Were the people our parents warned us against A student fleeing from mounted police during an anti-war protest, c. 1970 50s HOME | READING LIST | NEWS | FILREIS HOME The Outstanding Beauty Of Susan Coffey This is the portfolio of a very beautiful woman: Susan Coffey, also known as “susancoffey” on deviantart. Susan Coffey is a model from United States; her photos are really heavenly, inspiring and beautiful. Appreciate! Need more inspiration? Find here. Don’t forget to see A Retrospective of Outstanding Art and Design. If you liked the post, follow us for more updates. Mystical, Magical & Magnificent Monasteries in Meteora (20 Pics) The caves in Meteora, Greece, had inhabitants for fifty millennia, but due to raids, “hermit monks” moved to the safety of sandstone rock pinnacles in the 9th century and began building monasteries. More monks and nuns came, building more monasteries perched high upon the cliffs. Wikipedia reports, “Access to the monasteries was originally (and deliberately) difficult, requiring either long ladders lashed together or large nets used to haul up both goods and people. This required quite a leap of faith — the ropes were replaced, so the story goes, only ‘when the Lord let them break.’” UNESCO World Heritage says, “The net in which intrepid pilgrims were hoisted up vertically alongside the 1,224 ft. cliff where the Varlaam monastery dominates the valley symbolizes the fragility of a traditional way of life that is threatened with extinction.” Photo #1 by Vaggelis Vlahos A view of Meteora monasteries in Greece. Photo #5 by Gabriele Quaglia The Holy Monastery of St.
10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor? Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules – but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography. 1. Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. Get up high and shoot down on your subject or get as close to the ground as you can and shoot up. 2. It is amazing how much the direction of your subject’s eyes can impact an image. A. B. 3. There are a lot of ‘rules’ out there when it comes to composition and I’ve always had a love hate relationship with them. 4. 5. The shots were amazing, surprising and quite funny. 6.
Top Pictures of 2010 Part 2 As promised. This is Part 2 of our Pictures Of The Year 2010 review. If you’ve missed Part 1 , make sure you check it out for some amazing photography by photographers who often put themselves in harms way to get that perfect shot which makes us think, wonder , cry or smile. Part 2 is much of the same as Part 1. That means more images of anguish, pain, death, conflict, joy and hope. Join TotallyCoolPix on Facebook and Twitter or join our Flickr Group . 1 01. 2 02. 3 03. 4 04. 5 05. 6 06. 7 07. 8 08. 9 09. 10 10. 11 11. 12 12. 13 13. 14 14. 15 15. 16 16. 17 17. 18 18. 19 19. 20 20. 21 21. 22 22. 23 23. 24 24. 25 25. 26 26. 27 27. 28 28. 29 29. 30 30. 31 31. 32 32. 33 33. 34 34. 35 35. 36 36. 37 37. 38 38. 39 39. 40 40. 41 41. 42 42. 43 43. 44 44. 45 45. 46 46. 47 47. 48 48. 49 49. 50 50.
One Dollar Bill Art by Atypyk Two brilliant French artists, Ivan Duval and Jean Sebastien Ides, show us how to have fun with one dollar bill. To see more work by Atypyk, visit atypyk.com Photographer Martin Schoeller 35 Breathtaking Aerial Photographs: Pics, Videos, Links, News Anka Zhuravleva | Designcollector™ Moscow raised and StPete based awesome artist and photographer Anka Zhuravleva invites you to be mesmerized by her latest photo-artwork series “Distorted Gravity”. Anka-Zhuravleva.com The "Grand Circle" My wife and I took a 2 week photo trip to the southwest (N.Arizona & S. Utah) in September. Here are some of the pics from it Headed to the narrows © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Further towards the narrows © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Toroweap sunset tree © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Toroweap to the west © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Toroweap Sunset 2 HDR © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Sunlight starts to bath the ampitheater © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr DSC_8152 by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Sunset Point© by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr DSC_7483 by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Goblin Valley DSC_7470 © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Keva at Wild Horse Canyon DSC_7424 © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Pictographs in Wild Horse Canyon DSC_7337 © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Mesa Arch Canyonlands Panorama of Dead Horse Point by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Broken Arch from the East © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr Balanced Rock © by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr The Windows thru Turret Arch by Jeff_Whitford, on Flickr
Mark Jenkins // Street Installations Kristiansand, Norway London, England Montreal, Canada Cologne, Germany Besançon Rome Rio de Janeiro Tudela London Dublin Moscow Winston-Salem Seoul Royan Bordeaux Puerto del Rosario Barcelona Malmö Washington DC Washington, DC Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck weds commoner - latimes.com Reporting from New Delhi — When the big day came, and it came Thursday, the other royal wedding of the year — this one in far-off, remote Bhutan — adopted a distinctly different tone. In sharp contrast to the nuptials of Britain's Prince William and Catherine Middleton, there were no star-studded celebrities, self-important film stars, fidgeting foreign royals or a long wedding dress train to trip over. The theme in Bhutan was "of the people," which is a lot easier when your country has a population of 700,000, almost all of whom were in overdrive as the popular fifth "Dragon King" married a 21-year-old student, the daughter of an airline pilot. PHOTOS: A royal wedding in Bhutan It's hard to overstate the excitement that's gripped the mountain kingdom since it was announced that Oxford graduate King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and commoner Jetsun Pema would wed. Many had waited impatiently for the 31-year-old constitutional monarch to find a soul mate and get on with it.
Some awesome pictures from the National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010 Some awesome pictures from the National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010 - WATCH THE 2011 SELECTION : National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2011 - Here is some awesome pictures from the National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010, published by The Big Picture website. Credits : Alex Tan, Sean Heavey, Hongsik Kim, Jesus Oranday, Ario Wibisono, Freddy Cerdeira, James Haskins, Fred Turck, Nikki Krecicki, Mats Almlöf, João Vianna, Patrick John O’Doherty, Amy Helene Johansson, Jay Fine, Glen Hush, Stan Bouman, Rolf Skrypzak, Aniko Molnar, Stephen Hocking, Olafur Ragnarsson, Karolis Milasevicius, Kostadin Luchansky, John Palmer Gregg, Michael Siward, Nam In Geun, Natalia Luzuriaga, Janet Chester, Ario Wibisono, Linh Dinh, Audun Wigen, Sukru Mehmet Omur via