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Blessed with full Moon by Péter Busa

Atlantic road by Piotr Trybalski

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Travel Bus by Artem Nosov

The road by Andy 58

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Beauty and the bear by Alexandra Truhacheva

high five…. or four.. by John Dé Nielsen

Super Sensitive creatures, the fine textures and tentative tentacles which could only be visible through a specific macro arrangement & loads of patience. These are some gifted photographers whose eyes look beyond what we call the lifesize. Yes, this post is about some 35 unique and spell bounding photographs of macro, take a look at these sparkling bokeh filled with incredible insects and gracious flowers.

All photos are linked and lead to the sources from which they were taken. Please feel free to explore further works of these photographers on their collections or their personal sites.

Photo Credit: Mathieu Capdeville

Photo Credit: Lafugue Logos

Photo Credit: Mateus88

Photo Credit: John Hallmén

Photo Credit: Nagesh Jayaraman

Photo Credit: Vilhjálmur Ingi Vilhjálmsson

Photo Credit: Lafugue Logos

Photo Credit: Shikhei Goh

Photo Credit: Mandy Disher

Photo Credit: Fardels

Photo Credit: Fabien Bravin

Photo Credit: Magda Wasiczek

Photo Credit: Jacky Parker

Photo Credit: Shikhei Goh

Photo Credit: Carlos Pardo

Photo Credit: Lukas Jonaitis

Photo Credit: Fardels

Photo Credit: Capuchon29

Photo Credit: Jean François Bonachera

Photo Credit: Nadav Bagim

Photo Credit: Martin

Photo Credit: Vyacheslav Mishchenko

Photo Credit: 7ns

Photo Credit: Samantha Nicol

Photo Credit: Oleg Serkiz

Photo Credit: El.Justino

Photo Credit: Flow

Photo Credit: Lotte Grønkjær

Photo Credit: Shikhei Goh

Photo Credit: Lightspectral

Photo Credit: Magda Wasiczek

Photo Credit: Vyacheslav Mishchenko

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French photographer Julien Coquentin‘s series Please Draw Me a Wall is a curious combination of street art and photography. By having his subjects (sometimes himself) interact with wall art as if it were real, he creates fantasy worlds using only a few props and drawings that some call art and others defacement.

37-year-old Coquentin only got into photography in 2007, but each year since he has had at least one exhibition. His work ranges from the whimsical series you see here to more serious project like his series Green Wall, which sheds light on issues with deforestation and indigenous rights in Malaysia.

It also wasn’t long ago we featured another of his well-known series, dubbed Early Sunday Morning, in which Coquentin captured the feel of winter mornings in Montreal.

Please Draw Me a Wall doesn’t concern itself with issues of reality, however. Instead, the characters in the photos — most often a little girl — are transported into an imaginative wall art world:

This series reminds us a bit of Japanese photographer Nagano Toyokazu’s photos of his 4-year-old daughter Kanna. You can browse through those here.

To see more of Coquentin’s work, be sure to head over to his website or visit his Bēhance page by clicking on the corresponding links.

(via Junkculture)

Image credits: Photographs by Julien Coquentin

To Continue with our last post, this is yet another breakdown of groundbreaking work from our masters of photography. Analyzing some iconic photographs would be one of interesting aspects of photography, for it provides an in-depth analysis and idea to all the aspirants in this field.

As always, looking at these pictures, there are numerous emotions within us plus a lot of valuable knowledge and vision to be inspired from. It helps us to know what made this particular picture a sensation besides it is a great opportunity for all amateurs to learn from a picture which has already been a winning one.

Here in this part 4 of this chapter, I have handpicked some of the most strongest pictures of this century from the grand masters. To add more on this, if you would like any great picture to be analyzed please add it in the message section to see it featured in Part 5.

From the editors point of view, it feels great to speak about the aesthetic and appealing factors in these iconic photographs. Please check our previous posts here:

• Analyzing the Iconic Pictures – Part 1
• Analyzing the Iconic Pictures – Part 2
• Analyzing the Iconic Pictures – Part 3

The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier Bresson

The first one from the great master himself, one of finest street photographs you could find. This Picture here is an ultimate example of what was later pronounced as the decisive moment. Henri-Cartier was possessed with this specific habit of shooting photographs with great sense of timing. And in this particular photograph, as we could see the timing was immaculate, the gracious second before his boot touches the water, and the balance is right at the screen left. A girl in the poster stretching her legs from her right to left, fantastic juxtaposition and the luckiest composition one could dream of. The silhouette of the character adds more merry and curiosity to the picture itself.

© Henri Cartier Bresson / Magnum Photos

Churchgate Train Station by Sebastiao Salgado

One of the earliest works of Sebastiao Salgado. This picture of Mumbai Churchgate station is a typical example explaining the population density in one of the busiest cities in the world. The amount of jobs and employment it could offer and numerous lives who are attached and stringed to the city life. This rush hour has been beautifully captured by a slow shutter either intentionally or the other way but the photographer has a great eye for detailing and wonderful composition highlighting the Wills ad board. The Flow is perfect and makes us understand the chaos and unsettling life, a city could bring in.

© Sebastiao Salgado

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper by Charles C.Ebbets

Shot by Charles C.Ebbets. Who was only credited for this photograph during 2003. This Picture has been claimed to have shot during the great depression 1932. A very strange photograph showing some 11 construction workers sitting on a piece of column hanging in some altitude. The amount of risk involved and their will to take up any job coming their way is exquisitely photographed by Charles. Light and Composition is more than perfect providing an intense comparison towards the height these guys are located at. A wonderful photograph which we could hardly take it out of our memories.

© Charles C.Ebbets

Mahatma Gandhi by Margaret Bourke

One of the most famous and iconic photographs of M.K.Gandhi shot at his own ashram. Margaret Bourke is the Photographer who has shot this priceless picture. This picture shows various elements which has been very close to the life of this great man, the spinning wheel, his costume, the books and the reading glass, all of them constitute a beautiful story and represent his stature as a fighter with strong will. His posture and the priceless window light just adds great mood to the study room and absolutely to the photograph.

© Margaret Bourke

Grand Central Station by Hal Morey

This Stunning picture with full of glory and light was taken by Hal Morey 1929. As a photographer it just makes you in awe for the amount of surprises this picture has got to offer even after all these years. The grading and excellent placement of characters, interesting costumes, hats and what more one could ask for. Composition is picture perfect and the wonderful variations between light and shadows increases my respect towards this spectacular capture.

© Hal Morey

Mother Teresa by Raghu Rai

Some Phenomenal Portrait work by Raghu Rai. Speaking about portraits, the height and respect of the character grows wider and deeper with due respect to the mood perceived and nobility of someone who is about to be shown in the picture. This picture crosses all these hurdles of choosing the right character, Raghu Rai is blessed by Mother Teresa to have shot one of the most iconic portraits. The Posture, her prayers, those wrinkles drenched deep in some valuable thoughts and sacred ideologies. So much to be related and to be spoken about the closed eyes. An Interesting and ever lasting portrait which will stay there forever.

© Raghu Rai

Widow, Vrindavan by Steve McCurry

One of the famous photograph of the most famous photographer Steve McCurry. This picture shows a old-lady walking despite her old age, inability against strong will amidst a wall filled with interesting shapes and a creature too.

So much of complexity in the scene itself, and Steve has nailed it to perfection, the textures on the wall go well with the bold and a handsome bull standing by. The Wheels somehow wants me to relate to life as it goes on, and then the stubborn old lady wins it all with her walking stick. There can’t be a better subject to make this picture as lively as it is. Needless to say about the composition the other wheel at screen left just adds more grace to the picture.

© Steve McCurry

Salvador Dali by Philippe Halsman

One Stunning picture which could make us wonder about the making of it straightaway. Having Salvador Dali in it makes it more special, Yes the picture taken by Philippe Halsman by some mastercraft composition and pre-visualization is still quiet a capture. It is recorded that there has been 28 attempts to this particular photograph and the least to mention about 84 cats been thrown too. The Composition is majestic and makes us wonder Phillipe’s thought process behind this photograph.

© Philippe Halsman

Elephants by Nick Brandt

One of the grand art works from Nick Brandt, a grand nature photographer who had showed the other way of shooting wild during his times and still. There are more than a dozen pictures which are absolutely stunning to start our analysation with, this particular picture shows us such elegance and royalness at the same time against the desert storm, their ability to stand interestingly poised from screen left and spread across a wide field. This picture is sheer class and believe me it starts to grow on you when you start staring at it for more than a second with your eyes placed on the very fourth elephant.

© Nick Brandt

Photo by Saul Leiter

One final picture to this series to be finished with Saul Leiter. One Photographer, who has been known for his splendid color works, arguably surpasses with this monochrome picture. Huge amount of questions arise with this picture, a lot to be answered, a deep blank black space unanswered and a man without an identity. This is pure art with elegance covered all over the frame, be it the distant signal tower or those quiet figures walking in snow. This is beauty and art explained.

© Saul Leiter

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Photographer Haley Luna took this amazing photograph while flying into Denver, Colorado. As a fellow flier that always requests the window seat, this must have been an incredible sight to see! The way the sun peeks through, illuminating the storm, is simply wonderful.

The photo was posted by Haley to Reddit on September 16 where it reached #1 on the front page (on Imgur alone it has been viewed over 1.48m times!).

When she’s not taking photographs, Haley also makes laser cut jewelry which you can peruse at Teal Deer. She’s also active online and you can keep up with her latest at the online links below.

“My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity – the suspended moment – intervenes during action, in the viewfinder. A reflection on the subject precedes it. A meditation on finality follows it, and it is here, during this exalting and fragile moment, that the real photographic writing develops, sequencing the images. For this reason a writer’s spirit is necessary to this enterprise. Isn’t photography « writing with light »? But with the difference that while the writer possesses his word, the photographer is himself possessed by his photo, by the limit of the real which he must transcend so as not to become its prisoner.”

© Abbas/Magnum Photos

Abbas Attar is an Iranian Photographer who then was transplanted himself to Paris. His pictures show a strong clause towards documenting be it the political or social life of societies, their conflicts and comparisons. His major work comprises of wars and revolutions in Major countries such as Biafra, Bangladesh, Ireland, Vietnam, Chile, Cuba, Middle East and even South Africa during Apartheid.

His widely appreciated work on Iran revolution during 1970-1980 played a critical interpretation of the countries history. After a brief period of various photographic assignments, during 1987-1994 his focus entirely drifted on the resurgence of Islam throughout the planet. This was a grand success which made produce a subsequent book named Allah O Akbar.

© Abbas/Magnum Photos

Later the same theory made him pursue his project named Animism, which he strongly sorted to discover there is so much of non rationalistic rituals throughout the world while there is a huge domination of science and technology. This led him to believe that the so called religious clashes are often due to differences between political ideologies which is one of the struggles of this modern world.

This never stopped him from traveling across the globe looking for various answers, he did tour having Buddhism on his skeptical eye.

© Abbas/Magnum Photos

Why I like Abbas

• Strangely and rather strongly there is this peculiar silence in his photographs. This keeps chanting and humming the delicacy of the wonderful scene.
• Connection between Abbas and the characters portrayed in these pictures are phenomenal. This pictures are not taken in any spur of the moment, I strongly believe there must have been a good rapport between him and the character, a brief amount of time for them to forget Abbas the Photographer.
• Clever and calculative style of composition makes him one of favorite photographers from the Magnum Group. His Pictures give a lot of importance to the symbols and interesting shapes to convey the message as well as induce a wonderful balance to the scene with both artistic and emotional values.
• Knowing when to press the shutter, somehow I feel there is no urge to shoot the decisive moment with Abbas’s Pictures. I say this because, there is so much of settledness and bliss when I feel these photographs. There is no urgency not a fraction of second freeze upon, but still they seem to deliver the necessary goods quite well.
• Playing a master stroke with light and shadows. I mean how often do we see the contemporary photographers play with light and shadows, here we have someone a Photojournalist who loves to play a majestic interlude with these vital elements of the so called art of photography.
• Subjective Photography plays a brilliant role when choosing Photo Journalism, and here Abbas continues to play the masterclass in choosing what to make his photograph with. The right subject at the right place almost decides your photograph, and we know why he is called a Master Photographer.
• Getting off the technical part, meet one photographer who has spent more than a decade on picturing various religions around the world, showing a lot of wonderful things on this medium makes him stand tall.

© Abbas/Magnum Photos

Famous Quotes from Abbas

• “My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity – the suspended moment – intervenes during action, in the viewfinder.”
• “Get a good pair of walking shoes and…fall in love.”

© Abbas/Magnum Photos

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Visa pour l’Image – Interview with Magnum photographer Abbas

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You can find more details about Abbas:

• Magnum Photos
• Wikipedia

Back in June, New York City-based photographer Htet T San visited a number of beaches around The Big Apple, mainly on Coney Island and at Brighton Beach. Her goal was to capture the concept of “the complete nothingness” through reflections of beachgoers seen in the wet sands. The resulting images form a series she calls “The Frail Second.”

Each of the photographs shows a human figure walking, running, or playing on the beach. They appear to be reflections, but look closer and you’ll see that neither up nor down shows the real world.

The images are disorienting due to the fact that they’re actually blended composite images created by stacking multiple images.

You can find this project and more over on San’s photography website.

Image credits: Photographs by Htet T San and used with permission

Some enchanting ideas and never told advices, straight from the vision of your favorite street photographers around the globe. This is very tempting since all these books share an constant flow of energy and ecstasy towards the never ending quest for street photography, towards perfection and much more than that an immense satisfaction for you the photographer.

Wonderful lines to conquer your fear over street photography, in approaching a stranger or all about shooting the most difficult scene or situation you would ever imagine to be with your camera. All said well with valid photographs too.

As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.

Street Photography – An eBook by Alex Coghe

31 Days to overcome your fear of shooting Street Photography

Going Candid by Thomas Leuthard

Street Faces by Thomas Leuthard

Collecting Souls by Thomas Leuthard

Street Photography for the Pursuit by Chris Weeks

Street Photography by Daniel Hoffmann

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Street Photography and Black and White go hand in hand. Be it capturing the light, or a soulful portrait with great ambiance, or an incredible moment with excellent composition, monochrome has its part, there is a divine magic to bind all these wonderful elements of photography together inside a frame without color making it to connect exclusively towards any one, who loves to appreciate true essence of photography.

Here in this yet another post on street photography, We bring you some magnificent examples of monochromatic soulful and incredible street photography pictures.

Please check our previous article 50 Stunning Color Street Photographs

All photos are linked and lead to the sources from which they were taken. Please feel free to explore further works of these photographers on their collections or their personal sites.

Photo Credit: Jo Wallace

Photo Credit: Stefano Mirabella

Photo Credit: Unoforever

Photo Credit: Gustavo Gomes

Photo Credit: Annie Mallégol

Photo Credit: David Solomons

Photo Credit: Carmelo Eramo

Photo Credit: Maria Spyropoulou

Photo Credit: Mikhail Palinchak

Photo Credit: Aleksander Prugar

Photo Credit: Artur

Photo Credit: Maria Spyropoulou

Photo Credit: Kevin Garnett

Photo Credit: Mikael Marguerie

Photo Credit: Ester

Photo Credit: Sakura Love

Photo Credit: Andrea Alfano

Photo Credit: Massimo Raldeni

Photo Credit: Prying Open

Photo Credit: Anastasios Tziogas

Photo Credit: Guido Steenkamp

Photo Credit: John Goldsmith

Photo Credit: Santi Banon

Photo Credit: Lasse Persson

Photo Credit: Zisis Kardianos

Photo Credit: Tokyo camera style

Photo Credit: Vito Alagna

Photo Credit: Rupert Vandervell

Photo Credit: Tony Marciante

Photo Credit: Marco Mancini ph

Photo Credit: Elisabeth Schuh

Photo Credit: Oscar from Denmark

Photo Credit: Kala

Photo Credit: Peter Pawłowski

Photo Credit: Xaris P

Photo Credit: Georgie Pauwels

Photo Credit: Toni F

Photo Credit: Minoru Karamatsu

Photo Credit: Petros Kotzabasis

Photo Credit: Jawdoc

Photo Credit: David Solomons

Photo Credit: Pixinalasidra

Photo Credit: Mirko Arganese

Photo Credit: KinWing, Wong (Edas)

Photo Credit: Georgie Pauwels

Photo Credit: Stefano Mirabella

Photo Credit: Josetxu Silgo

Photo Credit: S. Rouvier

Photo Credit: Rupert Vandervell

Photo Credit: Gabriele Lopez

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Aerial landscape photography and fashion photography hardly go hand-in-hand in most peoples’ minds, but that might change once you’ve taken a look at Joseph Ford‘s uncanny series of Aerial mashups.

The whole series is actually made up of two projects done for two different magazines, but he had no idea he was going to be making mashups when he first brought his Hasselblad digital back with him on assignment in 2012.

“I shot all the aerial images during a couple of advertising jobs in Sicily, Mauritius and Morocco, where I spent several days flying around over all sorts of terrain in a helicopter,” he tells us via email, being sure to praise the skill of his helicopter pilots.

“I showed the aerial pictures to a couple of friends, Stephanie Buisseret (art director) and Mario Faundez (stylist) at Paris streetwear magazine WAD, and we came up with the idea of shooting a series mixing fashion and landscapes.”

Those photos, which make up the first five photographs in the Aerial series, were selected for the Association of Photographers Awards in the UK, and even garnered an Honorable Mention in the International Photography Awards.

It wasn’t until a few months ago that the rest of the pictures were made, when Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin got in touch with Ford to see if he could do something similar with them. In all the series now consists of 10 mind-blowing mashups, each of them impressive in its own right:

As you might imagine, creating these photographs was no easy feat. Although they selected landscapes and clothes that would go well together, the clothes had to be lit and set up just right to match the landscapes.

With the exception of some color balance tweaks, there was almost no retouching done to the images at all. But getting these kinds of results in camera meant that some of the fashion photos took as long as 12 hours to properly set up and shoot.

To see more of Ford’s work, be sure to head over to his website — which recently had to receive a massive back-end overhaul thanks to the amount of traffic the Aerials series has brought in — by clicking here.

(via Colossal)

Image credits; Photographs by Joseph Ford and used with permission.

We’ve shared some amazing eclipse photos taken from Earth, we’ve even shared some amazing eclipse photos taken of Earth, but today marks the first time we’ve ever had the chance to share eclipse photos taken from the surface of a different planet.

On August 20th, the 369th Martian day of Curiosity’s stay on the Red Planet, the NASA rover pointed its telephoto lens-equipped Mast Camera at the sun to capture something special: an annular solar eclipse on Mars. In all, Curiosity captured some 89 images that show Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons, passing in front of the Sun.

In the video at the top, the photos were played at about 2.75 frames per second to match the actual speed of the event on Mars. In 32 seconds you see exactly what Curiosity saw looking up above at the Martian sky.

Unlike our Moon, Mars’ moons are too small to ever totally eclipse the Sun. In fact, according to the folks at NASA, this footage is as close as you could ever get to experiencing a total solar eclipse on Mars:

Because this eclipse occurred near mid-day at Curiosity’s location on Mars, Phobos was nearly overhead, closer to the rover than it would have been earlier in the morning or later in the afternoon. This timing made Phobos’ silhouette larger against the sun — as close to a total eclipse of the sun as is possible from Mars.

So be sure to check out the video at the top, and don’t forget to keep reminding yourself over and over what exactly it is you’re looking at. It’s a solar eclipse on another planet… we still can’t quite wrap our minds around that.

Sworn Virgins of Albania (Albanian: burrnesha or virgjinesha) are women who take a vow of chastity and wear male clothing in order to live as men in the patriarchal society of northern Albania.

In a photo series and upcoming documentary entitled He/She/He, Jill Peters explains/a>:

“Sworn Virgin is the term given to a biological female in the Balkans who has chosen, usually at an early age, to take on the social identity of a man for life. As a tradition dating back hundreds of years, this was sometimes necessary in a society that lived within tribal clans, followed the Kanun, an archaic code of law, and maintained an oppressive rule over the female gender. The Kanun states that women are the property of their husbands. The freedom to vote, drive, conduct business, earn money, drink, smoke, swear, own a gun or wear pants was traditionally the exclusive province of men. Young girls were commonly forced into arranged marriages, often with much older men in distant villages. A family suddenly without a patriarch or male heir would find themselves in jeopardy of losing everything.
 
As an alternative, becoming a Sworn Virgin, or burnesha elevated a woman to the status of a man and granted her all the rights and privileges of the male population. In order to manifest the transition such a woman cut her hair, donned male clothing and sometimes even changed her name. Male gestures and swaggers were practiced until they became second nature. Most importantly of all, she took a vow of celibacy to remain chaste for life. She became a ‘he’.
 
Sworn Virgins still exist today, but as modernization inches towards the small villages nestled in the Albanian Alps, this archaic tradition is increasingly seen as obsolete. Only a handful remain.”

You can learn more about Albanian Sworn Virgins on Wikipedia. Below you will find five photos from Jill Peter’s fascinating series. You can see the project in its entirety on her official website. A trailer for He/She/He can be found at the end of the post.

[via PetaPixel, Slate, feature shoot]

Baby hamster sleeping on a hand. Photo by: Marjolein

Newly hatched chicks just came to the world. Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart

Baby squirrels are called kittens and kittens are born only twice a year. Once in the spring time and once at the end of the summer. Photo by: Alex Kaufman

Baby gecko with a cute smile. Photo by: Sébastien Del Grosso

When hedgehogs are born, up to seven in a litter, their spines are soft and short. Soon after birth, their spines harden, becoming stiffer, sharper, and longer. Photo by: Beatriz Pacheco

Baby chameleons will have to get out of egg shells on their own, find food, find shelter, and avoid predators. Photo by: Sam Driscoll

Badger in a hand. Male badgers are called boars, female badgers are called sows and baby badgers are called cubs. Photo by: unknown

Baby alligator enjoys back scratches. Photo by: unknown

The rescued little baby deer orphan is just six inches tall and, at 500 grams, weighed little more than a bag of sugar. Photo by: Jeff Moore

Director of the marine fauna reserve ‘SOS Fauna Marina’ holds a rescued 10-day-old baby dolphin in a pool in Punta Colarada. Photo by: Miguel Rojo

Kittens’ eyes and ear canals are closed during their first few days of life, rendering them unable to see or hear one another. Photo by: unknown

6 days old bunny. Photo by: Crezalyn Nerona Uratsuji

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The RMS Titanic became the world’s largest ship when it launched in May 1911. As such, it was well documented in photographs between that day and when it embarked on its fateful voyage in mid-April 1912.

Russian photo editing guru Anton Logvynenko has breathed new life into many of these old photographs through his project Titanic in Color. The series consists of a number of 1912 images of the massive ship, with color added to show what the scenes might have actually looked like at the time to the photographers.

The images cover various stages of the ship’s life, and offer glimpses at different areas inside and outside the ship.

Here are some colorized photographs showing some interior spaces found in the Titanic:

Want to see more of Logvynenko’s work? Add the Titanic in Color website to your browser bookmarks — it’s down at the moment, but hopefully it’ll be back up shortly.

Titanic in Color (via Retronaut)

Image credits: Photograph colorizations by Anton Logvynenko

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Over the years, we’ve seen some pretty incredible eclipse photos, be they composites that’ll blow your mind or time-lapses that’ll capture your attention for minutes at a time.

What we haven’t seen nearly as much of are solar eclipse photos taken from space. What exactly does it look like when you turn the cameras the other way and capture the Moon’s shadow hitting the Earth?

Well, it looks something like the photo at the top, which was taken from the International Space Station during the total eclipse that occurred in March of 2006. The shadow moves across the Earth at about 1,250 miles per hour, and only the people near the center of the shadow see a total eclipse. The rest will see a partial eclipse where only some of the sun is blocked.

Most of the photos in this post were taken from the ISS, but the one below is an exception. It was one of the last photos ever taken from the Mir Space Station, and shows the shadow cast by the eclipse in August of 1999:

In May of 2012, as some of us were staring up at a gorgeous annular solar eclipse, astronaut Don Pettit was looking down on us and managed to capture the photo below.

“It is amazing to see an eclipse from orbit,” Pettit told Mission Control after the event. “The shadow on Earth looks just like what you see in the physics books and the astronomy books where those folks figured all that out without ever having seen what that shadow looks like.”

Here are a couple more solar eclipse photos captured from space:

And some satellite images thrown in for good measure:

With SpaceX on its way, it’s possible the richest of us might one day make their way into the heavens and capture such photos for themselves, but until then, this’ll just have to be enough.

Image credits: Photographs by NASA.

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There’s an awesome little subreddit that has been getting a lot of press coverage as of late. It’s called ColorizedHistory, and is a 20,000+ person strong community of “Amateur Historians” who are interested in the idea of creating high quality colorized versions of historical black-and-white photographs.

Unlike many other subreddits, this community is quite exclusive when it comes to submitted content. It’s not open to new contributors, and only a select number of Photoshop gurus on an approved list of submitters are allowed to submit colorized works. The rest of the community follows, enjoys, and comments on these pieces.

The colorized photographs themselves are from different eras in history. Some were created using old tintypes from the mid-1800s. Others are more recent, showing B&W scenes captured just decades ago.

All of them are the result of hours of careful editing by professional and amateur Photoshoppers who have both an eye for color and a desire to see what historical images would look like today if color photography had existed in past ages.

Here’s a photograph of General Joseph Hooker, captured by photographer Mathew Brady in 1862:

…and a colorized version of that photograph by Mads Madsen, who can also be found on his website and on Facebook:

Here’s a 1936 photo by Dorothea Lange showing drought refugees waiting for the opening of the orange picking season in Porterville, California:

…and a colorized version by Cyriel Roumen:

Here’s a wet plate collodion photo of President Theodore Roosevelt, captured around 1900:

…and a colorized version created by Will Doran

Here’s a 1910 picture by Lewis Wickes Hine showing newspaper boys taking a smoking break in St. Louis, Missouri:

…and a colorized version by Paul Edwards, who can also be found on Facebook:

Here’s another photo by Hine titled “Powerhouse Mechanic,” captured in 1921:

…and a colorized version by Malakon:

Here’s a 1936 photograph by Dorothea Lange titled “Georgia peach pickers eating”:

…and a colorized version by Jordan J. Lloyd, who can also be found on Facebook:

Here’s a 1915 photograph taken in Saratoga Springs, New York, titled “Broadway at the United States Hotel”:

…and a colorized version by Sanna Dullaway, who can also be found on Facebook and through her website:

Here’s a 1923 photo showing W.H. Murphy and an associate testing a bulletproof vest in Washington D.C.:

…and a colorized version by Mads Madsen:

Here’s a 1945 photograph by photographer Toni Frissell showing a boy standing in front of the rubble of his home after London was bombed from above:

…and a colorized version by Andreas Larsson:

A photo of the Hindenburg airship disaster in 1937:

…and a colorized version by Dana Keller, who can also be found on Facebook:

Here’s a wet plate collodion photo titled “Nashville, Tennessee. View from Capitol,” captured by photographer George N. Barnard in 1864:

…and a colorized version by Sanna Dullaway:

Here’s a 1939 photograph by Dorothea Lange showing an unemployed lumber worker:

…and a colorized version of that photograph by Mads Madsen:

A portrait of General Gershom Mott captured by Mathew Brady in 1964:

…and a colorized version of that photograph by Mads Madsen:

A 1939 photograph by Dorothea Lange showing a lazy Sunday at a country store in North Carolina:

…and a colorized version by Jordan J. Lloyd:

A 1945 photograph by army private Ralph Forney, showing a German concentration camp at Wobbelin after the U.S. Ninth Army discovered the inmates there:

…and a colorized version by Andreas Larsson:

A photograph of a Washington D.C. car crash in 1921:

…and a colorized version by Sanna Dullaway:

Here’s a photograph by photographer George W. Ackerman showing a Texan farmer reading a paper in 1931:

…and a colorized version by Paul Edwards:

You can find these photographs and more by paying a visit to the ColorizedHistory subreddit over on Reddit.

ColorizedHistory [Reddit via TwistedSifter via Fstoppers]

این دو سه ساله، توجه عموم مردم به «شتاب‌دهنده ذرات» و در رأس آنها LHC جلب شده است.

شتاب‌دهنده، دستگاهی است که در آن ذرّات باردار (مانند: ذرات بنیادی، اتم‌های یونیزه شده، مولکولها یا قسمت‌های مولکول) به وسیلهٔ میدان‌های الکتریکی یا مغناطیسی تا سرعت‌های بسیار زیادی شتاب ‌داده می‌شوند. به طوری که سرعت بسیاری از آنها، حتی تا نزدیکی‌های سرعت نور می‌رسد.

از شتاب‌دهنده‌ها در زمینه‌های مختلفی از فیزیک، از جمله در اندازه‌گیریهای متعددی در فیزیک هسته‌ای استفاده می‌شود: یعنی از طریق شلیک ذرّات، توسط شتاب‌دهنده به سوی جسم در حال تحقیق (Target) و پراکندشدن آنها و اندازه‌گیری، توسط یک دوربین یا آشکارساز (Detector).

ما به صورت جسته و گریخته می‌دانیم که اگر بدن در مجاورت مواد رادیواکتیو یا پرتوهای خطرناک قرار بگیرد، چه پیش می‌آید، اما در مورد شتابدهنده ذرات، چه؟ اگر کسی را مثلا در حین کار یک شتابدهنده در معرض برخورد آن ذرات قرار بدهیم، چه پیش خواهد آمد؟

مشخص است که ما اصلا امکان آزمایش عملی چنین چیزی را نداریم، اما در سال ۱۹۷۸ حادثه‌ عجیبی پیش آمد که امکان داد دست‌کم برای یک بار در تاریخ، خطرات چنین چیزی آزمایش شود!

آناتولی پتروویچ بوگورسکی، یک دانشمند روس، تنها شخصی است که تا حالا در معرض ذرات شتاب‌داده شده در یک شتاب‌دهنده قرار گرفته است.

در سال ۱۹۷۸، او به عنوان یک پژوهشگر در پژوهشگاه فیزیک Protvino کار می‌کرد و مشغول تحقیقاتی با استفاده از شتاب‌دهنده ذرات این مرکز به نام سینکروترون U-70 بود.

در ۱۳ جولای این سال، او متوجه شد که قطعه‌ای از شتاب‌دهنده به درستی کار نمی‌کند، برای همین خم شد تا مشکل را حل کند، غافل از آنکه با این کار سرش درست در مسیر عبور پروتون‌های شتاب‌داده شده، قرار گرفته گرفته است.

برای لحظه‌ای، او به گفته خودش، «نوری درخشان‌تر از هزار خورشید» را دید، ولی هیچ دردی حس نکرد.

پرتو عبور کرده از سر او، معادل دو هزار گری بود. gray واحد میزان جذب انرژی پرتوهای یونیزان است و هر گری معادل جذب یک ژول نرژی به ازاری هر کیلوگرم از ماده است. معمولا اگر کسی به صورت ناگهانی در معرض ۵ گری اشعه قرار بگیرد، در عرض ۱۴ روز فوت می‌کند. اما هر چه باشد، نوع اشعه هم مهم است و تا آن زمان کسی در معرض پروتون شتاب‌داده شده قرار نگرفته بود.

همان طور که در عکس بالا می‌بینید، اشعه از پس سر بوگورسکی وارد شده بود و از نزدیکی بینی‌اش بیرون آمده بود. به فاصله کوتاهی از حادثه، قسمت چپ سر بوگورسکی متورم شد، او را به بیمارستان بردند، انتظار می‌رفت او در عرض چند روز فوت کند، دانشمندان در نظر داشتند او را برای مطالعه این شرایط تحت مراقبت و نظارت دقیق قرار بدهند.

در عرض چند روز، قسمتی از پوست پس سر و صورت او، ریخت، ابفت استخوان جمجمه و مغز او هم توسط اشعه سوخته بود، اما در کمال تعجب بوگورسکی نمرد و به تدریج بهبود پیدا کرد!

علیرغم اینکه اشعه از مغز او عبور کرده بود، او توانایی‌های هوشی خود را بدون تغییر، حفظ کرد. البته او آسیب‌هایی هم دید:

- او شنوایی گوش چپ‌اش را از دست داد.

- در عرض دو سال پس از حادثه، قسمت چپ صورت او به تدریج فلج شد.

- او نسبت به گذشته، در حین انجام فعالیت‌های ذهنی، زودتر خسته می‌شد، اما با این همه او بعد از حادثه توانست به تحصیل ادامه بدهد و PhD خود را هم بگیرد.

-آثار جانبی دیگر، ابتلای او به تشنج absence بود و تشنج تونیک کلونیک بود. (در تشنج نوع اول، شخص به مدت کوتاهی، معمولا زیر ۲۰ ثانیه، حتی بدون اینکه خودش آگاهی داشته باشد، دچار تشنجی می‌شود که به صورت کاهش سطح هوشیاری و خیره شدن تظاهر پیدا می‌کند و در آن خبری از حرکات کلاسیک لرزش دست و پاها نیست، اما در تشنج تونیک کلونیک، ما با تشنج کلاسیک روبرو هستیم که فرد بیهوش می‌شود، روی زمین می‌افتد و دست و پایش به شدت تکان می‌خورند.)

اما عجیب‌ترین اثر جانبی پرتوهای پروتون شتاب‌داده شده روی بدن بوگورسکی این است که سمت راست صورتش، مثل هر پیرمردی دیگری در سن او، دچار چین و چروک شده است، اما سمت چپ صورتش، گویی فریز شده و چین و چروکی در آن مشهود نیست. از این نظر شتاب‌دهنده مثبل یک بوتاکس با اثر ماندگار عمل کرده است!

بوگورسکی ازدواج کرده است و صاحب یک پسر است.

پی‌نوشت: با خواندن این داستان واقعی، یاد داستان علمی – تخیلی افتادم که سال‌ها پیش در مجله دانشمند خوانده بودم، داستانی به نام شش چوب کبریت، نوشته آ.وب.استروگاتسکی که در آن دانشمندی به نام کوملین، دست به آزمایش غیرمجاز با یک مولد نوترینو می‌زند تا نیروی حافظه و محاسبه خود را زیاد کند و دست آخر درمی‌گذرد.

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