Photography

This amazing miniature city of Elgin Park was meticulously crafted in 1/24 scale by Michael Paul Smith

By combining realistic miniature models of a small town, and using forced perspective photography, skilled model maker and photographer Michael Paul Smith has created amazingly realistic photographs.Read More

Superimposed photos combine the present with the past

Superimposed Photo: Thomas Circle, Washington, DC

These clever superimposed photos align historical photos with today's actual surroundings by placing an old photo in front of the subject, then taking a picture of both.

For those lucky enough to have a box of early 20th century photographs - and even luckier to find the subjects still exist - it might be worth a drive to track down some of the locations to get some really cool and attention-getting photographs.Read More

The Search For a Frozen Camera Could Rewrite the History Books On Mt. Everest's First Climbers

[Mallory and Irvine in their camp preparing for their ascent]

In June 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine left their camp just 800 feet from the summit of Mount Everest on a mission to be the first mountaineers to ascend the world's highest peak (29,035 feet). They were never heard from again. Whether either man reached the summit — almost three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic 1953 climb — has been an open question for 85 years.Read More

The oldest and most expensive camera in the world

Peter Coeln, the CEO of WestLicht Photographica with World's Oldest Camera

Peter Coeln, the CEO of WestLicht Photographica Auction in Vienna with the 1839 Daguerreotype, the first commercially-produced camera in the world. The camera will be sold at auction on on May 29th. The estimated sale price will be $750,000 and $1 million.Read More

A mushroom is a fleshy, spore-bearing fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. Here is a collection of some of the more beautiful mushroom varieties.Read More

Nick Veasey creates X-ray images that reveal the inner workings of familiar objects - from the components of a notebook computer - to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. The 747 X-Ray image took Veasey more than three months to create.Read More

Scientists run from lava flow in Royal Gardens, Hawaii

The U.S. Geological Survey has an extensive database of lava-related events in Hawaii. One hundred of the best images were selected from the collections of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.Read More

570-Megapixel Digital Camera is the Largest in the World

You’re looking at the heart of one of the biggest digital cameras ever conceived — 74 CCD sensors that will go into an enclosure the size of a Mini Cooper. The 570-megapixel shooter is being built at Fermilab by an international team of particle physicists and astronomers, who think it will help solve one of the great mysteries of the cosmos: What is dark energy?Read More

Artist Liz Hickok creates buildings and even entire cities made of Jell-O

Artist Liz Hickok makes San Francisco city landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which she uses to make molds.

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One of the oldest tricks in the photography book revisited

Brian Auer

A double exposure is a relatively simple photography trick that can be used to achieve all sorts of fun effects - ghosts, fake twins, mirror images or something as simple as superimposing a backdrop of trees into a romantic scene.Read More