Tag Archives: photography
Faking Motion with Still Photographs
Check out this amazing video by XNcreative, using hundreds of still photos from flying over various locations in the Western United States. It’s similar to the stop-motion videos I’ve been gushing over, but unique in it’s attempt to create what looks like a frame by frame video of the photos. Very unique…very beautiful. I really | More…
1909 Autochrome Color Photograph by Léon Gimpel
Check out this early color photograph taken by Léon Gimpel at the 1909 Grand Palais in Paris, France using Autochrome Lumière. For more of Léon’s early work in color photography check out these images taken in Paris, France during Christmas in the 1920′s.
The Hidden Mother
The photo above is a “Hidden Mother”, a type of 19th century method of photography where a child is photographed sitting in their mother’s lap. After the photo is taken, it is matted or framed to hide the mother, leaving just the calm child in view. To make the crop of the photo less obvious, | More…
The first photograph featuring a human…
We love photography…which is why the photo above is so fascinating to us. This picture, taken in Paris in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, is thought to be the first one to feature a person. Because images at that time required an exposure time of over ten minutes, all the people, carriages, and other moving things | More…
Wheeled Estate: by Alan W George
Here’s a photo gallery, put together by Alan W George and titled “Wheeled Estate”, featuring uniquely identifiable motor homes. Someday I want to live in a motor home…and maybe, just maybe, I’ll start my shopping right here.
Sinkhole in Guatemala Swallows Part of a City Block
My initial reaction to seeing these photos was that there was no way this was real. As it turns out, the photos were released by the Guatemalan government, and show the effects of a large sinkhole caused by eroding soil from tropical storm Agatha. Check out the report and photos here.
