In eastern Russia, a couple of photographers, known by the names Liudmila and Andrey, adventured up the fiery mountain of Plosky Tolbachik, which has been spewing lava after being dormant for 36 years. They set about capturing the size and power of the lava flows – but for non-scientists like us, it’s a change to [...]
I’m Google is an ongoing digital art project by Baltimore artist Dina Kelberman that documents digital patterns through non-artistic photography found on Google Image Search. When I first started scrolling through her Tumblr I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at: frame after frame of airplanes pouring orange fire retardant on fires which slowly [...]
Balanced 90 feet up in the air, the view from the top is astonishing. Sheer rock faces plunge into deep pools of water, wind whistles in your ears, and the insect-like size of the figures far below accentuates the feeling of danger. For most people, the first instinct would be to step away from the [...]
Out of the over 122,000 entries received from 170 countries, the Sony World Photography Awards has now shortlisted a few hundred incredible entries in their prestigious photo competition. The highest number of submissions to date, the competition was fierce as judges had to select those photographs that stood out the most for their impressive high [...]
The Super Bowl ring is one of the most ostentatious items a sports man can win. But it’s also one of the most fascinating. The rings almost always include the team’s name, logo, and Super Bowl number (usually in Roman numerals), the final game score and the names of the particular player. Several include inscriptions [...]
This fast travel clip follows a group tour that was organised by Koryo Tours and filmed by Adam Ziegenhals. It explores various areas or sites in the DPRK (North Korea) that you can visit as part of a group tour (or travelling independently as well). The locations here include Beijing (Koryo Tours office), Pyongyang, Kaesong, [...]
What if your job was to make sweeping, cinematic images of planned NASA missions? Pat Rawlings, professional space artist, gives us a lesson in finding the story in science. For 30 years, Rawlings has made, for NASA and others, beautiful illustrations intended to capture the excitement and drama of outer space. He is, in a [...]
Photographer George Steinmetz has spent the last 15 years paragliding his away across the world’s most spectacular scenery and documenting it for this amazing new book. The book ‘Desert Air’ captures many of the world’s most remote and dry places from his unique angle. A book signing with Steinmetz will be held on Thursday, December [...]
These shots were taken in Cambridge Common, Boston, Massachusetts from the late 1960s onwards. This one was sometime in October 1970 when there were a number of anti-Vietnam protests taking place almost every weekend. Click the pic to see more.
There are many different ways to find peace – while some of us meditate, there are those who choose to pilot a plane and take pictures out the open window at the same time. Meet Klaus Leidorf, a 50-year-old aerial archaeologist from Germany, who takes stunning overhead photos while flying his Cesna 172. When Klaus [...]
