The Cordón-caulle volcano
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS BEFORE THE PLANE WAS INVENTED
Aerial photography is becoming fashionable even among amateur photographers thanks to the fact that there are drones for all budgets. But already at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th there were some who climbed into a balloon to capture panoramic photos , as George R.Lawrence. Part of his collection can be consulted on the website of the United States Library of Congress. In it we find images like this photo of New York taken in 1906 or the one of the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake that same year.
Panoramic photo of the ruins of San Francisco
THE THUNDERSTORMS OF THE CHILEAN VOLCANO CORDÓN CAULLE
There are photos that mark the trajectory of a photographer and those made by the Chilean Francisco Negroni of the violent awakening of the Cordón-Caulle volcano are a good example. Negroni documented with his camera for weeks the eruption and electrical storms that formed next to the crater . The photos appeared on the pages of some of the world's leading newspapers. We can see some of the best ones on his 500px social network account.
Photos that marked the trajectory of Francisco Negroni
BEACHES ILLUMINATED AT NIGHT BY ALGAE
When the sun goes down, a beach is usually an unattractive place for photographers. Although there is always the remote possibility that you will find it infested with luminescent algae . That is exactly what happened to a photographer in the Maldiva's Islands . The photos he took he spread on Reddit. If you are interested in the phenomenon, do not miss the images that photographer Phil Hart has also taken of these peculiar algae under a starry sky.
MORE THAN 1,000 DIGITAL PHOTOS SURVIVED FOUR YEARS AT THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE
Fishing for a submerged photo camera from 2011 and containing 1065 perfectly preserved photos borders on the impossible. But that's just what happened a few weeks ago in America's Lake Tahoe. As told on CBS News, Thanks to Facebook, the fisherman found the owners of the camera . Of course, it was a submersible model.
THE LAST JOURNEY AND THE LAST PHOTO OF ROBERT CAPA
The International Center of Photography dedicates an exhibition to the photographs that Robert Capa made in color from 1940 to 1954, when he was killed by stepping on a mine in the Indochina war , a conflict he photographed on behalf of Life magazine. Precisely the last images that he captured before he died are made in color. One of them can be seen on the website of the Magnum Agency.
A NAZI RESORT ON THE BALTIC
Going for a walk on the beach with a camera in hand and ending up taking photos inside a Nazi resort is not something that happens every day. But they are if you take a walk along the Baltic beaches you can find one of the most amazing abandoned places in Europe . Prora Resort is a gigantic vacation complex conceived by the Nazis that never got off the ground because World War II started before it could be opened. Flickr is packed with photos of this sinister vacation town.
Prora Resort, the Nazi resort that was never opened
THE INCREDIBLE DRAWINGS OF THE FLOCKS OF STARLINGS OVER ROME
When we visit a city, we often do not notice its sky, but it can hold surprises like the drawings that the flocks of starlings that come every night to sleep in the city after feeding in nearby fields. Photographer Richard Barnes not only took a close look at these birds but even did a great photo report on them.
THE LIGHT THROUGH THE WALLS OF AN ICE CAVE
If it is already fascinating to photograph volcanoes like the more than 30 that are active on the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka, it is even more amazing to photograph an ice cave located near them. That is what a group of photographers did who were able to enter this place, normally inaccessible, thanks to the fact that last summer was quite hot in those latitudes. His cameras captured an underground landscape in which sunlight filtered through the ice illuminated the frozen cavern . The images seem from another world.
IT HAS BEEN 41 YEARS SINCE WE RECEIVED A POSTCARD FROM THE MOON
Although from time to time some promise that soon there will be hotels on the Moon, the truth is that our satellite has been visited very little in recent decades. Ever since the gigantic Soviet vehicle Lunokhod 2 took a handful of panoramic photos from the surface of the Moon in 1973, we have had to wait. until a few weeks ago when the Chinese ship Chang E3 landed on the moon and sent us a postcard . We can see the image with the Jade rabbit rover walking around the satellite on the Nasa website.
The last postcard from the Moon
A LAKE WITH BUBBLES THAT EXPLODE
Canada's Abraham Lake is as photogenic as it is dangerous. It has the particularity that when it freezes we can see some fascinating bubbles inside that encourage you to fire the shutter button on your camera. But you have to be careful because what's inside those bubbles is methane. If a spark ignites it, it causes an explosion. As we can see in this video.
Abraham Lake Bubbles