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i noticed today that my stat counter has a chart to show the ‘search engine wars’, surely that war ended a long time ago? with a very convincing victory for one of the teams…

i was reminded this weekend of this wonderful story, the ‘cottingley fairies’ which was a figment of the imaginations of two young english girls in 1917 who took a camera into their garden and made some of the earliest examples of manipulated photography, the fairies were cardboard cutouts but were believed by many people (including some famous ones) to be real for many years, you can read more about the story (if you weren’t already familiar with it) and see the complete set of images on this website, the women finally confessed that it was a hoax in the 1980’s… although they continued to claim that the fifth image (not shown here) was genuine until both died

i came across the seemingly unassuming image by reuters’ photgrapher ‘kevin coombes’ today, it becomes somewhat more significant when you read the story; the image was shot on sept 11th 2008, at the head offices of ‘lehmann brothers’ where the employees were gathered together to hear some bad news, four days later the bank collapsed and the world economy went into freefall… then to me, (context is everything) it becomes a fabulous news picture… an inspired viewpoint to make an image

see the whole original image here

here’s a beautiful piece of (interactive) information graphics showing the fluctuation in box office revenue for US films… you can view the original here

To view in 3D, cross your eyes until you see three images. Bring the center image into focus and it will appear in 3D.

here’s a stereo photography flickr set