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120 Stunning and Inspiring Examples Of Macro Photography

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:30:20 +0000

Macro photography is close-up photography that allows us to see what our eyes cannot see. This is a collection of 60 Photos and 60 Links of Macro Photography. Also there are some additional resources if you want to take your own macro photos.

Macro Photography

1. Colors Of Nature by gorditojaramillo

2. Team Work by Budslife

3. Delicious by freebird4

4. Old Hickory by Mouser NerdBot

5. Mosquito by nick kulas

6. How To Put Pretty Stuff In Those Drops by Steve took it

7. Stained Glass Dragonfly by Krikit

8. Flower In A Water Drop by nickso

9. Perched Dragonfly by Alex Wendes

10. Droplet by Burning Image

11. Point of no return by zetson

12. Abeja Volando by Gustavo

13. A Splash Of Garden by Steve took it

14. Pilot Light by ecstaticist

15. Face To Face by gorditojaramillo

16. Macro XXX by Gustavo

17. mr. Hopper by julkastro

18. Spider by gorditojaramillo

19. Gekko Gecko by Yaki!

20. Lotus by Romain

21. Dandelion Close-Up by Erica Marshall

22. Flies Eye by MuseumWales

23. Shoo Fly by nick kulas

24. BuG it by julkastro

25. Pistilos Hibiscus by bigdani

26. Honey Bees by david.nikonvscanon

27. Midnight Raver by julkastro

28. Mantis Looking by Mike McCaffrey

29. Bee by EJP Photo

30. Spiderman by eirikso

31. The Smiling Spider by nickso

32. Carousel by ecstaticist

33. Scops Owl by David Reece

34. Beetle Head On by MuseumWales

35. My Son’s Eye by nickso

36. Sharpshooter Leafhopper by MuseumWales

37. First milk drops by nickso

38. Battleship by andyburnfield

39. Retrato De Caballito Del Diablo by Gustavo

40. Spider On Pongamia Leaf by binux

41. Bee by daecon

42. Mariposa Saltarina by Gustavo

43. Macro Photography At The Conservatory by g-na

44. ¿Anoréxica? by Gustavo

45. Flower by TANAKA Juuyoh

46. Inner Workings Of A Lime by summer luu

47. Bug Me Not by EJP Photo

48. Ahora Controlo Tu Mente by Gustavo

49. Feeding Frenzy by nick kulas

50. Sam II by 1LB

51. Looking Up by poritsky

52. Espejo by gorditojaramillo

53. Retrato de Libélula by Gustavo

54. Dreaming Of U by julkastro

55. Cric Cric Cric by julkastro

56. Over Sweet by hartp

57. SweetyBee by Pink Sherbet

58. Linx Spider by nickso

59. Ant Portrait by binux

60. Blue, Purple, Yellow My Lens by Maxios

Need more?

If you really like Macro Photography, we collected more photos below.

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A Showcase Of 85 Creative Splash Pages

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:11:41 +0000

You have a website and you’re thinking: “I want to have a splash page”. There are many PROS and CONS about this kind of page but if you really want/need a splash page, we have a nice collection.

Splash Pages

1. Pierre Marie

2. Salbo,ma

3. Hailey Winstone Illustration

4. Conceptio

5. Taller de Ideas Atutiplen

6. Screen Vader

7. Zaravka and Usonia

8. Funky Punky

9. Ice Age 3

10. Jose Luis Elizalde

11. Ratatouille Movie

12. Apple

13. Agencia TUDO

14. Jason Chan Art

15. Gloria Quiroga

16. Faith Hill

17. Rayman: Raving Rabbids

18. Christian Sparrow

19. Skunky

20. Dave Werner’s Portfolio

21. Peacer River Excursion

22. Cathy Beck Communications

23. Squidfingers

24. Kutztown University

25. Herbal Essences

26. Corel

27. Ijji

28. Dan Viveiros

29. NotYourAverageJoe

30. Rascal Flatts

31. ACDC

32. Katy Perry

33. Mitxel

34. Medicon Media

35. O2

36. SimCity DS

37. Jason Mraz

38. Mary Mary

39. Taylor Swift

40. Rihanna Reloaded

41. Monster.com

42. 43. Peecol

44. Ace of Mace

45. iQ - Virtual Test Drive

46. Your Playground

47. SonicJam

48. NAWLZ

49. 6 Beers of Separation

50. Totem

51. Danilo Figueiredo

52. 13buhost

53. Sony Ericsson MTV EMA

54. EyeGrafix

55. MOGG

56. BN (Binatural)

57. On!Production

58. Fit 2009

59. PayPlay.FM

60. McDonalds

61. Fort Minor

62. Adam Carolla

63. One Laptop per Child

64. The Adventures of Tinger

65. Sony Walkman Komiks

66. Offical PSP

67. Crappy Cat

68. Wario Land: Shake It!

69. Ochionet

70. Alicia Bell

71. Hip Hope 2009!

72. NotSoSimpleton

73. Jochem van Wetten

74. Lorenzo Marri

75. Virgin Mobile Festival

76. Kinetic Singapore

77. Aardman Animation Ltd.

78. Illustration Factory

79. Art in Hong Kong

80. Nekob

81. Nokia

82. Kung Fu Panda

83. PS3 Games Universe

84. Coca-Cola

85. The Good Foot Fight

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100 Creative Examples of Footers for Web Designers

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:24:24 +0000

Anyone who has a website is concerned about how a good design can attract visitors and keep them. Many designers focus their creativity in what visitors are going to see first: the header and the content, but what about the footer?. In this collection you will find 100 footers to improve the user experience in your own websites.

Footers: Best Practices

1. Catalyst Studios

2. Just Pixel

3. Web Designer Wall

4. Blog.SpoonGraphics

5. Dreamling.ca

6. Productive Dreams

7. CSS-Tricks

8. PSDTUTS

9. We Are not Freelancers

10. Brad Candullo

11. Digital Deceptions

12. Iemai.com.br

13. Blup!

14. Wire Roses

15. Bristol Archive Records

16. Albertlo Design

17. eSpace

18. GriffinaBox

19. Future Of Web Apps

20. Seed Hunter

21. Branded07

22. David Hellmann

23. Josh Mackey

24. Sihirli Blog

25. JohnCow

26. Blog Amuki

27. Sawyer Hollenshead

28. Elite By Design

29. Helvetica Project

30. Hambo Development

31. Nathan Sanders

32. Bellingham Real Estate

33. Studio Racket

34. Looking for People?

35. Obsessable

36. YouCastr

37. Chris Wallace

38. Komodo Media

39. Colourpixel

40. Carhartt Streetwear

41. Deaxon

42. Viget Labs

43. SamRayner

44. Manndible Cafe

45. Dezignus

46. Kevadamso

47. Graphic Biography

48. Bio

49. Formrausch

50. Yes Insurance

51. Sevenedge Interactive Media

52. I primi dieci

53. Starcatcher

54. Organic food Ireland

55. Here’s Life Mission Africa

56. Viget Labs

57. Tulsa Tough

58. Vimeo

59. Gearcritech

60. Generation Church

61. Biola Undergrad

62. ZDNet

63. Elliot Jay Stocks

64. Tennessee Vacation

65. National Mechanics

66. Edgepoint Church

67. Nimbupani Designs

68. HEBAtec

69. Dale Harris

70. Matt Mullenweg

71. Simple Art

72. Drawn to Pixels

73. YoDiv

74. Helmy Bern

75. Jesus Rodriguez Velasco

76. Personal Babblishing

77. Lukasz Tyrala

78. The Greg Brady Project

79. RJDesignz

80. Bits & Pixels

81. Freelenz

82. Kulturbanause

83. Bart-Jan Verhoef

84. Henry Jones

85. Kinetic Shadows Design Studio

86. Fatburgr

87. DivVoted

88. The Rox

89. dotsilver

90. Africa Tour 2008

91. Nepal CSS Developer

92. MB Dragan

93. Studio e-space Inc.

94. Ali Tabatabaei

95. Mecanbe

96. Organizing for America

97. Great Design

98. PumaTalk

99. Real Estate Postcards

100. Eurovision Song Contest

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70 Most Beautiful and Excellent Blogger Templates

admin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:36:23 +0000

There are several people who think Blogger Themes aren’t as good as Wordpress Themes. Maybe that was true but now you can see this list of 70 blogger templates and you will notice that some designs can be found on Wordpress Themes too.

Blogger Templates

1. Colibri

2. Charcoal

3. Hada Negra

4. Art Imagination

5. Creative Art

6. Wordpress Admin

7. Elegance

8. Keep It Simple

9. Blogger Notes

10. Net Spiel

11. Uncomplicated

12. Probama

13. Wista

14. Masinop

15. Wild West

16. Color Paper

17. Japan Style

18. Revolution Theme

19. Outdoorsy

20. My Scrapblog

21. Not a Monster

22. Baby Blue

23. Ele

24. Torn Paper

25. Warcraft Frozen

26. BlackBerry

27. Transparency

28. Flashy Blogger

29. Dead

30. Top Secret

31. Smashing

32. iPlantilla

33. Mosaico

34. Birdie’s Good Life

35. My Notes

36. Retro MacOS

37. We Heart Stuff

38. Chocolate Candy

39. Fresh

40. iWork

41. Raibow

42. WP Premium Brown

43. Agenda 04

44. Facebooked

45. Colourise

46. iPhone

47. Digg Theme

48. Fervens C

49. Notepad

50. Google Chrome

51. Notepad Chaos

52. UrbanArtist

53. Optimism

54. Quirky Valentine

55. GossipCity

56. Pro

57. S08

58. Garland

59. Minimalista Negro

60. Blue Jeans

61. Glass

62. Lemon

63. MacBook Pro

64. Techlure

65. Aspire

66. Wuk etwa

67. Astro

68. SImpress

69. Polaroid Press

70. Gramophonica

90 Professional and Creative Logos

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:22:14 +0000

A logo is an important graphical element and it’s used by many companies for immediate recognition of their brands. Designers are aware of this and that’s why it’s not easy to make/create a logo even those which seems to be very simple. We collected 90 logos for designers who spend a lot of time in logo galleries.

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