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Holy crap, these entries from Nat Geo's 2012 Photo Contest are absolutely gorgeous. Most of those pics are no accident.

Holy crap, these entries from Nat Geo's 2012 Photo Contest are absolutely gorgeous

Lots of planning, discussing, moving, and waiting went into a few of these. e.g. the Black Drongo photographer tried for ten days, an hour each day, to get that picture. And I'll go further to say that quite a few of these people know their cameras inside and out, using the right settings to get the perfect pic. (probably the same with a processing program) I've got a certain picture I'm trying to create, and have visited the same location over 20 times to no avail.

One of these days... Sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right time. Also, far off places and exotic animals help. What? SExpand Oh! Необыкновенные трехмерные картины художника Keng Lye. Painting 3D fish. Bill Cunningham. iGNANT. Guillaume Kurkdjian works in illustration, graphics, photography and animation.

His latest project, entitled ‘Bisous les Copains’, is a series of beautifully simple and subtly humorous animated gifs. Guillaume is living and working in Nantes, France. His little struggling men really made us smile and we hope you’ll like them too. All images © Guillaume Kurkdjian. Patsy Tarr. What are these ideas then?

Patsy Tarr

Well, the reason I thought we should sit here is so that I can show you this Rauschenberg …[a real one, on the wall behind where we are sitting. She gets up and stands beside it like a docent] and try to explain these ideas to you so that you can get a little sense of how compelling they are. This painting is called a ‘shiner’ because it’s painted on aluminum. And Merce Cunningham and Rauschenberg were artistic colleagues … the idea behind some of these paintings is that every time somebody stands in front of it they are slightly reflected in it, and therefore every time you look at this painting this painting changes. This painting is never the same. There is always a chance intervention … and Merce Cunningham took that idea and he simply applied it to his own choreography.

Can you force a chance intervention – isn’t that a contradiction? Well, that’s a very good question. But it’s very artificial. How open is he to real chance? Absolutely! Catherine Nelson’s Incredible Digital Floating Worlds. Catherine Nelson is a visual artist who uses the digital medium to create orbital worlds of imaginary landscapes.

Catherine Nelson’s Incredible Digital Floating Worlds

Her ‘Future Memories’ series comprises of 20 floating worlds, meticulously composed with thousands of assembled details. Visual poetry, nature photography and digital techniques blend together to give shape to these transcendental landscapes. The result is a contemporary pictorial mythology that subtly reminds the viewer of a profound truth: that it is in the flourishing variety of the local that the fate of the world resides. Trained as a painter in Sydney and London and with years of experience in the creation of visual effects for feature films like Moulin Rouge and Harry Potter, she now has dedicated her skills to her own art work combining the techniques from both these worlds into a new contemporary art medium.

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