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We’ve seen some odd student projects in our time here at CR, but this must go down as one of the oddest: two Kingston students created human photograms by swallowing 35mm film, then, erm, expelling it, and recording the results.”

Source: creativereview.co.uk

40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken
“A 4-month-old baby girl in a pink bear suit is miraculously rescued from the rubble by soldiers after four days missing following the Japanese tsunami.”

40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken

A 4-month-old baby girl in a pink bear suit is miraculously rescued from the rubble by soldiers after four days missing following the Japanese tsunami.”

Source: BuzzFeed

Earth From Space: The Snows Over Southern Patagonia

Earth From Space: The Snows Over Southern Patagonia

Source: The Atlantic

These 100-Year-Old Aerial Photos Were Taken by Pigeons

In 1903, a German pharmacist named Julius Neubronner started employing carrier pigeons to receive and fulfill emergency prescriptions from a hospital in the region. One day, after a bird of his mysteriously returned after being lost a month late, Julius began to devise a way to track their flights.

Shortly after, the avid tinkerer and amateur photographer developed a lightweight, timer camera rig that his pigeons could wear in flight to snap rare aerial photos, the likes of which, at the time, could only be captured via balloons or kites.”

Source: treehugger.com

Earth From Space: Tropical Storm Beryl Over Florida
An early tropical storm drenched Florida earlier this week, leaving as much as 10 inches of of rain in some spots. Tropical Storm Beryl has since been downgraded, but continued to bring wet weather to the North Carolina shore on Wednesday. Above, the storm as it appeared around noon on Memorial Day, as captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.

Earth From Space: Tropical Storm Beryl Over Florida

An early tropical storm drenched Florida earlier this week, leaving as much as 10 inches of of rain in some spots. Tropical Storm Beryl has since been downgraded, but continued to bring wet weather to the North Carolina shore on Wednesday. Above, the storm as it appeared around noon on Memorial Day, as captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.

Source: The Atlantic