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Incredible Long Exposure Photographs Shot from Orbit. Last month we shared a long exposure photograph by NASA astronaut Don Pettit that showed star trails and city trails in the same frame.

Incredible Long Exposure Photographs Shot from Orbit

Turns out the photo was just one of many long exposure images shot by Pettit so far during Expedition 31. The photograph above shows star trails, an aurora, and flashes of lightning splattered all across the surface of the Earth. Check out this Flickr set for the entire collection of amazing photographs. ISS Star Trails (via Neatorama) Image credits: Photographs by Don Pettit/NASA. Interview: The Story Behind Rich Lam's Infamous Vancouver Riot Kiss Photo. When the Vancouver Canucks lost in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, it sent their home city into tumult.

Interview: The Story Behind Rich Lam's Infamous Vancouver Riot Kiss Photo

Riots broke out, leaving buildings destroyed, cars burned and people injured. But, out of the chaos, photojournalist Rich Lam was able to capture a truly unique image, one that has blown up far beyond what this veteran shooter could have imagined, on the web and in the news. What was your actual assignment the night of the riots? I was shooting the hockey game for Getty Images. Echoes of War - StumbleUpon. Sergei Larenkov His photographs of the siege of Leningrad and St.

Echoes of War - StumbleUpon

Petersburg really got lots of name on internet and are famous too. so we present some really nice photographs by sergei, where past and present meet in Moscow, Berlin, Vienna, Prague.. 1. Vienna. 1945/2010. A 'dream come true': UK photographer gets aurora and volcano in same shot. UK photographer James Appleton had a dream: To capture the beauty of the Northern Lights in the same photograph as the awesome power of a volcano.

A 'dream come true': UK photographer gets aurora and volcano in same shot

And when the Fimmvorduhals volcano began erupting in Iceland -- one of the world's best places to see the Northern Lights -- he knew he had to make a very challenging but ultimately rewarding trek to capture both events simultaneously. - StumbleUpon. 42 Unseen Photos Of Child Labour in U.S History. High school fashions, 1969. Recovered The Camera Collection - StumbleUpon. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - In Focus.

National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30.

National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - In Focus

For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos]

Stefano Unterthiner Photography : Animals Face to Face. Colt + Rane Stefano Unterthiner Photography : Animals Face to Face.

Stefano Unterthiner Photography : Animals Face to Face

eBay Australia: Buy new & used fashion, electronics & home d r. eBay Australia: Buy new & used fashion, electronics & home d r. Koikoikoi.com - Visual Arts Magazine, graphic design, illustration, photography, interviews, inspiration, tutorials. Photo “Printed” by Hand Using 200,000+ Nonpareils Candy Sprinkles. For a fine arts project at his university, art student Joel Brochu spent a whopping 8 months meticulously recreating a photograph using tiny nonpareils (the tiny sprinkles used on cakes and donuts). 221,184 individual sprinkles were placed on the 4-foot-wide board, which was covered with double-sided tape and a thin layer of glue.

Photo “Printed” by Hand Using 200,000+ Nonpareils Candy Sprinkles

Each sprinkle was placed by hand using jewelry tweezers. A custom computer program was used to break the photo down into individual sprinkles, of which there were only six colors: red, orange, green, blue, black, and white. They were combined in different ways to create the different hues seen in the resulting piece — similar to how inkjet printers work. Trick Photography with Album Covers. Trick Photography with Album Covers February 12th, 2010 | Inspiration | See what happens when people use sleeves from classic vinyl records to spice up their photographs, the results are truly spectacular… Sleeveface is an international phenomenon wherein one or more persons obscure or augment body parts with record sleeve(s), causing an illusion.

Trick Photography with Album Covers

[image credit: Tim Caynes] - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. SadAndUseless.com - StumbleUpon. Mental_floss Blog & 11 Pencil Vs. Camera Images - StumbleUpon. 986 653Share10.7K Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and now living in Belgium, Ben Heine is an amazing artist who overlaps hand-drawn works of art with photos to create stunning images.

Forced Perspective Photography. Incredible collection of forced perspective photography…

Forced Perspective Photography

35 Splendid Examples of Forced Perspective Photography. LED-Clad Snowboarder Makes Night Riding Ghostly Cool. Usually, night skiing or snowboarding involves lighting up the slopes, not the rider.

LED-Clad Snowboarder Makes Night Riding Ghostly Cool

But for a video titled “LED Surfer” from fashion photographer Jacob Sutton and produced by NOWNESS, William Hughes spent three nights in the French Alps, clad in a special suit that covered him from head to toe in LED lights. An Insane Non-Manipulated Photograph of a Keel Walk Stunt. High Speed Photography by Lex Augusteijn - StumbleUpon. SAN FRANCISCO 1906 - AMAZING OLDE PICTURE! 25 Incredibly Detailed Black And White Portraits of the Homeless by Lee Jeffries.

Lee Jeffries career began as a sports photographer, capturing the beautiful game of football in Manchester. Then a chance meeting with a homeless woman living in the streets of London changed his life forever. A Closer Look - StumbleUpon. We so rarely look at everyday objects that, when they are pictured under an electron microscope, they take on a new - and sometimes disgusting new life. Used dental floss. Mascara brush. Salt and pepper. Postage stamp. Used Q-tip. Needle and thread. Computer chip parts. Earth from Above a collection of aerial photography... - justpaste.it - StumbleUpon. "Earth From Above" is the result of the aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's five-year airborne odyssey across six continents.

It's a spectacular presentation of large scale photographs of astonishing natural landscapes. Every stunning aerial photograph tells a story about our changing planet. Coal mine in South Africa.