Japanese precision instument manufactrer Shimadzu trains its HyperVision HPV-X high speed camera on a ball impacting a sheet of glass.
The footage unfolds at an incredible 10 million frames per second.
Category Archives: Photography
Of this stunning image – the clearest ever taken of the solar system’s innermost planet – NASA sez:
This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER’s primary mission. These colors are not what Mercury would look like to the human eye, but rather the colors enhance the chemical, mineralogical, and physical differences between the rocks that make up Mercury’s surface.
Full res image here.
(Pic Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)
River Giants
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Eruptions of coloured water on the Milwaukee River shot by high-speed photographer Jack Long.
A submersible apparatus generates bursts of non-toxic, biosafe liquid and two cameras are used to shoot the momentarily suspended jellyfish-like forms.
It’s a day out.
Dog Face
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German photographer Elke Vogelsang’s goofy, atmospheric, occasionally raspberry-blowing portraits of her three dogs Noodles, Scout and Loli.
More of her work here.
Robert Ryan writes:
Thanks for putting up our pic yesterday from Cannes. I wasn’t kidding when I said there would be madness later on. Monday night was mental in Cannes I enclose the proof!
Damn stylish, sensible-drinking hibernophiles…
Façades
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An ongoing series of digitally isolated building façades by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy.
Dude be frontin’.
A dragtacular political critique by Saint Hoax, who explainz:
After attending a drag show for the first time, I was struck by the richness of this glamour oriented culture. I took a minute to actually look at the faux queens and deconstruct their main components. The recipe for an iconic queen:
1- Flamboyant name
2- Fierce persona
3- Defining outfits
4- Personalized hairdo
5- A trademark feature
6- One hell of a PR team
I then realized that it takes that same exact effort to make a leader.
Above: Vladdy Pushin’ and Barricka O’Bisha, Kimmy Jungle, Hitleria Hysteria, Madame O’Sane, Georgia Buchette, Queen Abby and Ossie B’.
See all the gifs here.
The surreal sight of an abandoned open air cinema in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.
According to photographer Kaupo Kikkas (helluva name), the story goes that, 13 years ago, a Parisian film buff in Egypt had a glorious dream.
Raising the necessary capital back in France, he travelled to Cairo where he bought projection equipment, a generator and a tractor to erect the sail-like screen.
On opening night however, the generator was allegedly sabotaged by miffed local authorities. The premiere was cancelled and, to this day, the cinema hasn’t shown a single film.
It must happen. And when it does, let it be Dune.
Extraordinary images of marine worms by master diver and photographer Alexander Semenov – most taken at the Lizard Island Research Station near the Great Barrier Reef in Austrialia during a conference on polychaetes.
More wormy goodness here
Previously by Alexander Semenov: Rare Nature and Echino-delic
Continuity Polaroids of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny from the set of The X-Files.