Urban Decay

I just love these and other images of urban decay. I know it's a big genre right now but it is so fascinating. This is a a link to a good collection of fantastic images of urban decay. I would love to shoot like this.

http://www.inspiration.scottphotographics.com/urban-decay-photography/

Gracey Heart Photography

Mark Gagne

Gracey Heart Photography

Shinichi Maruyama

http://www.shinichimaruyama.com

These are nudes. I at first thought he used a very long shutter speed but he combined up to 10,000 images of the nude and created this wonderful sense of motion.

Pedro Terrinha

This is Pedro Terrinha, a very good looking photographer from Lisbon.  His nature photography is beautiful and colorful without looking fake.

http://pedrotphotography.tumblr.com/

Flikr--MGness

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mgness909/with/15682315331/

I'm sorry that I couldn't get any of these to copy from Flikr but these are amazing images of abandoned houses and buildings. They are beautiful images with really terrible titles.  Prime example of how an overly contrived title can ruin an image.

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Again, really fantastic images, just sorry he worked so hard on the titles.

Oleg Oprisco

The amazing thing about the images of Oleg Oprisco is that they've been done with a film camera without post image editing (other than some color correction and dust spot removal.

“I’ve found it ideal to do everything myself. I come up with a concept, create the clothing, choose the location and direct the hair and makeup,” Oprisco explained in an interview with Bored Panda. “Before shooting, I plan the overall color scheme. According to the chosen palette, I select clothes, props, location, etc, making sure that all of it plays within a single color range.” He uses Kiev 6C and Kiev 88 cameras with medium-format film and a variety of lenses.

The camera he uses costs about $50.

www.oprisco.com

Babycakes Romero

This has got to be every chiropractor's worst nightmare.

Yes, his name is Babycakes Romero. He's a London based photographer who doesn't own a smartphone but walks around the city documenting people oblivious to those around them, choosing instead to interact with their phone. I do understand the statement he's making, that we spend entirely too much time consumed with our phones and other technology, often losing touch with those right by us. Conversely, remember he's only caught a moment in time. These people could have been quickly checking for the latest game score (like in the top image), looking for directions (in the middle image), but they could also be ignoring their dining companion (lower image). It's an interesting group of work that certainly says something about us as a social society. 

Really great street photography can be seen at

http://babycakesromero.com/blog/

This is a "portrait" of an eagle that I photographed for my good friend who is a taxidermist.  Since I can't use it for the portrait project, I thought I'd at least put him up on the blog.

Apparently when an eagle is found dead, there is a long list of Native Americans waiting to be able to own that bird. (As you know, even having an eagle feather in your possession is a jail-waiting offense). This particular eagle landed on an electrical line and you could even see that the bottom of his feet were black.

My friend is a huge bird lover and getting the chance to mount this eagle was a highlight for him. He asked me to take it's picture before the owner comes to pick him up.

I set up this shot in a corner of his basement taxidermy studio.  The set consists of a black backdrop, and one Canon Speedlight that was bounced into a reflecting umbrella. In need of a fill card to bounce some light into the left side of the bird, I grabbed the lid of a styrofoam cooler that he had lying around and used that. He got a huge kick out of my "ingenuity". I took about 50 shots and the whole thing took 75 minutes.