Spectacular Award-Winning Images From The 2024 Minimalist Photography Awards
Minimalist Photographer Of The Year: Anna by Eva Chupikova, Czech Republic
The 2024 Minimalist Photography Awards celebrate the art of simplicity, featuring powerful images that use minimal elements like composition, light, and space to create evocative and captivating works of visual storytelling. Continue reading »
Nature Winning Photos From The 2024 Prix De La Photographie Awards
1st Place Winner: “Wild Flowers” by Anne Mason-Hoerter, Germany
The 2024 Prix De La Photographie Awards honored extraordinary nature photography from around the world, highlighting the breathtaking beauty and intricate connections within our environment through stunning landscapes and intimate wildlife moments, inspiring us to appreciate and protect the natural world. Continue reading »
Spectacular Black-And-White Winning Photos From The AAP Magazine Awards
1st Place Winner: “Macadam” by Manuel Besse (France)
The AAP Magazine Awards honor exceptional black-and-white photography, featuring diverse, masterfully composed images that captivate with their powerful storytelling and emotional depth, proving color unnecessary for conveying meaning. Continue reading »
Breathtaking Finalist Photos Of The 2024 Ocean Photographer Of The Year
Finalist, Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Jake Wilton, Conflict Islands, Papua New Guinea
The 2024 Ocean Photographer of the Year competition has revealed its remarkable finalists, showcasing breathtaking underwater images that capture the ocean’s beauty and mystery. With over $12,898 (£10,000) in prizes, the competition, hosted by Oceanographic Magazine, will announce the overall winner and top category awards next month. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Analogue Photos of The 2023 International Photography Awards
3rd Place In Analog/Film/Landscape: “Sunkissed Hills” By Bernarda Nibera Conič
The 2023 International Photography Awards (IPA) featured amazing analog photography that enthralled audiences worldwide. We enter the magical world of analog photography with these stunning fine art, landscape, and portrait winners. Continue reading »
Gabriele Serrini’s Powerful Abstract Pop Art Paintings
Italian painter Gabriele Serrini, who is presently residing in Spain, creates visually arresting paintings by fusing pop culture motifs with abstract expressionism. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images Of The United Nations World Oceans Day Photo Contest 2024
Awaken New Depths: Winner by Renee Capozzola (USA)
To mark World Ocean Day 2024 on June 8, Dive Photo Guide announced the winners of its 11th annual photo competition. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Photos Of 2024 Exposure One Black And White Photography Awards
1st Place Professional: “Feathered Warriors: A Moment of Suspense” by Paul Lukin
The 2024 Exposure One Black and White Photography Awards have revealed a stunning array of winning images, each exemplifying the timeless elegance and powerful impact of monochromatic photography. These captivating photographs span a spectrum of emotions, landscapes, and moments, each narrating a unique story through the simplicity of black and white. Continue reading »
Michael Cheval’s Vibrant Masterpieces Reveal the Hidden Strangeness of Our Existence
A master of the unexpected, Michael Cheval is a contemporary artist who wields a wild imagination. His surrealist paintings, drawings, and portraits aren’t mere depictions; they’re reality turned inside-out, a portal into the depths of the human psyche and the inherent paradoxes of existence. Continue reading »
“This Is Manchester”: Michael Ashcroft’s Truthful Series Of Paintings That Celebrate The Northern City
A master of landscape and cityscape in oils, Michael Ashcroft’s truthful style has captured the heart of Manchester and its art lovers. His familiar Northern scenes, like wet roads at dusk, raddled pub facades, and landmarks in the afternoon sun, are painted to celebrate the bustling and beautiful nature of this city. Continue reading »
Impressive Conceptual Architecture And Art Projects By Michael Jantzen
Michael Jantzen (previously) explores art, architecture and design in his imaginative renderings of conceptual buildings and structures inspired by nature, technology and science. Continue reading »
Michael Pederson’s Miniature World Of The Unexpected: Artist Uses Skill And Humour To Enlarge Small, Everyday Things
“Please wait here until called,” says the sign by a small hole in the sidewalk. There are ropes and stanchions to corral the visitors waiting for, well, what? What’s inside? Who can fit though the portal to the VIP club, popular restaurant or haven on the other side? Who calls? Michael Pederson (previously), aka Miguel Marquez Outside, could tells us. He made the sign and other intriguing tableaux of small worlds. But we don’t want to know. We’ve stumbled upon something new and delightfully small. It needs no explanation. It just is. And it’s wonderful. Continue reading »
Photographer Michael Salisbury Visualizes Chicago As An Abandoned City
Chicago is the home of over 2.7 million people, making it the third most-populated city in the U.S. What would the bustling metropolis look if it were abandoned? Continue reading »
“We’re All Mad Here. I’m Mad. You’re Mad”: The Superb Concept Artworks By Michael Kutsche
Michael Kutsche is an award-winning German artist based in Berlin, Germany. He is a self taught artist who works both in traditional and digital media. His work is best described as an astoundingly lifelike depiction of parallel realities, populated by odd characters reminiscent of movies, comics but also Flemish Renaissance Painting. Continue reading »
Craftsman Jeffrey Michael Samudosky Transforms A Fallen Redwood Tree Into A Giant Eight-Tentacle Sea Creature
Washington-based woodcarver Jeffrey Michael Samudosky has been creating elaborate figural works from a variety of Pacific Northwest trees since he started his company JMS Wood Sculpture in 1998. Continue reading »
“Nightland”: Breathtaking Urban Nightscape Photography By Michael Streckbein
Michael Streckbein is an professional photographer and artist currently based in Cologne, Germany. Michael focuses on architecture, urban and street photography. Continue reading »
Photographer Michael Massaia Captures Haunting Images Of Central Park When No One Is Around
During his mid 20s, Michael Massaia developed a terrible case of insomnia. In order to give himself a break from sitting around all night “staring at the walls,” he began to go on long walks. Massaia grew up in New Jersey but became enamored with New York City during his late-night strolls, when the city was less congested and fewer people were around. Thankfully, the self-taught photographer took his camera along, creating the series “Deep in a Dream, Central Park.”
Massaia worked a series of “crappy” jobs, including stints in movie theaters and warehouses, before finding photography. Continue reading »
Photographer Michael Lee Captures London Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Michael Lee is a talented photographer, painter and artist based in London, UK. Michael received his MA in Fine Art from Middlesex University London. He shoots stunning abstract and hdr street photography. Continue reading »
“The Voice Of The Night”: The Terrifying And Dark Fantasy Art Of Michael MacRae
Gritty, dark fantasy, dystopian, and at times, creepy art is the crime today. The culprit is Michael MacRae, a talented artist from DeviantArt who has created a whole world on his own. By world, we mean that he has created art with a certain flow of continuity and with a story attached to each piece. Thus Michael is also a great storyteller. Continue reading »
“A Summer Night’s Melancholy”: Surreal Paintings Of Michael Sowa
Michael Sowa (b.1945) is a German artist known for his whimsical, surreal and stunning paintings often featuring animals. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin for seven years, spent a brief time as an art teacher and then became a painter. Continue reading »
Craftsman Michael Plichta Created this Incredible Globe of Planet Mars
Photo credits: Christoph Hoehmann
Look, we all have seen a globe on more than a few occasions. Recently we got a look at the art of globe making, which was certainly interesting. Today however, the typical globe gets reworked into something unique and quite amazing by Michael Plichta. This unique and rather eye-catching design is artist, eye-catching and one of a kind, rocking a 12-inch Mars globe showing the famous mars canal map by Percival Lowell. Continue reading »
Introducing Michael Najjar, The First Artist In Space
Michael Najjar has gone to the edge of tomorrow and captured what the future of space travel might look like. His project Outer Space was created while he trained for the so-far ill-fated Virgin Galactic project, flying at twice the speed of sound in a MIG-29. The results are a study in the possibilities of 21st-century celestial flight. He will travel into not-so-deep space later this year, Branson-permitting. Continue reading »
Melted Ice Cream Transformations By Michael Massaia
Michael Massaia‘s photographs are as nostalgic as they are disturbing. His long-exposure images capture a subject matter familiar to most. From a SpongeBob SquarePants popsicle to a Neapolitan ice cream sandwich, he frames the frozen treats most people’s summer memories are made of. Yet, Massaia doesn’t just realistically render his ice cream. He distorts the childhood favorites by melting them before his lens, until the pops resemble ominous pools of paint or celestial snapshots. Continue reading »
‘Greenland Reflection’ by Michael J. Quinn
‘Greenland Reflection’ is a photo series taken by landscape photographer Michael J Quinn, in which he captures the breathtaking terrain of Greenland.
“From my travels to Scoresby Sund, Greenland 2012. Lately I have been reflecting upon my trip and my captures of reflections.” – Michael J. Quinn. Continue reading »
The Serengeti Lion by Michael “Nick” Nichols
Images are from ‘The Serengeti Lion’ on National Geographic’s website.
“Tigers are solitary. Cougars are solitary. No leopard wants to associate with a bunch of other leopards. The lion is the only feline that’s truly social, living in prides and coalitions, the size and dynamics of which are determined by an intricate balance of evolutionary costs and benefits. Continue reading »
