Old Photos of China

Ryan Nance April 14, 2013

The Library of Congress has a putting extensive collection of photos of China and Chinese migrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Crisp Photos of Liquid Art

Ryan Nance April 12, 2013

German photographer Markus Reugels has developed a process that lets him capture these stunning, vibrant and sharp photos of splashes of colored liquid.

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Animals Having Or Becoming Dinner

Ryan Nance April 12, 2013

The circle of life makes for some dramatic photos, from some fantastic photographers...

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Action Sports Photographer On Capturing Some Extreme Kayakers

Ryan Nance April 7, 2013

Tim Kemple's photography is about authenticity, rawness, passion and place. He doesn't take vacations. He pushes himself and his kit to the limits. Tim explains the lengths he went to on a recent shoot with some of the world's best kayakers in Mexico.

Tim Kemple a renowned action-sports photographer created this video documenting one of his trips to Mexico where he photographed some of the most talented kayakers in the world. He uses the Phase One, 645DF+ with an IQ180 digital back and 28mm lens at a shutter speed of 1/1600th.

My friends would say I like to tinker. Impossible flash syncs, complicated rope work, and razor thin focus planes. The athletes push the limits of their bodies and equipment. I do the same.

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1 - Flying Great White Sharks Caught on Film

Ryan Nance March 26, 2013

Travel and adventure photographer, Chris Mclennan has taken these truly terrifying photos of great white sharks breaching.

According to Wikipedia:

Seal Island is a small land mass located 5.7 km off the northern beaches of False Bay, near Cape Town, in South Africa. The island is so named because of the great number of Cape Fur Seals that occupy it. There are a few sea birds as well. It is an outcrop of the Cape granite and rises no more than about six metres above the high tide mark. The island is long and narrow- 800 metres by 50 metres. There is no vegetation or soil of any significance. A radar mast was built on the island during World War II by a crew who lived in prefabricated huts for the duration of the construction but this tower gradually succumbed to corrosion and was blown over in a winter storm in 1970. All that remains of it is rusty, twisted metal. There are the ruins of a few huts and other structures from the sealing and guano-collection era (first half of the 20th century). Some rock inscriptionsmade by sealers in the 1930s are still evident.

The dense population of fur seals at certain times of the year attracts the seal's main predator, the Great White Shark. Seal Island provides unique opportunities for those who wish to observe attacks by White Sharks on Cape Fur Seal and to observe social interactions amongst both species. The island is well known for the interesting way the sharks grab their prey: They come up from underneath and literally launch themselves out of the water with the seal in their mouth. It has been shown that if the seals enter the "Ring of Death" (where the sharks circle the island) on the surface instead of at the murky bottom, they will be picked off by the faster and more aggressive Great White.

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"Another incredible set of jaws on a great white shark near Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa. This is one of nature's marvels and was really a sight to behold! Let's hope that these incredible creatures will survive

for generations to come. This shark was attacking a seal decoy being towed behind the boat. The action happens so fast and without warning that it is very easy to miss... The decoy is used by researchers to study the Great White's unique feeding behavior in False Bay. I chose to lie on the deck of the boat shooting out the open transom to get the low angle."

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2 - The Seven Strong Men Rock Formations

Ryan Nance March 25, 2013

From Wikipedia:

"The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyer; Мань-Пупу-нёр) or the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations or Poles of the Komi Republic are a set of 7 gigantic abnormally shaped stone pillars located north of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic. These monoliths are around 30 to 42 m high and jut out of a hilly plateau formed through the weathering effects of ice and winds."

"According to a local legend, the stone pillars were once an entourage of Samoyeds giants walking through the mountains to Siberia in order to destroy the Vogulsky people. However, upon seeing the holy Vogulsky mountains, the shaman of the giants dropped his drum and the entire team froze into the stone pillars."

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2 - Lava Flow Photography

Ryan Nance March 19, 2013

Sean King, a Hawaii-based photographer dares to shoot the lava flows in Hawaii, getting uncomfortably close to temperatures of 2000°F.

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5 - Winter Weather World Wide

Ryan Nance February 28, 2013

Six of my favorites from this great set (47 photos in total) over at the Big Picture.

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A Supercell Caught inTexas by Mike Olbinski

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5 - Tintype Stop-motion Animation

Ryan Nance February 15, 2013

Over 800 modern dryplate tintypes were made from b&w film to produce this experimental stop-motion video of a circus. Antonio Martinez created this video to serve as a desired childhood memory of the circus, but through the mind of an adult. The project began in 2005 and was fully completed in early 2010 with the help of sound designer, Ramah (Malebranche) Jihan, and assistant, Sarah (Lathrop) Midkiff. The video has been successfully exhibited in over 23 video art and film festivals.

“Near the Egress”was made by photographer Antonio Martinez and depicts a circus show.

It is eeriy and gorgeous and full of images that feel like memory (at least to me).

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5 most amazing photo posts of 2012

Ryan Nance January 2, 2013

In no particular order, the 5 most amazing photo posts of 2012.

1. Animal Portraits

Award-winning photographer Tim Flach brings a portraiture eye and intention to animal photos. Just amazing.

2. SNOWFLAKES' ICE CRYSTALS ARE ASTOUNDING

Russian photographer Andrew Osokin makes the normally invisible visible. There are so many more on his LensArt profile.

3. TILT-SHIFT OLYMPICS

Tiltshift does this interesting thing where it both removes a lot of the distance between you and the subject and distorts it past recognition.

4. VIBRANT JELLYFISH PHOTOS

Russian biologist Alexander Semenov amazing images.

5. ASTOUNDING PHOTOS FROM SPACE

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APP of the Day - Flickr

Ryan Nance December 12, 2012

Flickr, under the hands of new Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, is trying to revive itself. This new mobile app is surely part of the strategy.

With batch uploading, a simple and easy way to manage your sets, groups and more, and FILTERS, Yahoo is trying to leverage the immense user value that Flickr has accumulated into the new world of smart phone photography. While not as pretty as the new 500px app, it (unlike the 500px app) is actually usable and useful.

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1 - Sports Illustrated's 100 Greatest Sports Photos

Ryan Nance November 7, 2012

Really great stuff. I think I clicked through all 100 Greatest Sports Photos. Most all of them I recognized.

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2 - The Edge of Finland

Ryan Nance October 26, 2012

Photographer Mikko Lagerstedt captured hundreds of images of the Finnish landscape in this body of work called Edge.

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5 - Truly Epic Mini Cinematic Photos (Star Wars)

Ryan Nance October 18, 2012

Avanaut (aka Vesa Lehtimäki) and his use of light, perspective and inexpensive props, produced some very cool dramatic scenes full of motion with miniatures and models.

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2 - Art.sy - A Genome Project for the World of Art

Ryan Nance October 8, 2012

Much like Pandora uses an analytical approach to mapping your tastes to their music offering, the new Art focused site Art.sy aims to map your taste in art to its art offerings.

"Art.sy’s goal is to expose as many people as possible to art. Currently, our growing collection comprises 17,000+ artworks by 3,000+ artists from leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates. Art.sy works with 300+ of the world’s leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates from New York to London, Paris to Shanghai, Johannesburg to São Paulo."

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