Category: Photography
Amazing Photos of the Frozen Black Sea
The latest Eastern – European cold snap has brought delayed trains and flights, closed roads and houses buried under several feet of snow. However, despite all those bad things, the cold also brought some amazing photo opportunities. And the best one is the recently frozen Black Sea. The fairytale-like photos made the news around the [...]
Color Photography from 1900s Russia
Photos they did have 100 years ago in Russia too. But to manage to see ordinary peasants’ cheeks blush and how their clothes were really so colourful, it makes you realize how flawed our vision of the past has become due to the limitations of black & white technology. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), a chemist, but [...]
The Modern Approach to Make-Up in Photography
Ladies, if you want to become fashion models, gather your face powders, lipsticks, nail polish and cremes, and start a cosmetics fight! While you’re at it, also make sure there’s a professional photographer there to take pictures, and when you run out of cosmetics, try paint — it works equally well. This is how one [...]
Dogs Sticking Their Head Out the Window
It’s well known that dogs like to stick their head out the car window and experience the wind pushing all those odors in their nose. Humans might like that too, like Ace Ventura did, but only dogs experience pure ecstasy from it. And while almost any other animal would be scared of this, or not [...]
Humans in Dust and Confetti Galaxies
Ignacio Torres is a visual artist with a BFA in photography at the University of North Texas who is currently living and working in New York City. His most recent work, “Stellar”, has a creative approach on man’s relationship with the cosmos, illustrated in simple animated gifs. This project began from the theory that humans [...]
Amazing Shorebreak Photography by Clark Little
Award-winning photographer Clark Little was born in Napa, California in 1968. After making a name as a pioneer of surfing, it was believed that Clark had a unique talent for taking off on hopeless closeout shorebreak waves and surviving in one piece. Clark’s ”view” is a unique and often dangerous perspective of waves from the [...]
Could Amy Weston Win the Next Pulitzer for Photography?
Amy Weston might just be the photographer to win the 2011 Pulitzer Award for Photography after immortalizing a woman jumping from a burning building, during the London Riots. Photo from The Telegraph Photo from The Guardian via The Telegraph Photo from The Mirror via The Telegraph Amy declared that she had arrived, parked her car and tried to [...]
Dripitty Drop: Beautiful Pictures of Falling Water Drops
Have you ever wondered what happens or what it looks like from up-close when tiny drops of water fall every day in your glass before you drink it or when you are pouring milk in your coffee? Using coloured surfaces such as aluminium foil, controlled light and with the aid of a high-performance camera the [...]
The Dark Holiday of Darth Vader
California-based photographer Nick Presniakov presents an all-time famous antagonist of peace and virtue, seen from a frolic perspective. The project, named “The Dark Holiday”, is, however, unlike most of his other work, having a humorous approach. So here we have good old Vader in the train station, ready to say goodbye to all woes and [...]
Futuristic Architectural Photography By David Trautrimas
Canadian photographer David Trautrimas is one of those artists who have an amazing talent of using everyday objects to create amazing futuristic artwork. This time it’s architectural photography gone wild we’re talking about. Similar artists such as Terry Border with his humorous Bent Objects, Thorsten Brinkmann with his bizarre portrait photography or Horacio Salinas with [...]
