Our planet is home to a wide variety of breathtaking natural phenomena. From volcanoes to eclipses, they’re all incredibly beautiful and make you pause and just think about the world around you. My personal favorite are the Northern Lights, captured in Richard Gottardo‘s video below: The video pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of […]
Watch the biggest ship in the world being built in a mere 76 seconds. Constructed in Korea by the Maersk Line, the Triple-E is 400 meters (approximately 1,312 feet) long. Maersk partnered with the Discovery Channel to produce the presentation, which has been compiled from 50,000 photos taken over a period of three months: In […]
If you live near Southern California, you might have seen a blazing flash of light on the night of Saturday, November 7. You would have been forgiven for thinking it was a UFO—in reality, it was a U.S. navy missile test, and it made certain photographers very lucky that night. For instance, this already-beautiful timelapse […]
If you enjoy photography that takes you on a vacation by just looking at it, you’re in for a treat! Photographer Andrew Walker spent the last year and a half photographing various sites in the western half of the United States to obtain these amazing shots. Walker says some of the spots were not easily accessed, […]
Next time a supermoon rolls around, take a moment not to watch the moon, but the photographers swarming in front of it. You’ll see a scene that looks an awful lot like this creative short film, made by nighttime photo specialist Mark Gee: Gee wrote a lengthy article about how to shoot a giant moon, and it’s […]
In the past, we’ve explained how beginners might get started shooting timelapse photography. While time-consuming, the shooting itself isn’t as hard as it seems. In the following video, Ted Forbes shows us his three preferred methods, which involve simple cameras, no sped-up video, and no SLRs: Forbes offers three cameras as solutions: a smartphone, a Mobius Actioncam, and a Sony Rx100 Mark […]
Iceland is one of the most mystical places for landscape photography, full of cascading waterfalls, stunning fjords, and floating icebergs. It just also happens to be one of the few places on earth where you can photograph in the light of the midnight sun, a truly unforgettable experience. But if you weren’t one of the […]
For some photographers bad weather isn’t such a bad thing. It’s just another opportunity to make mesmerizing photos. One look at this breathtaking timelapse footage, and you’ll be hard-pressed not to assume that the photographer is a pro and has been shooting for years. As a matter of fact, photographer Jeff Boyce has a day […]
Photoshop can get a bad rap in the media when it’s abused to overly alter photographs so they no longer represent reality, but sometimes an artist can use it to do just the opposite. Photographer Joaquin Villaverde made a timelapse while he restored and colored an old black and white photograph that was damaged by time […]
What’s the longest you’ve ever shot for a project – a week? a month? How about 2 years? Photographer Joe Nafis has recently created a 3 1/2 minute video containing timelapses of Shanghai over the past 24 months. All the footage is taken from his apartment on the 23rd floor, yet it shows a great […]
