Javier Manzano Won the 2013 Photography Pulitzer Prize
Javier Manzano won the ’2013, Photography Pulitzer Prize’ with this stunning photograph taken in the city of Alepe, Syria. The photographer captured an instant of assault melded with beauty. The wall drilled by bullets, diffuses a fascinating light, generating discomfort on the soldiers ready to give their souls to protect their rights.
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Sony World Photography Award
Gilbert Yu, Hong Kong/China, Winner, Arts and Culture, Open Competition, 2013 Sony World Photography
The Award Winners have announced the winner for Open, Youth, 3D and National Award categories of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards. Over 55 00 photographers amateurs have submitted their entries for the sony Award. With photographers from as far apart as Chile to Vietnam, the winning images capture in a single shot a huge variety of subjects from the moment before a couple get married to the Mangystau night sky in Kazakhstan and the ‘Fung Shun’ fire dragon dance in Southern China, plus much more.
Elmar Akhmetov, Kazakhstan, Winner, Low Light, Open Competition, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards
Manny Fajutag, Philippines, Winner, Travel, Open Competition, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards
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Ice Structures & Snowflakes Photographs by Andrew Osokin
Russian Photographer Andrew Osokin has captures these beautiful images of perfect symmetry that we ca find in nature. Isn’t it amazing this regularity found in these ice structures. Check out the photograph!
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year Winners
Paul Nicklen (Canada)/2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The winners of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 have been announced. In total 48,000 images were submitted from 98 different countries to a panel of judges, who then had the strenuous task of whittling these down to a final 100 for the exhibition. The coveted title of Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year was awarded to Paul Nicklen from Canada for his image of emperor penguins on a frozen area of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. An exhibition of winning photos is running at the Natural History Museum in London featuring 100 images.
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‘Water Drop Refractions,’ Photo Series by Markus Reugels
Markus Reugels, from Schweinfurt, Germany spend weeks snapping these incredible images of little droplet of water. The photographs captures iconic images within a single droplet of water.
This image of the globe from space looks uncannily true to life when pictured through a droplet of water. Photographer Markus Reugels spends hundreds of hours painstakingly composing these shots. This image has been flipped upside down due to the reversing lens-like effects of the water droplet
‘My pictures of the water drops are all taken with my self made setup rig – all handmade out of wood.
‘I fix all my valves and flashes tot he contraption, and can put the image I want to project behind the dripping water. Read More…
‘Insects Covered in Water Droplets,’ Photo Series by David Chambon
Seen on enpundit, these photographs from photograph David Chambon fan of macro photography. he has captured this amazing image of insects covered in water droplets. These insects seem made of glass and covered with sequins. Just stunning! Read More…
Janne Parviainen’s Light Paintings
Light Painter Janne Parviainen, also known as JANNEPAINT has created a series of impressive topographical light paintings, using LED lights and long exposure shots to create a glowing scribblefest which outlines the contours of a room. Read More…
Robert Buelteman Puts Petal to the Metal for Electrifying Images
Robert Buelteman creates image of the plant’s coronal discharging in a technique similar to Kirlian photography. Robert works indoors in total darkness, forsaking cameras, lenses, and computers for jumper cables, fiber optics, and 80,000 volts of electricity. He then light paints the photograph with a fiber optic wire to complete the effect.
Robert Buelteman begins by painstakingly whittling down flowers, leaves, sprigs, and twigs with a scalpel until they’re translucent. He then lays each specimen on color transparency film and, for a more detailed effect, covers it with a diffusion screen. Read More…
Lee Jeffries’s Portraits
Photo portrait is not my thing, but I must admit that with Photographer Lee Jeffries, is quite different. Lee has come to capture true emotions one lived, a body language that runs through the image. UK based photographer uses homeless people as his primary subjects and shines light, so to speak, on the artistic beauty in a group of people so often cast aside by society.
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Caffeine Crystals,’ Photograph by Annie Cavanagh & David McCarthy
Annie Cavanagh & David McCarthy won the ‘Wellcome Image Awards’ with their photograph titled ‘Caffeine Crystals.’
The ‘Wellcome Image Awards‘ reward the creators of the most informative, striking and technically excellent images among recent acquisitions to Wellcome Images, as chosen by a panel of judges.
Caffeine is a bitter, crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a stimulant drug. In plants, caffeine functions as a defence mechanism. Found in varying quantities in the seeds, leaves and fruit of some plants, caffeine acts as a natural pesticide that paralyses and kills certain insects feeding on the plant. The main crystals of caffeine were 400-500 microns long; however, this crystal group formed on the end of the larger crystal and measures around 40 microns in length.
‘Beard and Moustache,’ Photo Series by Serge Anton
The famous Belgian photographer Serge Anton has realized this fantastic series photo on beards and mustaches. This series of photo is a magnificent work that highlights the cut of mustache and beard but also material and texture.
Check out his website: +Serge Anton
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Starry Night by Lee Eunyeol
Korean photographer Lee Eunyeol creates beautiful nighttime scenes by installing lights in various landscapes that appear as if the night sky was flipped upside down with glowing stars and planets nested inside tall grass or between deep earthen cracks. Eunyeol will be showing this series of photos at the Gana Art Space in Seoul starting this week.
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‘Oruga de Plumas,’ Photograph by José Luis Rodríguez
It’s shaped like a caterpillar. It’s colored like a caterpillar. It even has what appear to be spines running along its back, a feature common in many species of caterpillars. But this is no caterpillar.
In fact this picture represents nine European Bee-eater scrammed together on a single branch. Their resemblance to the larval form of butterflies The photographer José Luis Rodríguez named the photograph Oruga de Plumas, which translates to “caterpillar of feathers.”
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‘Maddie the Coonhound,’ Project About Dogs and Physics
Meet Maddie quickly become one of the most popular dogs on the internet. She stands on all kinds of things.
Theron Humphrey says;’Maddie standing on things is “a super serious project about dogs and physics.’ Read More…
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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