Close to where I live

By akie

Christophe Gevrey took this picture of the Promenade, close (<200 meters) to where I live.

Still can’t believe I actually live there

This is not a real volcano

By akie

Matthew Albanese creates fake photorealistic pictures by building scale models and photographing them from a specific angle.

For example, this image does not show a real volcano:

Really, it doesn’t. Proof: (more…)

Canada…

By akie

This is Jon Rawlinson’s picture of Jasper, Alberta, Canada.

l’Escalade

By akie

Some genius (cough) has made some nice pictures of a yearly Genevan tradition called l’Escalade

Nice

Is this safe?

By akie

Are you sure this is safe?

And why are these people laughing? Well, because they are…
(more…)

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

By akie

JL Rodriguez won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award with this stunning photo of an Iberian wolf:

Link

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta

By akie

By Flickr user Mike Jones

Escher-esque photography

By akie

I really how Sébastien Pérez-Duarte applies math to photography. The results remind me of Escher.

More on his homepage and his Flickr-page, including this how-to.

Jedi Obama

By akie

Is this for real? Link to XL version.

Old school airplane

By akie

A Bleriot XI aircraft from the year 1908. Photo by Ronald Zak.

Leopard vs mouse

By akie

 More

Picture of the Year competition

By akie

Wikimedia Commons’ Third Annual Picture of the Year Competition is over. This picture has won:

… but to be honest, all pictures in the competition are stunning.

Wave photos

By akie

I like Clark Little’s wave photographs:

Pretty bird

By akie

It’s a Common Kingfisher (Dutch: ‘ijsvogel’), and the picture was made by Manfred Delpho.

More pictures at The Daily Mail.

Madonna, before and after Photoshop

By akie

Ouch…

Link

Harry?

By akie

Delightful amateur pictures of some guys on broom sticks.

Space shuttle launch as seen from space

By akie

Source

Server room

By akie

Epic picture of a guy in a server room:

Source

Erik Johansson’s pictures

By akie

More

Monkey

By akie

aww, cute

From flickr

The decline of Detroit

By akie

A photo series on Time.com on the decline of Detroit. Picture above was taken by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.

Related: the $100 house

Blue girl

By akie

From Flickr

UFO dogs

By akie

Photos from beautiful Michigan

By akie

Lars Jensen made these beautiful pictures of Michigan.

More at his blog.

Frozen soap bubbles

By akie

When you blow soap bubbles at minus 20°C, they will freeze before they hit the ground. In the following picture, only the top half of the bubble is frozen.

Full set of pictures, including pictures of a frozen soap bubble hitting the ground…

1 year in 40 seconds

By akie

Eirik Solheim made a picture of his garden every day of the year, and used those pictures to create this stunning video:

Link

Christmas lights

By akie

The frog that ate too much

By akie

Bad weather

By akie

Bad weather doesn’t stop Barack Obama from campaigning. Powerful image.

Link

Old photos

By akie

Shorpy has some wonderful high definition photos of times past, like this photo of Atlanta in 1864.

“Federal Army wagons at railroad depot”.

Wet plate negative by George N. Barnard. Link to original.

Kids these days

By akie

Photo by Dian Agung Nugroho

Source

Cookie monster killer

By akie

Via BoingBoing.

Love bug

By akie

Stunning picture by flickr user vanstaff

More

Beautiful long exposure photography

By akie

Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke are responsible for taking these wonderful long exposure photos.

More

Milky way over Ontario

By akie

Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn took this great picture of the Milky Way in Binbrook, Ontario.

Via Neatorama.

Fantastic photoblog

By akie

Boston.com’s photography blog “The Big Picture” really is something. Every post is golden.

Go check it out yourself.

Pictures from the sky

By akie

A beautiful set of aerial photography.

Link

Beautiful zen garden

By akie

Found on Flickr

Martian skies

By akie

Boston.com has some spectacular photos of Mars.

Thunderstorm in Chile

By akie

I really like this picture of a thunderstorm near the volcano eruption in Chile. The pictures were taken by Carlos Gutierrez, and there’s a page over on Flickr that has a whole set his pictures.