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Projector in the Forest
I learned that a powerful projector can actually illuminate things in nature.
This is my favorite photo from the site because I like the way the mushrooms look like they're glowing. A rule of photography I noticed in this photo is simplicity. The photographer did a really good job of  focusing on the subject and getting a clean, simple background. The photo was taken by Tarek Mawad. In the video I saw on the website, I saw how they set up the projector and found different locations to photograph. I learned that you can make wildlife glow with a projector.

Spiral Staircases: Something I learned from this website was that spiral staircases have surprising beauty.
 
This is my favorite picture because I've always been intrigued by abandon industrial buildings. A photography rule I saw in this picture leading lines. The spiral of the staircase really leads my eyes all the way down to the bottom. The picture was taken by Christian Richter somewhere in Europe. Some other things I saw on the website were spiral staircases from many other abandon buildings in Europe. This site related to photography because this guy went out and took pictures with a camera.

Time-lapse of Rio: At this website I watched a time-lapse of Rio de Janero over many days. It was very interesting to see everything sped up and experience the cities beauty in a new way. Apparently the video was for Panasonic to use as an ad for their new 4k ultra-HD TVs. Joe Capra was the photographer and he has many other beautiful time-lapses. I learned that a normal time-lapse shoot takes about 30 minutes and that 240 frames makes about 10 seconds of video.

Top 100 Pictures

I picked this image by Harold Edgerton because the picture was captured at the perfect moment and it must have taken many tries. Edgerton worked for years to perfect his milk drop shots. He finally captured this image in a lab at MIT. He made a milk dropping machine and turned on a store light and  camera sensor to take shots at high intervals. Harold has taken many other high-speed photographs like balloons popping and gun shots.

Harold Edgerton

1903-1990

Fremont NE

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I like this picture because its full of suspense. These 11 men are extremely calm for being 840 feet above manhattan. The picture symbolizes resilience and ambition. 

Unknown Photographer

I like this picture because its kind of strange and you don't really know whats going on. Mao Zedong is seen swimming in the Yangtze river at age 72. He wanted to show China that he was still in good health at that age.

Unknown Photographer

I chose this picture because you can imply how much damage was done with that big of a cloud. The explosion sent a cloud of radioactive dust and debris 45,000 feet into the air. This picture by Lieutenant Charles Levy was the only shot that showed the full scale of the mushroom.

Lieutenant Charles Levy

 

This picture caught my eye because it is very unique. Normally hippos swim in inland rivers and lakes but in this picture they are riding waves in the Atlantic ocean. This photo inspired the president of Gabon to set up a system of nature parks that cover 11% of the country insuring the wildlife have somewhere to live.

 

Michael Nichols

1952-present

Alabama

University of North Alabama

 

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