Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
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Dead Flies In Strange Tableau Photography
Belgium-based artist, Nicholas Hendrickx, loves to take macro photography of flies doing everyday things, and for obvious reasons, this caused us to share a perplexing WHOA! with each other that we just had to share with you, too. Hendrickx has named the subject in his “The Adventures of Mr. Fly” photo series Gerald Fly. Needless to say, Gerald Fly’s life has not been easy – he ...
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Adults Replicating Great Childhood Photos
We really love this photo series entitled “Back to the Future” by Argentinian photographer, Irina Werning. The artists manages to replicate subjects’ childhood photos quite accurately resulting in some pretty hilarious comparisons and some even more hilarious outfits. Werning admits to being a nosey photographer who loves to look at friends’ old photos and wonder what it would be like if the subjects were in the ...
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Skeletons Painted In-Camera With Light
Janne Parviainen, Helinski-based photographer, has been drawing skeletons and other kinds of light figures in camera for years. The images you see have not been altered in post production – the crazy light figures are captured by the artist organically using traditional exposure techniques. His most common subjects are city environments and natural landscapes. The subjects in his photos are affectionately dubbed the “noodle men” for ...
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Photos Of Young People With Everything They Own
You can tell a lot about a person by looking at his stuff — especially if you’re nosy, like us. So, when you ask a group of people born in the ’80s to arrange their possessions into a giant sculpture and pose for a photo in front of it, the result is bound to be revealing. Swedish photographer Sannah Kvist has done just that in All ...
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Stunning Photography Of Red Bull Cliff Divers
Cliff diving is the purest extreme sport on earth. Take a high cliff, deep water and courage. What you get is all you need. No additional machinery, no protection whatsoever, just absolute concentration and complete body control. The equipment – a swimsuit – fits into your trouser pocket. The principle is simple; the complication is your own experience. Diving from heights of around 27m, the equivalent ...
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Four Seasons Captured In One Photo
What do you get if you snap a photo of the same scene out your window everyday for a year? A lot of photos. Now, if you decide to photoshop those photos of different seasons into one super photo, you end up with a wicked picture of the same scene as it shows throughout the year, just like photographer Eirik Solheim has done in 2010. Solheim ...
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Manly Men As Sexy Pin-Up Girls
Rion Sabean, a 26 year old photographer from Tampa, Florida who is responsible for the hilarious parody of pin up girl calendars with male models assuming the typical pin up model poses. The series is called “Men-Ups” and was so successful, it spawned a calendar which sold out very quickly, but individual prints are still available for purchase through the artist.
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Creepy Victorian ‘Hidden Mother’ Photos
Above is a selection of images from the Hidden Mother Flickr group. Hidden Mother was a practice where the mother…often disguised or hiding often under a spread…holds her baby tightly for the photographer to insure a sharply focused Image. Super creepy… NOT CREEPED OUT ENOUGH YET? CHECK OUT THESE CREEPY VICTORIAN C0RPSE PHOTOS
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Bizarre Photos Of Shrink-Wrapped Lovers
Japanese artist Photographer Hal has stuffed club kids into bathtubs and other cramped spaces in his work before, but this time he’s chosen to shrink-wrap them like living dolls squirming under plastic. With some nude, and some dressed in candy-colored attire, Hal covers his models with a plastic sheeting that he vacuums the air from in order to distort their features and bond them together. It ...
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Cool Underwater Photos Of Fallen Surfers
Australian photographer Mark Tipple’s The Underwater Project captures surfers and swimmers frozen mid-action as they’re thrown down by the force of waves, escaping a cloud-like avalanche of frothy water, plummeting toward the sandy ocean floor, and thrusting themselves triumphantly towards the rippled, silver surface. Yes, these images are quite striking and totally refreshing… because Tipple wants them to be. With this deliberately appealing project, the photographer ...
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Subjects Removed From Famous Press Photos
What makes for an amazing photograph? Most often, the subject matter takes the credit, especially when it comes to the iconic photographs that have had an impact on viewers around the world. Visual artist, Pavel Maria Smejkal has taken several iconic photographs and removed the subjects by means of Photoshop software for a series entitled “Fatescapes”. By removing the focus of the image, Smejkal forces the ...
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Color Added To Famous Black And White Photos
Reddit user mygrapefruit and self-taught colorizer Sanna Dullaway has colorized famous photographs in history. You can find the entire 34-image collection on Imgur. Using a Wacom bamboo tablet and Photosohp, each photo takes anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours. LIKE THIS? CHECK OUT THESE FAMOUS PHOTOS RECREATED WITH LEGO
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North Brother: Photos From NYC’s Lost Leper Colony
As it was: North Brother Island circa 1937 Just 350 yards from the crowded tenements of the Bronx, North Brother Island was first employed as a quarantine centre in 1885. It was soon a home to six lepers. Its most notorious resident was ‘Typhoid Mary’ – the first healthy carrier of any disease ever to be identified – who spent years confined in its bleak woods. ...
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Abandoned Wonderland Theme Park In China
If you drive 45 minutes out from the centre of Beijing, China, you are likely to hit the 100 acres worth of the city’s abandoned amusement park, “Wonderland” that was scheduled to become the largest amusement park in all of Asia. After farmers forced to leave their land in order to make room for one of China’s new tourist attractions along the likes of a large ...
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Amazing Photos Of Crazy Dogs Underwater
Based in Los Angeles and Chicago and available nation-wide, Little Friends Photo specializes in lifestyle pet photography, embracing the at-ease mentality of pets on-location in their natural surroundings. The results are spontaneous, priceless moments of your pet’s unique personality captured in photographs that will last forever. Award-winning photographer Seth Casteel has been featured on EXTRA, MSNBC, USA Today, The Today Show, ABC News, AOL, CBS News, ...
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The Modern Ruins Of Detroit City
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre are photographers from Paris who decided to take a trip to Detriot, USA, to capture the urban decay of the once thriving city that became more or less abandoned in 2005. The artists have a book entitled “The Ruins of Detroit” where they share images of the abandoned buildings they encountered during their stay. The book features chilling images of a ...
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New Sea Creatures From The Abyss
A British team of researchers has been trying to determine what kind of freaky creatures, if any, inhabit the volcanic underwater vents (often referred to as the block smokers) of the South West Indian Ridge in the Indian Ocean, and let us tell you this – the creatures they have captured are sure to star in Disney’s next horror film. It’s believed that some of the ...
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Solar Camera Strap Charges Your Camera
Most photographers use a sturdy camera strap while clicking pictures. Here’s a concept from Weng Jie that wants to capitalize on that strap. This is done by making the strap solar-savvy! Meaning, adding thin solar films across the width of the strap, so as to harness solar energy when out on the field. Aptly christened the Solar Camera Strap, it’s a neat idea; when we can ...
