Rasmus Norlander is a photographer with in Zürich and Stockholm. The photos he takes are of stunning engineering and architectural shots.
But what makes his photos extra special is that they are made with large (we are taking quite large!) or medium format cameras.
Check out his minimalist site; www.rasmusnorlander.se
Tags: architecture, engineering, Photography, sweden, switzerland
A while back now I wrote a blog post about the Impossible Project and how polaroid film was coming back, well late last year Abigail and I took part in a Polaroid Workshop in Manchester, hosted by Tom Wright (the UK impossible project ambassador). The aim of the workshop was simple, to get people back into taking polaroids, a medium that people have nearly forgotten about. There is something special about film and the way you can’t just keep snapping away, with polaroids you could only take 10 photos per pack, with impossible thats 8. You really have to think about what you are taking, make that photo different to what you could simply take on a digital camera.
The photos above are mostly my attempts at taking a decent polaroid photo – you can tell I have never used one before. Couple of them, of myself and Abigail were taken by our polaroid expert Tom.
Hopefully this year when the sun is out we shall join forces and take to the streets of Manchester to capture it. Who knows perhaps it could be Liverpool…
Tags: impossible project, manchester, polaroids, tom wright, workshop
Laurent Nivalle is a French photographer with a wonderful eye for the classics. Love the designs of the old cars. You might have seen these before but this series taken at the LeMans 24hr race is amazing to look at, the colour in the photographs and the behind the scenes shots make me jealous. This year will definitely be a photography year for me.
Tags: cars, french, Photography, style
German photographer Bernhard Lang takes these amazing arial photographs of some fantastic places.
Tags: arial, landscape, people, Photography, small
Yowayowa Camera Woman’s Diary is a photographic diary by Natsumi Hayashi, who takes amazing portraits of herself levitating in all sorts of places in Japan (and photos of her cats too).
You can see her diary at yowayowacamera.com
Tags: japan, levitation, Photography
this isn’t happiness is a blog by Peter Nidzgorski that I seem to always stumble upon when looking for inspiration, whether it is design, art, typography or photography (women too). It isn’t one of those blogs where everything you see has been plucked from ffffound. It’s really the opposite (the images here end up on ffffound). Images taken from many different sources there is always a fresh stream to wash over you, vintage and modern. It’s one of those blogs where you can end up spending hours going through the pages if you haven’t been on it before, so I pre-warn you.
this isn’t happiness is a blog you must bookmark and keep as your scrapbook for creativity.
(images here taken from the blog itself – images link to source.)
PS. That last image. That’s a digital illustration!
Tags: blog, this isn't happiness™, tumblr
You might have seen this already, but I would love to spent a few weeks and visit these. Soviet monuments built by the former Yugoslavian president in the 1970′s to mark WWII sites. They are fascinating. Some standing and some now rubble. Now all I need is a google map to get me to all of them…
You can view more here.
Tags: monuments, sculptures, USSR, Yugoslavia
Multi-skilled Danny Willis has an great series of Analogue vs. Digital projects where he blurs the bounties between digital manipulation analogue photography and graphic design.
Tags: analogue, Photography, photos
These have been floating around the internet for a while, but I keep coming back to them again and again. Simply taken in Berlin in the winter. Wonderful.
Check the full set out on Matthias Heiderich’s Behance portfolio.
Tags: berlin, Photography, winter
Check out this great documentary about the urban decay of New York’s underground. So exciting and inspiring it just makes me want to go out and do the same.
You can visit Steves website at: www.undercity.org and even check out these photos to wet your appetite for exploration.
Another UK based photographer based in Manchester – Andrew Brooks, has done the same sort of thing and even had galleries based around this urban exploration and undiscovered hidden areas. Check out “Hidden Manchester” here for some simply stunning places just out of reach.
If you are still craving some more, there are two options, have a google – find this website, or go out and explore yourself.
Tags: canon, exploration, hidden manchester, mole people, New York, NYC, tunnels, undercity, underground, urban