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In 2008 the New York Times created a great article and interactive feature about Ansel Adams's photography of Yosemite National Park. The interactive feature includes nine of Ansel Adams's photographs. When visitors click on a photograph it enlarges and a woman's voice narrates a short story about Adams's photography. In addition to the photographs there is an interactive map that displays the year in which and the place in the park where Adams took each photograph.

Be a part of the new Infinite Photograph-As Seen on Earth, a photo mosaic of stunning images that illustrate the awesome beauty of our world.

link suggested by Bee Dieu

Images of England is a 'point in time' photographic library of England's listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21st century. You can view over 300,000 images of England's built heritage from lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths, mile stones to gravestones, as well as thousands of bridges, historic houses and churches.

"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities" (Welcome to the World Factbook, ¶1). "Unless a copyright is indicated, information on the Central Intelligence Agency Web site is in the public domain and may be reproduced, published or otherwise used without the Central Intelligence Agency's permission. We request only that the Central Intelligence Agency be cited as the source of the information and that any photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the photographer or author or Central Intelligence Agency, as appropriate" (Copyright Notice, ¶1)

"Migrant Stories Multiculturalism is an integral part of the nation�s fabric, with 23% of the population born overseas. The migrants made Australia their home for a variety of reasons. But as they age, they sometimes face a unique set of problems not encountered by the Australia born, including isolation, language difficulties and an inability to access essential health, transport and social services. Age reporters and photographers record the views of the now elderly migrants who left homes and families as young men and women to start a new life in Australia. Click here to download the latest flash player "

Great multimedia stories about immigrants to Oz

The main objective of the World of Images collection is to provide copyright-free photographs for use in the development of quality educational material.

This site offers thousands of photographs of Quebec regions to Internet surfers. The database of digital images aims mainly at meeting the growing need for copyright-free images for use in the production of teaching aids. Quebec in images thus contributes to preserving and diffusing a significant part of Quebec's collective memory.

this is one of those collections that moves around the web - but they would make great writing prompts!

"RGB Experimental Music Laboratory / MacOSX and Windows RGB MusicLab converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image to chromatic scale sounds. The program reads RGB value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of an image. One pixel makes a harmony of three note of RGB value, and the length of note is determined by brightness of the pixel. RGB value 120 or 121 is the middle C, and RGB value 122 or 123 is added a half steps of the scale that is C#. Pure black that is R=0, G=0, B=0 is no sounds. It is not an impression of a painting or a photograph of a musical variation. It is not an arbitrary process. It composes a score from an image directly. It is simple and clear algorithm, and does not have any hidden or mysterious tricks. Anybody can get a same result if he/she takes same processes."

Unfortunately the site was recently pulled down. There's a note on the site explaining that apparently somebody else holds the rights for the software. I didn't get a chance to try it, but it sounded great.

free professional quality plugin for editing/enhancing digital images

In the latest addition to the Technology in Modern Foreign Languages series, Alice Ayel shares how she uses the internet and the rich photographic resources it contains to bring authentic materials into her classroom and focus her students' work.

images frome Asheville photographer Jerry Nelson....see posters!

Welcome to the free section of Dreamstime! If you are a designer, here you can download high resolution RF stock images for free. If you are a photographer, the heavy traffic of this section offers you the opportunity to achieve great portfolio exposure by offering free images.

"Picture to People (P2P) is a huge Computer Graphics project. One of its parts is a big collection of free online professional Computer Graphics effects"