Beautiful set of unique photos that you have probably never seen before in unique settings such as the migration of sting rays to the thousand hand buddha performance. Lovely photos that would intrigue anyone if they would take a more detailed look.

Check out more of amazing and unbelievable photos with 24 more pics after the jump.

Source: News World

Michael Kenna’s photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light which is achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His work has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions around the world and are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Patrimoine photographique in Paris, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

More of Michael Kenna photography with 18 more pics after the jump.

Source: Trinixy

These are Aurora photos taken by Ovar Atli during the winter in Iceland where he had been out at night enduring in freezing cold and often windy nights to take these fascinating shots. Auroras are also called the northern polar lights as it is only visible in the north sky from the northern hemisphere.

More of the Icelandic Aurora photos by Ovar Atli with 19 more pics after the jump.

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A set of aerial photographs that would set anyone in awe for its diversity and enchanting aerial views. Some of the lovely sights include Maelifell in Iceland, deforestation in Amazon, fields of tulips and many other never seen before places. For higher resolution check out the source the see the set in greater detail.

25 more pics of beautiful aerial photographs after the jump.

Source: Kave Fish

Creative black and while photography by Rene Maltete that uses mind tricks and prop settings to deliver clever visual perceptions. From the guy who play chess with himself to the mermaid by the window, Rene’s works shows that there is no bound to creativity.

Check out 6 more pics of Rene Maltete photography works after the jump.

All images copyrighted to Rene Maltete and visit his website for more of his creative works.
Source: Rene Maltete

Childhood Fears by Joshua Hoffine shows grim images of children and their ultimate fears using impressive horror photographic art.

From the artist himself, ‘I believe that the horror story is ultimately concerned with the imminence and randomness of death, and the implication that there is no certainty to existence. The experience of horror resides in this confrontation with uncertainty. Horror tells us that our belief in security is delusional, and that monsters are all around us.’

Check out 3 more pics of Joshua Hoffine’s horror photography after the jump.

All images copyrighted to Joshua Hoffine and more on his official website

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Chinese artist Li Wei from Beijing started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

Check out 14 more pics of Li Wei’s artwork over the various years after the jump.

Source: Li Wei Art

Beautiful photography by French photographer Cedric Delsaux where he recreates the scenes of Star Wars characters and vehicles with urban wasteland background. The characters are actually model toys superimposed on to shots of Parisian architecture to create the illusion. Cedric Delsaux is an award winner in the newcomer’s France Bourse du Talent competition which stands for Young Talent Award for Photography.

9 more pics of Cedric Delsaux urban Star Wars after the jump.

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Professional photographer Tim Flach takes photos mostly of animals that includes horses, bats, pigs, monkeys and others. Renowned for his highly stylized animal portraits, design and detail dominate his visual style. Tim Flach’s work has been featured in publications such as Creative Review and Stern Magazine and won many international photography awards that includes the Association of Photography and British Design & Art Direction Awards.

All images copyrighted to Tim Flach

35 more pics of animal photography by Tim Flach after the jump.

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Japanese photographer Nick Heiwa creates this awesome photographs that seems to be projected from some fisheye mirror lens. His signature round world photographs are artistic and depict a picture of a scene with a 360 angle.

Check out 25 more pics of Nic Heiwa Photography after the jump.

Source: You Say Too

A collection of beautiful light trail photographs which is a popular subject matter for many photographers. To capture light trails, long shutter speeds would be needed and a tripod since long shutter speed would blur out at the slightest shake. After all the settings are done, it is all about choosing the location, thinking about timing and framing the image.

24 beautiful pics of light trail photography after the jump.

Source: Digital Picture Zone

Light graffiti is created by using LED glowsticks, flashlights and fireworks and then taken using long exposure photos to create these cool light effects.

More on light graffiti can be found at an earlier post too.

Check out 32 pics of light graffiti after the jump.

Source: Abuzeedo

Take a closer look at these photos and you will find out that they are all made from food. Photographer Carl Warner painstakingly captures all forms of food in a series of still life with edible home ingredients to design these series of delicious landscapes.

Check out 6 more pics of food art photography by Carl Warner after the jump.

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An interesting Korean project that reenacts children’s drawing and turn their fantasies into the real world. This photography art is the work of Yeon Doo Jung who is one of Korea’s outstanding photo artist.

Check out more of this great project with 16 more pics after the jump.

Source: Yeon Doo Jung

Another great collection of 48 pics taken just at the right time from Bling It. Obviously some of them are photoshopped but a very entertaining read nevertheless.

Link: Bling It

For those who can’t get enough of HDR photography, Smashing Magazine has another set of 35 fantastic HDR photos.

Check some of these out with 9 more pics after the jump.

Source: Smashing Magazine

The lovely scattered image art is a project undertaken by photographer Roberts Birze where photographs are cut into many fragments and then put together to create a unique fragmented effect.

Check out more of his scattered image artworks with 5 more pics after the jump.

Source: The Scattered Image

High Dynamic Range photography is a technique that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures which increases the tonal detail in photos. HDR photos are new in the field of photography and requires good conversions to achieve a realistic and pleasing final photos. Above shows a HDR version of the Golden Gate Bridge.

HDR Photography is not for everyone as some simply do not like the surrealistic effect but if you do, check out 20 beautiful HDR photographs at Abduzeedo.

Link: Abduzeedo

Cool toy photography effects that literally makes everything down below looks like a part of a little toy world. This effect is created using tilt shift lens or an easier way would be using Photoshop.

21 more pics of tilt shift lens photography after the jump.

Source: The Live Design

As we come towards the end of the year 2007, here’s a look back of the events in photos that happened during this year.

36 more photos of events in the year 2007 after the jump.