A mysterious underwater world, fine art photos by Gabriele Viertel
“I am a Netherlands-based fine art photographer Gabriele Viertel. My works are mainly created underwater. I use water to create a thought provoking mood and skilfully chiaroscuro lighting that leads to a dramatical surrealistic visual narrative. The photographs are a tightrope between the world of human vulnerability, beauty and fashion, and performing arts. Selected works […]
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The ‘Birdman’ of Chennai feeds up to 4,000 wild green parakeets daily from his home
Ten years ago, after a tsunami struck near Chennai, India, a camera repairman named Sekar noticed a pair of displaced green parakeets perched near his back porch. He immediately started to feed them with rice from his home, and the birds soon nested nearby and slowly—and then not so slowly—began to multiply. The 62-year-old now […]
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Amber eyes, photography by Mária Kristínková
Canis lupus arctos (Arctic wolf) living in captivity Mária Kristínková: behance
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IKEA turned children’s drawings into real plush toys
With IKEA’s help, 10 lucky kids’ drawings have left the realm of fantasy to become real, tangible soft toys that IKEA will sell around the world as part of its Soft Toys For Education campaign. After the finalists were chosen from a world-wide selection, IKEA’s toy designers turned them into these wonderful plush toys for […]
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Sylvie Wagner, digital art
“I find the sources of my inspiration in every nook and cranny my vision and perceptions can reach. A city, a scene, a landscape, inspiration comes unexpectedly. I, then, start my “journey”, guided by my six senses. A light, a tune, a person: I pick them all up and fill up my camera. Then comes […]
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Japanese and Siberian flying squirrels
These adorable flying squirrels are found in Japan and in Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific coast, and fall under the category of Old World flying squirrels. They don’t hibernate, but in the winter, they sometimes sleep for several days at a time. Flying squirrels don’t actually fly: they glide using a furry […]
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Once in the street: cityscapes – silk painting by Olena Korolyuk
A series of urban landscapes of my favorite cities “In a word, my art is a silk painting. Just painting, not the decorative art. It took me a lot of time, I tried different techniques and materials, I thought something up myself to archieve a picturesque effect in my works. As to material, I usually […]
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Marta Bevacqua, artistic portraits of Alexia
Photography: Marta Bevacqua // Model: Alexia Giordano Marta Bevacqua: website
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Natural rock formation looks like an elephant drinking from the ocean
Sometimes, the natural landscape can bear an uncanny resemblance to creatures in the wild—one of these curious places is off the coast of Iceland. On the island of Heimaey, there is a rock formation that, from certain angles, looks like a massive elephant taking a drink out of the Atlantic ocean. Two key elements contribute […]
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