What’s more magical, more festive, more innocent than seeing snow for the first time? For Tilly, a Border Collie in Oklahoma, the pure joy of bounding about in the white playground for the first time was a fantastic experience. Here, her owner captures the look of wonder and delight as snow gently falls on Tilly’s […]
At mid-morning, the Nasir Al-Mulk Mosque, a.k.a. the Pink Mosque, in Shiraz, Iran, fills with sunlight. The stained-glass windows pour a symmetrical stream of psychedelic colors onto the intricate carpeting, making this 126-year-old mosque perhaps more colorful than any other in the world: This photo was created by Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji, a northern Iranian photographer […]
Some images make you question reality. The landscape, the weather, and the photographer’s vision and skill can sometimes work so well that the resulting image seems to be out of this world. Alexandra captured this photo at Morant’s Curve in Alberta, Canada: Besides the beautiful location, what immediately stands out is the color tone that the […]
We often try to control everything in our images, but it doesn’t always work out. That doesn’t mean the shot always fails, though—sometimes those surprises can lead to nicer, more unique images. Check out this one, comprised of 77 30-second exposures stacked on top of each other: Andrew P. Foote snapped this composite shot along a busy road. He removed […]
These days, adventure photographers have to be willing to do just about anything to produce unique photography of famous natural icons like canyons and mountain peaks. Thankfully, landscape and astrophotographer Mark Lehrbass didn’t shy away from that challenge while photographing the Three Sisters in Oregon at night. See for yourself: To create “Welcome to Earth,” Lehrbass first climbed North Sister, […]
We’ve all seen thousands of sunrise and sunset photos and, no doubt, we’ve all taken a few of our own. I mean, how can you resist? There’s just something so magical when the sun cuts across the horizon, or through a beautiful, natural landscape like the one seen below. Photographer Evgeni Dinev perfectly portrays the […]
New England photographer Matt MacPherson spends his days exploring landscapes and cityscapes, and a quick look at his work makes it seem as if he’s seen all that there is to see. In his travels across the United States, he’s managed to visit just about every state. His camera has captured the gaping canyons of the southwest, the […]
Breathtaking are the wonders of an Aurora. But imagine those ebbing polar greens and pinks from four-hundred kilometers in space. Astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this incredible moment while floating high above the continent of Australia inside the International Space Station: When Gerst wasn’t working for the Blue Dot Mission, he was often found photographing our beautiful planet from […]
Fuego is an active volcano about 16 kilometers west of Antigua, one of Guatamala’s most famous cities. It is known for erupting frequently at a low level with small gas and ash eruptions occurring almost every 15 to 20 minutes. Photographer Martijn Hermans stayed up all night to photograph the volcano erupting and it definitely […]
It’s not every day that you get to see an incredible aerial long exposure. A long exposure with a stationary camera is one thing, but Skyhawk_91 shared this image taken from a plane flying over Seattle: The photographer mounted a GoPro on the wing of the airplane and took a single 5-second exposure just as the […]
