Intensely Vivid Photographs Iran’s Mosques By Mohammad Domiri

Mohammad Domiri, a remarkably talented Iranian photographer, has amassed this startlingly gorgeous portfolio of the interiors of Middle Eastern mosques.

Eerily Beautiful Monkey Portraits by Hiroshi Watanabe

From US-based photographer Hiroshi Watanabe's exhibit titled Suo Sarumawashi.

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Thumbs In Place of Guns

Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?  

YES! 

Cloudboarding is like snowboarding but in the clouds

All those fantasies you get looking out plane windows.... yeah!

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Paper Cutouts from Great Masters Having Great Times by Lorenzo Castellini

Brazilian artist, Lorenzo Castellini, on his instagram account, Art.Lies, presents these witty collages bringing photography and paper cutouts from great works of art.

Salt of the Earth - A film about Photographer Sebastião Salgado by Wim Wenders

An unparalleled interest in and empathy for the people of the world marks the work of photographer Sebastião Salgado. Here is the trailer for the forthcoming documentary covering his life and work by the great filmmaker Wim Wenders.  

Check out the link below for more of Salgado's work. 

Salgado behind the camera

The Stunningly Beautiful Photojournalism of Sebastião Salgado

Colorful Centrifuge Photos from Fabian Oefner

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner writes:

The motion of the paint happens in a blink of an eye, the images you see are taken only millisecond after the drill was turned on. To capture the moment, where the paint forms that distinctive shape, I connected a sensor to the drill, which sends an impulse to the flashes. These specialized units are capable of creating flashes as short as a 1/40000 of a second, freezing the motion of the paint.

"Black Hole" is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by the centripetal force. The setup is very simple: Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod, creating these amazing looking structures. The motion of the paint happens in a blink of an eye, the images you see are taken only millisecond after the drill was turned on. To capture the moment, where the paint forms that distinctive shape, I connected a sensor to the drill, which sends an impulse to the flashes. These specialized units are capable of creating flashes as short as a 1/40000 of a second, freezing the motion of the paint.

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Mid-Ocean Floating Bar in Fiji

Cloud 9 is a floating bar in Fiji is the middle of the ocean near the Malolo Barrier Reef, about 40-50 minutes away from the main island. A bar and Italian wood fired pizza make Cloud 9 a uniquely glorious way to chill out in the South Pacific.

 

Zoo Fashion Photos

Barcelona based Yago Partal  has this fun and funny photo manipulation series called Zoo Portraits.

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What I Eat - People From Around the World With A Day's Worth of Food

Over the course of three years, photojournalist Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio traveled from their California home to visit over 30 countries to capture people and what they eat in a single day. The book that they made of the project, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, features a fascinating array of people and diets.

40 years old; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 165 pounds, Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah  outside Cairo, Egypt. 3200 calories.

Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. 4,000 calories. 20 years old; 6 feet, 5 inches tall; and 195 pounds. 

Chen Zhen from Shanghai, China. 2,600 calories. 20 years old, 5-feet-5-inches tall, 106 pounds.

Robina Weiser-Linnartz from Cologne, Germany. 3,700 calories. 28 years old, 5-feet-6-inches tall, 144 pounds.

Oscar Higares, a professional bullfighter in Miraflores De La Sierra, Spain.

Farmer and mother Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo in Tingo in central Andes, Ecuador. 3,800 calories. 37 years old, 5-feet-3-inches tall, 119 pounds.

Nguyên Van Thuan, a war veteran, with his wife.

Truck driver Conrad Tolby. 5,400 calories. 54 years old, 6-feet-2-inches tall, 260 pounds.

Widow Lan Guihua from Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. 1,900 calories. 68 years old, 5-feet-3-inches tall, 121 pounds.

Beverages under a Microscope

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Piña Colada

Each of these vibrant images is actual a drink, close up. This one to the right is a Piña Colada. Click on any of the above to see what drink it is. ​

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Beautiful Photo Manipulations by nois7

With just a slight destabilizing nudge away from reality, the photo manipulations from Robert Jahns (nois7 as one of Instagram), are an uncanny and stunning imaginative beauty made visible.

Living Off the Grid in Europe by Antoine Bruy

Photographer Antoine Bruy’s ongoing series, “Scrublands,” grew up in urban France and began documenting the off-the-grid culture with his camera from Spain to Switzerland to Romania,

Bruy:

“Most of the farmers had been living in big cities and I really respect their decision to say, ‘This is not my thing and I can't live this way anymore.’ I think there are a lot of people thinking this way but few making the steps to change. I was interested in how they managed to live another way.” 

Birds Drawn on Vintage Envelopes

Mark Powell draws portraits and birds on old vintage envelopes. 

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Antarctica Shot With a Drone

Stockholm-based filmmaker Kalle Ljung shot this with a GoPro camera stuck on a DJI Phantom 2 drone.

This movie was shot during our 20 days trip to Antarctica in December 2014 to January 2015. We started from Ushuaia in Argentina and went to Port Williams in Chile, rounded Cape Horn and crossed the Drake Passage towards the Melchior Islands in Antarctica. We spent 16 days in the Antarctic and got to experience the most amazing scenery and wildlife before we returned back to Ushuaia.

Giraffe Diving in "5M80"

I think all 3D animation films should be centered around giraffes diving like "5M80" by Nicolas Deveaux. 

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Girls Who Skate in Afghanistan

Photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson  has brought us this project, titled “Skate Girls of Kabul,” from a country where girls, forbidden from riding bikes, have turned to skating.

Happy Endings for Abandoned Plane Wrecks

German photographer Dietmar Eckell trekked to 15 remote plane wrecks (each crash was completely free of fatalities) for his project “Happy End” capturing these images of the fuselages anywhere from 10-70 years after the fact. 

trailer for the crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo: 'happy end' the photobook about miracles in aviation history 15 airplanes abondoned in nowhere all on board survived the crash landings all were rescued from the remote location the airplanes remain abandoned since 10-70 years music: boards of canada - arno bishop roden

His indigogo project to turn this series into a glossy book are well underway.​

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Tiny Adventures in Stylish Foodscapes by William Kass

Very similar to Miniature Foodscapes by photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida, Brazilian artist William Kass has created these stylish foodscapes with tiny adventures in them — too fun to not share.

Photos of Gurung Honey Hunters in Nepal by Andrew Newey

Gurung people of Nepal collect honey from Himalayan cliffs as they have centuries. This particularly vivid and risky lifestyle has attracted a great deal of attention and tourism. Photographer Andrew Newey gorgeously documents the waning tradition.

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