Haunting color photographs made by Adolf Hitler’s personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger, in the ghettos of Warsaw and the smaller Polish city of Kutno in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and 1940. Source: World War II: Color Photos From Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939 – 1940 | Time.com
Another spectacular image found on reddit. It’s not clear to me who took the image, but redditor ihaveadarksoul seems to post the photographer a lot.
I did a double or triple take at this photo…actually I still can’t see it as a photo; it looks like a Renaissance painting to my eyes. I cannot track down who captured it, but I found the image on multiple “photos that look like paintings” webpages like this one at reddit. Whatever the medium, it is a beautiful image that has passed from site to site and adopted the title The Baker. (more…)
I didn’t know “Professional Birth Photographer” was a thing. But that didn’t stop the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers (IAPBP) from presenting some incredible photos from their 2017 contest winners. The winning photographs highlight “the struggles mothers go through to bring new life into the world, and the sheer joy that follows.” (more…)
What is the best angle to photograph from when shooting a portrait? Photographer Ed Gregory puts some effort into answering that question in this video from his YouTube channel Photos in Color. While he admits he couldn’t control the conditions for this portrait survey perfectly, he does as much as humanly possible, and we can learn a lot from his analysis of the resulting portraits. (more…)
Photographer Angela B. Pan has created a beautiful, evocative HDR photo of the Washington D.C. Vietnam Memorial at sunrise.
I lost my GIMP toolbox? But even when I found it again, it was so different from the default toolbox that I couldn’t use it.
The solution is to reset the GIMP toolbox to it’s default settings via a slightly hidden button in the Preferences popup. (more…)
Matthew Rolston created this incredible photograph of Katie Halchishick, a founder of Healthy Is The New Skinny, for an O magazine article titled “Better than Beautiful.” Covered with dotted lines a plastic surgeon might make prior to cosmetic surgery, the lines reflect the unrealistic beauty standards represented by the Barbie doll, Read more…
Jupiter – Absolutely stunning! I don’t I know if it’s really Jupiter or some digital artist’s conception, but it’s sure one knockout of an image. I need to find the source for this image of Jupiter’s storms. via Jupiter : pics | reddit
Project Unbreakable ~ Melissa Harris-Perry mentioned this project on her show recently, saying it was a powerful healing tool for victims of rape and sexual abuse, and the project deserved attention.
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