Robert "Scratch" Mitchell was one of the pilots who helped recreate the famous Top Gun canopy-to-canopy photo scene to see if it was possible, and explains in this 10-minute video what his team got right, and what Top Gun got wrong.
Chicago-based commercial photographer Nick Ulivieri was shooting aerial photos over his city last Friday when he captured this gorgeous photo of Chicago's skyline casting a shadow over Lake Michigan.
As the years pass by, our children use the pool less and less. I needed to compensate. I have always had a fascination for concepts that make it difficult to tell up from down or make sense of gravity. This summer, I started a new series: The Underside. I recreated, just below the surface, activities one normally expects above.
Remember in the movie Top Gun, when Goose and Maverick go canopy to canopy with a Russian jet, and Goose snaps that Polaroid? Advertising photographer Blair Bunting wanted to find out if it was possible... so he convinced a jet team to let him try it.
Photographer Serena Hodson of Dry Dog Wet Dog fame is back, and she's not stopped capturing adorable, viral photos of dogs. Her new series The Upside of Dogs is blowing up now too, and it's bound to put a smile on your face.
Check out this photo of wispy clouds over a barren desert. It's actually a photo of a choppy waves hitting a beach... flipped upside down. New Jersey-based fine art photographer Michael Massaia's latest project is a series of these disorienting upside-down beach photos. The series is titled "The Pull: Inverted Seascapes."
Self-help author Wayne Dyer once wrote that, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Photographer Anelia Loubser of Cape Town, South Africa used this quote as the basis for her project titled "Alienation.
The series consists of contrasty portraits that have been flipped upside down, turning the ordinary faces into strange, alien mugs.
The more you look at South-Africa based photographer Anelia Loubser's Alienation series, the more captivated you become. A simple idea on the surface -- close-up, upside-down black-and-white portraits of people's eyes and foreheads -- the final images encourage you to dive deeper into each wrinkle and other so-called "imperfection" than almost any standard portrait might.
Here's an example of photography being used to deliver a powerful message in a creative way: Singapore-based suicide prevention organization Samaritans of Singapore recently ran a series of ads recently that highlight the challenge of spotting depression.
UK-based photographer Caulton Morris is a dude with a very strong head and neck. At least that's the conclusion we came to after seeing his photo series titled Upside, which consists of photo after quirky photo of Morris standing on his head -- literally. The "trick" behind these surreal images is that there is no trick -- Morris actually did the precarious poses you see in each one.
Spanish photographer Marc Vicens wanted to capture the stress and pain of the ongoing economic crisis, so he found a bunch of unemployed people and asked them to hang upside-down for right-side-up portraits. His goal of the series, titled "Hanging," was to creatively portray the feeling of anxiety that dominates the daily life of these individuals.
Photographer Carl Kleiner, the man behind IKEA's beautiful baking recipe and kitchen item photographs, has a delightful new series of images that features things neatly arranged in mid-air instead of on a table. More specifically, each of the shots uses simply trickery to make household objects look like they're floating in a blue room.
What happens if you take photos of synchronized swimming shot at the Olympics and flip them upside-down? Ethereal beauty, that's what.
The Huffington Post did this experiment yesterday using photographs shot by Getty and AFP photographers. The results are magical.
J. Mettälä took a camera under a frozen lake in Finland and captured this beautiful (and mind-bending) footage of …
Upside Downy Face is a creative series of portraits by …