Located in Kuwana City (Mie Prefecture) is Nabano No Sato, a flower-focused park featuring sprawling gardens and giant greenhouses. Running annually from mid November to mid March is one of Japan’s finest Winter Illuminations, including the famous tunnel of light. The park also features an onsen (hot spring) and a variety of restaurants including…
Denmark-born artist Peter Callesen creates incredible works of art from a single sheet of A4 paper. Through an amazing combination of cutting and folding, Callesen creates incredible scenes from the simplest of materials. In his own words: “By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet…
Photographs by tylercasson on Reddit Over the course of one year, photographer and Reddit user tylercasson took four images of a tiny island on Lake Springfield in Illinois to highlight the four different seasons of the year. The composite image (shown above), wonderfully captures the changes our Earth goes through as the year progresses.…
To raise his ninety-three-year-old grandmother’s spirits, French photographer Sacha Goldberger engaged her as his creative collaborator, model, and muse. Countless costumes, geriatric gaffes, unbelievable stunts, and hilarious photo shoots later, Mamika has become an international media sensation. She even has 1,300 friends on Facebook! Published earlier this year, Mamika: My Mighty Little Grandmother captures…
David Zinn has been creating original artwork in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan since 1987. He’s a self-taught artist with a B.A. in Creative Writing and English Language from the Residential College of the University of Michigan. In addition to his fabulous 3D chalk art, Zinn also has an impressive portfolio of posters, illustrations…
HORIZONTALLY UPRIGHT Photograph by Nirnroot on Reddit A common victim of Hurricane Sandy’s wrath were trees. While some of our leafy friends escaped varying degrees of branch dismemberment, others were completely uprooted, taking much of the surrounding earth with it. Redditor Nirnroot, who clearly has a creative eye, took this as…
Michael Hughes is a photographer from London, England, who now calls Berlin home. In his ongoing series entitled Souvenirs, Hughes takes pictures of tiny souvenirs in front of their real life counterparts. Using a technique called forced perspective, Michael is able to bring the tiny objects to life. The idea first came to him…
Mikko Lagerstedt is a graphic designer and fine art photographer from Finland. Mikko only started photographing in December of 2008 and his progress has been remarkable. In his latest series entitled Edge (recently featured on Colossal and PetaPixel), Mikko shares his haunting and atmospheric landscape shots of Finland. He even places himself into some…
Christoph Niemann is well-known illustrator, graphic designer, and author. After his studies in Germany he moved to New York City in 1997 (he moved back to Berlin after 11 years). From 2008-2011, Niemann wrote and illustrated a wildly popular blog for the New York Times called Abstract City. In a post entitled My Way,…
The Sifter has already profiled the fantastic work of Richard Silver for his New York Sliced series. In his ongoing exploration of his hometown city of New York, Richard takes us on a tour of beautifully designed church ceilings around NYC. Each photo is a vertical panorama composed of 6-10 photos stitched together. Shooting…