Dustin Humphrey
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PhotoShelter)In some of the most unique underwater images ever taken, Dustin Humphrey has combined surfers riding waves on the surface of the water with jarring scenes on the ocean floor. These images are a promotional series for surf conglomerate
Insight51. Upside down bedrooms, naked girls on motor bikes and underwater shantytowns are among the strange installations created for the series.
Bob West
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Bob West)The nighttime landscapes of Bob West give us a surreal view of landscapes lit only by a full moon. West ventures out with his digital SLR in hand to capture photos like these when the time is right, and though he claims to be somewhat of an amateur, his photography indicates otherwise.
Kenneth G. Libbrecht
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SnowCrystals.com)Kenneth Libbrecht gives us an up-close-and-personal view of just how beautiful snowflakes really are. His images are taken with a specially designed snowflake photomicroscope in places like Northern Ontario, Alaska, Vermont, the Michigan Upper Peninsula and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The website SnowCrystals.com has an interesting guide to the different types of snowflakes, and the conditions under which they form and fall.
Tina Owens
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Tina Owens)Hawaii-based Tina Owens takes macro underwater shots of the many colorful and beautiful creatures that live in the warm waters surrounding the islands. Formerly president of the Kona Underwater Photo Society, Owens loves to travel the world and her favorite place to take photos is East Africa.
Örvar Atli
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pbase)Many people photograph the rare beauty of
polar auroras – natural colored light displays in the sky, usually seen at night in areas close to the North and South poles – but most don’t use the auroras as another element in a beautiful landscape photograph the way Örvar Atli does. The Icelandic landscape photographer waits in the freezing cold all night long to get the best shots, and the results are breathtaking.
Adam Andrearczyk
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Deviant Art)Polish photographer Adam Andrearczyk has produced some of the darkest, most ominously beautiful HDR photography ever seen. Each gritty image seems to be part of some dark fairytale, and leaves you wanting to know more about its setting and subjects. This selection of dramatic nature photos is just the beginning of Andrearczyk’s talent: his urban photography is even more amazing.
Andy Rouse
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The Daily Mail)Famed wildlife photographer
Andy Rouse captured this series of images of a mother Cheetah teaching her cubs how to hunt in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya. The mother captured this poor little gazelle and delivered it to her cubs, but they didn’t seem to know what to do with it, and decided to give it a cuddle instead of eating it. Unsurprisingly, instinct kicked in and the cubs got a little rough with the gazelle, but it finally found an opportunity to escape.
