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Big Huge Labs

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I was following links from my flickr account when I came across Big Huge Labs website, which I had discovered a few years ago, but somehow ran out of my mind. This website offers a lot of different tools to play with flickr : searching tools, picture editing, frame creation, a very convenient Color Palette creator that exports to Adobe Swatch Exchange format….

I had fun with my pics for a couple minutes, and came up with this, from the motivational poster creator.

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mai 9th, 2011 at 6:59

Martyrdom and business

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Martyrdom and business, originally uploaded by Fabien Dany.

Via Flickr:Wall painted faces of martyrs dead in Iran-Iraq war, on the sides of a big avenue in the center of Tehran (Iran).Iran-Iraq war lasted from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The war came at a great cost in lives and economic damage—half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers as well as civilians are believed to have died in the war with many more injured—but it brought neither reparations nor change in borders.Bank Mellat (meaning « Bank of the Nation ») is a state-owned commercial Iranian bank. It was established in 1980, with a paid of capital of Rials 33.5bn as a merger of ten pre-revolution private banks. Currently, the bank’s capital amounts to Rls 13,100bn and is one of the largest commercial banks in the Islamic Republic of Iran, ranking among the top 1000 banks of the world.

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mai 7th, 2011 at 5:10

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Ekbatan housing estate, Tehran

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Ekbatan housing estate, Tehran, originally uploaded by Fabien Dany.

Shahrak Ekbatan is a housing estate in Tehran, facing the historical Mehrabad Airport. The estate was built in the 1970s by american architects, just before the iranian revolution. It comprises about 20 000 apartments in its tower blocks. Shahrak means « small city » in persian. Several dozens of blocks are built around central spaces left for shops and recreational spaces like parks and greens. Each block is made of high-rises between 6 and 13 floors, with more than 500 apartments in each tower. Shahrak Ekbatan was from the very beginning designed as a luxury estate, and stays up to this day a model of comfort attracting the well-off in Tehran. Note : Satellite dishes are legally forbidden in Iran, but they can’t control everywhere all the time…

Prayer in Jamkaran Mosque

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Prayer in Jamkaran Mosque, originally uploaded by Fabien Dany.

Men praying in Jamkaran mosque, march 2011.Jamkaran Mosque, is a popular pilgrimage site for Shi’ite Muslims in Iran, not far from the city of Qom. Local belief has it that the Twelfth Imam (Muhammad al-Mahdi) — a messiah figure Shia believe will lead the world to an era of universal peace — once appeared and offered prayers at Jamkaran. On Tuesday evenings especially large crowds of tens of thousands gather at Jamkaran to pray and to drop a note to the Imam in a well at the site, asking for help with some problem. (from

Waiting for a ride

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Waiting for a ride, originally uploaded by Fabien Dany.

While working on my new report from Iran, I told myself I could post nice images from my last trip in Iran, I was back a couple days ago.Here’s a street scene from early april 2011, with an iranian couple (at least they seemed like one) waiting for an available taxi in the center of Tehran.

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avril 11th, 2011 at 10:06

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Mausolée de Shah Abdol Azim

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Shah Abdol Azim Shrine, originally uploaded by Fabien Dany.

Je rentre d’un voyage d’un mois en Iran, et la moisson d’images a été intéressante. Je posterais plus d’images et d’histoires dans les semaines qui viennent..Cette photo est un instantané de la cour du mausolée de Shah Abdol Azim à Shahr-e Rey, dans la partie sud de Téhéran. Le quartier est populaire, et le lieu de pèlerinage l’est tout autant. Shah Abdol Azim est un personnage révéré pour ses enseignements et pour son rôle de maitre du 8ème imam des chiites duodécimains, l’imam Reza, mort assassiné il y a plus de 1200 ans.

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avril 9th, 2011 at 11:08

Soumission au concours SFR-Polka

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J’ai soumis quelques unes de mes photos au concours SFR-Polka 2010 sur le thème de la vérité par l’image, dont le jury est Mr Marc Riboud. La vérité que j’ai choisi de montrer dans ce concours, c’est celle de la vie des exilés afghans en Grèce. Voici ma soumission :

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février 12th, 2010 at 1:25

Un ferry en hiver

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J’ai pu charger les photos prises à bord du ferry entre Bari et Patras. Voici donc la suite du post « Haute saison-Basse saison«   en images. Merci de suivre le lien pour voir l’album complet.

Seul sur le pont

Seul sur le pont

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décembre 5th, 2009 at 3:01

Visages de Tunisie

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Je vous présente Visages de Tunisie, des souks à la Méditerranée, une série de photos produite en Tunisie en août 2009.

Cette production a été réalisée avec l’outil Soundslides Plus, dont j’ai fait l’acquisition il y a peu. C’est très simple d’utilisation et cela permet de faire des présentations sonores comme celle-ci. L’import des photos est un peu long mais la présentation peut être prête en moins de dix minutes. Ce qui représente un énorme gain de temps par rapport à un outil de montage comme Final cut.

Il ne me reste plus qu’à me mettre un peu plus sérieusement à l’audio pour pouvoir rajouter des bandes-sons encore plus pertinentes.

Une photo vous aplu et vous voulez faire l’acquisition d’un tirage ? Vous pouvez vous rendre sur mes archives pour passer commande.

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novembre 22nd, 2009 at 1:33

Création de schémas d’éclairage en ligne

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Vous photographiez avec des éclairages un peu complexes ? Vous avex besoin de concevoir ou de partager des schémas d’éclairage ? Alors cet outil pourrait vous intéresser : http://www.lightingdiagrams.com/

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novembre 8th, 2009 at 1:21