This is one determined little dog. Diving into a swimming pool to fetch its orange tennis ball, the dachshund is all in — eyes bulging, mouth open, paws reaching — that ball is his. Part of photographer Seth Casteel‘s “Underwater Dogs” series, this photo is just one of many that captures the comical antics and […]
Nature photography is a versatile genre. You’ll see images that are beautiful or bizarre, frightening or fascinating. Today’s featured photo was taken on the shores of Lake Ontario in Canada and shows some unusual ice formations. A period of harsh winter weather caused the lake water to splash up on some overhanging trees, which froze […]
There are some places where time stands still. Places seemingly free of modern technologies and distractions, where the lines between the past and the present blur. UK-based photographer Greg Annandale had the opportunity to capture one of those rare locales during a trip to China, when he observed the ancient tradition of cormorant fishing one early, foggy morning: Cormorant […]
A time vortex? The gateway to another world? As sci-fi as this capture looks, it’s really just the creative result of some time (six hours), several hundred still photographs (620 35-second exposures), and a little processing (in ProStack and Photoshop): Photographer Bartosz Wojczynski took the photographs at Teide Observatory, which is located on Tenerife, one of Spain’s […]
Looking more like a laser show or special lighting effects at a concert, Lucas Zimmermann’s “Traffic Lights” series transforms a mundane object into a colorful spectacle: This 20-second exposure was taken with a Canon 5D Mark II on a foggy winter night near Weimar, Germany. To capture the shot, Zimmermann reportedly had to dodge cars and […]
Tent camping is supposed to be all about communing with nature. It certainly helps if there’s a postcard-worthy peak right outside your door to greet you every morning: Walasavage Photography captured this stunning view of Mt. Robson in British Columbia, Canada with a Canon PowerShot S120. As the most prominent peak in the Rocky Mountain range, […]
A perfect autumn morning: sunlight filtering through the trees casts a soft orange glow, a sparkling little stream bubbles out of the rocks. The location? Pewit’s Nest near Devil’s Lake in Wisconsin: The product of an early-morning (4:30 am) excursion, the image was captured and edited by photographer Robert Stebler with a Nikon D5000 and a AF-S DX […]
Regardless of their feelings about editing or manipulating images in Photoshop, most photographers will admit that the powerful program can create some pretty interesting effects. Photographer Luke Gram recently explored some of Photoshop’s capabilities, posting the following picture on his “Man & Camera” blog, which subsequently created quite a stir on social media: The photo, […]
Why can’t ice cubes from our refrigerators look like this? Well, glacial ice isn’t just frozen water; it’s dense, compacted snow that gets that surreal, glowing blue hue from its crystalline structure — it scatters blue light, so that’s what we see. Whether it’s a cool, icy aquamarine or a brilliant turquoise, that glacial shade of […]
It could be a scene from a disaster movie, as a family on a motorcycle flees from the oncoming deluge. It’s a phenomenon known as a tidal bore, where a wave travels up a river or other narrow waterway and explodes over the banks. This occurs every autumn at the Qiantang River in Hanzhou, China: […]
