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Lightmark is made up of the twosome Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke who like to travel around the world and create beautiful light art photos as they go along. They use different light-sources ranging from LED lights to various kinds of fire. See some of their shots in the gallery below.
More of their long exposure shots can be found at Lightmark.de.
See more light graffiti and photography at WebUrbanist.
On November 9th 2007 (and his 26th birthday) the clean-cut, beardless Christoph Rehage planned to take a little stroll from Beijing, China all the way to his hometown of Hanover, Germany. Whilst he didn’t accomplish the feat on foot, he did spend a year trekking through China. During his journey from Beijing to the town of Urumqi, Rehage walked an astounding 4646 kilometres!
During that time he grew a mighty long beard, and his inspiring time-lapse video The Longest Way chronicles the journey and his hair growth. The Times Online think it could be the best travel video of 2009. Take at look at it below; I would recommend however that you see it in HD at YouTube.
BONUS: If you have the time, MapVivo plots out his route. They currently have 237 days of his trip available for you to browse – on each day you can read his notes and see the photos that he took. Check it out!
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Spotting a speeding bullet with your naked eye is almost impossible, and normal photographic flash units can’t truly capture the impact that a bullet makes after hitting an object. Flickr user alan_sailer knows a thing or two about high speed photography – not only does his super-duper flash unit produces a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second) but his setup also uses an automatic trigger mechanism.
His photographs are taken in darkness, and as the bullet passes through a laser beam, the flash is triggered, and the image is captured. Here’s a small gallery of this shots:
See more of alan_sailer’s photography on Flickr.
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I rarely do anything without reason. Just the other day, Lucy Furr and sister Muppet went to watch Sean Penn’s potrayal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk as he attempts to become the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in the United States. Anyhow, that got me thinking – it’s been an age since I last posted anything about milk.
Russian photographer Andrey Razoomovsky has produced some risque photos involving milk as clothing for some pretty hot models. These photos are manipulated but to great effect. There are some exposed lady bits but I have censored them, so it’s safe for children.
The photos are after the jump.
If there was one disability I wouldn’t want to experience in my life, it would be blindness. I’m deathly frightened about that – not being able to see the world around me and being stick in a seemingly endless black hole It’s depressing predicament to me, but blind people have been able to live everyday lives and in some cases create extraordinary works of art.
Sight Unseen is a new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside and shows the works of the most accomplished blind photographers in the world. Here are a few of my favourites:
Pete Eckert
Electroman
One of Eckert’s techniques involves using a composite body view camera mounted on a tripod. Focusing with notches carved into a focus rail, he throws his studio into total darkness, opens the shutter, and roams the space “painting” his image with light, using flashlights, candles, lasers and other devices.
Bruce Hall
Limpet
Afflicted with numerous eye conditions, Hall retains highly limited sight. For him, cameras and other optical devices are a means of better perceiving the world around him. “It’s beyond being in love with cameras,” he says. “I need cameras.”
Gerardo Nigenda
…Entre lo invisible y lo tangible …llegando a la homeóstasis emocional
Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, the 42-year-old Nigenda calls his images “Fotos cruzados,” or “intersecting photographs.” As he shoots, he stays aware of sounds, memories, and other sensations. Then he uses a Braille writer to punch texts expressing those the things he felt directly into the photo. The work invokes an elegant double blindness: Nigenda needs a sighted person to describe the photo, but the sighted rely on him to read the Braille.
See more at TIME.com or in the photographer galleries at University of California Riverside.
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Flickr user heiwa4126 has taken some great panoramic shots and through a technique called stereographic projection, he has wrapped the panoramas around to look like small planets. The location Tokyo, Japan lends itself perfectly to this kind of photography. Here’s a gallery of his small planets:
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Flickr user Kimbell creates these amazing light paintings using a hoop with lights on it.
More images after the jump.
Photoburst is a travel photography daily contest, where everyday they publish the best photo that has been submitted. And every month, the author of the best photo of the day is awarded with a USD 100.00 gift card from B&H Photo Video (they ship internationally).
The above photo by Loic Brohard was the best photo for February 7th, 2009, and was shot in Dead Vlei, Sossusvlei, Namibia.
Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. The remaining skeletons of the trees (believed to be about 900 years old) are now black because the intense sun has scorched them. The wood does not decompose because it is so dry.
Hit the jump for more images.
Adam of Adam Thinks says the master photographers of our time weren’t all that great, and with the use of Photoshop he can help them out.
He ‘fixes’ some of the most famous photos producing some very amusing results.
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams – Fixed
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt – Fixed
A few more at Adam Thinks – via Haha.nu.
By combining illustration and photography, Russian artist Dmitry Maximov places his cute whimsical monsters into different landscapes of a human-like world. These bulbous characters often look lonely as if the landscapes seems unwilling or unable to take notice of them.
More of Maximov’s micro worlds after the jump.