Barry Cummins writes:
A friend of mine got some great pictures of a Seagull…… being eaten by a sparrow hawk (thanks Google Images) right in the comfort of his own back garden. It took the bird of prey two hours to finish the job.
UPDATE: As Mark points out in comments, the unfortunate prey bird may have been a dove or a pigeon. Seagulls have webbed feet.
Photographer Michael Wolf’s fetching portraits of the lesser spotted rooftops of Paris.
The Hyper Lip, created fora travelling photography exhibition by French designer Sascha Nordmeyer: a prosthetic that forces an unhinged facial expression on the wearer.
That’s what it’s for.
Australian photographer Jane Long’s digitally restored, coloured and subverted takes on the historic glass plate portraits of Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte (currently preserved at the Costică Acsinte Archive).
The Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (‘Little Belt Railway’) in Paris, built in 1852, largely abandoned since 1935 (aside from one increasingly underused section), lovingly documented since 2011 by photographer Pierre Folk.
As local developers eyeball the land for new apartments and office blocks, Parisian railway enthusiasts want it preserved, possibly transformed into a series of urban parkways like the nearby Promenade Plantée which inspired New York’s High Line.
A very impressive timelapse of Singapore’s Changi airport by photographer Milton Tan who was given unrestricted access, often filming so close to the landing planes that you can see his tripod shuddering in the turbulence. Tan talks about the experience on his blog.
Façades by German photographer Markus Brunetti – an enthusiastic “picture maker,” and “inventor of images” who digitally interprets the buildings he photographs, replacing the normal low-angle perspective with a surreally lit ‘flattened’ effect to create the impression of a 2D front elevation referencing the architects original design drawings.
Above: Hohe Domkirche zu Köln; Cattedrale di Ferrara; Notre Dame de Reims and Paróquia de Santa Marinha de Cortegaça, Portugal.
