Epic Entries To Washington Posts 2017 Travel Photo Contest
For the 18th year, Washington Posts Travel asks readers for their best photos. This sampling shows that the contest has some stiff competition.
“The combination of earth, sky and light in this location is simply magical”, wrote Mark Franko about his submission taken in Arizona’s Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. “It is no wonder why the Native Americans hold this place sacred”. The 57-year-old from Hughesville, Md., was part of a small group that was hosted by a resident Navajo family. Submit to the annual contest here. (Photo by Mark Franko/2017 Washington Post Travel Photo Contest) Continue reading »
This Couple Did An ’80s Themed Photo Shoot For Their 10th Anniversary
\For their recent 10th anniversary, Steve and Danielle VanHorn hired photographer Vanessa Hoffmann of Giggle Monster Photography to do a photo shoot. But it wasn’t just any ol’ photo shoot — it was a 1980s-themed one complete with lasers, tube socks, and Spandex. Continue reading »
Ukrainian Photographer Creates Powerful Photo To Overcome Anxiety, And Here’s How She Did It
A New York-based Ukrainian photo artist named Anya Anti has taken an old expression most of us remember from childhood and turned it into a stunning visual. Through a process involving a model skeleton, several layered photos, and 3.5 hours of editing, Anti was able to create a piece that gorgeously depicted how she felt inside, and gave it an appropriate title – “Butterflies In My Stomach.” Continue reading »
Surreal And Dreamy Photo Manipulations By Jackson Hall
Jackson Hall a.k.a. NocturnalCoonz is a talented self-taught photographer, DJ and digital artist currently based in San Clemente, California. Jackson creates impossible-looking images that seem incredibly real because of the finesse with which they are manipulated. Hall makes us travel to his imaginary worlds with these surreal pictures. Continue reading »
Landscape Mirrors: Surreal Photo Manipulations By Rigved Sathe
Rigved Sathe is a talented freelance graphic designer currently based in Pune, India. Rigved received his BA in Design and Visual Communications from Symbiosis Institute of Design. Continue reading »
Ivorian Artist Sculpts Her Hair Into Hand Gestures In Stunning Photo Series
Côte d’Ivoire-based artist, Laetitia KY shows the versatility and durability of black hair as she expresses her identity through her hair in a new photo series. Continue reading »
Model Born With “Cat Eye Syndrome” Stars In Stunning High Fashion Photo Shoot
Caitin Stickels, 29, is a Seattle-based model/actress/singer who was born with Schmid-Fraccaro, or Cat Eye Syndrome – a rare chromosomal disorder which can cause facial disfigurements such as a cleft palate and an absence of tissue from the colored part of the eyes which gives them a “cat-like” appearance. Continue reading »
Artist Ted Chin Creates Stunning Dreamlike And Surreal Photo Manipulations
Ted Chin is a talented photographer, digital artist and filmmaker currently based in San Francisco, California. Ted received his BA in Computer Art from the State University of New York College at Oneonta and Master’s Degree in Animation from The Art Institute of California-San Francisco. He creates mesmerizing composites that seem to stem from another world where everything is possible. Continue reading »
Redheads Of Czech Republic In A Photo Shoot That Will Make You Dye Hair Red
We are all aware of jokes that ginger people have to deal with in life, don’t we? Like “they have no soul” and stuff from “South Park” cartoon where they don’t have it easy. Some of you are gingers by birth and because of you, Czech photographer Karolina Ryvolová and make-up artist Veronika Lukešová created a project “Redhead calendar 2016”. They picked their Czech models and shown us all the beauty of being a redhead. In fact photos are so good you will probably be jealous you’re not a natural ginger after seeing this. These articles might even boost “natural” redhead hair dye sales, that’s how good this photo shoot was. Continue reading »
Photo vs Art: Russian Artist Turns Celebrities Into Adorable Cartoon Characters
Lera Kiryakova – Russian artist, who especially succeeds in portraits. She creates hand-drawn cartoons in a kind of “puppet” style, which not only affects the similarity, but also the way the character is correctly grasped. Look – you might like it! Continue reading »
American Artist Creates Creepy Trump Photo Collages
Texas-based artist Phillip Kremer (previously featured) makes weird, funny, and grotesque collages of our dear leader Donald Trump. Some of his best creations are featured below. Continue reading »
A Meditative Photo Series Shows Tokyo’s Loneliest Moments
Yota Yoshida’s contemplative images are far from what you’d expect from the most populous metropolitan area in the world. A street photographer hailing from Tokyo, takes ideas of time and temporality to metaphysical heights in his new photographic series, ‘from somewhere, to elsewhere.’ Continue reading »
The Finalists Of The 14th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest
Winter Is Coming
The Arctic wolf is a sub-species of the grey wolf and lives in the Arctic regions of North America. (© Pedro Jarque Krebs/Smithsonian Photo Contest) Continue reading »
Let #GandalftheGuide Show You The Beauty Of New Zealand In This Photo Series
New Zealand has become inextricably linked to Tolkien’s story due to the fact that the film adaptations were shot there. An untold number of people have visited the country just so they could stand in the closest place we have to Middle Earth. Continue reading »
Superb Creative Photo Manipulations By Chunlong Sun
Chunlong Sun is a talented graphic designer, art director and retoucher who lives and works in Beijing, China. Chunlong focuses on advertising, he creates stunning surreal, sci-fi and humour manipulations. Continue reading »
T-Rex Wedding Photo Shoot Proves Love’s Not Dead
A Spokane (Washington, US) photography company is doing its part to spread a little love and light in the world with a photo shoot posted on its website Tuesday afternoon. Greg Basil and Maria Adams Photography posted a series of 18 photos showing the engagement photos between two T-Rexes in the January snow, complete with scarves. The dinosaurs are seen holding hands at sunset, riding a bike and posing by a lake. Continue reading »
Controversial Walking Dead Photo Shoot Gets People Talking
New Jersey photographer Alana Hubbard used little kids to pay tribute to “The Walking Dead” during a photo shoot, but the photos didn’t go over too well with the rest of the internet. Shortly after they were posted the Facebook, the photos were banned after people complained about the kids depicting violent situations. Continue reading »
Man Reimagines His Life With Kendall Jenner In Humorous Photo Edits
‘Kirby Jenner’ is an Instagram account run by an anonymous owner who describes himself as the “fraternal twin of Kendall Jenner”. The artist has committed to photoshopping himself into images of the reality television star–from prints ads to family photos–some so convincing you will never have guessed that they were edits. Continue reading »
This Artist Turns Everyday Objects Into Surreal Pop Art Photo Collages
Paul Fuentes is a talented graphic designer, photographer and surrealist artist based in Mexico City, who enjoys staging everyday objects into surreal and colorful compositions creating pop mashups. By combining two elements into one, his mash-up is a fun mixture of pop art and surrealism in vibrant colors. Continue reading »
Ukrainian Mum Reveals Her Quintuplets In Heart-Warming Photo Series
37-year-old Oksana Kobeletskaya from Odessa had surprised Ukraine by giving birth to 5 babies on July 24th, 2016 in city maternity centre. A birth of quintuplets is believed to be a unique case for Ukraine. After an easy pregnancy she successfully delivered two girls and three boys via c-section. Continue reading »
Incredible Photo Series Shows Huge Dogs Playing With Their Tiny Toddler Pals
Photo by Andy Seliverstoff
A photographer is launching a new book featuring 100 touching images showing the loving bond between young children and their enormous dogs. The series of pictures shows breeds such as Great Danes and Newfoundlands towering over toddlers – highlighting their mutual love for each other. Children no taller than 2ft are seen high-fiving their family pets, running alongside them and even riding their beloved dogs as if they were a horse. The extraordinary collection will feature in a book called ‘Little Kids and Their Big Dogs’ – which is all down to the work of photographer Andy Seliverstoff. Continue reading »
Photographer Nei Valente Creates An Urban Photo Series Of The NYC Newsstands
Nei Valente is a 27 year old Brazilian designer and street photographer. He is currently living in NYC and working at Brand Union. His latest series, “NYC newsstand”, tries to portray the current reality of the classic New York newsstands and the characters that live in and through them to create the debate about their future in the digital era. The series dialogues with the 1994 Moyra Davey series “Newsstands” that shows a completely different reality and aesthetic. Nei finds that the interesting thing about having a lot of portraits in the same theme is that you can compare and analyze how are they adapting to this new world and observe that while some keep the magazines and newspapers in front, others are giving priority to candies, snacks and souvenirs. Continue reading »
On His Own: Stunning Minimalist Photo Series By The Photographer Paweł Franik
Paweł Franik is a talented young photographer, filmmaker, motion designer and image maker from Knurów, Poland. Pawel was born on February 22, 1991 and he is currently studies Film and Photography in WST. Continue reading »
Armenian Photographer Vahan Stepanyan Creates A Photo Project About Young Armenians With Beards
Photographer Vahan Stepanyan from PAN Photo Agency with stylist Armen Galyan create a photo project about young armenians with beards. Continue reading »
2016 Nikon Small World Photo Contest Winners
Each year Nikon Small World recognizes the excellence of photography taken under the microscope. The contest showcases the beauty and complexity of life. Anyone interested in microscopy and photography can enter the contest and in its 42nd year, Nikon Small World received 2,000 entries from 70 countries
1st Place; Four-day-old zebrafish embryo. (Photo by Dr. Oscar Ruiz/Nikon’s Small World 2016) Continue reading »
