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Super Grandmother Photo Collection Goes Viral

Super Grandmother Photo Collection Goes Viral

While living with your grandmother as an adult may not be the ideal situation for most young men, one bright photographer has learned to embrace it. In an interesting series of photographs, Sacha Goldberger takes portraits of his grandmother, who is often wearing superhero outfits or is otherwise found to be in an amusing situation, such […]

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Photographer Assigned to Motorcade: JFK Assassination

Photographer Assigned to Motorcade: JFK Assassination

Being in the right place at the right time may not be a good thing at all — but, ironically, bad events usually turn into great opportunities for photographers. The nomad nature of a photographer’s job, in some way, makes him more exposed and opened to experience such happenings. The following video includes a partial […]

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Photo of the Day: 60 Foot Snowfall Clearing in Japan

Photo of the Day: 60 Foot Snowfall Clearing in Japan

Japan is, without a doubt, a very photogenic country. We’ve even featured some stunning timelapse videos from The Land of The Rising Sun, which showed a wide variety of Japan’s landmarks. But, here is a side of Japan that you may not have known existed. In the photograph below, you can see Yuki-no-Otani Snow Canyon in Toyama. The Canyon, which features 65-foot walls of snow is affectionately referred to as Tateyama Alpine Route.

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Timelapse of an Empty Seattle

Timelapse of an Empty Seattle

The third installment of the empty city series from timelapse creator Ross Ching explores Seattle. Taking his camera to the streets of the Emerald City, Ching collected thousands of still photographs to create the three-minute long clip. The virtual tour of the city makes stops at many of its famous landmarks, but they’re shown in […]

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Is Mobile Photography Ushering in a New Era?

Is Mobile Photography Ushering in a New Era?

Nowadays it seems as though everyone has their opinion on whether mobile photography is good or evil, and they aren’t afraid to tell us about it. As journalist and photographer Richard Koci Hernandez points out in the segment below for CNN, regardless of how we feel about it, mobile photography is here, an it’s making […]

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I Wanna Be a Cameraman Parody

I Wanna Be a Cameraman Parody

If you’re the type of photographer who is always buying new gear–and let’s face it, who isn’t–you might find solace in the music video made by Irwin Wong titled, I Wanna Be a Cameraman. The song reveals what most of us are feeling, as Wong sings humorously accurate lyrics such as “now I’m buying camera lenses […]

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Stingray Photobomb

Stingray Photobomb

Photobombing has become somewhat of an art form where an individual drops into a photo at the last second. I think this one is the best one I have ever seen, though. It was reportedly snapped in the Cayman Islands. A stingray decided to join this group photo resulting in a priceless photobomb: Perhaps Imgur […]

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Aerial Timelapse: The Life of an Airline Pilot

Aerial Timelapse: The Life of an Airline Pilot

Photography has a way of helping people in all sorts of ways. For example, aerial photography comes to the rescue of those who find the idea of flying through the sky, thousands of feet above ground to be a rather terrifying idea. It gives grounded folks a different perspective of things, plus it looks really […]

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Timelapse & Stop Motion Photography Used to Create Music Video

Timelapse & Stop Motion Photography Used to Create Music Video

Here’s a pretty cool take on the art of music videos. The teams at Permagrin and SMW Films collaborated to create this nine minute timelapse video set to music. To put that number into perspective a bit, the filmmakers said they spent between six to eight hours filming for every three to four seconds of video. The video uses 10’s of thousands of single photographs that were edited together to make the video, which is also a very time consuming process.

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Photojournalist’s POV Covering Embassy Protests in Cairo, Egypt

Photojournalist’s POV Covering Embassy Protests in Cairo, Egypt

The following video is a first-hand account of the recent protests in Cairo, Egypt that took place September 11th through September 15, 2012. The footage, both video and photographs, was shot over a three day period in which photojournalist, Amanda Mustard, suffered through the side effects of tear gas to capture the following gripping images. The Egyptian people were protesting outside of the United States Embassy in response to an Anti-Islamic film that was created in the United States.

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