The Sifter’s favourite underwater photographer, Alexander Semenov, is back with another amazing gallery. Entitled Living Stones, Semenov explores the different patterns and textures of stony corals in the Red Sea. Captured at high magnification, you can really appreciate the intricate detail and colour on the surfaces of these living creatures. Corals are marine invertebrates…
A LAKE IN THE MOUNTAINS Photograph by Ryan Gsell Bachalpsee or Bachse is a lake with an area of 8.06 ha (19.9 acres) close to the First (a minor summit below the Schwarzhorn which can be reached with a cable car) and above Grindelwald in the Bernese Oberland (Bernese highlands) of Switzerland.…
Photograph via The Dallas Morning News After a teaching career that spanned 40 years (1973-2012), Dale Irby, 63, has left behind a legacy of yearbook photos in which he is wearing the exact same outfit year after year. According to the Dallas Morning News it began as an accident: “I was so embarrassed when…
Joongwon (Charles) Jeong is a hyperrealist painter from South Korea. A freelance artist and illustrator, Jeong studied Visual Communication Design at the Hongik University of Fine Art & Design in Seoul. Jeong’s preferred medium is acrylic on canvas which he says is so versatile and its effect ranges from “thick, oil-like texture to watercolour…
BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK Photograph by Jsoo1 on Wikimedia Commons Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242,756 acres (98,240 ha) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. On January 29, 1939, it was established…
Artwork by James Dive/The Glue Society Photograph by Nicolai Lorenzen via The Glue Society on Facebook In a fascinating sculpture entitled Once by James Dive, we see an entire amusement park crushed into a 4 x 4 meter (13.12 ft) cube. James is a member of The Glue Society, an independent creative collective based…
Born in Arezzo, Italy, in 1977, Gabriele Galimberti studied photography at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence. Gabriele works as a commercial photographer but his interests have expanded to include documentary/travel photography. He is one of the members of Riverboom Publishing, and he has just finished an 18-month trip around the world during which he…
SKYLINE SILHOUETTE OF CHICAGO Photograph by Tom Gill In this beautiful capture by Tom Gill, we see a silhouette of the Chicago skyline as seen from the top of a tall dune at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The national lakeshore runs for nearly 25 miles (40 km) along the southern shore…
Photograph by JAKUB POLOMSKI Website | Facebook | Behance At 30 km (19 miles) in length and over 250 sq km (97 sq mi) in size, the Perito Moreno Glacier is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia. It is located in Los Glaciares National Park in the southwest Santa…
ORIGAMI MICRO CRANE Artwork and Photography by JOAQUIN BALDWIN Website | Twitter | Google+ In this macro photo, we see a ‘micro’ origami crane folded using the tip of an X-Acto knife. The crane measures: 6mm square paper, 4mm wingspan, 3mm body; and was done by animator Joaquin Baldwin and posted to…
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