Collection of Tokyo HDR shots
Many of the shots have much higher res copies available on Flickr, so be sure to click through.
Archive for the 'Photography' Category
Flickr flow visualises the seasons
An algorithm was used to calculate the colors in pictures uploaded to Flickr. The resulting diagram highlights the prevalent colors across the seasons. Pretty.
Flickr Flow (via Kottke)
The Kopp-Etchells Effect
Named after British and American soldier who died in Helman province, Afghanistan, this weird halo-like effect has been spotted around the rotor-blades of military helicopters. It is a result of static electricity that occurs when the CH-47s fly though dust storms.
View combat journo Michael Yon’s page for more great photographs.
Berlin and the wall: 61-89
Looking across No Man's Land to East Berlin
Flickr have created a set that commemorates the fall of the Berlin wall. What’s great about this is that whenever we pick up a paper we see the same pictures and video: The Brandenburg gate, that guy with the hammer… etc. You know what i mean? Sometimes you need to step back from the same old cliched images and get more of a sense of the scale of the thing and the effect it had on the architecture around it. This set has regular folk who visited in the dark old days to show off their photos which often show the city, not just the wall, and from the angles you tend not to see on tv.
Picture by flickr user Richard and Gill
Trippy helicopter time exposure shot
This is an album cover awaiting a band. From a series of photography in the vast Google-hosted Time Magazine archive.
Alphabet Trucks
Not sure why I like this, but I do. Apparently, these shots were taken over many thousands of miles and four years between Santa Barbara and LA.
Now I know my A, B, Cs.....
Remember what Ted Stevens told us. These aren’t internets. They are big trucks. Thanks.
Tokyo Twilight Zone by Sato Shintaro
Twilight Zone is a collection interesting urban photography. All shots were taken in Japan from the emergency staircases of buildings (not from the roofs) in the twilight. The contrast between the endless drab concrete surfaces and the lights is beautiful.
Found at Visual Evasion