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Washington D.C. Empty in this Adjusted Time-lapse Sequence

Washington D.C. Empty in this Adjusted Time-lapse Sequence

In a continuation of the series we reported on a few weeks ago, Thrash Lab brings us a new timelapse video—this time of Washington D.C., with its roads and streets completely empty: Adding this video to the list of others, including New York, San Francisco, and Seattle, the artists at Thrash Labs fly us through […]

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Interesting Time-lapse Angle of Approaching Airliners

Interesting Time-lapse Angle of Approaching Airliners

This unusual time-lapse video shows an endless march of airplanes approaching at London Heathrow Airport. It has gained quite a bit of attention because of the delicate appearance of these massive airliners: They look almost like toys in fast motion, as we see the vulnerable and erratic wobble with which they soar, as the weather […]

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Photographing Dark Energy with the World’s Largest Camera

Photographing Dark Energy with the World’s Largest Camera

Reuters TV brings us a glimpse at the largest camera in the world: a massive machine housed at the Cerro Tololo observatory in the desert mountains of northern Chile. Used to look far into the depths of outer space, this 570-mexapixel behemoth can survey six times the area of a full moon in a single […]

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Photographer Captures Cityscape Fire on 1st Timelapse Attempt

Photographer Captures Cityscape Fire on 1st Timelapse Attempt

As far as great photographs so, sometimes it seems that it’s as much up to luck and fate as it is up to us. While shooting a timelapse in Montreal, Quebec, photographer Evan Kitaljevich quite accidentally captured the astonishing moment that a fire erupted in the middle of the downtown core: Stunned as the flames […]

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Innovations in High Speed Photography and Videography

Innovations in High Speed Photography and Videography

The Marmalade is a creative effects studio specializing in high-speed tabletop videography. This one is more motion-picture based, but it was such a fascinating video, we thought that photographers would appreciate it, too: This short documentary-style video discusses the studio’s process of innovating not only a new style of shooting, but all of the equipment […]

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Super Grandmother Photo Collection Goes Viral

Super Grandmother Photo Collection Goes Viral

While living with your grandmother as an adult may not be the ideal situation for most young men, one bright photographer has learned to embrace it. In an interesting series of photographs, Sacha Goldberger takes portraits of his grandmother, who is often wearing superhero outfits or is otherwise found to be in an amusing situation, such […]

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Photographer Assigned to Motorcade: JFK Assassination

Photographer Assigned to Motorcade: JFK Assassination

Being in the right place at the right time may not be a good thing at all — but, ironically, bad events usually turn into great opportunities for photographers. The nomad nature of a photographer’s job, in some way, makes him more exposed and opened to experience such happenings. The following video includes a partial […]

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Photo of the Day: 60 Foot Snowfall Clearing in Japan

Photo of the Day: 60 Foot Snowfall Clearing in Japan

Japan is, without a doubt, a very photogenic country. We’ve even featured some stunning timelapse videos from The Land of The Rising Sun, which showed a wide variety of Japan’s landmarks. But, here is a side of Japan that you may not have known existed. In the photograph below, you can see Yuki-no-Otani Snow Canyon in Toyama. The Canyon, which features 65-foot walls of snow is affectionately referred to as Tateyama Alpine Route.

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Timelapse of an Empty Seattle

Timelapse of an Empty Seattle

The third installment of the empty city series from timelapse creator Ross Ching explores Seattle. Taking his camera to the streets of the Emerald City, Ching collected thousands of still photographs to create the three-minute long clip. The virtual tour of the city makes stops at many of its famous landmarks, but they’re shown in […]

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Is Mobile Photography Ushering in a New Era?

Is Mobile Photography Ushering in a New Era?

Nowadays it seems as though everyone has their opinion on whether mobile photography is good or evil, and they aren’t afraid to tell us about it. As journalist and photographer Richard Koci Hernandez points out in the segment below for CNN, regardless of how we feel about it, mobile photography is here, an it’s making […]

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