Category Archives: Misc

Saint Petersburg is located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city’s other names were Petrograd (1914–1924) and Leningrad (1924–1991). The most tragic period in the history of this city is undoubtedly the 900-day Siege of Leningrad, a period full of suffering and heroism. For everyone who lives in St. Petersburg the Blokada (the Siege) of Leningrad is an important part of the city’s heritage and a painful memory for the population’s older generations.

An unknown artist has made this unique photos combing the photos of Leningrad today, and the photos of this city from the period of the notorious blockade when the Soviet Union was attacked by Nazi Germany. It lasted from September 8 1941 until January 27 1944. Here it is made obvious for all how deep affect this has left on people’s mind and how vivid it still is.

This is an amazing photo gallery of aerial landscapes made by Alexander Heilner. He is a New York–based artist and educator whose work deals primarily with the intersection of organic and human-constructed landscapes and environments. An internationally exhibited photographer for many years, he has more recently been using video, digital, and performance as paths for exploring human perception of the physical world.

See some beautiful photos of various animals made of steel. All of them are adorable.

These masterpiece eggs are created by jeweler Peter Carl Fabergés and they are the most unique and expensive eggs (not the real egg of course) in the world. Made from expensive metals or gemstones and decorated with a combination of enamel and gem, these exquisite eggs can be found in museums and private collections.

The Sony World Photography Awards is a week-long celebration of the photographic culture, history and image. The City of Cannes provides the canvas for these celebrations offering visitors all the diversity, glamor and tranquil elegance the Cotes D’Azur has to offer.Every year, for one week in April, the City of Cannes takes a step back from the moving image and celebrates the birth of film through the photographic medium.Throughout the Palais des Festivals, along the famous Croisette, selected hotels, city landmarks, streets and beaches, will showcase dozens of unique photographic exhibitions, welcoming the residents and visitors of the Cotes D’Azur. For more info click here.

These fine paper sculptures are made by the Eckman family, Allen and Petty.For years they are working with this sort of fine art. His inexhaustible inspiration and the spring of ideas are Native American Indians. Allen has a great interest in the Native American Indian partly because his great-great grandmother was a Cherokee. “I really am interested in the Indian’s material, physical and spiritual culture and that whole period of our nation’s history I find fascinating. From the western expansion, through the Civil War and beyond is of great interest to me.” Eckman has expanded his work through all these subjects .

Patty has a great interest in wildlife, birds and flowers in particular. “Ever since I was a child I have had a great appreciation of wildlife. I can sit for hours and watch the birds come to my feeder. When I look at a flower I don’t see just color, I see form. Wonderful shapes that the color tries to overpower.” Patty also has interests in the Native American culture and since the year 2000 has been sculpting beautiful Indian woman and children. On large complicated and detailed works the couple often work together and both sign the piece when completed.

Since 2006, kazakhstan’s new capital city of astana, itself an enormous hub of construction since it inherited the title in 1997, has been home to one of the world’s most impressive and visually futuristic pyramids, known as the palace of peace and reconciliation. it was designed by british super-architects foster + partners, cost 8.74 billion kazakh tenge (i don’t need to tell you bright young humans that this equates to approx. £35m) and was built to accommodate the triennial ‘congress of world and traditional religions’. if there was ever a positive to be found for the existence of the idiocy we know and love as religion, this building could be it, as after an impressively rapid 2 years of design and construction, the end product is a masterpiece.

This life is fulfilled with miscellaneous colors. Hera are some beautiful and amazing photos to prove that.

Even the people who are not really into fashion will surely find these photos truly beautiful and breathtaking. Michael Sanders has proved that beauty can be found everywhere. He chose this unique scenery of countryside for presenting this fancy designers clothes. I especially liked the effect of roughness and pure nature which he managed to capture thanks to perfect combination of light and shadows with minimal use of colors.

Here goes amazing black and white collection of photos. This is like a quiet and discrete tour through Sydney. You have the opportunity to take a peak at this city and his citizens and to see what kind of atmosphere is there. The unknown photographer has managed to catch the true essence of an everyday life and still it looks aesthetic and artistic. I hope you’ll enjoy!

Brian Dettmer, born in 1974, was raised in Naperville, Illinois. Until 2006, Dettmer lived in and around Chicago, where he earned a BA in fine arts from Columbia College Chicago in 1997. During school and following graduation, Dettmer worked in positions related to graphics and signage design. In 2006, Dettmer moved with his wife to Atlanta, where he works as a studio artist. (Brown 2008; Camper 2005).