Alice's Blog Posts Tagged 'photo' (977)

Wow, what an illusion! Photographer Adrianafranco Franco submitted this shot, taken of rivers that look, eerily, like trees in a desert in Baja California, Mexico. It was submitted to National Geographic's online community My Shot in December and was chosen as one of their best of that month. From Nat Geo's staff…

This week, photographers in several countries including Scotland, England, Finland, Norway, and Canada saw their skies light up as the largest solar radiation storm in seven years created gorgeous auroras. A coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field, sparking a geomagnetic storm around the Arctic Circle. (Read more about it on…

London-based photographer Emma Hartvig wrote to us to share her beautifully cinematic photos. We were absolutely delighted to see her stunning work that feels somewhere between a lovely dream and a romantic movie. The way this 22-year-old photographer brings out her models' raw emotions, in a natural and unforced way, makes her work feel wonderfully…

Utah-based photographer Royce Bair takes some truly breathtaking nighttime sky photos, especially of the Milky Way. He purposely captures stars with landscapes in the foreground, calling his beautiful set Nightscapes. Though he's been photographing these enhanced…

Steven Shubert just wrote to us to share with his stunning steel wool photography. Though we'd seen this technique done before, Shubert's really stood out because of his interesting choice of backgrounds and his very crisp, well-executed shots. (Especially love the…

Though it wasn't created in-camera, this double-exposure photograph is, nevertheless, breathtaking. Montreal, Quebec-based photographer Michelle Karpman superimposed the two shots - one taken from winter and one from the summer - using Photoshop. She then called it Sunshine On My Mind. On a rainy or snowy day like this, it's just perfect.

You can purchase a 12x12 print…

Lima, Peru-born artist Cecilia Paredes might just remind you of the female version of modern-day magician Liu Bolin. Working with her assistants, she creates photo performance based works that have her seamlessly blended into backgrounds. Acting as both the photographer and the…

For the past 15 years, photographer Howard Schatz has been celebrating the beauty of movement and form with his breathtaking underwater photography. After enlisting the help of dancers, models and performers, he asked them to be submerged in a swimming pool where he took pictures of them as they posed for his camera. (Of course, this wasn't an ordinary pool but…

While we're use to seeing paintings that look like pictures (photo-realism), it's not often we come across photos that look like paintings. Toronto-based, self-taught photographer Barabara Cole (who we first wrote about here) is a master at achieving this effect. Her Chromatics…

Think you can stomach this set? A daredevil from Detroit named Dennis Maitland recently started a scary series where he takes photos of himself with his feet dangling off the edge. Photographed in and around Detroit, these rooftopping-style shots (as previously seen with Tom…

What kind of memories would a carousel have? Photographer Pep Ventosa answers this question in a beautiful series he calls In the Rounds - Carousels. Multiple shots were taken while walking in a circle around the carousel, then the images were blended together. This particular one was taken at the Tibidabo amusement park in Barcelona. Love how you can see ghostly figures flying…

From now till February 11, 2012, visit The Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles to see some beautiful blue hour photography. Kevin Cooley's new exhibition, called "Take Refuge," shows twilight photographs taken in New York and California as well as in Spitsbergen island in the…

We fell in love with Vivian Maier's street photography back in October, when we first learned of her story. Now, those living in Los Angeles will be able to see her nearly lost photos in person at Merry Karnowsky Gallery starting tomorrow and through…

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As true fans of the miniature movement, we were happy to come across these beautifully executed works by Audrey Heller. Working under a strict scale of 1:87, she creates these fantastical worlds that make you want to sit back and stare. I particularly love how she incorporates common, everyday items like old books, tea cups and wine…

Wonderland is back! The last time we posted on Kirsty Mitchell's gorgeous series it was March, or almost one year ago, when Kirsty shared with us her amazing behind-the-scenes shots. It's been 9 months since her last Wonderland photo was released to the…

I came across this series by Polly Gaillard called Reframing; Motherhood, Memory and Loss and was startled by how emotional I felt. Perhaps it's because I'll be entering motherhood soon that these have a special meaning or maybe it's just because Gaillard has the ability to portray childhood in such a refreshingly honest way that it conjures up simple memories of my own childhood I…

Melbourne-based Jeremy Blincoe has just released a new strikingly beautiful and stunningly surreal series called Ephemeral Memory that focuses on Indigenous Australians. About 18 month ago, while he was boxing at the Melbourne Aboriginal Youth and Recreation Centre, he met and established friendships with this often forgotten group of people. "Conversation led to further…

I first came across British artist Christopher Bucklow's beautiful work while at Pulse Miami this past December. Danziger Gallery in New York exhibited one of his pieces that seemed to be glowing. Delving more deeply into it, I found out that Bucklow is able to create these radiant artworks, under the series name Guests, by a unique multi-step process that the…

36-year-old Boston-based photographer Diana Lemieux creates beautifully mysterious stories that will leave you with more questions than answers. It's as if we're watching an important part in a film, feeling the weight of her characters on our own shoulders.

"I try to tell stories that leave the viewer wondering what happened before or what might happen next," she tells us. "My…

Ready to get creeped out? Emmanuel Perez-Duarte masterfully morphs together his own face and that of a monkey's for this shot he's titled, "The Origins of Evolution." We got in touch with the Paris, France-based photographer to ask him how he achieved this fantastically freaky look.

"I had been experimenting on morphing software, which allows to go from one face to…