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It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to publish anything, other than photos.  So, I wanted to take a moment and post my favorite photos that I published in 2009.  I know, I’m a little late and I wanted to publish this in early January.  Unfortunately, time got away from me.  In any case, below are my picks for 2009 that I liked the most.  Click any of the thumbnails to go directly to the larger version in the gallery.

Monument Pass Sunset (Panorama)	Hunter's Moon & Sentinel	Oro Valley Dolphin Football
Sasabe Lightning	Rowdy the Rottweiler	Bar Stools
Arivaca Rd.	Mitchell Mesa Clouds	Bighorn Sheep
Raccoon

Since we’re on the subject of wildlife and animals in general today, I came across some more inspirational photos over at Boston.com’s Big Picture site.  These world animal day photos are something to marvel at.  As always with Boston.com’s Big Picture, the photos are large and in charge and always worthy of viewing.

2009 World Animal Day

The Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the Veolia Environment Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year have been announced over at the Natural History Museum in the UK.  For some  inspirational images, check them out here.

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.”

NEC has announced their new 43″ curved monitor with a 32:10 aspect ratio.  Did I mention curved??

I can only imagine how nice this would be to process photos, play games and watch an occasional movie on.  If it wasn’t for the steep price tag, I’d love to have one!

Read more here.

The New York Times has come out with a photo blog earlier this week called “Lens“.   This might be an interesting format to read online newspapers.  Just hit the next button to see the next article.  Simple as turning a page in a real newspaper.  Of course, this is mainly for viewing photos at this point which works great.  Especially the full screen option.

New York Times Photo Blog

If only I had a Canon 5D Mark II, I could really get into making these type of videos.  I love the cloud formations and balloons in this first video.  The 2nd video just plain rocks and I can appreciate how long this must have taken to produce from start to finish.

A very cool use of a tilt-shift lens to make everything look all model-like.

And still one of my all time personal favorites.

More and more web applications are coming out that allow you to edit and process your photos online.  I’ve always been partial to using software installed on my computer to process my photos, but I certainly understand not everyone can afford some of the more expensive photo editing software such as Adobe’s Photoshop.  For some, Adobe Photoshop may be too complicated, as it does have a steep learning curve for most.  Plus, what if you are traveling and don’t have access to your favorite photo editing software to process a photo?  Whatever your circumstances might be, thankfully you can do it online these days.  Check out this list of 10 online photo editors.

10 Online Photo Editors

Be sure to read the comments, as there are several sites mentioned by others that are not listed in the main article.

Cheers!

Good thing I bought a Drobo instead of the Pocket Wizard Plus II, like I was itching to get. Now I want these.