Still in Love with Polaroid

About a week ago, I ran a 5k race with a bunch of girl friends and at the finish line, volunteers gave out water, fruit, ice cold towels, and a flower to each runner. Getting a flower after a run was a first for me! I kept it in a wine bottle vase for a few days until it started to dry out. Before it withered away completely, I took some photos. As you scroll down, you can see how I picked off a few petals at a time until there were none left on the stem. The petals went to good use though: they are sitting in a potpourri basket in one of our bathrooms. :-) some petals fell over. they were shy. with the  final arrangement www.amyhefterphotography.com

"... celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects." - For Print Only , a division of Under Consideration This all-things-print site hosts a wealth of information about manual printing processes and design ideas for printed materials. You can use this site as inspiration for your next set of business cards, labels, invitations, or self-promotional item. The best and most unique things about this site is that, for every project, the production details are listed below the printed piece. Details include the method, font, material, production costs, and dimensions of the project (see below the artist statement). Non-traditional business cards: Wooden Laser-cut from matboard Wedding invitation set: Coasters Cards: Laser-cut and silkscreened holiday card  Die-cut seasonal cards

HE DID IT! On June 23, 2013, with the whole world watching  on Discovery Channel and DiscoveryChannel.com ,  balance artist Nik Wallenda walked across the Grand Canyon. He was untethered (no support rope, no net), carried only a balancing bar, and walked 22 minutes on a cable 1,500ft above the canyon floor. Wallenda set a new world record to be the first person to ever accomplish this feat. Throughout his walk, he spoke a lot with God, channeling his focus on putting one foot in front of the other and not losing his balance. He sat on the cable twice, allowing him to regain balance during some nasty winds, but he kept going. He ran the last few feet and dismounted, kissing the ground and his family. His father was coaching him from the minute he stepped on the cable: he told him when wind was coming and reassured him that he was doing well and holding focus. Congratulations, Nik! We were holding our breath for you. First steps Watch his post-walk interview:

It's not unusual for us to walk out of our house into a spider web. This morning, we discovered a little guy trying to make a web across our glass door and door handle.   www.amyhefterphotography.com

This conceptual camera, developed by Jared Mankelow of Conran designers for BBC Future's Imagineering project, is a prototype for a modern-day digital camera with an homage to the first cameras. This model has no screen; the aperture is "punched through" the camera body itself, so you look through the camera like a viewfinder. The black ring on the front is the image sensor, and the white is a ring flash. The aperture dial is on top, for you can spin it to whatever size you'd like, and can set the shutter speed (top right) and flash settings (top, next to aperture dial). The camera is the size of a Post-It note, but has some weight to it - the designers didn't want such a small camera to be so lightweight it felt cheap. The camera is connected to a device via Bluetooth, so it transmits the image as soon as you take it, retaining the excitement factor of taking a photo and not seeing it right away, as with film cameras. looking through the viewfinder/lens

"Time is a canvas, light is a brush." - Darren Pearson Photographer Darren Pearson  has been scribbling with light for several years now. His skeleton "paintings" are incredibly detailed, and he places them in different poses in his long-exposure shots. I am particularly drawn to his work because of how much he enjoys playing with light: He has the ultimate creative control over the light because he works in darkness. here, you can see him behind his painting, partially illuminated by ambient light Can you imagine how much thought has to go into these photos? Pearson paints the skeletons from behind, and sometimes uses perspective, which makes the work all that much more interesting: Some of his other photo work: photos from Flickr via  thisiscolossal

I posted a few days ago about the ship that nature reclaimed as a floating forest . These photos below were taken of places abandoned by humans and now nest in the landscape of the world. From amusement parks to factories to temples, these places were once centers of human life, now silent except for the flapping of wings and the seemingly harsh click of a shutter. Eerily tranquil is how I would describe them: Nara Dreamland, Japan ( steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com ) Kolmanskop, Namib Desert ( photography.nationalgeographic.com ) Ankgor Wat, Cambodia ( theglobalpanorama.com )   Sunken Yacht, Antartica ( ruschili.35photo.ru ) The Maunsell Sea Forts, England ( fivelightsdown.squarespace.com )  Czestochwa, Poland's Abandoned Train Depot ( nedhardy.com ) Holland Island, Chesapeake Bay ( baldeaglebluff )  Bodiam Castle, East Sussex, England ( commons.wikimedia.org)  Russian Military Missile Factory ( lana-sator.livejournal.com ) Coolin