Some admirable shots from wildlife photographer Pavel Zahorec. Taking pictures of animals and nature has long been an interest of mine so I am drawn to work like Zahorec’s. It would be a very fun profession.
Website: http://smashingpicture.com/wildlife-photography-pavel-zahorec/
Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130 in Ponte Vedra, Florida
I think it would be awesome to have the opportunity to take photos for National Geographic. They just announced their 2011 photo winners, along with other entries. I always enjoy going through the photos from their annual photo contest and seeing how people chose to visually translate moments of their lives. From the most historical, like the above picture, or showing the most simple aspects of our world, where even some of those are shown in a way that makes them seem more profound.
By Jim Sanborn, found on Today and Tomorrow. These are large format, long exposures taken at night. The light is produced by a projector. Check out Sanborn’s website for a bunch more photos. I think it’s interesting how much time and effort he took to create these beautiful works, especially in an age where one could simply photoshop these designs onto images.
I'd love to see this print in person.
I saw a short film made by this guy last year. He’s an incredible landscape photographer from Australia. In my opinion his photographs are pretty inspiring.
For this project he biked a ton of camera gear into the middle of Lake Eyre, a dry lake in the Australian Outback. The lakebed is so enormous that from the center of it nothing can be seen but a perfectly flat horizon in every direction. He took some amazing images on large-format film. He calls it “a landscape without landscape.” The first image above above is after a rainstorm left water covering the ground a few inches deep from the viewpoint to the razor-thin horizon. Perhaps somewhat boring and featureless, but I think it has an intriguing, otherworldly quality, especially since it doesn’t have any digital manipulation. It almost looks like a gradient you might make with Photoshop.
He spent weeks out there, alone, and judging by the film he made, went kind of crazy from being in such a desolate, featureless place for so long.
Check out his website, it has several more incredible pictures.
His tent and bike on the lakebed.
http://www.jeongmeeyoon.com/aw_spacemanspace.htm
