Tag: photography
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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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Walking in the Clouds – Spectacular NOT PHOTOSHOPPED Images From Bolivia
A spot of reflection is always good for the soul. And judging by these pictures, there’s plenty of room for that. For this is the world’s largest natural mirror, created when a thin film of water gathers on a vast plain of salt deposits. So magnificent is the dream-like sight that the salt pans in the…
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Exploring the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory with artist Gregoire Meyer
Digital artist and photographer Gregoire Meyer’s latest work – Shattered – explores the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory. According to the theory, each side of the brain controls different types of thinking. Additionally, people are said to prefer one type of thinking over the other. For example, a person who is “left-brained” is often said to…
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Sandy Skoglund’s striking conceptual photography – one colour makes a splash
Sandy Skoglund’s work is absolutely striking. She creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets, then furnishing them with carefully selected, colored furniture and other objects. Finally, after months of painstaking painting decoration and placement, she photographs the set, complete with actors. Her works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright,…
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Nick Brandt – The beauty of East Africa in black and white photography
Nick Brandt shoots exclusively in Africa and is one of the world’s most prolific wildlife photographers. His amazing black and white images of elephants, lions, and cheetahs can be found in galleries and private collections all over the world. At 26 he moved to Los Angeles from his home city of London to pursue a…
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Windswept images of dogs flying through space
USA-based Benjamin Grelle is a blogger known by his Internet moniker, The Frogman. He has recently published some pictures of dogs, that seem like they are flying through space in a spacecraft. The series is titled Warp Dogs, and in it, several different real dogs seem to be flying through a space orbit. These images were created by cleverly digitally…
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Amazing photos of baby animals in the womb
We’ve all seen ultrasound pictures of human babies, but the animal pictures that follow go way beyond the grainy, black and white images we are used to. These amazing photos of baby animals in the womb were captured by scientists using a combination of high-tech ultrasound scans, tiny cameras and computer graphics, and were featured on National…
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Affordable art – what does that mean?
The wonders of modern technology (mostly Google – but we don’t feel comfortable giving them all the credit) tell us at artFido that what most people are looking for when it comes to buying art online is affordable art. Not modern art. Not beautiful art. Not contemporary or Aboriginal art. Affordable art. Now affordable art…
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INSTAGRAM: BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS
Mindlessly double-tapping through Instagram can quickly turn into a black hole of nail art, puppies in costumes, and half-naked Rihanna. Looking for a more cultured and entertaining 20 minute diversion? Here’s some awesome artist and art-world Instagram accounts that you should definitely follow: www.artfido.com @artFido http://instagram.com/artfido No bias here! Although we haven’t been on Instagram…