Jim and Jamie Dutcher spent six years in Idaho in a tent within the world’s largest wolf enclosure in order to observe and document the behavior of these wild animals. They got really close to the wolves and made many unique photos of wolves in their natural habitat.
“Hedonism(y) Trojaner” is a sculpture of a horse that is made out of resin and recycled computer keys and cables. The sculpture references the Trojan Horse of myth (and more recently, computing) and was created by Nuremberg, Germany-based artist Babis Pangiotidis.
Young photographer Vadim Trunov has serious portfolio, but most impressive is his macrophotography of snails and insects.Among the favorite characters Trunova – mantises, ladybugs, ants, dragonflies, bugs-soldiers.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 22: A Competitor jumps infront of a rainbow during the Australasian Supercross Championship at Melbourne Knights Stadium on October 22, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
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.”
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!
Classic car owners taking part in the “2011 Jordan Classic” arrive at the ancient Roman city of Jerash on October 31, 2011 in Jerash, Jordan. The 2011 Jordan Classic takes in world famous sites such as the Dead Sea and Petra. (Photo by Salah Malkawi/ Getty Images)