
By Eduardo Lopez Negrete.
One of the entries for this year’s National Geographic Photo Contest.
The winners have been announced! If you’ve never been the exhibition at the NHM is worth a visit, it’s not cheap but it is very good (also worth keeping an eye out for the free touring exhibition over the course of next year).
Some faves from this year:
Planet is series of scrollable journeys around the Earth made of photos taken from the International Space Station. Screenshots don’t really do it justice so you should just have a look. Some faves:
Ad/showreel for the GoPro HERO4. Basically people doing the most awesome things in the world.
Before They Pass Away is a photography project by Jimmy Nelson; across a series of journeys he embedded himself with 31 indigenous tribes around the world and took their portraits. His technique gives the photos a painterly, vintage quality:
The site is well worth a visit, there must be hundreds of photos there: people, families, their homes, landscapes. Really beautiful stuff.
And yes that is a golden eagle, our Kazakh friend no doubt a fellow member of Eagle Club.