The Universe Nextdoor

I can't tell what exactly is going on in these photographs by Abelardo Morell, but I can't stop looking at them to try to figure it out. Incredible, right?

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100 portraits

wow. i can't stop clicking next on andy adam's 100 portraits from flak.

switcheroo

these photography project by sincerely hana made me giggle.

feral houses

oh the things my childhood mind would have imagined walking by these abandoned houses in detroit. by James Griffioen

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senior dog portraits

In my past or next life, I was or will be a dog photographer. by Garry Gross

timeless paris

by Marian Crostic via lenscratch

adult children

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cute behind spectacles

robert herman via lost

welcome to the world

judging from the look in this guy's eye, he knows more in a minute or two than i've figured out in 33 years. which is plenty enough to know that he might want to consider crawling right back into that nice little egg of his.

more adorable baby animals here. fuzzy wuzzy elephant, are you trying to kill me?

F'Amazing

Wow. These are some of the most incredible animal photographs I've ever seen. Which comes as little surprise when you read just how connected the photographer, Lennette Newell, is to her subjects....

Lennette is a successful commercial photographer, specializing in animals and children, lives in Northern California. Some of her clients include Milk-Bone and Eukanuba. Her work has been celebrated in the 2010 Black & White Spider Awards, 2009 International Aperture Awards, 2009 International Photography Awards, 2009 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, 2009 Photography Masters Cup, Hasselblad Masters 2009 finalist, and 2009 Graphis Photography Annual. She's been busy!

And this is her story about the image below (leopard):

"While the black leopard was a somewhat trained (use that word loosely) leopard, this image demonstrates the fine line. To me this is a reminder of how my posture, breathing, hair must relay my respect and animal instinct clearly as my eyes are behind the camera. The weak get eaten and rightfully so in the animal kingdom, I accept this and embrace it. He was in the open, with all claws and no trainer anywhere near me, his food was accidently thrown very close to me, this was not a long lens. I knew immediately this could end badly should I have made the slightest deviation in breath or body language."

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"The Boundary Times between Day and Night"

During today's perusal of lenscratch, these photographs instantly stopped me in my Uggs (ugh, I finally caved and bought some. A girl can only handle ice cube toes for so long). They're by Lynn Saville, and she -like me- grew up in Durham, NC, went to Duke for college, and eventually moved on to a bigger city (hers bigger than mine, though it seems she's settled in Brooklyn). These photographs jumped right off the screen and plucked at something inside me... they're images I would see myself and think, "boy this would make an amazing photograph." They're clearly within city scapes and yet at a certain distance. Coincidence, I wonder, that I so relate to her view....or is there sometimes a common taste that's born of being from the same place? Probably coincidence, but now I'm curious about the lady. And her other work.

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For once I find a child much more captivating than her k9 companion...

A young girl and her dog looks out from a vehicle as she and her family wait for security clearance at a checkpoint on the outskirt of Bannu, a town on edge of the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 as they flee a military offensive in South Waziristan. Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in Waziristan, a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the country’s battle against extremism.

via all creatures via The Big Picture - Boston.com

This.Is.Soooo.Cool

The True Love Project from Zack Seckler on Vimeo.

After you watch the video, go to check out the photos (and personal stories) from The True Love Project. Makes me wanna be hypnotized!

Pretty As A Smokestack

And close on the tails of beautifully creepy, I suppose this might qualify as beautifully... dirty.

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Into the Deep

Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure reveals the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called "dark ages," the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated the cold, dark universe. The new image should offer new insights into what types of objects reheated the universe long ago.

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Take Me Home

By G.M.B. Akash. "Due to Bangladesh’s large population, inadequate seats on the trains and poverty, it is quite common to see a thick layer of people occupying the roof of a train. Frequent accidents, which occur when a free rider slips, are not enough to deter these stowaways of the railway.." See more at lenscratch.

Seafoam

Missing the sea today. And seeing these (for the 2nd time in 2 days on 2 different sites) hasn't eased the missing. Click on it to seeeee the foam (get it? yeah, you got it) in all its glory.

This weekend's my mum's 60th bday bash, and though I love meeting the family in the mountains of NC, I must say that I really wish we'd decided to relocate the festivities this year to the NC coast. Alas.

by Syoin Kajii via a photography blog

Dichotomy

And now for an altogether different kind of lady with an umbrella...


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Somewhere In Time

Somewhere, as in Maramures, Transylvania, bordering southern Ukraine. For more glimpses into this place where time has stood quite still (minus the polka dot umbrella), see Kathleen McLaughlin's images from The Color of Hay.