The Donut Project

There really are no words to describe these amazing shots by Nick Brandt. Utterly breathtaking.

Enjoy more of his stunning wildlife shots here.

(via Bliss)

Those crazy kids over at Macworld have shot their most recent magazine cover featuring an iPhone using only the camera and photo-editing apps available for iPhone 4. Photographer Peter Belanger used a custom-made rig and some tungsten lights (for constant light instead of a strobe) and did all post-production on the phone itself — only using a computer to test the crop in layout.

For post production I used two iPhone apps: PhotoForge and Resize-Photo. PhotoForge was used to remove a slight green cast from the photo. Resize-Photo was used to increase the photo from 216 dpi to 290 dpi in order to meet printing requirements.

Modern cell phone cameras have evolved significantly, and can make great pictures with proper lighting. Continue reading to see some process photos, or read about the entire process (and see even more photos) at Peter Belanger’s blog.

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iPhone Polaroids is a great creative exercise from designer and letterpress printer, Scott McClelland. He snaps a shot or two a day with his iPhone and has been doing it since early January. I love being able to doing something creative daily and because we have iPhones, we have such an easy tool right at our fingertips! See more of his very large collection of snapshots here. Thanks for sharing your work with us, Scott!

Hungry yet? That’s the idea behind FoodPornDaily. Atleast once a day, they post the most delicious food pics they can find (sometimes with recipes, sometimes without). Flipping thru has made me realize how I need food right this instant.

Go and salivate at FoodPornDaily.

(Sent to us by @Nelsie)

The Big Caption, a compliment to The Big Picture, makes statements and jokes through typography. A lot of recent posts have to do with results of the oil spill in the Gulf, but there’s still some to make you chuckle as well. Take a look for yourself here.

(via design crush – kelly, you post such greatness!)

Sean Stiegemeier has made some beautiful video documenting the volcano in Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull:

So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better. But the flights to get over took forever as expected (somewhat). 4 days after leaving I finally made it, but the weather was terrible for another 4. Just before leaving it got pretty good for about a day and a half and this is what I managed to get.

If you’re interested in seeing more stunning images regarding the volcano, The Big Picture has had two remarkable photosets: Here & here.

(via Anthony Zart)

I recently watched the documentary “Rivers and Tides” about British artist, Andy Goldsworthy, and was totally blown away. He works with an endless range of natural materials, and his intention is to work with landscapes, rather than leave his mark on them. Goldsworthy describes his work as an effort to understand his surroundings. In his own philosophical words:

Movement, change, light growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

Goldsworthy’s ephemeral works are only documented by his photography (he’s got to make a living somehow, right?). It was amazing to watch him work, his patience alone is to be coveted.

(image compilation via webecoist.com)

We posted The Impossible Project a while back, a project whose mission is to revive instant film after Polaroid ceased production a couple years ago.

The old process was too antiquated and cost-prohibitive to be continued, so The Impossible Project took on the challenge to reinvent and streamline the chemical process. Apparently ‘impossible’ was a strong word, because as of this week, instant film is back.

The Impossible Project will be releasing their first instant film this Thursday, March 25. The PX100 or PX600 monochromatic films will work in Polaroid SX-70 and 600 cameras, respectively. A packet of 8 films will run you $21 for the initial ‘first flush’ edition. TIP plans on releasing a total of 6 different films in 2010, including color!

To learn more about this film, read up on it and all it’s idiosyncrasies.

There’s also a nice video on the homepage, which I am unable to embed here.
www.the-impossible-project.com.

Every year, The Progressive Corporation commissions an artist (or artists) to create new work to illustrate a theme for their annual report. This is the first year Progressive have made a video documenting the creation of the art.

Photographer Coke Wisdom O’Neal was chosen as this year’s artist. Coke’s current project consists of building large (20+ feet tall) wooden boxes and photographing people in them.

Over a six-day period in December 2009, 22 Progressive employees, 12 contractors, and one artist came together to photograph 72 everyday people for the Progressive Annual Report. The theme was “respect.”

The 2009 Progressive Annual Report with Coke’s images can be seen at progressive.com/annualreport2009

See more of Coke’s work at www.CokeWisdomONeal.com.

Full disclosure: The firm behind the annual report is Nesnadny + Schwartz, where I currently work. If you look closely, I fly by in the credits of the video, as I worked on the web version of the report. :)

These just speak for themselves…a selection of 25 photos that compare past snapshots of buildings, locations, structures, and people with the present day scene. There are hundreds of photos just like this in the Looking Into the Past Flickr group by Jason Powell.

(via Wild Ammo)