Tom Hussey,

Reflections

manta ray migration

off the Mexican coast

by: Sandra Critelli

My first NSFW post--

“When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls.”

Herve Coutin shoots the seductive Virgina S.
in black-and-white

Photos of the abandoned New Orleans Six Flags 

after Hurricane Katrina.

Creative use of bokeh in photography and shooting
It also comes with a tutorial on how to do this yourself.

New photo project on my list,
thank you Lore

"Why do we always take the same picture, 

if not to interact with what already exists?

The photograph proves our presence. 

And to be true, the picture will be perfectly consistent 

with the pictures in our collective memory."

--  Corinne Vionnet

Stonehenge, England

In this photo series, Corrine Vionnet layers hundreds and hundreds of opaque tourist photos of renowned world landmarks. Around the edges of the photo are people and changes in scenery, however the constant in the center shows the superimposed landmark captured from by millions of tourist, timeless in its repetition.

Which landmarks can you add your photo to?

 Acropolis of Athens, Greece

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany

Chichen Itza, Mexico

Colosseum in Rome, Italy

 Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

Himeji Castle, Japan

Horseshoe Falls, Canada

Kinderdijk, Holland

 La Alhambra, Granada

 Louvre in Paris, France

 Mecca, Saudia Arabia

 Mount Fuji, Japan

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow

Taj Mahal, India

 Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China

Twin Towers in NYC, USA

Flower Power

From this...

to...

...this

flower power remix

In retrospect, I should have 

left more of the background "unpainted"

but it's too late to change it now.

Oh well -- duly noted for next time :)

i want to be somewhere tropical

 

Sometimes you got to get away, to want to go back home again.
- Sheryl Crow

@Lanai, Hawaii

Tom Lowe. Timescapes.

Cinematography by


TOM LOWE


2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year


http://timescapes.org/

Salvation. Appreciate life to save the world. (Photo and caption by Hongsik Kim)

Cosmic. Mother nature doing what she does best. (Photo and caption by Patrick John O'Doherty)

The child in us. Traveling from Zhangmu (Nepal-Tibet border) to the Tibetan capital - Lhasa you can see road workers all along the Friendship Highway. The Chinese industrialization has affected Tibet a great deal. But despite the Chinese government's attempts to settle Chinese population across the Tibetan Plateau, the Roof of the World still remains a place where only the Tibetans can survive its harsh climate conditions. A Tibetan boy holding the hand of his father who works on the road construction, Tibet. (Photo and caption by Sergi Barisashvili)

Unsafe Journey. A woman is riding between the railway carriages of a local train heading north from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Her luggage is tucked under the carriage in front of her. It is the month of Ramadan, a fast which culminates in Eid-ul-Fitr, a three-day celebration. Tens of thousands of people leave the city to go to their home village and celebrate with their families. Trains are packed and many who fail to get tickets before they sell out or can't afford buying them at the black market ride on the roof of the train or, like this woman, finds a quiet spot between the carriages. (Photo and caption by Amy Helene Johansson)

Lightning Strike NY Harbor. This shot was captured during a major electrical storm. There was little wind and no rain which allowed me to stay safely inside and shoot from an open window. This was the 82nd exposure out of 150 made that night. The camera was mounted on a tripod, exposures made with a cable release for 5 seconds at f10. Except for a some minor level adjustments and a square crop this was what came out of the camera. (Photo and caption by Jay Fine)

Yes it's spring. Fishing on the end of the bridge. (Photo and caption by Stan Bouman)

The Look. There are only 400 of these birds in existence. (Photo and caption by Rolf Skrypzak)

Boise Sunrise. With the fog and morning light this looks like a place I'd love to be. If you look very closely, you can see a deer in a clearing in the center left area of the picture (small dot, head poking above bushes, see detail). (Photo and caption by Glen Hush)

The Serra da Leba Road near Lubango (Huíla, Angola). This is Serra da Leba, a landmark in Angola. A road built in the 70's, it's been in the country's postcard images for decades, but all shots were taken by day. I wanted something different and tried a night shot. But it seemed impossible: pitch dark, foggy, altitude of 1,800m (5,000ft). I wanted no more than 60sec of exposure, max, to avoid digital noise. But a car takes a few minutes to climb or descend this section of the road. The fog was dense and blocking the view! Suddenly the fog cleared, a few cars went down, others went up, they met in the middle in under 60sec... Painting done! (Photo and caption by Kostadin Luchansky)

A Llama stands at the crest of a hill as the sun sets behind it at Chavín de Huántar, Peru. (Photo and caption by John Palmer Gregg)

Power of childhood. City: Lençois; Estate: Bahia; Country: Brazil. (Photo and caption by Rodrigo West de Magalhaes)

Great Blue Heron with fish. The largest and most widespread heron in North America. When foraging, they stand silently along riverbanks, lake shores, or in wet meadows, waiting for prey to come by, which they then strike with their bills. (Photo and caption by Linh Dinh)

A walk along the river bank. This photo was taken in Zhenyuan, Guizhou Province, China this summer. I was taking a walk along the river bank of Wuyang in the mist of a late afternoon shower. Refreshing smell after rain was mixed with the aroma from nearby food stands. In the distance, kids were playing and laughing. The tranquil and harmonious life of the local people reminds me of the joyful time I grew up in a similar small town in Southwest China. (Photo and caption by Fred Wang)

Table Mountain. I took this picture in June 2009 while I was just outside of Cape Town, South Africa. I was working at a kids camp and took a quick shot of the sun setting over Table Mountain as we were headed in for dinner. I was in such a rush to capture the sunset while trying to keep an eye on a bunch of kids on the playground that I didn't even notice the boy in the right edge of my viewfinder. It wasn't until I was back home in Tennessee that I discovered the huge impact of this picture. The duality of the not-quite-teenage boy and the 260-million-year-old mountain in the same shot absolutely amazed me. (Photo and caption by Quinn Ballard)

Cloud and ship. Ukraine, Crimea, Black sea, view from Ai-Petri mountain. (Photo and caption by Yevgen Timashov)

A few submissions from

National Geographic's Annual Photo Contest.

Submission ends Nov 30th, 2010

Behold, my favorite:

Liquid Planet. Another picture from the Liquid Vision Series, which shows a different point of view of waves. An angle that people are not used to seeing. (Photo and caption by Freddy Cerdeira)