Category — Photography

As usual, the Boston Globe’s Big Picture has another series of high quality photos. This time, its surfing.

Not being a surfer, I do tend to think alot of surfing photos feel quite similar. I can’t really appreciate quite what’s going on in them. But at least the clarity of these shots are refreshing in the hot weather we’re having right now.

And the dog does make me smile. Its a boston terrier participating at the 3rd Annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort surf dog competition (the largest surfing competition for dogs).

More on The Big Picture

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Zach Kowalczyk has a Flickr photo set for food that takes the shape of its container. Its a simple idea and creates some striking, sometimes humorous images.

I’m often trying to spend more time with photography and wanting to come up with just a simple idea for a series of good looking shots. Nothing complicated (yet), and so this provides some nice inspiration.

Food?

Via SwissMiss

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Lev Dolgachov has a nice slick Flash photo portfolio. Quite straightforward to use, but its a nice contrast of a dark grey blue colour theme with mainly bright photos.

His subjects are sexy, seductive and quite generic actually so you can easily imagine them within the covers of Vogue, Playboy, Men’s Health and Maxim.

Most of all, if you ever fancied (phar) incorporating these kinds of models in your illustrations, he offers many of them on iStockPhoto, Fotolia, Dreamstime and Shutterstock. Check out the link “Buy Pictures”.

Dolgachov.com

Via Sexinart

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Photographer Branislav Kropilak creates cool and stark images with his series of garage photos. They remind me a little of the futuristic Playstation racing game Wipe Out…

From his website:

The main theme of his work is investigating the way in which modern technology
has shaped the human environment and our lives. He is inspired by industrial design, architecture and urbanism. It has been said that his work betrays his roots as an advertising professional; the images produced being cool, stark and unforgiving. The utopian bent of his work with its appreciation of geometry and perspective have already earned him a solid base of collectors and praise from critics worldwide.

More on Kropilak.com

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I saw Cédric Delsaux Star Wars series of photographs awhile ago and just came across his link again in my notes.

Cédric has a really nice landscape style. Quite stark yet sometimes with lots of geometry, features and urban grit. His Star Wars series is no different except (I think) he incorporates Star Wars toys to create real life scenarios in our world, for the Star Wars characters.

I think he could make a killing selling prints of these.

Cédric Delsaux Photography

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This camera lens bracelet caught my eye as a nice idea. Keen photographers can show their passion off camera duty now!

Via SwissMiss

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Film and media studio Squint/Opera has created a series of images depicting imaginary scenes in London in 2090, when rising sea levels have inundated the city.

The Flooded London series depicts the city as a “tranquil utopia” presenting a long-term view of how London’s population has adapted to raised sea levels.

The general scenario is set 80 or so years into the future, long after the sea levels have risen. The catastrophe side of the sea coming in has long since past and the five images are snapshots of people going about their lives, long since having adapted to the worlds new circumstance.

Squint has used photography, 3d modelling and digital manipulation to imitate some of the techniques of the super-idealistic Victorian landscape painters. Details are exaggerated and play with scale to present images that belie their composition.

Five images will be on show at Medcalf Gallery in Clerkenwell, London from the 20th June, 2008, for a month, during the London Festival of Architecture.

Find out more on DeZeen.com

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Prague is a beautifully, perhaps gothic, place and photographer Kristen Wright captures it well with traditional film media.

She is from Arizona and shoots mainly with a hassleblad or a metallic gold holga with a “tacky” gold chain on it.

Read an interview with Kristen on Sprayblog.net

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Never underestimate the power of nature! As beautifully blurry as this photo is, which to me adds to the moment captured, there’s no doubt as to the potential for damage. Particularly being this close.

A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m.

The Globe Gazette and Mitchell County Press News reported that Lori Mehmen of Orchard, took this photo from outside her front door.

Mehmen said the funnel cloud came near the ground and then went back up into the clouds. Besides tree and crop damage, no human injuries were reported.

Via Boston.com

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If you appreciate a daily dose of high quality news photos, you should subscribe to the Boston Globe’s Big Picture section of their website.

It contains daily postings of photo essays for the latest news and events to hit the web, such as the conflict in Sudan, the Euro 2008 group match from the 12th June between Turkey and Switzerland, and photos united by subjects like water and how it has a significant impact on people’s lives around the world.

Each photo essay has several high quality photos, each almost a 1,000 pixels wide and captioned. If a picture says a thousand words, then these should do the job!

A quick dose of visual news for the visually inclined!

Boston Globe Big Picture

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