Great to see these old pictures of my neighborhood.
Category: photography
Close to where I live
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
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: Read More
Canada…
This is Jon Rawlinson’s picture of Jasper, Alberta, Canada.
l’Escalade
Some genius (cough) has made some nice pictures of a yearly Genevan tradition called l’Escalade
Nice 🙂
Is this safe?
Are you sure this is safe?
And why are these people laughing? Well, because they are…
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year
JL Rodriguez won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award with this stunning photo of an Iberian wolf:
Escher-esque photography
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
Is this for real? Link to XL version.
Old school airplane
A Bleriot XI aircraft from the year 1908. Photo by Ronald Zak.
Picture of the Year competition
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
I like Clark Little‘s wave photographs:
Pretty bird
It’s a Common Kingfisher (Dutch: ‘ijsvogel’), and the picture was made by Manfred Delpho.
More pictures at The Daily Mail.
Harry?
Delightful amateur pictures of some guys on broom sticks.
The decline of Detroit
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
Frozen soap bubbles
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
Eirik Solheim made a picture of his garden every day of the year, and used those pictures to create this stunning video:
Old photos
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.
Beautiful long exposure photography
Milky way over Ontario
Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn took this great picture of the Milky Way in Binbrook, Ontario.
Via Neatorama.
Fantastic photoblog
Beautiful zen garden
Found on Flickr
