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Smithsonian Magazine’s 11th Annual Photo Contest Finalists
Smithsonian Magazine recently announced the finalists for its 11th Annual Photo Contest. 50,000 photographs submitted by photographers from 132 different countries were whittled down to the top 60. Ten photographs were selected from each of the six categories: the Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, Altered Images, and the new category Mobile. The finalists cover a…
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Firefly Light-Trails Photos Captured Using Long-Exposure Photography
Through the magic of long-exposure photography, Missouri-based photographer Vincent Brady has captured the bright trails of light left behind by fireflies as they perform their nightly dances in the American Midwest. Fireflies have always captured our attention, especially as children, because they seem like stars that have come down to earth. Brady’s photographs, then, transform…
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Happy Easter: Creepy, Terrifying And Just Plain Wrong Easter Bunnies!
It’s that time of year again, the season when we take all of our tiniest, most vulnerable humans and give them the same scarring our parents inflicted upon us so many years ago. It’s the psychic hazing that we’re, as a society, all pretty comfortable with. We speak, naturally, of a visit with the dreaded…
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The Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken That Perfectly Capture The Human Experience
This incredible collection of moments represent the joy, innocence, despair, curiosity, and undying perseverance within all of us. No matter where we’re from, these are the emotions that unite us – it’s what makes us human. We set out to capture this spirit in this incredible series of photographs, and we truly hope you enjoy…
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Jil Ellerbrock – Two years in and finding her stride
At 16, Jil Ellerbrock was one of the youngest artists to enter our North American Artist Showcase. Still living with her parents in Hamburg, Germany, Jil only started to hone her talents two years ago. Inspired by the art of Toni Mahfud, she began exploring realism, taking up pencil, patels and pen to capture the…
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A Magical Miniature World Of Snails By Vyacheslav Mishchenko
Talented Ukrainian nature photographer Vyacheslav Mishchenko has an eye for taking photos that bring small natural worlds up to our level, showing us how the world might look if we could see it through the eyes of an ant, snail or lizard. Mishchenko shoots his unwitting models in their natural habitats, but whether or not…
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Portrait of Jackie Chan Made Out of 64,000 Chopsticks
Whether she’s constructing innovative birds made out of flower petals or building portraits with candles or dyed flowers, artist Hong Yi, aka Red is always up to something fantastic. For her most recent project, the artist wanted to use something meaningful to celebrate actor and martial arts master Jackie Chan’s 60th birthday this year. So, she chose chopsticks—a symbol of the Chinese…
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Mother Takes Portraits of Her 10-Month-Old Baby and Their Rescue Dog
Meet Zoey and Jasper. Lifestyle photographer Grace Chon recently turned the camera on her 10-month-old Chinese-Korean baby Jasper and their 7-year-old rescue dog Zoey, putting them side by side in the most adorable portraits you’ll see today. What led her to start a series? “I’ve always dressed up my dogs in silly costumes, so naturally when…
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Loretta Kasper – It’s a Statten Island Thing
A retired professor, Loretta Kasper works from her home studio in Staten Island, New York City. After starting her artistic development painting in acrylics, and then moving on to test her skills with various other materials, she now concentrates on mixed mediums. “The person who has most influenced my present style, and in fact, who…
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20 Magical Tree Tunnels You Should Definitely Take A Walk Through
Nature in as a whole tends to be a profoundly beautiful thing, but there are few things more magical than finding yourself under a canopy of trees in a tree tunnel on some warm summer evening. Whether they’re formed naturally, accidentally, or with a little help from some patient and talented gardeners, these tree tunnels…