Most Powerful Photos of 2011
As usual in the December, it’s time for selections of moments that marked the entire year. This is a selection of photographs that summarizes the year 2011 according to BuzzFeed. They are impressive captures in several themes but all very powerful and emotional.
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Finding Oregon
A beautiful video by Uncage the Soul Productions compiling six months of timelapse photography across the state of Oregon, punctuated by a 1600 mile road trip in September. We’ve filmed the Columbia River Gorge, Mt Hood, Mt Jefferson, the Southwestern Coast, the Alvord Desert, Leslie Gulch, Blue Mountains, Crater Lake, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Deschutes River, and more. We’re proud to have touched all four corners of the state; however Oregon is the kind of place that the more you see, the more places there are to still discover.
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Shape by Quentin Arnaud
Shape is a dark, peculiar and very interesting series of captures by French photographer Quentin Arnaud that highlights the shape of the human face by using a combination of light setup and high contrasts that pop up the external lines and contours and remove any recognizable details.
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Microscopic worlds by Daniel Stoupin
An impressive collection of microscopic shots by the Russian Daniel Stoupin. “Most of living creatures on Earth are invisible to our eyes; using microscopes with sophisticated lightning and contrasting techniques I am bringing the amazing microscopic worlds before your eyes.”
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Montaña Mágica Lodge
The Montaña Mágia Lodge is a very wicked hotel in mountain-shaped format which offers a unique experience to their guests, equipped with waterfalls escaping from the top. The resort is located in the Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve, a private natural reserve and ecotourism project in southern Chile.
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Eugene Soloviev Digital Art
Breathtaking surreal photo manipulations by the 21 year Russian Eugene Soloviev from Nizhniy Novgorod. “I started off in the “Design World” in spring of 2006. At first I began with processing of photos with Photoshop and CorelPainter, then for a joke I cut out objects and placed them in non-standard landscapes.”
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New Time Lapse View from International Space Station
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. This amazing video was edited by Michael König with a soft background music by Jan Jelinek – Do Dekor.
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BOB
Bob tells the story of a little hamster that tries to follow his true love around the globe. This short was created during second year at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2009 and it was the first time that Harry Fast and Jacob Frey created an 3d animation short. Ever since Bob has been running on festivals all over the globe and won several prizes on his tour. The whole project took six months from scratch to final image.
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White Silence by Pavel Tereshkovets
White Silence is a series of peaceful fine-art/nude black and white captures by the artistic and documentary photographer Pavel Tereshkovets from Belarus. “In the days of moslem sex-shops, oil-hunting and antismoking campaigns people do realize more and more that they are consigned to absolute loneliness and isolation. The human race keeps on growing and now its population has become so numerous that it doesn’t matter anymore how many people are there on the planet. New cities, tons of paving, glass and steel, night bars, sushi, nuclear power stations, denominations. Being flooded with the roar of the civilization people begin to keep silent and to wait for the right moment to stay with the nature face to face. These are the rare moments for people to feel calmness, emptiness and the pulsating nature’s fear.”
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Sahara Wonderland
A great video by the Swiss Zoomion featuring the world’s most popular desert with background music by SaReGaMa. “Sahara Wonderland shows a unique place of our planet, the birthplace of humanity. It shows the magic and the loneliness of the location and should convey a feeling for our planet and the environment”.
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