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Photographer Senén Llanos and dancer and yoga enthusiast Marién Enid began a tradition in 2005 of taking a photo of Marién against the backdrop of the last sunrise of the year. They get together every year, whether their quest is successful or not. The result (so far) is not only a series of pictures showing Llanos’ progression as a photographer, but it is also a chronicle of a friendship that survives time and distance. The story that accompanies the photographs is well worth a read. Link -Thanks, Senén!
Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes takes anonymity to a whole new level-by painting herself into the background.
She cleverly matches the background patterns and paints them onto her canvas naked body in order to “blend in”, although she purposefully retains part of her human form, like her hair and the edge of her silhouette, as if to say “No matter how hard I try, I will never fully fit in”. What do these works say to you?
Link –via DesignTAXI
Mattias Klum tries to get meerkats to sit still for photographs. The meerkats, however, don’t take him seriously at all. -Thanks, Marilyn Terrell!
If you leave a camera sitting in the open and drive off, you shouldn’t be surprised when someone makes off with it. Photographer Roger de la Harpe laid a running camera down when he retreated from a pride of lionesses in Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve in South Africa. There was a happy ending for de la Harpe, although the lioness is presumably off in search of something tastier than a digital camera. Link -via The Daily What
Wait for it… wait for it… and let’s hope he has a backup camera. -via Digg
Just because they can’t see, it doesn’t mean that blind people can’t be artists. Indeed, there’s NEBA – the National Exhibits of Blind Artists – an organization dedicated to showcasing the work of artists who are blind or visually impaired.
But can a blind person be a successful photographer? Meet Rosita McKenzie, 56, from Portobello, Scotland. Her photographs are now being showcased in an arts festival in Edinburgh:
Speaking to the BBC Scotland news website she said she never thought she would be able to take photographs.
She said: "This whole process helps me to burn something into my memory, something I can use to recall as images in your head can become less clear.
"People explain to me more about the things that are around me when I have my camera. [...]
"I have had photographers say that I have captured things they would not have been able to for example I took a picture of a bridge of the Edinburgh Canal and in the bottom right hand corner there was half an image of a jogger.
"I can then have the pictures produced into raised drawings."
And yes, she has a digital camera with autofocus: Link
Photographer Brouton Stroube hung his subjects up by their feet before taking a portrait. The result shows some weird gravity effects that you don’t expect when seeing the pictures turned upright. Link -via Buzzfeed
Improv Everywhere set up a portrait studio aboard a subway train and persuaded riders to have their pictures taken for the “subway yearbook”. Read the story behind this mission and see more pictures and a video at their website. Link -via Buzzfeed
These photos are truly spectacular! Wouldn’t you just fall in love with these beautiful creatures? The pains wildlife photographer Kim Taylor took to get these shots are just as interesting!
Swooping low over a garden pond in Surrey, these are the stunning pictures of bats enjoying an evening drink at their favourite watering hole. They are so detailed you can even see the night creatures slurping from the pool with their little pink tongues.
(image credit: Kim Taylor/Caters News Agency Ltd.)
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