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NASA Extreme Planet Makeover Game

OK, so by now you’ve figured out that taking pictures of the planets in our Solar System, never mind of those further off into deep space, is not as easy as the NASA pictures make it look like. NASA knows that...

Dramatic Picture of Enceladus

This dramatic photo shows Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, spraying icy particles, water vapor and organic compounds from fissures along the famed “tiger stripes” near the south pole. This is not one photo...

Guess The Lighting

Guess The Lighting

If you have noticed the beautiful picture featured on the PDN Photo Annual 2011 Photo Contest post below, it is by David Drebin and featured in his ” Room with a View” series. There’s an interesting...

Upside Down Portraits

Upside Down Portraits

When I first looked at these portraits, I did not see anything amiss, except that they did look oddly familiar and a bit [OK, a lot] puffed up. Turn out, these people had their pictures taken while hanging upside down...

Vivian Maier, Nanny and Street Photographer

Vivian Maier, Nanny and Street Photographer

From hotmonger The remarkable street photography of Vivian Maier, nanny by profession, has been recently discovered to the delight of admiring fans. She used a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera to capture moments...

Photojournalism at the Crossroads

Photojournalism at the Crossroads

Say what you want, 2010 has been the year when we heard so much about how photojournalism is dead. Pictures can convey an idea or message with so much more impact than mere text can. We love our pictures and no...

The White House Pictures 2010

White House Photographer Pete Souza shares moments from 2010. View the pictures at: The White House. Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest...