These entries into the National Geographic Travel Photo Competition 2013 bring people and places to life.
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29 year old Martin Lavoie is a real estate broker from Canada and posts photos of his lavish lifestyle on Instagram where he uses the name MrWallStreet83!
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Alan Friedman works full time as a greeting card designer but pursues his love of astronomy in the evenings from an observatory he has erected in his own backyard in Buffalo, New York. These brilliant photos are captured using a small telescope and Hydrogen Alpha filter which acts as a lens and streams images in the same way as a webcam would. Each photo is made out of thousands of frames of images that are then combined and adjusted in color and tonality to create a final high res photograph.
Twisted Sifter has selected the 100 best photos for 2012 from their popular “Pictures of the Day” series run throughout the year. Here are their choices!
Reuters selects their top photos for this year. Here are their picks.
Mom finds these unexpected photos a year after giving her 4 year old a digital camera to play with.
FEI, a company that manufactures microscopes, regularly holds a macro photo contest in which entrants must submit pictures of things that cannot be seen without magnification. Here is a selection of a few of the entries into the competition for 2012.
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In these images, two photos of the same person (at different ages) have been merged into one; creating a map of their life.
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