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Marcin Zając’s Nighttime Masterpieces

November 4, 2021 Nature

In this era of digital photography and post-production, it’s far too easy for people to create collage photography that isn’t real. Indeed, there are examples of it that are lovely, and we’ve shared some in the past. But nothing beats the authenticity of true, captured-in-camera images. And the nighttime imagery of Marcin Zając is among the very best we’ve ever seen. Indeed, the Bay Area-based photographer has been nominated for Astronomer Photographer of the Year, a great tribute to his keen eye.

The night sky is elusive for many of us that live in cities, and even on a clear night, humans can rarely make out the full extent of the blanketed sky above, and the magic of the Milky Way.

Here are some of our favorite images that Zając has shared, showcasing some truly breathtaking locations, many in his home of California. Truly gorgeous work. Be sure to follow his Instagram page for more great views of our planet.

Images used with artist’s permission.

Design

Miniature Scenes Photographed Under a Blanket of Stars

October 5, 2019 Design

At first it looks as if we’ve stumbled across an idyllic little cottage and an abandoned boat at night, alone under a blanket of stars. As we see with the pullback, is a staged setup, made up of clever miniatures photographed from a perspective to make the small set look life-size. It’s the work of Samy Al Olabi, photographed under a beautiful sky in the United Arab Emirates.

We love miniature work, and think this is an especially clever use of it. The Milky Way really comes alive, and brings the set pieces into it. Via Petapixel:

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Pacific Northwest Skies

January 19, 2015 Art

TwistedSifter has a beautiful look at the astrophotography of Ben Coffman, a photographer from Portland, Oregon. His travels throughout the Pacific Northwest show some gorgeous views of bright stars and the Milky Way, in the calm beauty of Crater Lake, Cannon Beach, and many more beautiful places.

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Touching Strangers

October 29, 2013 Design

A striking and imaginative series of photos called Touching Strangers, by Richard Renaldi. The people being photographed are total strangers to each others, but posed as if they are long-lost friends, or lovers, or family. It’s a series of images incredibly simple to devise, yet genius in execution.

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Nude Landscapes

October 26, 2012 Art

‘fore!’ by allan teger as part of the bodyscapes® photographic series

Carrying on the awesome miniature work of “Big Appetites“, Designboom has a great look at the nude landscape photography of Allan Teger. Funny, poignant and full of form, his work brings the naked body into a dramatic light, albeit one of golfing greens, sledding hills and train trestles.

Via Designboom:

Self-taught American photographer Allan Teger has sent designboom new images from his body of work ‘Bodyscapes®’, with a series of black and white photographs depicting miniature scenes on the nude body mimicking various landscapes. The images are not double exposures and uses no digital manipulation, only small scale figures arranged on the naked form to illustrate predominantly outdoor activities, where a belly-button may act as a lake or a sculpted derrière as a mountain.

Teger was initially trained as a psychologist, with the Bodyscapes® concept evolving from his teaching as an academic counselor. Teger would lecture readings on tao te ching, the bhagavad-gita, books by ram Dass, carl rogers, huxley, watts and others. The notions of altered realities, subjective reality, and mystical consciousness became part of his artistic understanding.

Teger describes the development of his work:

‘I remember the moment that the idea for bodyscapes® came to me. I was thinking that the shape and structure of the universe repeated itself at every level and suddenly I had the image in my mind of a skier going down a breast. This was it – the universe repeating its shapes – a body looking like a mountain. It was also an example of two realities coexisting. The picture could be seen as a landscape and it could also be seen as a body. Although they were different, both perceptions were right at the same time. I knew instantly that I had an entire series of images waiting to be captured on film.’

The ongoing project started in 1976, with the set updated regularly to this day, most are shot with a medium format mamiya RB67 and either tri-X or t-max film.

‘sailboat couple’

‘sailing’

‘tubes’

‘shark’

‘two riders’

‘train’

‘diver’

‘lovers’

‘golfing the rough’

‘dolphins’

‘fishing’

‘bikes’

‘high wire’

Animals

100 Beards, 100 Days

October 1, 2012 Animals

As a beard-wearer myself, I’m perhaps partial to men’s facial hair, and the wide diversity of styles and moods a beard can convey.

Photographer Jonathan Pryce has a Tumblr series of great photos called 100 Beards, 100 Days. Here’s a short interview with the photographer, via the Creative Book:

Could you tell us where the inspiration for 100 beards came from?
I’ve been photographing street style for a range of fashion clients and my men’s style for about 5 years now. Since winning Photographer of the Year at the Scottish Fashion Awards in June and moving to London a few months before, I wanted to do a new personal project which would re-ignite my passion for street photography. There’s a number of reasons for selecting beards, but it mainly boils down to my interest in the emergence of trends. The beard has reached a new peak in popularity and I wanted to be part of the documentation of that. Also, I’m useless at growing one myself so thought I’d live vicariously through others.

How do you decide on who to shoot? do you carefully choose the people to capture, arrange a date, or meeting, or hope someone walks in front of your lens?
As I spend a lot of time doing street photography I’m in the privileged position of pacing myself when finding subjects. After a month of the blog starting, I received a few requests from subjects who wanted to be photographed – some of which were just too good to turn down. I love the organic nature of the 100 Beard project though. Parallels emerge – for example two consecutive days with men both with the same name, beard style or nationality. There have been a lot of funny coincidences since I started on July 1st.

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Design Couple: Carl and Evelina Kleiner

May 10, 2012 Design

Photographer Carl Kleiner and his partner Evelina are known for some of their highly-designed photography for IKEA. Carl works as photographer and Evelina as the stylist. Together, their projects are beautiful and fun, showing a great sense of pattern and color. Here is a collection of some of their more well-known work, plus some you may not have seen before.

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Ant Tales

March 12, 2012 Art

Ant Tales from Russian Photographer Andrey Pavlov

Via Design Boom: Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov has developed the macro-photographic series ‘ant tales‘. the whimsical compilation of images picture ants captured in moments of spontaneous or choreographed play. Many images picture the bugs using props Pavlov has crafted from raw materials from the region such as berries or nut shells. each photo is taken at especially close range by the artist, documenting his insect neighbors near his rural home in their natural environment.

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Underwater Dogs

February 12, 2012 Art

I’m a little late to this post, but it’s charming and hilarious enough to post anyway. Photographer Seth Casteel has created a great niche of shooting high-speed underwater photography of dogs, and their intense faces underwater show the complete commitment of their actions. It reminds me why I love dogs. Great work, Seth.