Category: Photography
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The Guy Who Photographs Luxury Planes for Mega-Billionaires
For a tiny fraction of the world’s elite, a billion dollars isn’t much. A billion dollars is a startup buyout in Silicon Valley. A billion is what Chinese industrialists make building HiPhones and fidget spinners. It’s a nice chunk of change, sure, but $1 billion will only see you flying around in a Gulfstream or…
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Photographer Captures London’s Most Beautiful Front Doors And They Look Straight Out Of A Wes Anderson Movie
Photographer Bella Foxwell has been capturing the beauty of London that a lot of people simply walk past. Doors. Her Instagram page, appropriately titled The Doors of London, features a rainbow of facades that are so quirky, they look like props from a Wes Anderson movie. "I started this account about two-and-a-half years ago as…
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Ordinary People Reveal How They Got Their Scars In A Powerful Photo Series
Sophie Mayenne from London, England, is working to change the way scars are perceived in society in her latest photography project titled ‘Behind The Scars,’ a series of poignant photographs of people, their scars and the stories behind them. “As a photographer I have always been drawn to raw and un-retouched work, and what makes…
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Photographer Takes High-Speed Photos That Capture the Moment Water Balloons Explode
There’s definitely something satisfying about seeing moments that our eyes aren’t usually able to capture. London-based photographer Edward Horsford sets up his camera, and armed with only a trigger that is set to capture the specific point he needs, he captures the exact moments that water balloons explode. The results are genuinely stunning, and are…
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Guardian of Fallen Angels
I’m terrible at telling stories about my photos, the photo is the story [zombify_post]
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Photographer Creates Incredibly Surreal Scene Using 17 Square Meters of Mirror
Erik Johansson is a Swedish-born artist based in Prague who creates surreal images by recombining photographs and other materials. He captures ideas by combining images in new ways to create what looks like a real photograph, yet with logical inconsistencies to impart an effect of surrealism. For a particular photograph titled Impact (pictured above and…
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These Stunning Winners Of The 2018 Underwater Photography Competition Will Take Your Breath Away
As of the year 2000, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated that as much as 95 percent of the world’s oceans and 99 percent of the ocean floor are unexplored. With such a vast amount of the world’s oceans currently unexplored, several organisations have sprung up to encourage photographers to explore this uncharted territory…
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Photographer Honors Dead Animals With Beautifully Staged Photography On Beds Of Flowers
Russian photographer Maria Ionova-Gribina created the series ‘Natura Morta’ to honor the dead animals she found during her summer bicycle rides. All of the animals pictured died of natural causes or car accidents and were found soon after their death. According to the artist: “When me and my brother found a dead mole, bird or…
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Surfer Attempts To Go Surfing During The Polar Vortex And This Is The Result
As you've probably heard, the polar vortex is reaking havoc across the United States. Despite this, when you're a surfer, a wave is a wave. While most were spending the end of January rocking 17 layers of clothing in front of their fireplaces, Daniel Schetter (also known as “Surfer Dan”) wasn’t taking a day off.…
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A 19-Year-Old Student Hides Spy Camera In His Clothing To Take Secret Street Photos In The 1890s
This story is not something you would expect to hear happened in the 1890s. Today maybe, but not 130 years ago. But that's because Carl Størmer (1872-1957) wasn't your normal guy. Far from it, in fact. Carl enjoyed a hobby that was very, very unusual at the time. He walked around Oslo, Norway in the…