Say hello to Olivia. Or is that Daenerys Targaryen. Or Hannah Horvath. Maybe Walter White. Sometimes Michonne. And Frank Underwood. Olivia has been all of those famous TV characters before because she’s awesome.
We’ve seen stitched together "gigapixel" photos made of a billion pixels before, but they tend to be reserved for huge landscapes
Why are the colors in this (not photoshopped!) image so weird? Why did the CIA recruit Howard Hughes for deep-sea mining? Why are bikers up in arms about an obscure Wyoming land dispute? What is the new car smell? Answers to this and more in this week’s landscapes reads!
Building a home for yourself could either be a nightmare or a dream: You have free reign, but you also must live with your mistakes or second-guesses forever. That hasn’t stopped many architects from overseeing the designs of their own spaces—and lucky for us, sometimes they let photographers inside.
Shigeru Ban, Hanegi Forest, Japan
Youth isn’t always wasted on the young. That carefree age of budding love and boundless horizons is captured exquisitely by filmmaker Wissam Abdallah in his electronica-infused pilgrimage through the world’s biggest, boldest, and wildest music festivals.
Nokia’s Lytro-like Refocus app is now available for all Lumias running WP8–not just those with Pure
Posted in: Today's ChiliNokia’s Lytro-like Refocus app is now available for all Lumias running WP8—not just those with PureView cameras
To have a little bit of fun, artist Marty Cooper drew some cute critters and funny looking monsters on a transparent sheet and inserted them into real life. As in he superimposed his drawings into the environment around him. It’s like what the world would look like if monsters were living among us.
Convenience stores are many things to many people: a Slurpee-filled oasis on a long road trip; a late-night hang-out for thirsty teens hoping to bum some beers in the parking lot; somewhere to grab some Cheetos, because Cheetos. But no matter where you are, after hours the artificial glow of these things is like an eerie sirens’ call.
Shooting Challenge: Tilt-shift
Posted in: Today's ChiliTilt-shift photography originated with large, billowing lenses to capture the proportions of architecture. Today, its often used to blur parts of a frame and make the world appear in miniature. However you use it, for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll photograph in tilt-shift.
37 Handsome HDR Photographs
Posted in: Today's ChiliWhat happens when you squish together the best of underexposed and overexposed photography? You get HDR