If you feel inspired by his beautiful pictures, take a look on his HDR Tutorial - New and Improved for 2008, with images of all the steps to try to reproduce the effect. By the way, he's also on Flickr and has a official photography portfolio.
Those beautiful patterns aren't photoshoped, they are photos from wings of moths and butterflies. They are part of the project of the photographer Kjell Sandved to capture them and create this amazing butterfly alphabet, with every letter from A to Z and every number from 1 to 9.
Now, Daily Mail readers can have an exclusive, limited edition copy of this magnificent alphabet, either on a giant glossy poster (A1 size) or as 35 double-sided letter flash-cards which will allow you to make up fun messages of your own or help children with their alphabet and numbers.
Melanie Pullen presents some great pictures of her portfolio "High Fashion Crime Scenes".
Melanie Pullen's collection of more than one hundred photographs that comprise High Fashion Crime Scenes is based on vintage crime-scene images she mined from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department, the County Coroner's Office, and other primary sources. Drwan to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records, she began re-enacting the crime-scene, outfitting the "victims" (her selected models) in current haute couture, and photographing them in her staged settings.
With a bit of imagination or creativity we can find faces in the common places, like cars, windows, cans, food, walls, trees, clouds, garbage or in and the most surprising places, like a cheese grater. Faces in Places is a blog which collects those images describing itself as A photographic collection of faces found in everyday places. The blog has a Flickr group where you can also share your "faces in places" pictures.
Update: Martin Klasch show me a previous Flickr group with the same theme: Pareidolia. Pareidoliadescribes a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon, and hidden messages on records played in reverse.
My Lilliput is a fabulous Flickr set with catchy macro pictures with tiny plastic toys interacting with strawberries, nuts, flowers, vegetables and other stuff. The photos of those tiny people were taken by Gianluca Fabrizio.
I'm not a fashion victim and I never care for fashion. However, I have a crush for bags, shoes and fashion photos. That's some of the reasons why I love the last Miu Miu's campaign starred by Kirsten Dunst. The gorgeous photos have a surreal atmosphere, remembering the red room of David Lynch's "Twin Peaks". The colours and the contrast of a red scenario, the lipstick and laces with her skin are beautiful, pure luxury. (via Notcot)
These beautiful, historic pictures from the Library represent materials for which the Library is not the intellectual property owner. Flickr is working with the Library of Congress to provide an appropriate statement for these materials. It's called "no known copyright restrictions."
Hopefully, this pilot can be used as a model that other cultural institutions would pick up, to share and redistribute the myriad collections held by cultural heritage institutions all over the world.
You can help the project describing the photographs, adding tags and comments in the The Library of Congress's collection on Flickr. All you need is being a Flickr member, and you can do it for free.
The photographer Shannon Brooke presents a beautiful retro style on his pictures of music, people, fashion, motorcycles, pin-ups and magazine covers. According to him:
There was a time between the 1920’s and 1960’s when a woman was sexy because of her style, persona, and choice to be a lady with class. I capture a retro feel of this period with a contemporary twist, my stamp.
The photographer Carl Warner has a gorgeous portfolio with still life pictures, pictures of locations, cars, nature, sports, people and animals. But I wasn't there for those images, and they worth a visit. I was interested on his visually delicious foodscapes: surreal landscapes made of bread, vegetables, mushrooms, salami, houses made with cheese, fruit balloons and giant trees of broccolis. I must say his amazing manipulated images of fantastic worlds, like in a Italo Calvino's story, must be seen. (via mixirica)
The photographer John Wimberley makes fabulous black and white pictures of nature, landscapes and figurative photos.
John Wimberley's photographs are populated by an abundance of pictorial elements: clouds, rocks, ravens, stones, mists, trees, grains of sand, feet; and it's extraordinary how he repeatedly gets these elements to work in his photographs. Sand grains line up perfectly to mirror ripples of light in the clouds above. A cloud in one corner of a photograph echoes the form of a tree branch in the corner opposite. Clouds in another photograph compliantly rise from the rooftop vent of a shepherd's wagon. And, where it would be rare for a raven to be seen sitting on a rock, there are two ravens in that photograph.
Little People - a tiny street art project. Pictures of tiny plastic man in the streets of London and surroundings, and installations by Slinkachu. Take a look also on his set of pictures to Nuart event at the Rogaland kunstmuseum in Stavanger, Norway.
In the journal's 28 September 2007 issue, Science, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, is pleased to present the winners and honorable mentions in the fifth annualScience and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Each winner has a small article on Science with the image and its brief story. The articles describe the accomplishments of the creative and gifted scientists, artists, and others who put the winning entries together.
This winning photo , taken with a digital point-and-shoot camera, shows a piece of Irish moss (Chondrus crispus) collected by botanist and molecular ecologist Andrea Ottesen off the coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The 15-centimeter-wide red alga seems exotic in this abstract portrait, but it is one of the most common seaweed species on the Atlantic coast.
Ucumari is the Flickr profile of Valerie, a volunteer at the NC Zoo. She loves to travel to other zoos, bears and taking pictures. Her sets are composed by marvellous pictures of tigers, giraffe,zebras, lion cubs, pandas, frogs, elephants, gorillas, sealions, birds, wolves, arctic fox, bears and other animals. You can stay surfing through her pictures for hours without being tired. It's a pity that she doesn't have any crocodile pictures on her sets.
On her profile, Valerie points to an important discussion about zoos. There are many programs in zoos that are re-introducing species who's population has either become dangerously threatened or extinct in their native land. That's great, and unfortunately that's an exception compared with the zoos all over the world. I'm against the creation of new zoo's, but I'm totally pro those kind of programs and in restructuring of old zoos.
I used to love visiting the zoo and the Zôo Safari (antigo Simba Safari) when I was a child. The last time I visited the São Paulo Zoo, many years ago, I decided don't go back there. The situation of many of those animals broke my heart. In small places, some of them alone (and I'm talking about species that don't live alone) and I wasn't so sure about the treatment they were receiving. It was too sad. I hope they had change the things there.
Fred Stein Archive Portfolio presents a collection of Stein's touching pictures of Paris in the 1930's, New York in the 1940's and portraits. He's probably most know for his Albert Einstein's portrait, from 1946.
Fred Stein's photographs capture powerful images of the struggle and beauty of human life - images that transcend the cultural moment: the romance of street life in 1930's Paris; the energy of New York during and just after World War II; and hundreds of compelling portraits of the most brilliant minds of the time. In the words of Herman Wouk: "Fred Stein has recorded the central years of our century with a flood of pictorial impressions, and a multitude of faces, famous and anonymous, which will illuminate the period forever."
There are many beautiful pictures to explore on the site, but I would like to see them in a higher resolution. (via Larkin & Catcher's Very Best Things)
The Taste of Color is a neat photographic study by the Swedish professional food photographer Björn Lindberg. Take a look at the pictures and try to image of what kind of food each one has. You will be surprise by the results. If you like it, explore his other pictures of his previous study of colours and food published as books.
There are some crazy users on Flickr, and crazy means crazy in the best possible way, who like to share vintage images. Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy likes to share "some" stuff: almost six thousand of images divided in 90 sets and counting. It's a paradise of 1940s and 1950s pictures, navy images from around the world, WWII images, pulp book covers, posters and more memorabilia. Among all those cool stuff, here are a list of suggestions (according to the posts of this blog). (via PCL LinkDump)
- Der Landser: with four hundred pictures taking during the WWII. Der Landser" was the name given to the ordinary German soldier in the Wehrmacht, and was used during both World Wars. The term is no longer used for German soldiers.
- Robert Doisneau: 65 pictures of this master of photography. He dismiss presentations, but just in case Robert Doisneau was a French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life.
- Vintage Advertising Posters: with 72 very pretty images, many of them are also on the "Transport and Travel Posters" set. The collection contains one of those vintage disturbing ads.
Once more it's time to celebrate the International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And I will do it on my way, sharing links, since I don't have any pirate costume.
Catster and Dogster users are also participating of this special day, submitting the pictures of their furry fellows dressed as pirates, with the tag "pirate", on Dogster and Catster.
Post Like a Pirate is a pirate translator which also posts directly on Twitter, Myspace or send by email the translated text.
Réunion de piratesses: a collection of illustrations created by several artists to a contest created by the French illustrator Delfine, on her blog, which theme was "fille de pirate" (daughter of pirate). Take a look at the illustrations and on the Hors concours illustration of the contest if you speak French.
The Pirate Pin UpArrr Mates, the Sexiest Pirate Pinups 'n the Seven Seas. Sexy picturs of pin-up dressed as pirates, or something like that. The picture on the top is from one of those girls, Molly Roger.
The YouTube profile Offcial Wench hosts 23 videos of Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket. The last video added, Pirates of the Burning Sea, introduces the video game, "Pirates of the Burning Sea" for the release party in Seattle, Washington on September 19th. You can watch their video Pirates And Ninjas bellow.
Pictures of The Pirate zombie pin-up model. As a good pirate she has a parrot.
According to the JellyfishFlickr group, Jellyfishare the beautiful ghosts of the sea. The group members share fabulous striking shots of these ephemeral beauties. Remember you always can find thousands of other jellyfish pictures searching for jellyfish tag, like the one bellow.
PS.: Don't be fooled by the beauty of those incredible creatures: they aren't so nice when you know them "in person". I know, I "met" an água-viva (the Portuguese word for them) a long time ago.
Grace Weston is an American photographer with a very special talent to shot toys. Through inanimate objects she recreates situations and feelings, transmitting them through her pictures. (via Canta Piriquito Canta)
Grace Weston is an award-winning photographer who works in her Portland, Oregon studio creating narrative imagery with staged vignettes that combine humor, wit and psychological tension. She constructs her sets as well as fabricates and fins props and characters to address the dilemmas, illusions, joys, and fears that at once seem so personal, yet are also universal.
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