There is a place in Vacherie, Louisiana where you can witness a majestic alley of Oaks.

And that’s where that photo was taken… It’s not CGI, it’s the real deal!

“Oak Alley Plantation is an historic plantation located on the Mississippi River in the town of Vacherie, Louisiana, United States of America. It is protected as a National Historic Landmark. It is named after its distinguishing feature, an alley of a double row of live oaks about 240-meter long, which was planted in the early 18th century, long before the present house was built. The alley leads towards the Mississippi River.
Oak Alley Plantation seen from the direction of the Mississippi River.

The mansion on the plantation was built by George Swainy between 1837 and 1839 for Jacques Telesphore Roman. Jacques father-in-law, Joseph Pilie, was an architect and is considered the likely designer. The mansion has a square floor plan, organized around a central hall that runs from the front to the rear on both floors. The outside features a free-standing colonnade of 28 Doric columns (on all 4 sides), a common feature among the mansions in the Mississippi Valley at the time.”

Simply stunning!! Click here for a 1600×1200 version.

After Fotoflexer, Snipshot and Photohsop Express, here is a new online image editor : Pixlr

It’s free, and you can edit your photos online, just like the tag line says…

Can say much about this service, the dev. team doesn’t list the format files nor the functionalities available in Pixlr.

All I know is that they are from Sweden and that they are BIG in Japan.

The GUI is kinda Windows looking but as long as it works, I guess you can’t complain.

The best of the Olympics opening ceremony. Enjoy!

You probably remember Drobo, this fantastic storage solution. Well, it’s only getting better with this update!

You now can experience Drobo with both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0, definitely a big plus!!

Still at $499, you can check the full list of features and more details here.

How they took thousands of photos from Flickr and generate the experience of being at a famous place?

By using a new 3D generation software allowing to manipulate all these photos in a similar environment giving the illusion of seamless transition and even 3D visualization of the object.

“The collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research who only two years ago in 2006 published their paper “Photo Tourism” and their technology demonstration “Photosynth” have again pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved by intuitively processing the abundance of digital images shared on the web.

This week at SIGGRAPH 2008 they’re sharing with the world some even better technology they’ve been working on which they call “Finding Paths through the World’s Photos“.”

Mindblowing! Make sure to watch it until the end!!