Category Archives: Photography

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My restored and colourised photo of a bustling Thomas Street in the Dublin Liberties with Meath Street on the right.I would date the photo as early 1970s going by Ford Cortina Mk lll that features in the photo which was launched at the 1970 Earl’s Court Motor Show.

The glorious depth and symmetries of Gareth Pon’s architectural photography – each one with a tiny rocket concealed, ‘Where’s Wally’-style, within the composition.

How’s your eyesight?

From top: Ponte, Johannesburg (+detail); Chicago, Illinois (x3); Hong Kong (x2);  Atlanta, Georgia (x2).

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Times Square NYC in the 70s and 80s (subsequently Dettol-and-wire-brushed in the mid 90s) captured in all its sleazy, greasy, STDeezy glory by renowned photographer Andreas Feininger.

MORE: Vintage Photos Capture Times Square’s Depravity in the 1970s and 1980s (Vintage Everyday)

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Thousands of crates pleasingly stacked in the yard of an unnamed beverage giant somewhere in Germany.

A new aerial series by photographer and avid spotter of visual recursions, Bernhard Lang who flew over it in a little plane last month.

Previously: Refliective

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A remarkable 50 year old image of astronaut Alan Bean (1932-2018) taken by his Apollo 12 colleague Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad (1930-1999), who’s reflected in Bean’s visor against the backdrop of the Moon’s Ocean of Storms.

(Image: NASA, Apollo 12, Charles Conrad)

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The launch of an Antares rocket (packed with three and a half tonnes of supplies for the International Space Station) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia captured earlier this month in all its fiery glory by photographer John Kraus.

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Finalists from Nikon’s 2019 Small World Photomicrography Competition.

From top: a fluorescent turtle embryo by Teresa Zgoda (the overall winner) ; a ‘small white hair spider’ by Javier Rupérez; Depth-color coded projections of three stentors (single-cell freshwater protozoans) by Dr Ivor Siwanowicz; cells undergoing mitosis by Jason Kirk; a frozen water droplet by Garzon Christian and a housefly eye by Razvan Cornel Constantin.

See the rest here.

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