National Geographic’s International Photography Contest 2009

From National Geographic:
The entries are officially in for National Geographic’s International Photography Contest of 2009. 30 images from photographers throughout the world have been selected for voting by National Geographic readers. These photographs showcase a world far beyond our own, one of nature, of humanity, of lifestyle and landscape. You can weigh in with your own vote on National Geographic’s website, but you can start with a sneak peak in the gallery below.

National Geographics International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

National Geographic International Photography Contest

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photograper Lorenzo Aguis has spent his fair share of time with famous people. Not just a few, but many of the biggest names in film, music and fashion. His work isn’t as simple as setting up a camera and snapping a pose, it goes deep into capturing the personality of his subjects. Jude Law, Kevin Spacey, Madonna, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp and more have all shown their true colors in his film, if only for a passing moment. Enjoy the collection below, and see more on Mr. Aguis’ website. www.lorenzoaguis.com

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Celebrity Photography by Lorenzo Aguis

Photo Inspiration w45

It’s Tuesday, what would be better than a little photo inspiration, I thought that you would like this, it’s a site, based upon submissions, but the site admins take away about 90% of the incoming submissions and leave us with the best 10%. It’s well worth a visit, you might even want to bookmark it. Happy Tuesday

www.1x.com/

Autumn

Wine

Countryside

Traintracks

Ballet

Hot air ballon

Squril

Whale

winter

Swedish Architecture from Stockholm


This is Bahnhof AB’s new Office in an old nuclear shelter in Stockholm, sweden.

Well my last weekend was spent in Stockholm, because we where going to look at the Sing and Songwriter Johan Örjansson at Mosebacke. But we did some other things to, spent a couple of hours zipping on some coffee latte’s and Chai tea. And we had an awesome sunday breakfast buffé at Café String on Södermalm.

One thing we did not do was to look after Bahnhof’s new office, The project takes place in a former 1200 square meter anti-atomic shelter. An amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm.

The work made with big influence from the James Bond set designer Ken Adams and well i think it’s unbelievable beautiful and looks alot like the original bat cave. The entire build is a mash of my favorite textures and elements, Steel, Concrete, glass and rock. There is a very raw and futuristic feeling about this office and server location


The server racks at Bahnhof


Moss in the office

Bahnhof thought that they needed to bring in natural elements and not just the rock and concrete. So they brought in moss and vegetive areas to make an more ECO friendly looking environment. Very futuristic. This is my very own little cave, and if i some day in the future build a house i think this will be a part of my inspiration, combined with other styles that i like.


Cooling engines for the servers all photos are taken by Åke Lindman

I hope you’ll liked the reading and understand that we swedes can do sweet stuff to, not just Volvo and SKF and IKEA, we do design too. Keep on reading.

Todays Photography Inspiration by Jordan Chark


October is here by Jordan Chark

This is one of the best, a photographer that can fill you with inspiration that will last for a long time. Not just over lunch or for the time being. This is a photographer that has something, not like David LaChapelle, but like a young talented arty Chapelle.


A bunch of Bokeh by Jordan Chark


Green grass by Jordan Chark

This is another great thing with Jordan, his images they are different, they change, if you follow his photo stream on flickr, you can feel the change. When he is down his photos are sad, if he is happy it shows in his work.


Palm Springs by Jordan Chark

If you wish for any special sort of inspiration please let us know and we can hunt it down for you.


Starbucks Coffee by Jordan Chark

The internet is truly a pice of endless inspiration, we can find whatever we need, photos, sketches, architectural ideas. I love to share in what is even more impressive with Jordan Chark is that he is only 16 years old. He got something, so if you don’t follow Jordan Chark’s Flickr stream start doing that now, and you will have a great node of inspiration coming thru there too, please leave a note that you found him here.


Cup of Coffee by Jordan Chark

2nd Monday Photo Portfolio Steve Neaves

So from that nifty bulletproof shirt to a really talented photographer, Steve Neaves. You might noticed my latest fling for good photographers, i hope i don’t bore you out. I promise to deliver diversity and colorful posts in the near future but for now dig deep in Steve’s work, or just scratch the surface either way I’m happy.

Philip Karlberg at LUNDLUND

Wanted to give you some evening inspiration, for all of you that work long hours and well lack a little bit of inspiration right now. Here are two really good looking photos from Swedish Philip Karlberg at the LUNDLUND agency. The set is called C M Y K and the tones and compositions are just awesome.

Inspirational photography work by Hakan Celebi

So sorry for being a bit of with the blogging, we are soon celebrating or 1th year and we are giving you some info about that later on this week. I wanted to give you some inspiration on this beautiful wednesday, we have some gorgeous weather here in sweden today, cold but sunny and a bright clear blue sky.

I found this really sweet photographer from Miami a couple of days ago; Akif Hakan Celebi so click his name and you will have loads of great inspiration for whatever hunger you need to still. I’ll be here searching the web for goodies, and i’ll be posting them to you. Enjoy your wednesday, i know i will.