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Russian Photographer Makes Astonishing Photographs That Reveal The Beauty Of Russian Cities

Russian photographer Aygul Vishnya captured these beautiful photos in Moscow, Sochi, Kazan And St. Petersburg. Aygul capture the cities as if it were an autumn wonderland. Let’s enjoy and discover the magical beauty! Continue reading »

Astonishing Artificial Limbs Created By Scott Summit

Maybe using the word “astonishing” as an adjective for the following artificial limbs was not the smartest choice, since when a person has an artificial limb usually implies that he or she was involved in an unfortunate event. But if we manage to take the best from the worst situation, these artificial limbs are definitely pieces of art that will bring a drop of joy in the life of suffering people. Continue reading »

You Have To See These Astonishing Photos Taken By A 14-Year-Old Boy

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Young photographer Zev demonstrates a stunning flight of fantasy and skill. This teenager works with many different genres and techniques, but he is mostly keen on the creation of portraits and self-portraits in the genres of surrealism and magical realism. Making himself and his relatives smaller, Zev takes the viewers on a magical journey to re-discover the world. Continue reading »

Astonishing Fairy Tale Photos Help Sick Kids Enjoy Magic Moments

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Through her photography business, Fairyography, Heather Larkin dresses children in beautiful, make-believe costumes and photographs them playing pretend in fairy tale scenes, dressed up as fairy princesses or storybook characters. Continue reading »

That’s Top Gear – Mechanic Spends Almost $300,000 Converting Rust Bucket Into Astonishing Custom Car

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JF Launier bought the car for $400 but it’s taken many man hours and financial tenacity to be able to make it into an award-winning vehicle. Continue reading »

Astonishing Nano Sculptures By Jonty Hurwitz

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London-based artist Jonty Hurwitz has created the smallest known, human-shaped sculptures in the world that’s completely invisible to the human eye. The nano sculptures span about the same scale as a sperm, and can only be perceived on the screen of powerful scanning electron microscope. The artist placed them on a human hair or the head of an ant. Continue reading »

A Japanese Artist Created Astonishing 3-Dimensional Sculpture Of The Sirene

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Japanese artist Takashi Tsukada created this fantastic sculpture of the Sirene (about 53cm of height) inspired by the artworks of Terada Katsuya, famous Japanese illustrator and CG artist.
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Astonishing Giant Sculptures Made From Scrap Wood By Thomas Dambo

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Thomas Dambo is an artist and designer who specializes in making art pieces, sculptures, furniture and anything you / I can imagine out of trash, also known as recycled materials. He also gives a lot of speeches about upcycling and arranges workshops for schools, companies etc. teaching people to build stuff from trash. Continue reading »

Astonishing Straw Sculptures in Japan

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At the end of rice harvesting season, the folks of the Kagawa and Niigata Prefectures in Japan hold a straw festival to celebrate the abundance of the harvest. Dried straws cover wooden frames to form larger-than-life sculptures from animals like sharks and gorillas to vessels such as ships and tanks. The family-friendly event invites visitors of all ages to engage, interact, and play on the enormous structures.
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Astonishing Portraits of WWII Survivors

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Takeoka Chisaka, Hiroshima, Japan. “One morning in August 1945, I was walking home from the night shift at a factory in Hiroshima. As I reached my door, there was a huge explosion. When I came to, my head was bleeding and I had been blasted 30m away. The atomic bomb had detonated. When I found my mother, her eyes were badly burned. A doctor said they had to come out, but he didn’t have the proper tools so used a knife instead. It was hellish. I became a peace-worker after the war. In the 1960s, at a meeting at the UN, I met one of the people who created the atomic bomb. He apologised”. (Photo and caption by Sasha Maslov)
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Astonishing Time-lapsed Landscapes

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These stunning photos act as postcards for one photographer, who has traveled all over the globe, braving freezing temperatures to create the ultimate time lapse video. Photographer Dustin Farrell, 36, spent four years perfecting his technique and traveling all over the world in his quest to capture the most beautiful time lapses of nature. The dramatic photo shoots would take anywhere from 30 minutes through to a painstaking, and patience testing, six hours. Dustin, who lives in Arizona, merged almost a million pictures together to create the incredible timelapse video of scenes such as a lightning storm over the Grand Canyon and an explosive display of the Northern Lights in Iceland. Here: a rock spike infront of the milky way. Continue reading »

Nature’s Quiet Assassin: Astonishing Pictures Capture Moment Jaguar has Caiman for Lunch

The jaguar is well-known to biologists working near the Cuiaba river in the Pantanal Wetlands of western Brazil. They’ve nicknamed him Mick. Mick stealthily creeps up on his unsuspecting prey (Picture: Justin Black/Barcroft Media). Continue reading »