Artist Chris Maynard:
"I enjoy highlighting aspects of a feather’s form, pattern or color. If I am successful, I hope to convey some intimate sense of the bird that grew the feathers."
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I do love a single subject photo series. Here is a series of shot of the amazing Matterhorn.
The photographer, Nenad Saljic:
"When I was young, I had long fantasized about climbing the Matterhorn but I never really had the chance. I have been mountaineering and caving since I was twelve. I was reading all classic books about alpinism and my first great climbs were in my imagination."
"The Matterhorn is one of the most famous Alpine peaks and one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. It was the last great Alpine peak to be climbed and, its first ascent in 1865, which was fatal for four men, marked the end of the golden age of alpinism. Its north face, which is on my all photographs, was not climbed until 1931.
"A Portrait of the Matterhorn is a kind of memento to all climbers who dared to go there and for those who never returned."
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Outstanding, moving, beautiful and stylish silhouettes from Gabriel Wickbold’s photos titled Sexxfashion.
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On Tuesday I was able to head out to Holland MI and experience some of the pure energy our great lakes can produce. Beautiful and graceful in Slow Motion. At real speed it made it made you feel small and out of control. Camera: FS700 Picture Profile 5 Graded in CS6 using magic bullet Mojo Music: Radiohead "All I Need"
Not your ordinary surf footage, this storm produced break off of Holland, MI this fall is pretty astounding.
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Surfing has such a place in our national imagination, and rightly so, if you ask me. It is addictive and simple. It is relaxing and exciting. It is showy and low-key.
With that in mind, we've asked our surfer-cum-writer friend, Ashton Goggans to pick 5 things to get anyone aspiring to a wet life.
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Philip Jodidio, a writer on the subject of architecture who has garnered a lot of attention has authored Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Air.
Once just the stuff of childhood and movie sets, there have been recently a number of lauded attempts to build homes in the trees. Love this.
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Well done levitation photos are amazing. Like these from Kylie Woon
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Photos of Astana, which was unveiled as Kazakhstan's new capital in 1998.
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Using just a simple mirror and clever camera placement, conceptual dance theatre company A House Unbuilt has created this: Fidget and Flail.
From Victoria Bradford on HUB:
"I've been making these small dance films for about a year and a half, and much of it started with me "running around in my living room," as one curator put it. Lately, however, my energies have been invested in more involved, devised choreographies with a full company of dancers, so when I turned to my latest living room of a studio, I found myself fidgeting to the point of flailing in an attempt to find a dance. And yet, by imposing a frame which restricted my own view of the body, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of dismemberment and a disjointing of the body. From this, my newfound body cultivated a dance in cycles of flailing collapse and fidgeting recovery."
I've been making these small dance films for about a year and a half, and much of it started with me "running around in my living room," as one curator put it. Lately, however, my energies have been invested in more involved, devised choreographies with a full company of dancers, so when I turned to my latest living room of a studio, I found myself fidgeting to the point of flailing in an attempt to find a dance. And yet, by imposing a frame which restricted my own view of the body, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of dismemberment and a disjointing of the body. From this, my newfound body cultivated a dance in cycles of flailing collapse and fidgeting recovery.
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Built in 2009 and designed by artist Daniel Tobin with Matthew Tobin and Jamie Perrow, the Kaust Beacon is part of KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) in Saudi Arabia. The tower rises 60 meters out of the Red Sea at the entry of the harbour and is made of amorphous hexagonal sections.
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Perth, Australia-born artist James Tapscott makes these stunning, eery outdoor installations using light.
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I do love animal photos taken like portraits.
Photographer Cally Whitham wants to “reaquaint [people] with the ‘value’ we once placed on our poultry and livestock in our rural beginnings.”
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Sergey Bobkov a 55 year old Russian artist uses ceder sticks and slices them for the material of these animal sculptures.
For the 2012 Archstoyanie in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, Salto, a design agency, made Fast Track. Measuring nearly 170 ft., it's a trampoline the length of a city block. According to the designers:
“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and percieving the environment.
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610 shoots with a Nikon D3 and a Sigma 8 mm. Very lucky because the time-lapse was started only 7 minutes before a big meteor passes through the sky ...
Mesmerizing timelapse (and long exposure video) from French photographer Stephane Vetter capturing the night sky using a Sigma 8 mm fisheye lens on the night of Nov 17, 2012 in Champ du Feu, Alsace, France.
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This film was shot mainly around the Tromvik area of Northern Norway at approximately 70 degrees North. Tromvik is located right in the heart of the aurora belt and because of this even quiet displays of the Aurora Borealis will always be visible overhead on clear nights. I was very lucky in the time that I visited in that a CME (coronal mass ejection) from the sun hit on the first night I arrived. The earths magnetic field reverberated for the entire week that I was there and I was lucky to witness strong displays every night. The Aurora Borealis is the most beautiful natural phenomenon I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. I love astronomy, and for me there is nothing more tranquil that watching our own galaxy rise but the Northern lights was quite a different experience, one that was in some ways even more humbling. I was fascinated with how the aurora changed so quickly, from rolling like a never ending curtain of soft light stretching, weaving and contorting itself across the Arctic sky, to sharp fingers of green and red piercing the black to its own percussive rhythm. A friend of mine spoke to a native Norwegian shortly before I embarked on this trip and he told him that Norway "is good for the soul" And after visiting I could not agree more. All footage Copyright © 2012 Nicholas Buer All Rights Reserved Music composed by Fieldscarecrow: http://soundcloud.com/fieldscarecrow Motion control Dynamic Perception Stage Zero: http://dynamicperception.com/
Nicholas Buer gives us this superb timelapse, Spirits, shot in the north of Norway in the area of Tromvik, far enough north to capture the auroras.
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The last remaining blue whale comes eye to eye with its only enemy; mankind. The film was directed by Rutger Hauer & Sil van der Woerd, who felt an urge to bring attention to the ongoing whaling. If you love whales and oceans like we do, please share this film!
"The last remaining blue whale comes eye to eye with its only enemy; mankind."
Directed by Rutger Hauer & Sil van der Woerd.
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Check out all of Laman’s Bird of Paradise photographs over on his website. Or, get the hardcover photobook that can be purchased over on Amazon.
See what it took for National Geographic photographer Tim Laman, to capture the shot of a lifetime.
Carolyn Y. Johnson of the Boston Globe writes,
Laman [...] has an unusual career in which the skills he mastered as a Boy Scout—camping, backpacking, archery—are essential. In 2003, he teamed up with Edwin Scholes, an ornithologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, in a partnership that would take them on 18 trips to New Guinea. Through rain, floods, and interminable waiting for birds to show up at the right time, on the right branch, in the right light, they sought birds of paradise at 51 field sites. The life of a scientist-explorer isn’t exactly easy: it involved traversing flooded forests, rough boat rides, and being dropped off by helicopter in remote jungle. Laman climbed 165 feet up into trees and set up bird blinds and leafcams, staking out some of the most exotic animals on Earth.
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Life Is Born is part of the award winning, best-selling feature film "All.I.Can." Download All.I.Can. from iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/movie/sherpa-cinema-all-i-can/id470509338 Receive All.I.Can. on DVD or Blu-ray: http://www.sherpascinema.com Thanks for your support!! All.I.Can Teaser 1 --> https://vimeo.com/16442800 All.I.Can Teaser 2 --> https://vimeo.com/29320702 All.I.Can Teaser 3 --> https://vimeo.com/31835595 All.I.Can Awards: "MOVIE OF THE YEAR" - Powder Video Awards 2012 "BEST FILM" - X-Dance Film Festival, SLC 2012 "BEST PICTURE" - International Freeride Film Festival, France 2011 "BEST FEATURE-LENGTH MOUNTAIN FILM" - Banff Mountain Film Festival 2011 "BEST FILM OF THE YEAR" - Adventure Film Festival, Copenhagen 2011 "PEOPLES CHOICE" and "BEST SKI FILM" - Fernie Film Festival, BC 2011 "BEST SKI FILM" - Adventure Film Festival, Boulder 2011 "2012 CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD" - Mountain Film Festival, Telluride CO "BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY" - ESPN Fan Favorites 2011 "BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY" - International Freeride Film Festival, France 2011 "BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY" - X-Dance Film Festival, SLC 2012 "BEST DOCUMENTARY" - IF3 Film Festival Montreal 2011 "MOST INNOVATIVE VISUAL FX" - IF3 Film Festival Montreal 2011 "AMBASSADOR OF GREEN" - X-Dance Film Festival, SLC 2012 "FULL THROTTLE AWARD" - Kye Petersen, Powder Video Awards 2012 "BEST NATURAL AIR" - Kye Petersen, Powder Video Awards 2012 "BEST POV" - JP Auclair, Powder Video Awards 2012 "BEST EDITING" - Powder Video Awards 2012 Press reviews: "The best movie in skiing." - Jamey Voss, ESPN es.pn/pPxkbQ "Like listening to a Zeppelin song." - John Stifter, Powder Magazine: bit.ly/nl0JiT "The Sherpas are firmly in the lead of a new wave of filmmakers that are changing the face of ski films for good." - Leslie Anthony, Skier Magazine: bit.ly/mVaYsy "By the end, as I headed out from the screening, trying to walk straight after being pummeled by what I had seen, the only thought going through my head was that the trailer did not do its movie justice." - Mark Quail, skistarmovies.com/review/all-i-can The Sherpas are proud to present All.I.Can: a two-year feature film project that fuses our passions for riding and exploring the mountains with our potential to help the environment. The film strives to unite global mountain culture and bind us together as the leaders of a revolution. We must be inspired to do all we can for the environment, and we must learn how to take that first tiny step in the right direction. Multi-award winning Directors Dave Mossop and Eric Crosland journey to Chile, Morocco, Alaska, BC and beyond with riders Kye Petersen, Mark Abma, Eric Hjorleifson, JP Auclair, James Heim, Chris Rubens, Mike Douglas, Dana Flahr, Rory Bushfield, Ian McIntosh, Lynsey Dyer, Alexi Godbout, Matty Richard, Chad Sayers and more. Music: "Blood Theme", by Data, from the album Skywriter. facebook.com/sherpascinema Thanks for joining us.
"Life Is Born" is part of the award winning, best-selling feature film "All.I.Can." Lots of breathtaking footage. Vibrant, moving and mesmerizing.
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"Toy Boats" is a short tilt-shift time-lapse video I shot over 3 days while staying in Sydney. The tilt-shift effect was created in Photoshop, compiled in LRTimelapse & After Effects and edited in Premiere Pro CS6. I was fortunate enough to visit while the famous 'Sculpture by the Sea' exhibition was running along the Bondi to Bronte coastal walk. Other locations include Circular Quay, Sydney Tower Eye, Pylon Lookout, Camp Cove, Cahill Expressway Lookout and Observatory Park. Equipment: Canon 5D Mark II with 17-40mm f/4L, 24-105mm f/4L and 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM Music: Bitstream intercept (Minus Beats) by Chauncey Canfield (from the Vimeo music store)
"Toy Boats” is a short tilt-shift time-lapse video Nathan Kaso shots over 3 days while staying in Sydney.
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While this only works on Chrome, this stunning star viewer, complete with guided tour about blew my mind this morning. So much fun.
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