Tag: Photography
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Meet Bolivia’s powerful female wrestlers, Flying Cholitas
Photographer Todd Anthony took pictures of Bolivia’s indigenous female wrestlers for his new project, Flying Cholitas. This unique group of athletes wear more than stylish dresses and beautiful petticoats — they come together to demonstrate pride in their history. Once colonized by the Spanish and rejected as lower-class citizens, pejoratively known as “cholita,” they have since […]
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What cities look like at night without electricity
In his series Villes éteintes (Darkened Cities), French photographer Thierry Cohen imagines the world’s biggest cities at night without urban light. Cohen uses a special exposure technique called day for night which enables him to capture the cities in the daytime but increases darkness levels. Then, he combines the city skylines into the backdrop of […]
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The pink-eyed hover goby
The pink-eyed hover goby (Bryaninops natans) is a fish with a see-through body and yellow organs. No bigger than an inch, it’s so transparent you can even see its bones in its body. The pink-eyed goby hovers above the tips of Acropora corals in shallow lagoon reefs of the Indo-Pacific area. Here are few more images of […]
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Long exposure traffic lights in the night
Photographer Lucas Zimmermann’s long exposure photos of traffic lights in the fog are mesmerizing. The images appear as part two of the German fine art photographer’s Traffic Light series. “The unknown hue of blueish light is hidden for the human eye, but the photography shows us things we otherwise overlook, such as a simple traffic light on […]
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Lost and Found: The Somali Elephant Shrew is back!
The Somali Sengi, also known as the Somali Elephant Shrew, is back after a 50-year hiatus. The small insectivorous mammal endemic to Somalia was deemed extinct since the 1970s by the Global Wildlife Conservation’s list of lost species. But scientists recently rediscovered a thriving population of Somali Sengi in Djibouti. “Here we report new evidence […]
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Photographer captures rare Devil Horns solar eclipse over the Persian Gulf
On December 26, 2019, amateur photographer Elias Chasiotis captured an incredible ‘red devil horns’ sunrise over the Persian Gulf during a rare solar eclipse. The Athens-based photographer was vacationing in the coastal city of Al Wakrah in Qatar just before the new year when he snapped the rare spectacle of the moon blocking the sun. […]
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Yarn artist Liisa Hietanen makes human embroidered figures
Knitting is a popular hobby in Finland. But 30-year-old artist Liisa Hietnanen takes the practice to a whole new level. She uses wool to create life-size crocheted sculptures of the neighbors in her village. “The slow handcraft techniques work as a counterforce to the accelerating pace in different areas of life,” says the artist, who […]
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Beautiful apples from around the world
William Mullan is a photographer who specializes in taking pictures of rare apples from around the world. The golden Knobbed Russet, the star-shaped api etoile, hard red Black Oxford apple — these are just a few of the varieties that appear in Mullan’s 200-page photo-book, Odd Apples. Writes Atlas Obscura on how Mullan’s fascination with […]
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Subway mice wins People’s Choice Wildlife Photographer of the Year award
Photographer Sam Rowley’s image of two mice fighting over leftover food in the London Underground won People’s Choice Wildlife Photographer of the Year. The snap was selected by the public from more than 48,000 submissions to London’s Natural History Museum. Entitled “Station Squabble,” the photo depicts how some wildlife have adapted to survive in urban […]
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The 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Yongqing Bao’s photo of a fox surprising a marmot in the Qilian Mountains in China won the top prize in the 2019 Wildlife Photography Awards. The photograph entitled “The Moment” is a suitable title of a freeze-frame that foreshadows the fox’s imminent attack. What makes the marmot’s palpable shock more extraordinary is that the animal […]