There is a very interesting tip I wanted to share with you, when you drive in your car to the spot you are photographing, turn off your air conditioning and wind down the window. If you don’t do this you will find when you get out of the car your lens will fog up and it will take 10 minutes to get clear again, it’s amazing what you can photograph in 10 minutes.

All images © 2013 Mark Hobson

This is a photo of the Strange beauty series, the facade  of a house. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s .

The app used to shot the image was ProCamera, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Decim8, DecoSketch and ImageBlender.

Machu Picchu, Peru (Photo by Richard Silver)

Richard Silver’s photos of the world’s biggest sights are special because he uses artistic visual constructions like the combinations of sharpness and blur.

He wrote that, “By employing techniques such as Tilt Shift, HDR, Vertical Panoramas and Time Slice, this allows me to grow as a photographer while exposing our everyday world in an altered visual context.”

Silver says:

“People always ask me, How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small? Simple, WE ARE. In the big picture we are just a small blip of what the world truly is. I enjoy the power I have to change the perspective of the way people look at the world and maybe at themselves.”

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Bird ready to swim.

Machu Picchu, Peru (Photo by Richard Silver)

Richard Silver’s photos of the world’s biggest sights are special because he uses artistic visual constructions like the combinations of sharpness and blur.

He wrote that, “By employing techniques such as Tilt Shift, HDR, Vertical Panoramas and Time Slice, this allows me to grow as a photographer while exposing our everyday world in an altered visual context.”

Silver says:

“People always ask me, How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small? Simple, WE ARE. In the big picture we are just a small blip of what the world truly is. I enjoy the power I have to change the perspective of the way people look at the world and maybe at themselves.”

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Balloon fiesta, New Mexico (Photo by Richard Silver)

Brooklyn Bridge (Photo by Richard Silver)

Taj Mahal (Photo by Richard Silver)

Easter Island (Photo by Richard Silver)

Tokyo (Photo by Richard Silver)

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (Photo by Richard Silver)

Atlas Mountains (Photo by Richard Silver)

Coliseum, Rome (Photo by Richard Silver)

Hagia Sophia (Photo by Richard Silver)

Machu Picchu, Peru (Photo by Richard Silver)

Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro (Photo by Richard Silver)

World Trade Center Memorial (Photo by Richard Silver)

Reykjavik (Photo by Richard Silver)

Teotihuacan (Photo by Richard Silver)

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Well, another Monday and we have another video with one of the stills from it.

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Bad Cop?

The “Bad Cop” on the second floor of the Sheraton always gives me a chuckle.

Live Gator

I’ll pause to admire the big, wall filling tags.

Don’t Die.

There are plenty of tags in the style of, “abandon all ye who enter here”, but I enjoy a simple imperative sentence. Naturally, the biggest and boldest murals are found on the highest floors and hardest to reach places. The next two are both from the Ambassador, the top floor and the penthouse, respectively.

Seventh Floor Lookout

Toxic Fun in a Burned Out Sun

Photo of the Day – Side Altar

Off to watch Game of Thrones on tape delay so a short post tonight.