This incredible set of tilt-shift aerial images of New York City, snapped by the city’s-based graphic designer and photographer Tim Sklyarov , gives us a real sense of just how many tall buildings are housed on the mighty Manhattan island, and the size of footprint Central Park occupies on it.

Head over to his personal website to see the entire gallery. If you’re interested in a 24×36 canvas print of the image above, head over to Tim’s online store at 500px. You can also follow the graphic designer’s work on Flickr.

SEE AlSO: New York City Skyline Welcomes the Highest Building in the Western Hemisphere

[Images copyright Tim Sklyarov]

Massachusetts-based photographer Zev “ fiddle oak“, has already been taking photographs for 6 years, since he was 8! The -now- 14 years old photographer, has a portfolio that exhibits skills beyond his years.

His latest creation is a series of photo-manipulated images of a surreal miniature world, with him being the star of the scenes. Many of the images are a collaboration with Zev’s 18-year-old sister Nellie who helps with concepts and setup but all of the shooting and editing is done by Zev.

This is a talent that definitely deserves attention!

SEE ALSO: Cardboard Cities by Andy Rudak

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Here’s an adorable photo, by Netherlands-based nature photographer Wil Mijer, showing how many exuberant colors there are in nature, through this simple composition of a green-eyed tree frog dangling from a leaf and admiring a blue butterfly.

“I found my passion, macro photography, mostly in nature. I love photographing insects and flowers, but butterflies are my absolute favorite.” - Wil Mijer.

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[Image copyright: Wil Mijer]

Vivid Sydney, Australia’s annual light festival that turns Sydney into a flame of brightness (featured here last year), is taking place this year from May 24 through June 10, the city of Sydney lights up in a festival dedicated to light, music and ideas.

Coloring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections, performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers. Here are some colorful highlights from the spectacular event, that will get your eyes dazzled:

Such a great vibe! You can head over to Vivid Sydney’s website for an endless pool of photos of this years event. Also check out last year’ festival highlights through this amazing 3D Mapping Time Lapse by Ian Waldie.

[Images copyrights: Vivid Sydney]

In this post, we’ll see how animals blend in with their environment and turn into sophisticated hiders who can change their camouflage in accordance with a change in their surroundings, and sometimes throw predators off by disguising themselves as something dangerous or uninteresting.­

Here are 21 interesting examples of animal camouflage, some of these will give you a challenge!

1. Great Grey Owl

Image credits: Art Wolfe

2. Giraffe

Image credits: Art Wolfe

3. Willow Ptarmigan

Image credits: Art Wolfe

4. Long-Eared Owl

Image credits: eoiarucasadvancedone.blogspot

5. Tropidoderus Childrenii

Image credits: petrichor

6. Stick Insect

Image credits: phasmatodea.cz

7. Spider

Image credits: Piet Grobler

8. Toads

Image credits: photography.nationalgeographic.com

9. Adelpha Serpa Selerio Caterpillar

Image credits: Arthur Anker

10. Seahorse

Image credits: imgur

11. Uroplatus Geckos

Image credits: imgur | Jialiang Gao

12. Hedgehog

Image credits: good-wallpapers.com

13. Great Potoo

Image credits: dailymail

14. Stone Flounder

Image credits: domhyde.wordpress.com

15. Frog

Image credits: earthwatch2.org

16. Stealth Owl

Image credits: P A B S

17. Katydid

Image credits: dailymail

18. Indian leaf wing butterfly

image credits: flickr

19. California Ground Squirrel

Image credits: Art Wolfe

20. Leaf-Tailed Gecko

Image credits: dailymail

21. Common Baron Caterpillar

Image credits: wohinauswandern

SEE ALSO: More Than Human by Tim Flach

[Via: The Huff, Demilked]

The Tower House, located in upper state New York,  looks exactly like it sounds. It is a perfect example of module manipulation from horizontal to vertical. Designed by GLUCK+ architects, it takes the form of a skyscraper and shrinks it down to the scale of a house.

The four-story-high-home, designed with the idea of an observatory in mind, and represents a modern day adult treehouse, offers uninterrupted views over its surrounding wooded environment. The kitchen and main living space are located on the uppermost level with an outdoor roof terrace above; extending the interior into the fresh air, with views of the lake and mountains. The first three levels have each been designed as private suites, with a small bedroom and bath. The bathrooms are in the middle, with the rooms on one side facing the scenery; the zigzagging stairs are on the other side.

SEE ALSO: Astonishing Refurbishment of Casa Up in Madesimo, Italy by Es Arch

[Via FastCo.]

Reserve “Stone Graves”

“White Elephant” an abandoned campus of the former Polish Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory, Carpathian Mountains

 Mud hill Obrucheva, Crimea

 Regional Landscape Park “Zuevsky”

 Vorozheska Lake, Svidovets array, Carpathian Mountains

 Reserve “Haphalskyy”

Quiet bay, Crimea

The rocky outcrop of the Upper Cretaceous, Kramatorsk

 Botanical Reserve “Mountain range Tepe-Oba”

 Dawn on Ai-Petri Mountain

Dniester Canyon

Green Island, Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi

SEE ALSO: Breathtaking Time-Lapse Video of Kiev, Ukraine by Efim Graboy and Daria Turetski

Every spring from March through May the Dutch countryside transforms into a sea of colorful rainbow patterns of tulips. The Netherlands is world-famous for its tulip fields. A dreamy ground cover that attract tourists wanting to witness the beauty with their own eyes every season. French photographer Normann Szkop snapped these beautiful images from a small prop plane flown over the fields of the municipality of Anna Paulowna, in North Holland. See the entire 100+ photograph set over on Flickr

SEE ALSO: Netherlands’ Natural Ice Triggers Rare Winter Sports

Displaying 58,000 flight paths becomes difficult when multiple paths overlap, particularly in dense areas such as central Europe and the eastern United States.

The busiest airports by continent include Sao Paulo, Beijing, Sydney, Frankfurt, Cairo and Atlanta.

SEE ALSO: 40 Photos of Endeavour’s Last Flight – A Farewell to America 

[Source - All images: Michael Markieta - Data: openflights.org] [Spotted by: Mohamed Raafat]

Google’s latest and most innovative creation, Glass, looks like it’s heading our way as a reality and hitting the shelves very soon. There are already various apps developed for the new smart glasses, including one that can trigger the camera shutter with a wink!

If the gadget is embraced by users and managed to build an audience base, what would photographers look like using the smart eye-winking camera?!

Grovo, in the clip below, offers a humorous look at what photographers would look like if Google Glass becomes widely used as a camera and camcorder.

Grovo describes sarcastically:

Here’s someone you’ll be seeing in a few months: the Google Glass photographer. Nature shots, concerts, time-lapse videos, weddings… the Google Glass photographer does it all.

SEE ALSO: A Breathtaking Hyper-lapse Cruise Through Google Street View

The Google Glass photographer, could this be our future?! let us know what you think in the comments.

SEE ALSO: The Three Funniest Google Glasses Parody Videos

The Avengers (2012)

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

Sunday In New York (1963)

Spider-Man (2002)

Sex and the City 2 (2010)

Serendipity (2001)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Men in Black II (2002)

Leon The Professional (1994)

Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003)

If Lucy Fell (1996)

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

Goodfellas (1990)

Fame (1980)

Cruel Intentions (1999)

Cocktail (1988)

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Bee Movie (2007)

August Rush (2007)

 SEE ALSO: Brilliant Time-Travel Photography of Europe’s World War Era by Sergey Larenkov

 
Dubai is one of the world’s most fast-growing futuristic cities. In less than 20 years, Dubai has become visually striking, an architect’s wonderland, where dreams on paper were given a chance to shine in reality. This timelapse video takes us on a stunning trip through its streets, waterways and skyscrapers.

Created by Belarusian photographer and travel enthusiast Dima dimid Vazhnik, the clip deservedly become a hit online in less than one week of posting, with more than 100,000 views. Check it out for yourself, then let us know what you think in the comments.

SEE ALSO: Dubai’s Fog makes a Skyscraper City in the Clouds

[Via mashable]

1. Amorgos Island, Greece

SEE ALSO: Mediterranean House in Tinos Island, Greece by Zege Architects

2. Nuuk, Greenland

3. Berlin, Germany

4. Paradise Island, Bahamas

5. San Francisco, California

6. Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England

7. Cinque Terre, Italy

8. Cape Town, South Africa

9. Gamla Stan, Stockholm

10. Barranco, Lima, Peru

11. Burano, Italy

SEE ALSO: Burano, Italy – The Most Colorful in Europe

12. Trinidad, Cuba

13. Pattaya, Thailand

14. Bristol, England

15. Caminito, Buenos Aires

SEE ALSO: Argentina [PHOTO PEEK]

16. Wroclaw, Poland

17. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada

18. Santa Maria in Rio de Janeiro

19. Longyearbyen, Svallbard, Norway

20. Willemstad, Curacao, Caribbean

21. Provence Village of Menton, Provence-Alpes Cote d’Azur, France

22. Naples, Italy

23. Isla Mujeres, Mexico

24. Brighton Beach, Melbourne, Australia

25. Chefchaouen, Morocco

SEE ALSO: Chefchaouen – the Blue City of Morocco

(BONUS) 26. Nubia, Aswan, Egypt

SEE ALSO: The Breathtaking Views at Mount Sinai in Egypt

[Images via CNNGO, Buzzfeed]

Brooklyn-based artist  & 3D illustrator José Suris IV creates these shockingly-realistic masks and sculptures, that looks like real fur , using paper, styrofoam, wireform, and paperclay. The product is extremely detailed and textured to give a lifelike presence.

For the kicks of having a fun and different type of post, here are some everyday objects looking at you with their epic faces. Enjoy!

1. OMG Wall

Image credits: eworm

2. Pleased Pots

Image credits: knowyourmeme.com

3. Sad Faucet

Image credits: adme.ru

4. Sad Torso is Sad

Image credits: imgur

5. Drunk Octopus Wants to Fight

Image credits: artandesignews.com

6. House With Personality

Image credits: mandragor.de

7. World’s Happiest Airplane

Image credits: imgur

8. Drunk Washing Machine

Image credits: bart

9. Angry Mop

Image credits: imgur

10. My Car Can’t Believe It

Image credits: imgur

11. : P

Image credits: imgur

12. They Know What They’re Going to be Used For

Image credits: imgur

13. Amazed Car Bumper

via: imgur

14. Evil Boxes

Image credits: Barbara Dunkelman

15. Church Chicken

Image credits: imgur

16. Stoned backpack

Image credits: knowyourmeme.com

17. Haunting pepper

Image credits: knowyourmeme.com

18. Sad kiwi is sad

Photograph by mulletarian on Reddit

19. Om nom nom nom

Photograph by Patrick A. Albright, U.S. Army

20. Wall-E

Photograph via PotentialBillionaire on Reddit

21. BBQool

Photograph via Eva-Lotta Lamm (evalottchen on Flickr)

[Via Bored Panda]

Soaring at almost 125 meters (408 feet), the spire will elevate the building height to a symbolic (540 meters) 1,776 feet and place it at the 3rd spot of the world’s highest buildings, right after Burj Khalifa of Dubai and Mecca’s Clock Tower in Saudi Arabia – 13th if you don’t count the spire in. The symbolic height of 1776 feet represents the year 1776 of the American Independence.

SEE ALSO: Breathtaking Manhattan in Motion Time Lapse Video

To put the achieved height into perspective, here are a couple of comparative illustrations:

• New York ranking:

• World ranking:

One WTC, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, is scheduled for completion late 2013 with an estimated price tag of $3.8 billion. The new complex consists of 5 high-rise towers, a museum, the 911 memorial, open since September 2011, on the 10^th anniversary of the attacks, and the Calatrava transportation hub (in the below rendered imaged).

 
The following animation shows the progress of construction and the final look of the complex once complete:

Manhattan is back!!

SEE ALSO: NYC Skyline Over the Years (1876-2013)

[Images via: Oregon life, About, Reuters]

Nature is trying to speak out to us everywhere every day. In the image above, a stubborn tree was noticed on April 16, 2013 among piles of used tires in a ten-hectare installation for recycling in Lachapelle-Auzac, France.  The recycling company operating through this location was closed in 2004, yet the tires were never removed.

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[Via WSJ/ Eric Cabanis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images]

New York-based photographer Brian DeFrees has created this vertigo-inducing timelapse video documenting his extensive roadtrip around the US through his car. Traveling 12,225 miles, he crossed at least 32 states in 55 days with his camera was mounted just below his rear view mirror and programmed to snap a photo every 5 seconds. He captured 200,000 individual photographs and combined them into this spectacular video which has turned into a viral hit on YouTube.
Turn on your fullscreen and enjoy:

When he was parked for the night or exploring an area on foot he was constantly time-lapsing. Here is a collection of the time-lapses he captured while outside of his car during the trip:

SEE ALSO: Best Road Trip Routes in the United States

Presenting the unique character of cities with waterfronts, we put together this post featuring 10 images of cities skylines reflected on a water surface. The shape defining the urban landscape reflected on nature’s mirror is just magnificent. These images were taken by different photographers, and according to the source, non of the photos has been digitally manipulated, and are all just taken with a camera and a tripod to maintain the still capture.

Dokkum, The Netherlands by Bas Meelker

Dresden, Germany by Manuel Irritier

Singapore cityscape by WK Cheoh

SEE ALSO: The Lion City Timelapse – Singapore

Seattle, Washington by John G. Cramer 

Groningen, Netherlands by Rayon Hoepel

Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Jacob Rostermundt

Amsterdam, Netherlands by Anna Gett

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Bill Dickinson

Seoul, South Korea by Saik Kim

SEE ALSO: 20 Spectacular Skylines Around the World 

 [Via Architizer, Scene360, Illusion]

Claude Friese-Greene, one of the earliest British pioneers of film, filmed a series of short clips around London documenting major attractions of the city nearly 90 years ago, specifically in 1927, using a primitive color process developed by his father William Friese-Greene.

Looking at this footage almost a century later, it gives an ultimate feeling of precious value, knowing that it was one of the very first colored motion pictures ever made. The father, William Friese-Greene was a British portrait photographer and a well known inventor. His experiments in the field of motion pictures led him to be known as one of the fathers of cinematography.

As described by PetaPixal, One of William’s inventions was an additive color film process known as Biocolour. He exposed every other frame of standard black-and-white film through a different-colored filter, and then stained the resulting monochrome prints either red or green. Once projected, these prints provided an illusion of real color. A process that was used for many films between 1923 and 1943.

In the video below, the British Film Institute used computer enhancement to reduce noticeable flickering that was seen in the original footage, a major downside to the Biocolour method.

1927 London - It’s like a beautiful dusty old postcard you’d find in a junk store, but moving:

SEE ALSO: London eMotion

[Via PetaPixel]

Richard Silver travels the world and documents famous landmarks with an aim to show-off the world from a total different perspective. In his series Tilt-Shift, his goal is to shrink iconic landmarks or everyday street scenes, and give them an unusual feel.

Silver says, “People always ask me, How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small? Simple, we are!” Thus, his goal with the project is to “give the viewer a new way of seeing themselves and their place in the world.”

He has captured many famous places and events, including Machu Picchu in Peru, The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the Coliseum in Rome, and the Acropolis of Athens. Silver shoots normal photographs and then applies an artificial shallow depth of field to the images using Photoshop during post-processing.

Here are some of our favorite tilt-shift photos of Richard Silver:

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City

The US Open in New York City

The Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem

The Great Wall of China

Teotihuacan, Mexico

Roman ruins

The New York Marathon in 2011

Zocalo, Mexico

The World Trade Center Memorial

The White House in Washington, DC

Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Ahu Tangariki

Brooklyn Bridge

Copacabana

Acropolis

Coliseum

SEE AlSO: 7 Most Valuable Monuments in Europe

Balloon Fiesta

Machu Picchu

Dubai, Palm Islands

SEE ALSO: Breathtaking Skydive over The Palm Jumeirah Island in Dubai

[Via MyModernMet]

This is how a map should look like! The ability to be in a city and to see through it, is a superpower. London-based graphic design firm BERG London created these 3D, inception-like, maps of Manhattan, NY by curling up the landscape and eliminating the horizon. The posters, part of a set entitled Here & There, looking uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th, are created using a combination of city manipulations in modeling software.

The prints have made their way into MOMA’s permanent collection, they are both three feet tall and two feet wide (90cm x 60cm), and are available to purchase at BERG London for roughly $150.

It all commenced when Nicolas Nixon, a world-renowned photography professor at the Massachusetts College of Art originally photographed his wife and her 3 sisters, who at the time ranged in age from 15 to 25. They were so impressed with the result, they decided to make it a yearly event, the annual family photo. 36 years later, the sisters and Nicolas had all kept their promise, resulting in these 36 beautiful photographs.

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You can find out more about the fascinating series entitled The Brown Sisters by getting a copy of the book Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters. Thirty-Three Years showcasing these magnificent images in high resolution.

Nearly 85% of consumers name color as the primary reason that they purchase a particular product. 93% look at visual appearance when they buy a product and color improves comprehension, learning and readability. This infographic examines the psychology of color and looks at some common associations of different colors.

When you are looking at the best visual choice for your next project, this color infographic should be a handy guide. Whether you are painting a room at home or designing a web site, color matters. Be sure to do some careful research

Li Wei, Beijing based contemporary artist, is always depicted as a master of gravity-defying  illusions. He wasn’t interested to stick only to photography but mixing it with performances to come up with unique art work. According to Wei’s statement he doesn’t use any Photoshop or other computer montage or tweaking. His creations come out only with the usage of mirrors, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics. Some of the breathtaking productions were published as cover pages of many magazines and  Li Wei himself was recognized as one of  the “The world’s most creative 31 photographers“ by American Getty in 2006.