What Landscape Photos Would Look Like if Earth Had Saturn-Like Rings
YouTube user Roy Prol created this fascinating animation that imagines what Earth would …
‘Pillars of Creation’ Photo Was Captured When Pillars Were Already Long Gone
Captured on April 1, 1995 by the Hubble Telescope, the photograph Pillars of Creation is one of the most …
Arnold Newman and the Birth of the “Environmental Portrait”
Design director Wayne Ford has written up a great piece on the career of American photographer Arnold Newman, who was in the vanguard of the "environmental portrait" movement that emerged in the early 1940s.
How National Geographic Photography Worked 20 Years Ago
Ever wonder how the photographs found on the pages of National Geographic come together? Here’s a fascinating behind-the-scenes video …
One Photo and Four Changed Lives
The London Evening Standard has published a fascinating article on a photograph captured …
Fascinating Stop-Motion Video Made with Simple Shapes and Creativity
Here’s a simple yet brilliant stop-motion video showing a person sitting at a table plays with shapes. Instead of …
The Crazy Hazards of Being a National Geographic Photographer
Ever wonder what National Geographic photographers go through to get the beautiful shots that appear in the yellow-bordered magazine? …
Gursky World: A Portrait of Photographer Andreas Gursky
German photographer Andreas Gursky is one of the most successful artists of our …
Steve Jobs’ Role Model? Edwin Land, the Founder of Polaroid
If you think about it, there are many parallels between Apple and Polaroid: both companies introduced innovative products that …
Do People Always See the Same Things When They Look At Colors?
Update: It looks like the video was taken down by the uploader. Sorry guys.
Color is simply how our brains respond to different wavelengths of light, and wavelengths outside the spectrum of visible light are invisible and colorless to us simply because our eyes can't detect them. Since colors are created in our brains, what if we all see colors differently from one another? BBC created a fascinating program called "Do You See What I See?" that explores this question, and the findings are pretty startling.
Interesting Video on “What Is Video?”
With the rise of sites like YouTube, the Internet is teeming with digital videos (two days worth are uploaded …
The First Portrait Photograph Ever Made
In 1839, a year after the first photo containing a human being was made, photography pioneer …
The Story Behind the Polaroid SX-70
Harry McCracken over at Technologizer wrote a …
Time Lapse Videos of Food Decomposing
Time lapse photography allows us to view ordinary things in unordinary ways, whether it's the clouds passing overhead or plants shooting up out of the ground. I recently came across these two videos that I found pretty interesting. They show the decomposition of food over many days and how mold and maggots do their thing. Don't watch while eating.
Geotaggers’ World Atlas Shows Where Photos Are Snapped in Major Cities
The Geotaggers’ World Atlas is an interesting series of images by …