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Wow The Adventures of BeetleCam

In 2009 we embarked on a project to get unique close-up, ground level photographs of African wildlife. To achieve this I built BeetleCam; a remote controlled buggy with a DSLR camera mounted on top. Matt and I travelled to Tanzania and used the buggy to get groundbreaking photographs of elephants and buffalo. However, we lost a camera and BeetleCam was almost destroyed in our only encounter with a lion.

We returned home and published “The Adventures of BeetleCam”. The story quickly went viral, appearing all over the web, in print and on television networks worldwide. However, we weren’t entirely satisfied… just imagine what we could get with a lion-proof BeetleCam!

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09 Nov 2012 10:01:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Berndnaut Smilde Creater Clouds

Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde is interested in the ephemeral -- impermanent states of being which he documents through photographs. For Nimbus II, he used a smoke machine, combined with moisture and dramatic lighting to create a hovering indoor cloud in the empty setting of a sixteenth-century chapel in Hoorn, a small town in Holland. “I imagined walking into a museum hall with just empty walls. The place even looked deserted. On the one hand I wanted to create an ominous situation. You could see the cloud as a sign of misfortune. You could also read it as an element out of the Dutch landscape paintings in a physical form in a classical museum hall.”

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25 Dec 2012 12:31:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Found on Flickr: Photo Art by Christophe Kiciak

“I started photography in June 2009. At the time, I was searching for a way to express both the rigorous scientist and the creative artist in me. There are few hobbies that let these two approaches work together, so I really was enthusiastic about it: I am now spending all my free time studying various techniques, contemplating others' fantastic work, and of course, making pictures”. – Christophe Kiciak. Photo: “The Hero”. (Photo by Christophe Kiciak)

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11 Jan 2013 15:40:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Peacock Spider (Maratus Volans)

Jumping spiders are often very colourful spiders. Maratus volans is not an exception. Although tiny, male spiders have an iridescent colouring of red, green and blue.

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22 Dec 2012 12:39:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Thierry Cohen by Darkened Cities

These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city dwellers are missing every night.

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27 Dec 2012 15:44:00,post received 0 comments

Fact World’s Biggest Revolver by Ryszard Tobys

It was build by Ryszard Tobys and was modeled after the Remington Model 1859 revolver. It is 28mm in caliber

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17 Jan 2013 14:11:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Celebrity Mini-Me’s from the Golden Globes

New York photographer Tricia Messeroux has painstakingly recreated the stars' iconic looks from this week's Golden Globes — using kids.

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27 Jan 2013 13:28:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Tribe Kikuyu with Kenya

The Kikuyu tribe, also spelled as Gikuyu, is the largest ethnic group in Kenya, making up about 22% of the countries total population. That equals around 6 million people, according to the 2007 CIA World Fact Book.

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28 Jan 2013 12:36:00,post received 0 comments