It’s that timeless question among photographers: how much photo-editing is too much? Some argue that photographs should only be “tweaked” by post-processing software so as to remain as true to reality as possible, while others maintain that anything goes as long as it looks good. This lovely portrait of a woman with striking blue eyes […]
Yesterday was a big day in history. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission achieved something epic—for the first time ever, a probe successfully landed on a comet. It was a feat ten years in the making; Rosetta was launched on March 2, 2004 and traveled 6.4 billion kilometers to arrive at its destination. Upon touching […]
It’s been more than a decade, but a new World Trade Center has risen from the ashes at Ground Zero in New York. A recent spring storm christened the new tower with a blindingly bright flash of lightning. Thankfully, the spire at the top of the 104-story building did its job: Reportedly captured by a […]
One man, his camera, and a grizzly: these are the bear necessities for the ultimate selfie. The best part is that the female grizzly looks poised and ready for the snapshot taken by nature photographer Paul Souders, in Katmai National Park and Preserve: The 4 million acre national park of Southern Alaska is famous for its brown bears. […]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … whale? This humpback whale calf takes breaching to a whole new level. Completely clearing the water, it appears to fly in the air, fins spread out. Adult humpback whales weigh about 80,000 pounds (36,000 kg) and measure an average of 39 to 52 feet in length […]
No Photoshop here! BASE jumper Hizam Sahibudeen strikes a relaxed pose while hurtling 300 meters (or nearly 1,000 feet) through the air: Frozen in time, he looks like he’s floating or maybe resting on a invisible cloud above the city of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. His jump was apparently part of the country’s KL Tower International […]
Here’s a photo from China’s 60th National Day Parade showing cadets from the Dalian Naval Academy. The Academy has marched in every National Day parade, and does so in absolutely perfect formation where every solider marches in unison with each other: This is another example of how patterns can create an interesting image. There is […]
It’s a picture of a picture and one incredible sight. Up in the Space Station’s Cupola, European Space Agency Astronaut Alexander Gerst snaps a photograph of Dragon capsule. It seems the previously intangible notion of commercial space travel is quickly becoming a reality: Dragon is a spacecraft designed by SpaceX to carry cargo and eventually […]
Imagine walking along the broken ground and through the ice tunnels atop an ancient glacier. What does it look like? In this photo, one hiker captured an incredibly clear and icy blue shot of a small, yet stunning tunnel. This crevice, atop Franz Josef Glacier, has been dubbed “The Holy Grail” by the guides: One […]
It was July 1918. World War I was raging and U.S. patriotism was waning—stretched thin as more soldiers were wounded or killed overseas. Enter Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas, two commercial photographers from Illinois with a grand plan to bolster the public’s flag-waving spirits with one powerful photograph: This amazing image was created on the drill grounds […]
