Winners of the 2011 National Geographic Photo Contest
National Geographic has selected the winning images for their annual contest. This year’s entrants did not disappoint—more than 20,000 photographs were submitted to the contest from over 130 countries, with professional and amateur photographers across the globe participating. Photographs were submitted in three categories: people, places, and nature.
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Light Painting Photography by Brian Hart
Brian Hart creates amazingly using light beyond its practicality, hart sets up living scenarios for which he applies the photographic technique,
capturing domestic and whimsical scenes., sometimes spending nearly 20 minutes exposing a single one.
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Photo Series by Sandra Vigliotti
Here is the latest series photo from Sandra Vigliotti. The French actress-photographer is in love with the scene, music, cinema which inspires her work.
Staircase, Photos Series by Niels Eisfeld
Photographer Niels Eisfeld made beautiful pictures of stairwells. Take a look, it’s really impressive!
Niels Eisfeld
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‘Glass Ceiling’ Photographs by Jill Greenberg
Manipulator photographer Jill Greenberg presents her new project called ‘The Glass Ceiling’ on view at ClampArt . The photographs in this body of work picture female athletes and dancers underwater engaged in a variety of ambiguous and dynamic movements. Her series uses an underwater stage to capture a brood of water treading women in high heels. The women wear colorful bathing suits and high heels in complimentary hues, forcing one to question how and why these models are immersed. Read More…
“Animal Regulation Series,” Photographs by Di Liu
A very interesting work with this series “Animal Regulation” by the photographer Di Liu, 25 years old. The 25 year old photographer just won the 2010 lacoste elysée prize. His work examines the relationship between animals and the city, and it’s totally awesome. Read More…
National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010
National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, National Geographic have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate them as well. Big Picture has a selection of photos from this year’s National Geographic photography contest.
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Nine Eyes of Google Street View by Jon Rafman
Montreal-based artist Jon Rafman roams over thousands of Google Maps Street view images, amassing the most intriguing assortment of real life literally captured on the road. Rafman continues to explore how—like an admissible Peeping Tom—the Internet changes the public’s perception of personal space with his Tumblr blog Nine Eyes.
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African Elephants Ambushed by a Nile Crocodile
A baby elephant was taking a drink when a crocodile, hidden under the surface of the water, clamped down on the juvenile’s trunk! Hearing the baby’s calls of distress, the herd of elephants immediately went to its rescue, scaring off the crocodile by trumpeting and stamping the ground. After the attack the herd stayed with the youngster.
When the baby had recovered the herd crossed the waterhole together in safety, only yards from where the crocodile had been hiding. Read More…
“Bringing Color to Life,” Paint Sculptures Made Of Sound Vibrations
Creative studio Dentsu London worked with photographer Linden Gledhill to create an amazing series of colorful sounds sculptures made using paint droplets as part of a promo for Canon Pixma printers.
“Bringing Color to Life” was funded by Canon to promote their Pixma printer line. It’s beautiful, haunting effect—made all the more fascinating by this look behind the curtain.
Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
“The Fortune Teller” by Radoslav Radoslavov Valkov
“The Fortune Teller” by Radoslav Radoslavov Valkov. This picture of a fly was taken Radoslav’s back garden in Bulgaria
“Flight of the Rays” by Florian Schulz, the Environmental Photographer of the Year
A picture of an unprecedented congregation of Munkiana Devil Rays in Baja California Sur has won Florian Schulz the prestigious 2010 title of The Environmental Photographer of the Year.
The group of Munkiana Devil Rays were spotted in Baja California Sur, Mexico, by German conservation photographer Florian Schulz.
He described how he was able to capture his jaw-dropping image named Flight of the Rays:
“During an aerial expedition I came across something I had never seen before. Not even my pilot, who has surveyed this area for 20 years, had seen anything like it. As we got closer we started to discover its nature: an unprecedented congregation of rays. The group was as thick as it was wide, all heading towards the same direction. I have asked around why this took place but no one has been able to explain it to me. After such a unique sighting, I realize there are so many marvels in the oceans that we are yet to understand”
Leaf Launches World’s Highest Resolution Backs, 80MP
Leaf announced two new medium format backs, the Leaf Aptus-II 12 and the Aptus-II12R (with internal rotating sensor)—at 80MP they are the world’s highest resolution digital camera backs. The price: $32,000. The pixels: 80 million, the most of any camera back to date.
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Stone House in Portugal
Found at karmatrendz, these great photos collection of an awesome nature installation in the Nas montanhas de Fafe, Portugal by Jsome1.
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Amazing High Speed Bullet Photography by Alexander Augusteijn
Alexander Augusteijn takes high-speed photography up a notch with these photos of bullets shooting through droplets of water.
Alexander Augusteijn says;
I am a photographer from the Netherlands, specializing in high speed photography. I use a normal flash to achieve very short illuminations. The most critical parameter in this kind of photography is timing, which is achieved by computer control of shutter, flash, valve, gun or whatever other device is used.
These kind of images require a lot of experimentation, dedication, patience and willingness to endlessly clean spill of liquids and debris from objects shot to pieces. Several hundreds of trial shots may be needed to get timing correct. After that, the process is pretty well controlled, and often half of the shots will be usable, with 1 out of 10 really interesting.
“Andromeda Strain Series,” Photographies by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied photography at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk says:
“After making many landscape photographs I realized the search for special places is more important than the place itself. The notion of discovery has been always intimately linked to photography. The cliche of the photographer as an explorer of unknown and rough places became a starting point to construct images. I played with the “National Geographic:-language essentially without leaving my hometown. I searched for locations that, after small interventions, can fit in an imaginary travelogue. Using low-budget special effects and lighting I staged natural phenomena and imagery. To this work made on location I added still-lives constructed in the studio. Referring to nature and scientific photography, the tabletop landscapes create confusion on the overall status of the series. I often choose material that has a perishable or unpredictable quality, like foam or spaghetti. No Photoshop is used to achieve the effects. The artificial and the real, and the different sources the image is based on, should be present simultaneously”.
Chipmunk Posing With Darth Vader, Photography
People couldn’t believe that this photograph taken by Chris McVeigh of Darth Vader riding a chipmunk was not a Photoshop. To end the controversy, designer and photographer Chris McVeigh has decided to reveal his most precious secret. How Lord Vader rode Billy the chipmunk?
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Bookshelf Porn
A collection of all the best bookshelf photos for people who “heart” bookshelves.
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