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Hangout with President Obama tonight! In the first completely virtual interview from the White House, the President will answer questions submitted by people across the country through a Google+ Hangout. Watch the interview live on January 30th at 5:30 p.m. EST right here on the White House Google+ page.

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Is there any way to get info about how many times a post has been viewed. Or how many unique visitors you've had, etc. for your Google Plus posts or images. In other words all the stuff that I've gotten used to having with Google Analytics.

The reason I ask is because I wonder sometimes about the number of comments or Plus Ones that a post gets. Is it getting a lot or a little because of the number of people that have viewed it?

Wouldn't a useful stat be: total 1+ count / views (or something like that?)

Another issue I have is that it seems impossible to tell how many people have arrived at my storefront site or blog site from G+ unless they happen to get there by clicking on a link in my profile or in the post itself when I remember to add the link.

I'm guessing that this is something that will or is available with pages, but it would be nice – oh so nice – to just let us have one small box on our post page to put some external links as we can do on our profile page. Oh boy would that be great.

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From Pershing Overpass looking west.
From Black and White Film, and tossed into the HDR tray.

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From B&W Film
Color by NIK Software
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I can't say much about this shot other than that I have loved shooting in foggy weather since day one. It can take any ugly scene and make it beautiful, or if not beautiful – evocative.

Fog is actually difficult to photograph. Especially in the film days. My own experiments showed that you really want to overexpose it by at least a stop or else it comes out looking too gray.

In the background – Roosevelt Island and a bit of Queens (barely visible). And as the title says – the East River. The bird feels like it's on it's way home. At least that's how the image makes me feel.

Bird over East River
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When it was taken, G+ was just a dream in someone's eye. And the idea of mirroring images (what I came to call the Visual Palindrome) was not even a gleam in my own eye.

It's a good way to recycle pixels. You copy the image, flip it and recombine it. This was an infrared shot and there was some single HDR and lots of NIK thrown in as well. But what struck me the other day about the mirror method is that you actually double the size of the image without any interpolation. How's that for saving money.

Generally, after I've recombined the two images, I'll make minor changes to it so that the two halves aren't exactly the same. This seems to make the image feel more natural.

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11 TOP Google+ Photos for January 25
Do you wonder what the TOP photos published by Google+ photography enthusiasts on January 25 were?

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