Thanks to the iPhone app Cinemagram, creating surreal animated pictures is now easier than ever, and to prove it, we've rounded up five creative examples for your viewing enjoyment, starting with the guy kicking a soccer ball around while perched atop a light pole. Continue reading to see more.
What you're looking at above is the "Black Widow Pulsar" -- a pulsar is "a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation" -- tearing through the galaxy at over 1-million kilometers per hour. What you see behind it is the neutron star's shockwave as it rapidly rotates through space. Continue reading for one more picture.
At first glance, the picture above may appear to be a scene from a fantasy world, but it's a real macro photo of a dandelion snapped by UK-based photographer Sharon Johnston. The equipment she uses include: "a Canon EOS 7D digital SLR camera, Canon EFS 60mm f2.8 macro lens, Canon Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX flash, Canon Extension Tubes EF25 II and Lensbaby Composer Lens with macro kit." Continue reading to see seven stunning examples.
Life is all about perspective, as in you could either view a glass as half full or half empty. All of these photos were snapped at the perfect angle to give the appearance of an optical illusion, starting with the ant and helicopter above. Continue reading to see more.
Traveling the world and taking in the sights is what many adventurers dream of doing, but all that travel can get quite expensive. Fortunately, there are people who get paid to travel the world and snap amazing pictures for everyone to see. First up, we have the Wisteria Tunnel (above) located in the Kawachi Fuji Gardens in Kitakyushu, Japan and then Cinque Terre, Italy (bottom). Continue reading to see seven surreal locations from around the world.
Sources tout the photograph above as the very first to show a human. This Daguerreotype -- the first commercially successful photographic process -- was taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838 "and is a view of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris; this type of image was achieved by exposing a chemically treated plate for ten minutes." Continue reading to see more photographs of the streets of London during the 1870s.
While "The Avengers" may have broken several box office records this past weekend, the Harry Potter film series is definitely still one of the most successful ever. The 8-films have brought in $7.7-billion in box office receipts alone, not counting merchandise and DVD sales. We've rounded up twenty-five rarely seen behind-the-scenes pictures from the Harry Potter movies for your viewing enjoyment. Continue reading to see them all.
From afar, this may actually look like Superman's Fortress of Solitude, but it's actually a real cave in Mexico. It's called the Cueva de los Cristales, or Cave of the Crystals, and famous for having the largest natural crystals in the world. Continue reading for our full overview, complete with pictures and a video.
Have you ever come across an insect that can't be found in Wikipedia? Well, the translucent jewel caterpillar is one of them. At first glance, this may look like a computer-generated render, but this caterpillar really does feature a glass-like shell, with tiny mushrooms seemingly growing in each of the spikes / pods. Continue reading for our full overview and additional pictures.
Photographers like to use the "tilt-shift" technique -- refers to the orientation and adjustment of the plane of focus -- to make real photos look like miniature models. We've rounded up forty-four of the best examples for your viewing enjoyment. Continue reading to see them all.
