Category: Photography
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The Most Beautifully Terrifying Spiders You Never Knew Existed
Wow! Ick. Oooh. Whaaaaaaat. No. No. NOPE. That pretty much summarizes our reactions while looking at these incredible macro shots of spiders photographed by Nicky Bay who lives and works in Singapore. The boundless biodiversity found on the country’s 64 islands includes a vast array of insects and arachnids, many of which Bay has painstakingly documented up close…
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Stunning Before and After Makeup Photos by Vadim Andreev
While some artists have mastered the Photoshop brushes to give some of their models a much needed face or eye lift, Russian artist Vadim Andreev uses those from the make-up artist kit. And his results are sometimes so jaw-dropping it’s hard to believe the pictures weren’t retouched! Vadim claims that using only cosmetics, he transforms…
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Water Wigs by Tim Tadder – Bald men and water balloons. Perfect.
Water Wigs. Logical head dress for balding men in summer. Probably not. But they do make for some amazing photographs. Advertising photographer Tim Tadder is based in Southern California and is know for his striking portraits. In his relatively short career he has photographed politicians like George W Bush, sporting superstars like Michael Phelps, innovators…
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Jumping Spiders Wearing Water Drops as Fancy Hats
Even if you have arachnophobia, don’t be too quick to close this page yet! Jumping spiders have got to be the cutest spiders of all. More than that, they were recently photographed wearing tiny water droplets as their hats, and that way completely denying their image of being threatening and scary. Uda Dennie, 33-year-old photographer…
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Macro Photos of Dew-Covered Insects by David Chambo
Over the past few months photographer David Chambon has been working on a phenomenal series of macro photos featuring insects covered in tiny water droplets. The poor little insects covered in water and dew provide a truly magnificent subject which we haven’t seen before. These are a few of our favorites but you can see dozens more…
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Distorted Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy
Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been taking photographs of for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy…
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Photographer David Orias Makes the Pacific Ocean Look like Rainbows and Gold
Photographer David Orias relies on slow shutter speeds, precision camera movement and the rich light of dawn or dusk to capture these amazing images just off the California coast. Of these particular shots Orias says: I often use the camera to see our world in ways our eyes cannot see. I do this by using long shutter…
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Photographer Follows His Girlfriend Around The World
See part 2 of this photo series HERE! In his photo series “Follow Me To”, Russian photographer Murad Osmann is taking the viewer on an intimate journey together with his girlfriend who’s leading him around the world. The pose is almost the same in every picture: the girl never shows her face, and the guy almost never…
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Photographic Series Showing What 200 Calories Looks Like in Different Foods
See part 2 of this blog by clicking HERE! To celebrate its 1000th post since it started blogging about all things #foodporn in 1997, Foodporn just conducted a very visual and informative study and presented a photo series, which compares what 200 calories actually look like in different foods. You’d think that even with Summer…
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Snail slides across sleeping frog in slowest game of leapfrog ever
To go at a ‘snail’s pace’ is rarely considered a good thing. But when a snail decided to slide across a sleeping frog, it’s very slow and steady rate probably saved it’s life – because it didn’t wake the amphibian, which normally feasts on the molluscs. This snail enjoyed a long game of leapfrog as it…