Photographer Explores The Relationship Between Photography And Painting Through The Use Of Light
Flower Lamp
According to Bored Panda community member named ‘hi’: “Using 35mm black and white film, I wanted to explore the relationship between painting and photography through the use of light. Inspired by the impressionism movement, I aimed to create photographs that would look more like paintings than images, and make the viewer question what they are actually looking at.” Continue reading »
Japanese Photographer Captures Mystical Shrines Covered in Snow
Located in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Kifune shrine is effortlessly iconic. It is one of the highest-ranked government supported shrines, and for a good reason. The shrine is surrounded by wildlife and nearby rivers. It also bears worship to Shinto spirits related to water. Overall, Kifune shrine is easily recognizable owing to its many red lanterns. Continue reading »
Explorer’s Stunning Photographs of The Arctic Sun from 100 Years Ago
Donald Baxter MacMillan (November 10, 1874 – September 7, 1970) was an American explorer, sailor, researcher and lecturer who made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic during his 46-year career. He pioneered the use of radios, airplanes, and electricity in the Arctic, brought back films and thousands of photographs of Arctic scenes, and put together a dictionary of the Inuktitut language. Continue reading »
The Beautiful Winning Photos of 2020 Budapest International Foto Awards
The Budapest International Foto Awards honors its winning photographers from around the world.
It seems like this year—even though it was a hard one—helped creative minds flourish all over the world. The Budapest International Foto Awards just published their winners and the photographs are as breathtaking as they are thought-provoking.
The Skin I’m In – Brian Cassey
“Carol Mayer was left near death following a house fire when a young mother. She incurred horrific burns to over 80 percent of her body … her family was told she would not survive. However, survive she did after enduring the year-long agony of intensive care, operations, and skin grafts to recovery. Over a decade on Carol gives her time voluntarily to counsel and help later day burns victims and assist burns foundations. Carol has long grown accustomed to ‘The Skin I’m In.’” Continue reading »
Artist Using Photoshop Technique to Manipulate Bizarre Christmas Photos With Her Beloved Dog
Using Photoshop technique, Jen Hack manipulated some bizarre Christmas photos from the early 20th century with her beloved dog Yukon. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures All the Goofiness and Joy of Dogs Lying Upside Down
Celebrated pet photographer Serena Hodson’s silly, drooly, whimsical, and fun Upside-Down Dogs is sure to bring a smile to every dog lover’s face. Her unique perspective brings these sweet, full color photos to life on the page. Continue reading »
Belfast in Amazing Rare Color Photographs, 1955
Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
These amazing color photos of Belfast capture the shipyards, the lively streets, the everyday life, the fashion, and document a city worlds away from the one we know today. The pictures were taken by documentary and Press photographer, Bert Hardy, who’s best known for his work in the Picture Post magazine. Continue reading »
Zappa Claus: “Merry Christmas and Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow!”
Santa Claus is mentioned in Frank Zappa’s song “Uncle Bernie’s Farm” from Absolutely Free (1967), which briefly quotes White Christmas in the beginning. On the cover of We’re Only in It for the Money (1968) a Christmas Tree can be seen. Continue reading »
Artist “Completes” Clouds By Adding Silhouetted Shapes To Them, And The Results Are Beautiful
When you’re an artist, everything is a medium. Even the sky. Lân Nguyen, who is known online as 19.XCV (which stands for 1995), has been transforming photos of the sky into everyday objects and scenes using digital silhouettes, and judging by the images, his imagination is certainly that of a creator. Continue reading »
“Graphemic Synesthesia”: Artist Duo Spent 2 Years Photographing ‘Colored’ Letters To Show How They See Them
According to fine art photographer Dasha Pears: “Anna is red, and Mary is deep dark blue. Since I was a kid, I found it very easy to remember people’s names and was very surprised when others had problems with it. Just because each name has always had a specific color, usually the color of its initial. Continue reading »
Photographer Immortalizes the Beauty of a Lions From Every Angle
Simon Needham is a humanitarian and a wildlife photographer. He takes pictures of white lions to show the world the beauty of this rare color mutation of the lion. Continue reading »
Different Types of Rebirth: Stunning Underwater Series by Marta Syrko
Marta Syrko is a photographer from Lviv, Ukraine. Her range varying between fashion and cinematic imagery. She is highly qualified with natural and studio lighting. Her main kinds of photography are portrait, fashion, and fine art photography. Continue reading »
Incredible Winning Photos From The Nature Photographer Of The Year 2020
Overall Winner: ‘Jurassic Park’ By Roberto Marchegiani
While traveling is not on the table at this point in our pandemic lives, looking at nature photography can also provide a form of mental escape. Various studies have shown that it has soothing effects and helps our brains that are on their way to 2020-induced overdrive to calm down. Continue reading »
“View from the Top”: A Historical Look at The Beautiful Stewardesses of The 1960s-1980s
Pacific Southwest Airlines employee in mini-skirts and go-go boots.
The flight attendant occupation took permanent shape in the 1930s as “women’s work,” that is, work not only predominately performed by women but also defined as embodying white, middle-class ideals of femininity. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Photos of The 2020 Royal Air Force Photographic Competition
Judging for the 2020 Royal Air Force Photographic Competition has recently taken place with the winners chosen. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this year’s competition was reduced from 13 categories to just four: Personnel, Current RAF Equipment, RAF Operations and Exercises and the “Peoples’ Choice”.
Over 900 images were submitted across the competition’s three categories, with the best nine images chosen by the three industry professional judges.
Personnel, 1st place. A student from No 1 flying training school at RAF Shawbury prepares a flight using night-vision goggles. (Photo by Mr Ian Forshaw/2020 RAF Photo Competition) Continue reading »
Blackwater Photographer Captures A Young Octopus With A Transparent Head, And You Can Even See Its Brain
We humans have successfully photographed a black hole, landed rovers on Mars, and sent spacecraft to the dark side of the moon. However, our very own planet remains one of the last unknown frontiers – one that is deceptively familiar, too. Continue reading »
Gorgeous Portrait Photos of Carla Bruni as a Fashion Model in the 1980s and ’90s
Born 1967 in Turin, Italy and moved to France at the age of seven, Carla Bruni was a model from 1987 to 1997 before taking up a career in music. She wrote several songs for Julien Clerc that were featured on his 2000 album, Si j’étais elle. Continue reading »
The Award-Winning Photos of Mother Nature Reclaiming Her Throne in The Earth Photo Competition 2020
Coffee Shop, Photo Earth 2020’s overall winner.
Jonk/Earth Photo 2020/RGS
Earth Photo, the international competition and exhibition created by Forestry England and the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, aims to encourage discussion about the environment by telling stories about the natural world, its inhabitants and our treatment of both. Continue reading »
British Twitter Channel Published Spectacular Pictures of Frozen Soap Bubbles
Photographer (Twitter channel @StormchaserUKEU) has posted some interesting photos of frozen soap bubbles. For their realization he used pottery and water. It took about 5-10 minutes to completely turn them into ice forms, but it was definitely worth it. Continue reading »
A Collection of Fabulous Potato-Themed Real Photo Postcards From the Early 20th Century
WARNING: if you are a PL (Potato Lover), some of these photos might be too hot to handle! Continue reading »
Photographer Paolo Pettigiani Captures Stunning Infrared Landscapes of French Alps
Italian photographer and artistic director Paolo Pettigiani, based in Turin, has just unveiled a new part of his “Infraland” project. Continue reading »
A Photographer Compares Portraits of Cats and Their Owners, and the Results Are Too Similar to Be Ignored
Science claims that people tend to choose a pet that looks similar to them and Gerrard Gethings, a professional animal photographer, has taken it upon himself to prove this. In a series of striking comparisons called #doyoulooklikeyourdog and #doyoulooklikeyourcat, he compares the portraits of humans and their pets and highlights the similarities they share. Continue reading »
Winners & Finalists of The LensCulture B&W Photography Awards 2020
Series Winners: 1st Place, How We Were By Billy Hickey
Here are the winners and finalists of LensCulture Black and White Photography Awards 2020. Photographers from more than 120 countries responded to the international call for entries, and after extended review and passionate discussion by the jury, these 39 photographers were selected as the best. Continue reading »
Beautiful Portraits of Vietnamese Girls From the Youth of the Republic, 1961
Larry Burrows/Life Magazine
The Youth of the Republic (Thanh Nữ Cộng Hòa) is a paramilitary organization of the Can Lao Party under Ngo Dinh Diem. Under the leadership of Tran Le Xuan, the wife of adviser Ngo Dinh Diem, this organization often has monumental force demonstrations, attracting the attention of the press both nationally and internationally. Continue reading »
Breathtaking Outdoor & Lifestyle Photography from All Over the World by André Alexander
André Alexander is a freelance photographer, brand ambassador for Nikon, author and speaker based in Nuremberg, Germany.
Grown up close to the Alps, he discovered his love for nature and landscapes at a very early age, this is also evident in his unique visual imagery. The main fields of his work are travel, outdoor and lifestyle photography. Continue reading »
