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Teresa Franco’s Tips for Shooting Macros on Your Phone

When Teresa’s not studying up for her nursing degree, she’s chasing grasshoppers and fungi to get the best macro photos ever.

We asked her what her favorite apps, lenses, and tips were for getting such great shots & she has so many good recs! 

Check out her macro phoneography tips.

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Happy Birthday, Edwin Land!

You invented the Polaroid, inspired innovators like Steve Jobs, and made real life magic happen.

Photo via LIFE

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I am here, or elsewhere.

Sky art by Thomas Lamedieu

Have you ever walked through one of those narrow courtyards and looked at the sky?

French illustrator Thomas Lamedieu used the little available space to make what he calls Sky Art. Using just the space between the rooftops, he transformed the small amounts of sky into pieces of art.

Art that tells a story: a studio tour of FAILE…

(Source: annstreetstudio)

Painting with food

Artist Hong Yi decided to play with her food 30 days and make illustrations and paintings with it. She made two rules, the image had to be made of food only and the backdrop would always be a white plate.

What she ended up with were painting and illustrations of landscapes, animals, the story of the three little pigs and a even a portrait of Justin Bieber.

The project is still ongoing. if you want to see Hong Yi’s latests creations then head over to her Facebook page.

Double Exposure Portraits

Using just little photoshop and a lot “in camera” magic, Dan Mountford (Brighton, UK) blendes two photographs, two stories together with amazing results.

With just a few a few touch ups and some minor effects, he blends portrait photographs with architecture, buildings, cigarettes and much more, all with great result

Zoo Portraits

Designer Yago Partal from Barcelona recently presented a fun photo and design series called “Zoo Portraits”.

Yago Partal took the portraits of various animals and with a bit of help from Photoshop changed their fur and hide into fashion outfits.

Hawaiian shirts, knit sweaters, tuxedos and leather jackets, these animals wear it all.

(Source: zooportraits.com)

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Beautiful nude model Ana-Maria Ilinca (Aisii) from Romania stars in this artistic nude photograph with a slight fashion twist.

Photographed by Olga Zaveshinskaya, better known as Armene during one of her workshops in Bucharest.

If you’re a fan of artistic nude photography, check out this gallery.

(Source: aisii.deviantart.com)

Abandoned in the Garden of Questionable Intent

Beautiful photography by Philneff at deviantart. This photo featuring model Emily in a foggy forest was taken at Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia.

What’s most beautiful about this photograph is how the fog creates layers of trees and emphasizes the model in a very subtle way.

Sergey Bobkov works with wood chips.

The 55 year old Russian artist Sergey Bobkov uses ceder sticks and slithers them into 100-150 slices before softening them in water for several days. Bobkov has a patent on his chippy style.

(Source: actegratuit, via expiredmilky)

Christina by z-tox photography. Check out the bigger version right here.

This is one of the artistic nude shots I’m most proud and I finally got to share it. I shot this in the studio a while ago. The model is actually sitting on a table in front of a white background. I used two strobes to light the background and a small softbox to add some details in her face.

Double Exposure Paintings by Pakayla Biehn

Double exposure is an art in itself. It isn’t used that much nowadays in photography since almost everybody has a digital camera now. Artist Pakayla Rae Biehn took the concept of double exposure and applied it to her paintings. She uses images of other artists and paints another layer on them, creating beautiful images in the process.

(Source: youshouldtakecare.com, via sealegslegssea)