Satellite Photos - Las Vegas over 25 years

via earth observatory

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Naoya Hatakeyama

Naoya Hatakeyama - Underground/River Series



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Photographic Scale #2: The Sea

Just in time for the bank holiday weekend...



Nicholas Hughes, In Darkness visible, Verse 2, Image #7, 2007.




Nicholas Hughes, Edge, Verse 1, Image #29, 2007.




Asako Narahashi, Jonanjima, 2008.
from the Series 'Half awake and half asleep in the water'




Nicholas Hughes, Edge, Verse 1, Image #34, 2007.




Gary Coyle, from the series 'The daily practice of swimming', 1999.




Hiroshi Sugimoto, from the series Seascapes, 1980





Marine Hugonnier, N9, 2001.
From the series 'Towards Tomorrow - International Date Line, Alaska',




Richard Misrach, from the series 'On the beach', 2002-2005

further to Alice's selection, see also Naoyo Hatekayama's series Blast

Seeing the Unseen: Time & Exposure

Niepce, View from the window at Gras, 8 hour exposure - First Photograph, 1826.






Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878.




Harold Edgerton, Fencer making the foil blade fly, Stroboscopic Study, 1938





Harold Edgerton, Nuclear explosion photographed with a Rapatronic Camera I millisecond after detonation, 1952.




Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tri-City Drive-In, Exposed for length of film. 1993.






Michael Wesely, 29 July 1996-29 July 1997, Office of Helmut Friedel, 1997.






Ori Gersht, Galicia, Liquidation Series, The Clearing, 2005.





Michael Boran, 3 hours, 2005.






Branislav Kropilak, Landing no. 02, 2006.





Seamus Sullivan, Untitled, 24, 2007.





Ori Gersht, Time After Time: Blow-Up no. 6, 2007

Photographic Scale

Man Ray - Dust Breeding, 1920.




Edward Burtynsky - Tailings #1, Karlgoolie, Western Australia, 2007.




David Maisel - Oblivion 15n.




Bernice Abbott - City Arabesque from roof of 60 Wall Tower, June 9, 1938.




Andreas Gursky - Jumeirah Palm, 2008.



Andreas Gursky - Kamiokande, 2007.




Taryn Simon - Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility Cherenkov Radiation




Charles and Ray Eames - Powers of 10

Shinichi Maruyama

Here's a link to Shinichi Maruyama's website. In his series Kusho (meaning sky), he takes high-speed photographs of differently coloured liquids (black and clear) colliding in mid-air. He captures the moment the liquids collide, but before they mix to grey. Its interesting how he uses photography as a tool to capture what we cannot see, but also to record new spatial qualities defined by time and material.

Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga , Nadkole Sloneczna, 2003

Andreas Gefeller has been doing something pretty similar. Hard to be an original in photography...

Here's a link to Juergen Chill's website - His series 'Zellen' - digitally assembled collage plans of prison cells taken from above, won the 2007 architectural photography prize.
Here's a link to a video on his working method (in german - but shows how he made the images)