Thursday, March 12, 2015
The core of a dark planetoid hosts a primordial soup of microscopic life. Within the neural pathways of these organic compounds, intelligence is born from the primitive drive for survival. Each stage of Primordial has been designed and animated by separate artists and sequentially stitched together as one evolving timeline. Special thanks to all the artists involved in this project. Animation: Jason Kerr / Chris Bjerre / Peter Clark Title Design: Peter Clark / Wendie Ing Title Cinematography: Joe Picard Sound Design: Peter Clark Vocals: Haley Varacallo Full process is available here: http://bit.ly/1FUngTv
An aspiring hermit, an aspiring socialite and a shared flask of tea. Written, directed and animated by Gavin C Robinson - http://bit.ly/1BwBb2t @BravingOnions Music composed and performed by Mike Vass - www.mikevass.com Sound by Keith Duncan - http://bit.ly/1BwBcDmwww.mikevass.com Sound by Keith Duncan - http://bit.ly/1BwBcDm
Buddha
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.”
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I was fortunate enough to spend several months this past summer traveling around the U.S. and parts of Canada, teaching workshops and shooting timelapse along the way. Since the trip was so similar to the year before, I thought it was fitting to dub this video as a sequel to Adventure Is Calling. It was so great getting so much feedback on the last video about how it inspired so many to get out, travel, and spend more nights under the stars. I hope this video will revamp those desires. Special thanks to Arn Andersson for making an extended version of his song The Truth Beyond for me to use for this video. www.arnandersson.com Camera Gear: Canon 5D MKIII Canon 5D MKII Canon 16-35L II Canon 24L II Canon 50 f1.4 Canon 70-200L II IS Motion control thanks to: eMotimo TB3 Black www.emotimo.com Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly http://bit.ly/1b4GHj2 Vanguard Tripods Editing: Adobe Lightroom Adobe After Effects LRTimelapse Email shaneblack300@gmail.com for licensing inquiries. http://bit.ly/1FS3ZSywww.arnandersson.com Camera Gear: Canon 5D MKIII Canon 5D MKII Canon 16-35L II Canon 24L II Canon 50 f1.4 Canon 70-200L II IS Motion control thanks to: eMotimo TB3 Black www.emotimo.com Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly http://bit.ly/1b4GHj2 Vanguard Tripods Editing: Adobe Lightroom Adobe After Effects LRTimelapse Email shaneblack300@gmail.com for licensing inquiries. http://bit.ly/1FS3ZSy Instagram @shanemichaelblack
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
This is somewhere in East Java where I had the opportunity to get lost for a few days with the great European surfers Tiago Pires and Aritz Aranburu during their break in the WCT Tour 2014. A poem by John Clare narrated by Tom O’Bedlam. Filmed by Iker Elorrieta. _ Music: Nils Frahm http://apple.co/1E6bl2v Graphics: http://bit.ly/1E6bl2w
Official Selection of the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival Pure Concentricity was created in the span of two weeks as a commission for Denver Digerati. Composed of sequential photographs, the animation was limited to the natural landscape, the human figure, and concentric circles of shaving cream. Directed by Evan Mann www.evanmann.com Produced by Otherworldly Productions http://bit.ly/1D5Zkir Denver Digerati http://bit.ly/1Ag5Tsw I must acknowledge my appreciation for the following people who contributed their time and energy into twww.evanmann.com Produced by Otherworldly Productions http://bit.ly/1D5Zkir Denver Digerati http://bit.ly/1Ag5Tsw I must acknowledge my appreciation for the following people who contributed their time and energy into the making of this film: Caleb Young, Matthew Jorgenson, Brandon McCalley, Chau and Kevin Gan, and my wife Deborah
Rough sea 4 by gioallie
Another huge wave during a seastorm in Italy. via 500px http://bit.ly/1FMfSJN
Commissioned by Red Bull Media, this is the second of a series of four films which illustrate sport stories. Featuring 90s surfer Rob Bain Follow here: http://on.fb.me/1C6HQCy CREDITS: Commissioned by Red Bull Media Director: Luiz Stockler Animation: Luiz Stockler, Dana Giurescu Design: Luiz Stockler Interview: Red Bull Media Sound: Ana Roman Production Manager: Rebecca Little Produced by Agile Films More info on the story here: http://win.gs/1C6HQCA Twitter: http://bit.ly/1C6HNXe Behance: http://on.be.net/1E5z5DU
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Red Dragon by JayDaley
Thanks for stopping to look at my photo. All of my images are available for sale and can be shipped world wide. Please email jay@jdlphotography.com.au for any enquiries. **** http://bit.ly/1xbDjHB Taken on August 23rd 2013 In the weeks leading up to China I had decided that I was going to take some time for myself to just check out the country and hopefully get some shots before knuckling down to work in Shanghai. I decided I would spend a few days in the Yangshuo county (see previous posts) and then travel to the Great Wall for the remaining few. Researching the Great Wall one thing became immediately apparent – it’s home to a lot of tourists. Naturally this was a problem because people + landscape photography don’t work. So – with a little more research I discovered Jinshanling. Still a magnificent section of the wall but it’s distance and difficulty to easily commute to from Beijing made it a less desirable section for sightseer’s then the Badaling and Simatai alternatives. Perfect? No. As I would soon find out it was near impossible to get to (especially for an English speaking visitor) and even harder to get back from. None-the-less, I did eventually get there (and eventually get back as-well but that’s a whole other story). So when I finally arrived in Jinshanling three things struck me. First was the smog in the air. I knew Beijing would be incredibly polluted but with Jinshanling being some distance away I didn’t think this would be a problem, unfortunately, it seemed to be. Second, the wall was a long way UP and I was a long way DOWN. Getting up there would require a lot trekking. Finally, it was still damn hot! The next morning my alarm was set for 3:30am. I had a bad feeling about the smog and wasn’t expecting much. After a hard trek in the dark I had finally reached a section that appeared to be high enough to offer a suitable vista so I stopped to catch my breath. It was then that my cognizant moment arrived - I was standing on the Great Wall of China! By myself, absolutely alone. There was not a single sound to be heard, not a single person to be seen and to my astonishment, the smog had disappeared. Alone with my tripod, water bottle and camera I stood there and took it all in – stretching into the distance as far as I could see was an ancient brick wall, snaking it’s way along impossible ridges, atop incredible mountains and through deep green valleys. It could have been the year 1388, 1600 or 2013 – this was a timeless moment. via 500px http://bit.ly/1BoMI3y
Moonstar by YegorMalinovskii
I never thought of photographing Antelope Canyon at night. It was suggested to me the very last minute before my trip to the Southwest and I could not have been happier that I decided to shoot this staple with a night sky, light painted walls, and in almost freezing weather. Full moon washed out most of the stars in the sky and in this shot was somewhat obstructed by the rock so thus the "moonstar". We had the canyon all to ourselves - which during the day would seem to be crazy impossible considering thousands of people shooting there shoulder to shoulder. This is a reprocess of the file from 2013 - there is definitely a lot more things I have learned since then, thanks to magic of Alex Noriega (http://bit.ly/1BoMF87) who's Skype lessons were incredibly impactful on how I approach my post work. via 500px http://bit.ly/1xbDiTP
This year I visited New York for the first time. Throughout my time there I was walking all around the city with my camera. I was looking for a way to portray all the different types of scenery and people that I saw as well as keep the constant energy of the city. I decided to take still photographs and compile them in a video as if they were one flowing motion. Shot with a Canon 550D and edited on Premiere and After Effects. All background ambient sounds were recorded on location.
Winter Wishbone by dthompson
Looks a lot better on black! Taken on a cold, windy winter evening in the Canadian Rockies. via 500px http://bit.ly/1xaV5e7
A long way by AbdullaAlmajed
In a gigantic places like this location, you can illustrate its size and dimensions to the viewer by adding a known size element. Such as the (human) element as it's shown on my picture. via 500px http://bit.ly/1wpTypq
Monday, March 9, 2015
Jigsaw Earth by ErinBabnik
Hey, guess what…I now have a Facebook page! Stop by and click “Like” to stay in touch: Erin Babnik Photography Outings like this one come rarely in the career of a photographer. It’s not just a story of great conditions, which eventually happen for anyone who spends enough time out in inclement weather. Nor is it a tale of reward after great effort, which tends to be the case with most worthwhile excursions. Above all, this is a story of discovery…and ridiculously dumb luck. It all started after I had made a couple of trips to this remote area in lackluster conditions and came away feeling robbed. So I decided to make a third trek out, this time with David Kingham, who had some experience with the area himself. I timed our visit to catch a moon alignment with a composition that I had worked out previously. On our first morning out, my planned shot came off as well as I could possibly have hoped. Just like that. Boom. Done. What next? Time to go exploring! Using topographical maps and satellite imagery to identify areas of potential interest, we hiked many miles, sometimes following clues on the maps and sometimes just following our own noses. What came of it was an embarrassment of riches. This field of gargantuan mud tiles was only one jackpot in a series of discoveries that we made during that period, and it was mostly no thanks to the satellite imagery. Nearly everything that looked promising in the satellite views turned out to be a bust when we arrived on foot, and then areas that showed as expanses of nothingness, like this area of mud tiles, proved to be utter treasure troves. Presumably, at some point after the satellite images were taken, a massive dust devil had formed over the buried field and excavated it so thoroughly that a pristine expanse the size of a football field lay exposed, revealing cracks between the tiles reaching over a foot deep; some of the gaps were so wide that I could fit my camera down into them. Just the opposite had happened to one other field that had been quite impressive less than a year earlier: there sand had blown in and new bushes had grown up, as the desert made quick work of reclaiming its photogenic bits. Discovering a series of world-class geological features was exciting enough, but our good luck streak was running wide. On only our second outing to shoot the mother-of-all-mud-tile-fields, we got dramatic conditions to go with it. Much to our delight, great skies that morning provided a whole series of progressively more interesting moments from twilight onward, and before the sun had even risen, I was already in a quandary about which slice of time I would choose to process. And then came the moment that trumped them all. I had been shooting the same composition for over an hour when we started to feel raindrops falling…and…BAM! RAINBOW! And not just anywhere—the left end of the rainbow dropped right down into my composition, right onto the top of the central peak and aligned with the central tree! Now, rainbows appearing in great locations can be enough to make grown men cry, but having one just show up in your frame while you’re shooting an awesome new discovery is almost scary. One can’t help but wonder if such astonishing good luck means that great misfortune is coming to balance it out. Like, maybe if you decide to go back in a couple of weeks, you’ll end up stranded in the desert with two flat tires. Alas, lady luck is a fickle mistress. See for yourself… http://bit.ly/1MmLVlw. -------- Would you like to join me on an adventure? Well here’s the good news…I will be conducting a workshop in the Italian Dolomites with co-leader Enrico Fossati. If a trip to Italy during the second week of July for some sweet action sounds appealing, be sure to get in touch with me so I can add you to the workshop mailing list. More info here: Dolomites Workshop For prints and licensing of this image, please visit my website. via 500px http://bit.ly/1MmLTdu
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