Twenty cast and crew members. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of gear. Authentic costumes and props. A historic location in London. No, this isn’t for a movie set, but rather for photographer Simeon Quarrie‘s biggest photo shoot to date. Why the big production? Clients Jags and Kiran were getting married, but they didn’t want your […]
It’s that time of year again. Some parents may shed a few bittersweet tears; others might breathe a big sigh of relief—the kids are headed off to school. But many don’t have the luxury of hopping onto a bright yellow school bus. Children who live in remote or impoverished areas often have no choice but to […]
A lot of people have bucket lists. Some are travel-related or experiential; others involve personal or career goals. But photographer Piotr Wancerz tackled a European travel bucket list for Topdeck Travel, and he documented it in pretty epic proportions. A sequence that begins with a would-be traveler flipping wistfully through a travel guide suddenly immerses viewers in […]
Anyone who lives where it snows knows what’s going on in this photo. When snow is expected, the sky can take on a strange colored glow—sometimes bluish, sometimes pink or orange, depending on weather conditions and time of day: A Pennsylvania photographer captured the phenomenon one early morning from their front deck. Besides the effect […]
With the ominous-sounding “polar vortex” of cold weather that has been winding its way across much of the US, things are freezing up that normally don’t, creating phenomenon like walkable lakes and ice caves. In fact, a recent satellite photo from NASA of the Great Lakes region shows three of the five lakes almost completely frozen […]
Is it a photograph of a painting? A painting of a photograph? Something else entirely? Artist Daniel Kukla has created an innovative photography series called “The Edge Effect” to capture the unique natural environments of California’s Joshua Tree National Park: Using nothing more than an easel and a large mirror, Kukla has managed to capture nature […]
Sometimes we can miss the little stories playing out in our gardens or backyards if we don’t take a moment to stop and look. Take this small, striped-shell snail leaning down from its toadstool seat to take a sip of water from an acorn cup. Whether snails even drink water (or whether this whole little […]
Looking like a vortex to another world, this photo was actually taken from the back window of a Chicago red line subway train: Titled “Helm, Warp One Engage!” (for the uninitiated–a Star Trek reference to warp-speed travel), the photo was captured by photographer Michael Salisbury with a 2-second exposure. He used a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a EF16-35mm […]
Isn’t it fun looking through old family photo albums? They make us nostalgic for the “good old days.” Sometimes they make us wish we could go back, but would we really want to? One family decided to find out, taking some of those precious photographic moments–a father holding his sleeping son, a little boy meeting […]
Billowing black smoke, leaping flames, charred wreckage, explosions–it looks like a war zone. And it certainly is a battle. One that has become deadly in recent days. Violent protests have been spreading out from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev since November, when the government pulled out of a treaty with the European Union. The situation […]
