Pics that don't make you laugh but are still cool. I hop you don't mind if I use this thread as an excuse to post some Earth porn: My current Wallpaper, The Havasu Falls The Guilin Mountains "Elephant Foot" Glacier My favorite at the moment: Rainbow(Northern Lights?)
Click the images for the full-sized versions. Mrs. Deane : nothing is too amazing to be true. Non-digitally manipulated hand print © Yaseen Al-Obeidy The Kuwait Weeks were born out of a conversation I had with Kuwaiti photographer Mohammed Alkouh, who is currently having a solo show at CAP Kuwait, which includes a number of his recent studio portraits.
We talked about his encounters in the traditional portrait studios, which gave him the love for the hand-colored image, and how for him those photographs, like real life instances of Oscar Wilde’s pictures of Dorian Gray, contained the presence and the youth of a family member now in advanced age or even deceased. And how the vintage image has this mysterious time-warp quality that we cannot shake off or stop being fascinated by — an addiction merciless tapped into and catered to by several online platforms, numerous photo books, collections, some galleries, eBay sellers and auctioneers.
Installation view with self portraits of Al-Obeidy over the years © Hester Keijser. Adam Magyar. Andrej Balco. Andrew Moore. Chris Jordan - E Pluribus Unum. This mandala represents the web of altruistic human organizations spread out across the world, all working together in a vast invisible network.
Despite their broad diversity of size, focus, and geographic location, they are all united around core values that place compassion and stewardship as highest priorities. The hundreds of millions of individuals who are creating and running these organizations bring a nourishing culture of imagination, citizenship, and love to this process. In that way I think of this piece as being like a compass rose, pointing toward a true source of hope and inspiration for our times. The image is constructed around a circle containing 108 equally-spaced points.
Each point is connected with the other points by a straight line of organization names. Pictures of the day: 28 January 2011. 88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography. Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.
It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
One year worth of images give some amazing videos. Update:I made three new videos of 2009 with my 5D Mark II last year.
One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. So far I’ve made two videos of the images I describe in this article. The one here at the top and another two minutes version. Read on to learn how I did this, to see the other video and to download the videos and images in high quality. And if you want to watch this video here at the top in HD quality you have to click through to Vimeo. The story Back in 2005 I did an experiment shooting images out of my window for one year. So I started shooting images with my Canon 400D. Each time I snapped the following images: 3 exposures @10mm (Canon EF-S 10-22 F3.5-4.5 USM) 3 exposures @17mm (Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM) 3 exposures @55mm (Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM) All images shot in RAW.
In addition to the images I decided to record some audio at the same place. All together giving me a pretty decent range of material to put together some experiments. Then what? Whats’s next?