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BRASILIA Øystein Sture Aspelund
Brasilia was built out on the brazilian savannah in four year during the 60s, based upon a masterplan made by Lúcio Costa. Most of the important buildings are designed by the brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
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Approaching Abiang, Kiribati
About 1.5 hours North of Betio, South Tarawa by boat, the people of Ribono village on Abiang Island brought us coconuts and sea worms to eat while our guide gave a gift of tobacco to the chief…
photos by T DeVoss, 10/2014
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Tabontekeeke Eco Lodge
Easily the best meal we ate on Kiribati, perfect amberjack,
We reached Tabontekkeeke by boat at high tide midday, and walked back through waist deep water after sunset.
photos by T DeVoss
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A walk through Ribono village, Abiang, Kiribati - 10/14
Ribono village is close to perfection, the villagers live in harmony with nature - fish and coconuts abound. Ribono was unfortunately the site of the trip’s greatest disappointment. The elder woman of the village wanted to ceremonially place palm frond crowns on our heads and give us a tour of the entire island, but we had to decline as we didn’t have enough time. I don’t think she understood our time constraint and clearly felt very insulted.
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For the past 14 years, San Francisco-based photographer Beth Moon has journeyed around the world in a quest to document some of the world’s biggest, oldest, and rarest trees. In her beautiful new book titled Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time, the photographer reveals the staggering beauty of baobabs, sequoias, yews, and other ancient trees that have stood the test of time.
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Architectural Model for a ruin, transformed into a home in Taiwan; Designed by Casagranda Laboratory, Photographed by Adda Zei
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In his series, Behind a Little House, Manuel Cosentino transforms a tiny little house on a simple hill into a series of dramatically majestic landscapes. For two years, the Italian photographer documented the same location, capturing the house set against the changing light and weather throughout the years.
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unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream:
photographer Yume Cyan has been shooting some magical long exposure photographs of fireflies in a forested area around Nagoya City, Japan. By keeping the camera’s shutter open at a low aperture Cyan captures every bioluminescent flash of each insect resulting in dotted light trails that criss-cross the frame.
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Daniel Kukla
The Edge Effect, 2012Artist’s statement: “In March of 2012, I was awarded an artist’s residency by the United States National Park Service in southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. While staying in the Park, I spent much of my time visiting the borderlands of the park and the areas where the low Sonoran desert meets the high Mojave desert. While hiking and driving, I caught glimpses of the border space created by the meeting of distinct ecosystems in juxtaposition, referred to as the Edge Effect in the ecological sciences. To document this unique confluence of terrains, I hiked out a large mirror and painter’s easel into the wilderness and captured opposing elements within the environment. Using a single visual plane, this series of images unifies the play of temporal phenomena, contrasts of color and texture, and natural interactions of the environment itself.”
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Stunning Star Trail Photographs from International Space Station
NASA astronaut Don Pettit recently uploaded a gallery of photos to the Johnson Space Center’s Flickr page. Pettit on how he captured these amazing images:
“My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, the ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.”
Ed note: Here are the Hubble Space Telescope’s finest photos.
h/t Twisted Sifter
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Gotthard 2010. © Jörn Vanhöfen
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AMAZING PHOTO!
“Photography is often used to capture a moment in time. But daring Greek photographer Chris Kotsiopoloulos aimed to discover if photography could capture an entire day.
The task was not easy. Kotsiopolous had to stay in the same place for 30 hours straight, and keep constant watch on the camera, even at night. The temperature dropped down to about 26 degrees, leading the fearless photographer to use a hair dryer to keep the lens dry. After the shoot, Kotsiopolous edited his hundreds of images together into one seamless whole.
The result is a staggering 360 degree panoramic shot of Sounio, Greece, captured from sunrise to sunset. Kotsiopolous told The Huffington Post: "All my photos have a long story to tell – a story that goes back to the creation of our solar system, the formation of the sun, the planets, the earth and the moon.”
His long exposure photo was taken with a Canon 550D DSLR camera.“- HuffPo
Morning on Mars /
6 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter. Once again, not artist’s renditions.
