Russian photographer Daniel Kordan’s stunning images of the Milky Way reflected in the Salar de Uyuni of southwest Bolivia – the world’s largest salt flat, located 3656m above sea level and known for the darkness of its night sky.
Category Archives: Photography
Ornitographies – birds in flight by photographer Xavi Bou – an examination of how the human eye perceives the motion of birds.
Bou combines the 150-year-old technique of chronophotography with photoshoppery to merge many shots into flowing, corkscrew-like images.
More here.
No, really.
The chubbifying effect of various camera lenses compared by photographer Dan Vojtech.
Otherwise known as the ‘Hitchcock zoom.’
Masked faces emerging pareidolically from subtly lit macro shots of insect bodies by French photographer Pascal Goet.
From a solo exhibition earlier this year at Parisian gallery Blin Plus Blin.
The carefully composed near life-sized mashups, composites and staged nature photographs of Simen Johan.
No mere photoshoppery, some take years to complete, involving elaborate sets and multiple images digitally enhanced by marathon post production sessions. Others are simply straight photographs.
The work of Thai wedding photographers คนตัวเล็ก (lit. ‘little person’), who create charming miniature tilt shift dioramas for those few happy couples who have not yet wearied of the shallow depth of field effect.
A huge thunderhead above the Pacific Ocean south of Panama, recently shot from the cockpit of a Boeing 767-300 flying at an altitude of 11.27km by Equador Airlines pilot Santiago Borja.
Last year, he captured something similar over the coast of Venezuela (below).
More of his images here.
The dubious fruits of photographer Oliver Curtis’ four year project to visit famous places and point his camera in the opposite direction.
Above: Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro; Wailing Wall, Jerusalem; Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan; Stonehenge; the Great Wall of China*; Mona Lisa, Louvre and Lenin’s Tomb, Russia.
(*wheeee!)
MORE: Famous Landmarks Photographed From the “Wrong” Direction (Booooooom!)
((H/T: Graeme Kelly)
Long exposure shots of bioluminescent glow worms in the otherwise pitch darkness of Ruakuri Cave – an underground limestone cavern at Waitomo in New Zealand – captured by photographer Shaun Jeffers.
Images from The Coincidence Project by photographer Denis Cherim – the fruit of many years capturing moments of strange naturally occurring serendipity and unusual juxtapositions.