreground on this one:



WHOA.

PetaPixel: Lytro Is Developing a Camera That May Change Photography as We Know It