Photographer Alex Cornell caught an iceberg flip in Antarctica. This is prime supervillain lair material.
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Buffalo Bill Gates
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Earth in 4K
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Yumi, Yari, Naginata
From a collection of hand-coloured photographs of 19th Century Japan.
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Diorama maps
Sohei Nishino creates ‘Diorama Maps’: photomontages of cities ranging from skyline photos down to individual people. Each contains thousands of photos taken over months in each city and the small section from Istanbul below really shows the shot diversity:
I’m pretty sure that’s the Rüstem Paşa Mosque and the New Mosque then you’ve got people down by the river, wide shots of traffic, a cat…
If you’re in London at Michael Hoppen Contemporary you can see Berlin, New Delhi, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Bern.
(via The Fox is Black)
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Reindeer
Someone tweeted this photo back on Remembrance Day, I think it was captioned “The most badass war photo ever” or similar and it is a pretty impressive shot. It appears to be a reindeer in the middle of a warzone looking towards the action, and even better this photo was taken during Operation Renntier (Reindeer), pretty amazing, no?
Well actually yeah, no. Though saying it’s a fake seems harsh because it’s still a great photo, it’s just a composite.
Yevgeny Khaldei was a Red Army photographer during the second World War. During the bombing of Operation Renntier:
…a reindeer (later named Yasha) came out to be with the soldiers–the shellshocked creature didn’t want to be alone. During one of the air raids,Khaldei took the reindeer shot, but it wasn’t as dramatic as he assumed, so he later superimposed British Hawker Hurricanes, flown by RAF pilots to relieve Murmansk, and an exploding bomb to form a composite image.
Khaldei is best known for this photo of the Soviet flag raised over the Reichstag in Berlin but this is also a fake, in that it’s a reconstruction, not the original event (much the like the image it tried to emulate).
