Thanks to cameras and skillful photographers, we can get a glimpse of our beautiful galaxy. Photographer Varun Sheel took this image of the Milky Way rising over Quabbin Reservoir, and it’s jaw-droppingly beautiful: Sheel took the image using a Nikon D3300 and Sigma 18–35 f/1.8 Art lens with a Hoya Red Intensifier Light Pollution filter. He […]
Great photographers are those who can find interesting and inspirational subjects right in their own backyard. Amateur photographer Moli Lin captures the unique geological features of Vase Rock on a perfect morning in Liouciou, Taiwan. Lin uses HDR to achieve the most detail and color in the image: Does this photo encourage you to look […]
Looking like delicate blown glass, ice is beginning to take over Moraine Lake in Canada’s Banff National Park. Located in the province of Alberta, Moraine Lake is fed by glaciers and is one of many popular spots in the park along with Lake Louise, which is about 14 km (nearly 9 mi.) away. The photo […]
Winter isn’t most people’s favorite season. It’s cold, icy, grey, and daylight hours are limited. However, Alan Howe might convince a few fair weather photographers that risking the frigid temperatures could pay off big. The image you see below was shot by Howe during his time hiking in Oregon: “A ton of fresh snow made […]
We often try to control everything in our images, but it doesn’t always work out. That doesn’t mean the shot always fails, though—sometimes those surprises can lead to nicer, more unique images. Check out this one, comprised of 77 30-second exposures stacked on top of each other: Andrew P. Foote snapped this composite shot along a busy road. He removed […]
These days, adventure photographers have to be willing to do just about anything to produce unique photography of famous natural icons like canyons and mountain peaks. Thankfully, landscape and astrophotographer Mark Lehrbass didn’t shy away from that challenge while photographing the Three Sisters in Oregon at night. See for yourself: To create “Welcome to Earth,” Lehrbass first climbed North Sister, […]
We’ve all seen thousands of sunrise and sunset photos and, no doubt, we’ve all taken a few of our own. I mean, how can you resist? There’s just something so magical when the sun cuts across the horizon, or through a beautiful, natural landscape like the one seen below. Photographer Evgeni Dinev perfectly portrays the […]
Alandizzle spent a weekend in Yosemite National Park watching the Perseid Meteor showers in all their glory. While there, he captured this great shot on Sentinel Dome using multiple exposures. He replicated some of the meteors in the shot in post processing to give more context as to what it actually felt like watching them: […]
Deep within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest of California resides a beautiful snow-capped mountain that helped name the forest. Mount Shasta is named after one of the Native American tribes, and the white mountain is the fifth highest peak in the state. What may look like a peaceful mountain at first is actually a volcano in […]
New England photographer Matt MacPherson spends his days exploring landscapes and cityscapes, and a quick look at his work makes it seem as if he’s seen all that there is to see. In his travels across the United States, he’s managed to visit just about every state. His camera has captured the gaping canyons of the southwest, the […]
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