Mother And 4-Year-Old Daughter Take Adorable Pictures Of Their Impressive Yoga Poses New-Jersey-based yoga practitioner and mother of two Laura Kasperzak has taken to doing yoga together with her 4-year-old daughter Mini and snapping cute photos. It didn’t take her long to realize that her 4-year-old daughter Mini is extremely fond of doing yoga, and the Internet went nuts – they already have 725,000 followers on Instagram. Kasperzak has been practicing yoga for 17 years and has also been teaching classes and workshops in New Jersey. However, her passion for this Eastern meditation and training practice peaked after the births of her two children, who also found yoga interesting. Because Mini’s older brother is too shy to pose before the camera, she is more than happy to soak up the limelight. These amusing and inspiring photos show that exercise can be fun. Source: Instagram | twofitmoms.com (via)
Winners of 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Every year, Sony World Photography competitions are held under three categories as professional, open and youth. Among 70,000 entries and 139,554 images by amateur and professional photographers from all over the world, this year’s winners are selected and will be announced on 30 April 2014 at a ceremony in London. Here you can see some of the spectacular shots by various creative photographers.
Lovely Children Photography by Kate Parker You know how much we adore different types of photography and sharing the best works with you. Family and children themes are something we are especially fond of and we always look for new photographers to introduce you. Luckily, we have stumbled upon Kate Parker and her amazing shoots of her own daughters, Ella (8) and Alice (5). She explains her work with these words “Teeth are lost and grow in an instant. Henry Leutwyle Photographer Henry Leutwyle reveals an intimate look at the fascinating subculture that is professional ballet. His passion for this art has lead to this photographic documentary, unveiling the faces of tremendous hard work, discipline and physical sacrifice for the sake of beauty. Vanity Fair Posted in: Ambient, Black & White, Commercial / Editorial, Featured, Photography, PortraitTags: art blog, ballet, black and white, editorial, empty kingdom, Henry Leutwyler, Photographer, Photography, portrait, vanity fair
Underworld: The Intrepid Cave Photography of Robbie Shone China Caves 2012 / Hong Meigui Expedition to explore giant caves in Wulong County. The giant caves of Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia. Exploring The Gouffre Berger (cave) in the Vercors region of France. At just over 1000m deep, The Gouffre Berger is recognised as one of the best sport trips in the world. A cave explorer climbing out of a Maelstrom on the fixed rope in Boxhead Pot, Yorkshire Dales. The giant caves of Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia Robbie Shone is a British adventure, cave and travel photographer based out of Austria. Collected here are some of his most jaw-dropping shots, many from a 2012 excursion into cave systems in Wulong County, China.
Photographs taken inside of instruments There’s something other-worldly about these shots by Mierswa Kluska for the Berlin Philharmonic, which take a fascinating perspective from within the acoustic instrument. The internal landscape draws parallels to the architecture of buildings, and with a bit of imagination you can almost feel the unique tone and life of each acoustic instrument just by looking inside them. Inside instruments
Powerful Photographs Show The Daily Life of The Dinka People Of Southern Sudan This stunning series of images by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher portrays the lives of the Dinka people, who herd cattle in South Sudan. The Dinka people vary their lifestyle by season – in the rainy season they live in permanent savannah settlements and raise grain crops like millet, while in the dry season they herd cattle along rivers throughout their region. Their lives are very closely intertwined with those of their cattle – at their coming of age ceremony, young Dinka men are given an ox, and that ox’s name becomes a part of their own name. Some Dinka go nude, although goat skins or beaded corsets and decorations are also common. Beckwith and Fisher are motivated by a desire to preserve “sacred tribal ceremonies and African cultural traditions all too vulnerable to the trends of modernity.” Source: carolbeckwith-angelafisher.com | Buy Prints (via: user submission)
Breathtaking photos show the bi-annual hunt for honey by the Nepalese Gurung tribe Twice a year, one of the oldest and most dangerous traditions takes place in central Nepal. The Gurung tribe go on a challenging (to say the least) hunt for honey. Photographer Andrew Newey accompanied the tribe on their expedition and says of his time: ‘High in the Himalayan foothills of central Nepal, Gurung honey hunters gather twice a year, risking their lives to harvest the honey from the world’s largest honeybee. ‘For hundreds of years, the skills required to practise this ancient and sacred tradition have been passed down through the generations, but now both the number of bees and traditional honey hunters are in rapid decline as a result of increased commercial interests and climate change.’ Via Design Wreck
We Hope You Love These 25 Beautiful & Creepy Abandoned Places Each day we are distracted by our own lives, too busy to notice what is going on around us. However, most people aren’t disturbed by the chaos. Instead, we only feel fear when there is utter, terrible silence. Stillness is unnerving, not chaos. That’s probably why abandoned buildings, former hotspots of humanity, are so intriguing. 1.) David Pinzer 2.) Gakuranman 3.) Kilian Schönberger 4.) Marsel Van Oosten 5.) Pyraux 6.) ethan_kahn 7.) busydane 8.) Adalberto Tiburzi 9.) Julia Wertz 10.) robbiekhan 11.) kirbyfood 12.) Jonathan Haeber 13.) Kenny Barker 14.) 15.) Matthew Christopher 16.) showedupforthefood 17.) Tom Troutman 18.) Cleopatra_Jones 19.) David Nightingale 20.) ShardikOfTheBeam 21.) Gary McParland 22.) Matt Madden & Kim Vallis 23.) sabotag3 24.) 25.) siperwrx Life will pass all of us by in just a blink, but the legacies we build on this earth will stay behind us as a monument to our lives. Source: Reddit Share these beautiful, but strange, pictures with others.
Lovely Food Photography by Elizabeth Evelyn Elizabeth Evelyn is based in Tennessee, USA and works as a writer, recipe developer, stylist and photographer. With her words, she is a Southern woman with a vast love for all things cooking & curating and a heart for hospitality. She loves mess and contrast as you may notice from the photos even at first sight and she also enjoys using contrast like making sweet savory and the savory sweet. That’s why we like her style of photography and feel the urge to share it with you.
Fragile Beauty: Ethereal Macro Photography by Lafugue Logos 8K views 65 days ago by LostInSpace Lafugue Logos is a talented photographer from Japan. This country is known for its old and unique art traditions, aesthetic sense, beauty and symbolism. Take a look at these magical macro photographs and don’t forget to visit the artist’s website for more. Source: 500px.com Like Dislike 2 points Vote: Fantastic Fungi: The Startling Visual Diversity of Mushrooms Photographed by Steve Axford Marasmius haematocephalus To think any one of these lifeforms exists in our galaxy, let alone on our planet, simply boggles the mind. Photographer Steve Axford lives and works in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales in Australia where he spends his time documenting the living world around him, often traveling to remote locations to seek out rare animals, plants, and even people. But it’s his work tracking down some of the world’s strangest and brilliantly diverse mushrooms and other fungi that has resulted in an audience of online followers who stalk his work on Flickr and SmugMug to see what he’s captured next. Axford shares via email that most of the mushrooms seen here were photographed around his home and are sub-tropical fungi, but many were also taken in Victoria and Tasmania and are classified as temperate fungi. The temperate fungi are well-known and documented, but the tropical species are much less known and some may have never been photographed before. Panus fasciatus
Black and White Landscapes by Gavin Dunbar Edinburgh, Scotland based photographer Gavin Dunbar simply defines his work as less is more. Although, he doesn’t have a design or art background, he is extremely good at monochrome long exposure photography. He prefers black and white as that gives his captures a surreal effect and he loves to play with shades of gray while creating his photos. Disney-Themed Celebrity Portraits By Annie Leibovitz World-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has published the latest in her long-time series of Disney-themed celebrity portraits. Jessica Chastain, who has starred in films like Zero Dark Thirty and The Help, poses as the fiery red-headed Meridia from Disney’s Brave. Chastain joins a star-studded list of Hollywood colleagues that have posed as characters from classic Disney movies. Russel Brand as Captain Hook from Peter Pan, Beyonce as Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and Michael Phelps as a merman in The Little Mermaid are just a few of the other awesome Disney portraits in the series. Leibovitz, who is recognized around the world for her powerful and intimate celebrity portraits, began the series after being approached by the Walt Disney Company with the idea of doing the series to promote their “Year Of A Million Dreams” promotion. These images are far from being Leibovitz’s most famous work – far from it. Source: disneyparks.disney.go.com (via: mymodernmet) Taylor Swift as Rapunzel