Photo Of The Day

Looks like the effects of a wide angle lens?

The other one from the same day, posted by spotter earlier in the thread. Doesn't look too obviously like anything has been edited in (adding extra people in etc), but shows just how much manipulation the picture has had.

Wasn't there a case of a photographer a few years ago who was found to have manipulated a photo of US soldiers (or something similar) to make a situation appear completely different to what actually happened for dramatic effect?

The main bit that got me was the dodgy lighting/shadows.

Where Children Sleep

Some great stuff there but I don't have time to post here.

Cheers for that Grooves. Shared.

Oh and 'Murica' !!!!

Paul Tessier

Maybe not the right season for an image like this, but great picture still.. : ]

Tilts to the left though.

Oh and yes, thanks for the essay Grooves, good stuff..

Where Children Sleep

Some great stuff there but I don't have time to post here.

Really nice, that.

I would probably put homeland security onto this kid though:

http://www.jamesmollison.com/wherechildrensleep.php?p=19

Fark.

^ yeah, that kid must be nuts

There's more good stuff in his portfolio, spent a while on it last night

@Tina. Lovely, but something not quite right for me. I wonder whats been done in PP? I think it's been desaturated too far, or possibly selectively leaving more colour in the sky?

Hard to say what has happened on the way from his Canon 1Ds to this tumblr-JPG
(does anyone know if / how tumblr auto-corrects JPG's?).
Besides that, too me, it looks pretty 'right' actually.

I'm fine with a little bit of desaturation, but I feel that a bit too much colour might have been removed from the foreground up to the horizon. I've not been to the Antarctic, but my experience from up north is that a large part of the beauty comes from the amazingly dark inky water - very nearly black but very distinctly blue.

Of course light plays a lot of tricks and this may have been what his eye saw, but it's the water in the foreground that isn't quite right to me.

At risk of going on too long there is another wonderful Antarctic shot from WPOTY a few years ago which had the same B&W feel but you could pick out smudges of colour in the dirt on the penguins breasts.

Sorry if this has been done - but this exhibition is fantastic; talk about much better times to live in!

http://pstp-edison.com/exhibitions/

http://static.squarespace.com/static/5104afd9e4b00ee3050c053b/t/512ffd72e4b0973b4dbb645a/1362099572868/Shaffer11a.jpg?format=750w

http://static.squarespace.com/static/5104afd9e4b00ee3050c053b/t/5152830ee4b047ba3da5c814/1364362002320/Loomis03.jpg?format=1000w

Stolen from reddit: Heart surgeon after a 23 hour long heart transplant. 1987 Poland (not quite photo of the day i know)

Heart surgeon Dr. Zbigniew Religa keeps watch on a monitor tracking the vital signs of a heart-transplant patient. One of Religa's colleagues who helped him perform two transplants in an all-night session rests in the corner. Despite the fact that Poland has such advanced medical capabilities, its free national health-care system suffers many problems. There are long waiting lists for surgery, critical lack of hospital beds and frequent shortages of even the most basic supplies.

wow.

That photo is by James L. Stanfield

cheers, repped.

Even by his own standards, these are great.

http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/grief-grind-and-glory-of-work/

Those are so good, especially how he's shown the range in conditions where satisfaction may not always follow high pay.
Obvsly-betterpayisbetter-Obvsly

*This aerial photo shows the remains of homes hit by a massive tornado in Moore, Okla., A tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. *

20th of May, 2013

AP Photo / Steve Gooch

Images from 'Thames Town: China’s new Suburbia' by Dave Wyatt.

Thames town is an English style new satellite town built close to Shanghai as part of the local governments ‘One City –Nine Towns’ plan. This plan was hatched out of the population boom being experienced in Shanghai. In the past 15 years the population has increased by 8 million and the landmass it covers has increased from 100sqkm to a staggering 680sqkm. Despite this growth Shanghai is still four times as densely populated as New York. The ‘One City –Nine Towns’ plan seeks to construct nine satellite towns around Shanghai. Six of these towns are to be themed on European style cities from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Italy.
The rise of China’s new middle ‘class’ is resulting in the creation of a new suburbia, the same phenomenon as seen in post-war Britain and America. Now that disposable incomes are reaching levels that allow people to pay for better education, annual holidays and private accommodation, the landscape of China is changing in the same manner as seen in the West. This is China’s suburban revolution.

shivers

Top one looks like Windsor

Super weird.