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A friend of mine gave me this tip, which I'd like to share with all of you, photo enthusiasts.

Take a look at this sofware, which works with several browsers both on Windows and on the Mac:

www.piclens.com.

Try it on any page with several photos on it (e.g, your docs). Unfortunately it doesn't know Ipernity yet (so try other sites), but we should ask them to include Ipernity!

It's cool!

While discussing the issue of processing or not a photo on an earlier blog post, I touched upon the issue of how "faithful" (or not) a photo is to "the real thing". This has been an ongoing debate for some time already, pre-dating the era of digital photography, which only which only made the issues more evident.

As a photographer, I constantly interpret the world around me, and produce images that convey some perception to those who see them. They, in turn, re-interpret my image according to their own perceptions, biases and experiences. Sometimes I get the feeling that what I "saw" is what they "see", and somehow we seem to be communicating.

Occasionally, however, "reality" plays some tricks on us. Consider the picture below:

It is a beautiful building in Madrid, near Plaza de la Cebada. Is there anything unusual? you ask... This is the image page where you can see a larger version (I could not figure how to insert a direct link to the large size, sorry). Can you see it?

The entire left side is painted on!!! When I first looked at it (the building), I didn't notice anything. Then I saw the painted man on the balcony, which made me look again. And then I saw it, incredible!

So here we have an example of "reality manipulation", but NOT by the photographer ;-)!

Tell me what you think!