Hidden in the Chinese frontier of Gansu province is the Zhangye Danxia Landform, a sprawling range of brilliantly colored mountains. Eons of tectonic activity and erosion have revealed stratified layers of rock, varying wildly, and completely free of vegetation due to the aridity of the region. Check out the whole photo set here. (Photos from Mohsin A. Soomro‘s […]
Following our Mt. Everest Gigapixel post, is a photo that is somehow even more breathtaking – Andrew Bodrov digitally stitched together over 400 HD pictures taken by the recently landed Mars rover, Curiosity, and built an interactive spherical panoramic photo of the red planet. Go check out the 360° of martian horizon, desolate rolling red hills and […]
Artist Daniel Kukla substitutes mirrors for canvases to create dynamic desert images you’d swear were paintings. The photographs were captured in Joshua Tree National Park, where the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts meet. Kukla states: “While hiking and driving, I caught glimpses of the border space created by the meeting of distinct ecosystems in juxtaposition, referred […]
Artist and architecture professor Jean-Paul Bordier proves that when it comes to experimenting with nature, just a little imagination can go a long way. Bordier creates powerful landscape manipulations using rather simple techniques such color blocking and inverse stone-stacking, and the results are breathtaking. See his full body of work at jeanpaulbourdier.com.
The lomographic style has made a huge comeback in the last 5 years; beginning with Urban Outfitter’s reintroduction of the Holga, and most recently with Instagram’s one-click filters on their smart phone app. But Los Angeles based artist Neil Krug pushes the limits of this old film style to a whole new level. His films […]
