Shot from below, as if flying through the air, a school of blue silversides swims through mangrove trees on a coral reef off Cuba.
The image, captured by underwater photographers David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes was one of National Geographic’s Best Photos Of 2016.
A collection of images (wherein clouds of pristine white balloons add sudden, bizarre contextualisation to various buildings and natural structures) by French photographer Charles Pétillon.
Even he of the 54m long Covent Garden Cloud.
Invasions: currently on show at Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris.
Results of a year long aerial project by Canadian photographer David Burdeny in which he captures (and presumably enhances) the vibrant hues of salterns in Utah, Mexico and Australia, laid out like abstract Modernist paintings.
MORE: David Burdeny: Salt
Shots of the old medieval quarter of Cork City.
Taken by Broadsheet contributor Mike McGrath-Bryan over the weekend.
Sez Mike:
An area laid waste by recent business closures but ignored by gentrification, the Old Town area of the city has long possessed its own character. Though urgent economic assistance is needed for the area, she continues to show a resilience – typical of Corkonians in general.
A real character shines through, while the intervention of community group Reimagine Cork has given the place a touch of colour, with a DIY feel.
Colourised Photochrom postcards of daily life in colonial Tunisia at the end of the 19th century entitled “Views of Architecture and People in Tunisia” from the catalog of the US Library of Congress.
Above: a street in Kairwan in 1899; Porte Française, Tunis; Bedouin woman; Arab men; Souc-el-Trouk, Tunis; crowds gather around a snake charmer; Private drawing room, Kasr-el-Said; Cathedral of St. Louis, Carthage and a family of Bedouin beggars, Tunis.
A look at some iconic reggae album covers, photographed in their original locations around London over four decades later, for Covers, an anthology of classic sleeves and the Thames-side surroundings that informed them, by photographer Alex Bartsch.
Writes Erin MacLeod in Pitchfork:
“London must be, outside of Jamaica, the place that is most richly influenced by Jamaican people living there,” says Al Newman (AKA Al Fingers) of One Love Books, the publisher behind Covers and a number of evocative books related to reggae. “I grew up in London and I grew up with Jamaican culture. But it is also kind of an unknown history to many people in the UK.”
The book has successfully completed Kickstarter funding, but is still available for pre-order here.
H/T: Pitchfork
A Grey Headed Flying Fox rising from a quick bath, snapped by Australian photographer Michael Cleary.
A spectacular close up of a Fiery Throated Hummingbird taken by Canadian photographer Jess Findlay in the Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica.Sez he:
Several of these hummingbirds were visiting a nectar feeder. As they fed hungrily, often quarrelling with one another, occasionally one would get displaced onto a nearby branch. I waited by the branch for a couple hours, staying very still. I used a telephoto lens with a special attachment that allowed me to focus on close subjects. What made this a challenge was how fidgety these birds can be and the fact that the full spectrum of colour is only seen when they pause at a very specific angle.
Ho Thuy Tien waterpark, just outside the city of Hue, between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh.
Abandoned before opening for reasons never quite clarified – its existence denied by some travel agencies – the waterpark has become something of a cult destination for tourists, as nature slowly reclaims its territory.
Twelve years after completion, the park sits empty, except, perhaps, for a family of crocodiles rumoured to live there.
Singapore based photographer Nicky Bay’s ongoing documentation of the Mirror Spider, whose abdomen is covered in bright panels that the spider can readjust in stressful situations to create larger reflective surfaces.
MORE: Transformation of the Mirror Spider (Macro Photography in Singapore)
