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10. Eyecandy: Gives Those Nice Bright Colors

Mar-25-2011 | Comments (0)

Bird’s Eye: What a gamut we’re going to give you here: from the pictures on the very last roll of Kodachrome ever, to the Hindu festival of Holi, certainly the best religious festival in any religion, (from the point of view of colour saturation, anyway). There’s more amazing colour in abstract images of coloured liquids colliding in space, in Ethiopian salt pools, and in some remarkable images of clouds.

* The Last Roll of Kodachrome—Frame By Frame! Vanity Fair

Two years ago, photographer Steve McCurry heard the whispers. Due to the digital-photography revolution, Kodak was considering discontinuing one of the most legendary film stocks of all time: Kodachrome, a film which was to color slides what the saxophone was to jazz. McCurry spoke with Kodak’s worldwide-marketing wizard Audrey Jonckheer, hoping to persuade Kodak to bequeath him the very last roll that came off the assembly line in Rochester, New York. They readily agreed…. Herewith, presented for the first time in their entirety, are the frames from that historic final roll, which accompanied McCurry from the manufacturing plant in Rochester to his home in Manhattan (where he is a member of the prestigious photo agency Magnum), to Bombay, Rajasthan, Bombay, Istanbul, London, and back to New York. (The camera was X-rayed twice at airports along the way.) McCurry’s final stop, on July 12, 2010: Dwayne’s Photo, in Parsons, Kansas—the only lab on Earth that still developed Kodachrome—which halted all such processing in late December.

* Holi: The Festival of Colors, 2011 Alan Taylor In Focus – The Atlantic

* Hi-Speed Paint Beautiful Decay

Just an incredible video of bright colored painting floating at high speeds through space and splashing into one another.

* Dallol Ethiopia Coloured Salt Pools

Dallol currently holds the record high average temperature for an inhabited location on Earth, where an average annual temperature of 34°C (94°F) was recorded between the years 1960 and 1966. Dallol is also one of the most remote places on Earth. There are no roads; the only regular transport service is provided by camel caravans which travel to the area to collect salt.

* Amateur Weatherman Follows His Sun Compass To Snap Stunning Pictures Mail Online

10. Eyecandy: Colour

Mar-11-2011 | Comments (0)

Bird’s Eye: Colour comes in all shades: animal, vegetable, and mineral. We start with animal, with 40 gloriously coloured birds. Then on to vegetable with both a closeup on the rainbow eucalyptus tree, and an amazing colour-cordinated set of mutant vegetables. Only on Tikkunista, eh? And we end with mineral, with a stunning photo of what happens when a truck carrying industrial printers’ ink flips over. “There was magenta and blue on the highway, but I didn’t hear nobody cry.”

* 40 Superbly Colorful Bird Photos DesignBeep

* Rainbow Eucalyptus Flickr:

This tree is also grown for ornamental purposes, due to the showy multi-coloured streaks that cover the trunk. Patches of outer bark are shed annually at different times, showing the bright-green inner bark. This then darkens and matures to give blue, purple, orange and then maroon tones

* Mutato Project

The Mutato-Archive is a collection of non-standard fruits, roots and vegetables, displaying a dazzling variety of forms, colours and textures, that only reveal themselves when lawfully enforced standards cease to exist.

* Ink Truck Crash