Category Archives: Photography

Inside musical instruments

Posted on 03/09/2012 by Zed

Art directed by photographer Bjoern Ewers, the new print campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra features macro photographs taken inside musical instruments like a violin, cello, flute and pipe organ. At first glance the photos look like the inside of a … Continue reading →

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Visit to a massive abandoned monument to communism in Bulgaria

Posted on 03/08/2012 by Zed

The Buzludzha monument in Bulgaria during its heyday And today. (Photo by Timothy Allen.) Timothy Allen is a photographer with a love for abandoned buildings. He recently traveled to the edge of the Balkan Mountain range in Bulgaria to visit … Continue reading →

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Camera obscura time-lapse footage of Paris

Posted on 02/28/2012 by Zed

Photo credit: STENOP.ES Romain Alary and Antoine Levi have created a lovely time-lapse film of the urban landscape of Paris as projected via a camera obscura into a darkened apartment. Camera obscura is an old technique used by artists where … Continue reading →

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Best desktop image ever: Blue Marble Earth

Posted on 02/03/2012 by Zed

Images of the Western (left) and Eastern (right) Hemispheres. NASA calls these the most amazing images of Earth ever.  According to NASA, the Eastern hemisphere picture “is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi … Continue reading →

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North Brother Island: The abandoned “leper colony” of New York City

Posted on 02/03/2012 by Zed

Despite being just 350 yeards from the Bronx, the leper colony of New York City was abandoned and forgotten for over 50 years. Photo © Ian Fereence/Barcroft Media via dailymail.co.uk Photo © Ian Fereence/Barcroft Media via dailymail.co.uk MailOnline has a haunting series … Continue reading →

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Hidden mothers in old photos

Posted on 01/23/2012 by Zed

Back in the day photo exposures were very, very slow. So to keep children still during the exposures photographers placed their mothers within reach, except all covered up. See many more pictures here. Source: ACupOfJo via Kottke.org

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Cyber Monsoon

Posted on 01/20/2012 by Zed

Cyber Monsoon is the title of the photo, above, by Anuar Patjane. The photo–showing a torrential monsoon rain in Bhaktapur, Nepal, received honorable mention in Places category in the National Geographic photo competition. Source: AtlanticWire, National Geographic. 

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From the Photo Album

Posted on 01/16/2012 by Zed

Downtown Los Angeles. Leica Digilux. f 16. 40 sec exposure.

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America in color 1939-1943

Posted on 01/09/2012 by Zed

Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Back in 1940′s photographers of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information … Continue reading →

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Accidental photo art from camera glitches

Posted on 01/09/2012 by Zed

Image from Year of the Glitch. Produced using an Olympus C-840L 1.3 MP Digital Camera, by notendo. Philip Stearn’s website Year of the Glitch features digital art that was created from glitches on digital cameras. See much more here. Source:boingboing.

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