*UPDATE 12/17/2013* THE TOP 100 ‘PICTURES OF THE DAY’ FOR 2013 HAVE JUST BEEN PUBLISHED! CHECK IT OUT! At the end of every quarter the Sifter highlights the top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day‘, culminating in an epic Top 100 at the end of the year (check out the ‘Top 100 POTDs for…
THE POWER OF THE OCEAN Photograph by NATHAN GIBBS Flickr | Twitter | Blog Seen here is a menacing looking wave off the coast of Todos Santos Island in Ensenada, Mexico. The wave was one of many big waves spotted at the Todos Santos Big Wave Event on February 28, 2010. The…
Photograph by JAMES FRIEDMAN Website | Facebook James Friedman is a teacher, curator, editor and photographer from the United States. He received his BFA from Ohio State University and was one of five students accepted into the experimental graduate program, Toward a Whole Photography, at MIT. He later earned his Masters in Photography from…
Photograph by JAMEY PRICE Website | 500px | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram In this perfectly timed photograph by Jamey Price entitled Poetry in Motion, we see the Marussia F1 Team doing a practice pit stop with Max Chilton during F1 pre-season testing at Barcelona. There are tons of fascinating details about pit stops…
INSIDE A HOT AIR BALLOON Photograph by MARK FREEMAN #408 In this amazing capture by Rockstar-sponsored athlete, Mark Freeman #408, we get to see the inside of a hot air balloon. The photo was taken with a GoPro camera on a pole, as he embarked on a hot air balloon ride with…
UNDERWATER PERFECTION Photograph by SARAH LEE Website | Flickr | Facebook In this perfectly timed underwater photograph by Sarah Lee, we see Alison from alisonsadventures.com swimming underneath a passing wave. For the astute, you’ll also notice a surfer above (far right) cruising by at the exact same time. The photo was taken…
A SEA OF PEOPLE Photograph by optickarma on Flickr In this beautiful long exposure photograph by optickarma, we see fans heading home after an England vs Holland friendly at Wembley Stadium on Feb. 29, 2012. The police officers on horseback are clearly not moving much, which really adds to the dramatic effect…
Crimson Skies and Mammatus Clouds Photograph by beau-dog on Flickr In this amazing photo, we see crimson mammatus clouds over Citi Field in Queens, New York. The photograph of the intense storm was taken before the game on June 26, 2009 by Flickr user beau-dog. Citi Field is the home baseball park…
THE SPIRIT OF DETROIT Photograph by coreoski on Reddit Located on the westward-facing wall of the Russel’ Industrial Complex’s Building #2 is this colossal 8,750 square foot (813 sq m) mural by artist Kobie Solomon. Dubbed The Chimera, it’s purportedly the largest graffiti mural in the state of Michigan and can be…
VINTAGE SURF SIRENS Photograph by Ray Leighton (via National Library of Australia) In this vintage photo we see five lovely ladies posing on top of some old-school surfboards. The photograph was taken by Ray Leighton between 1938 and 1946 at Manly beach in New South Wales, Australia. The photograph was uploaded to…
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