Spring has Sprung: Eric Cahan.

Beautiful photos of sunrises and sunsets from around the world, by Eric Cahan, ushering in spring. 

Water: Edward Burtynsky

I visited the opening of Edward Burtynsky's exhibit, Water, in Chelsea last week and it was spectacular!  His photographs were blown up large scale, and each absolutely took my breath away. 

WATER - Artist’s Statement

“While trying to accommodate the growing needs of an expanding, and very thirsty civilization, we are reshaping the Earth in colossal ways. In this new and powerful role over the planet, we are also capable of engineering our own demise. We have to learn to think more long-term about the consequences of what we are doing, while we are doing it. My hope is that these pictures will stimulate a process of thinking about something essential to our survival; something we often take for granted—until it’s gone.”

The project takes us over gouged landscapes, fractal patterned delta regions, ominously coloured biomorphic shapes, rigid and rectilinear stepwells, massive circular pivot irrigation plots, aquaculture and social, cultural and ritual gatherings. Water is intermittently introduced as a victim, a partner, a protagonist, a lure, a source, an end, a threat and a pleasure.Water is also often completely absent from the pictures. Burtynsky instead focusses on the visual and physical effects of the lack of water, giving its absence an even more powerful presence.

Catching Fireflies: Yume Cyan.

Long exposure photographs of fireflies in a forested area around Nagoya City, Japan by Yume Cyan.  The bioluminescent flash of each insect results in the dotted light trails!

Via Colossal.

Sleep of the Beloved.

"The Sleep of the Beloved," a series of long-exposure snapshots of slumbering couples, taken by photographer Paul Schneggenburger. I have to wonder what my sleep patterns have looked like in the last few months...

Photos via The Atlantic. Found via Sho & Tell.

Time of Reflection.

Photographer Kazuyoshi Nomachi captured this amazing photo of Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia, the world's largest salt flat. When it becomes saturated with water, the flat takes on a mirror-like quality and reflects the sky.

Voyeur at the Window: Gail Albert Halabran.

Photographer Gail Albert Halaban‘s series Out My Window is unsettling and beautiful at the same time... Luckily these are not of unsuspecting strangers, but staged with friends, though they are still intended to share something that Halaban says New Yorkers can relate to: “connecting” with neighbors through apartment windows.

Halaban says: "I’m a photographer and therefore I’m a voyeur, and I’m a New Yorker and therefore I’m a voyeur. I think every city has its own way that people connect to their neighbors. In LA it’s through the car window. In New York, I think it’s through the apartment window." (Find more at Out My Window by Gail Albert Halaban)

My proximity to my neighbors in San Francisco is undoubtedly nothing like in New York, but my Russian Hill room mates and I did develop quite the relationship with our neighbors in the kitchen across the alley - it was always fun to see what they were cooking up, or shaking up as was the case for one experienced mixologist.

Via PetaPixel.

Synchronized.

I have been in awe of synchronized swimming my whole life (it was always one of my favorite events at UCD's Picnic Day!). I love this experiment that the Huffington Post tried flipping photographs shot at the Olympics by Getty and AFP photographers upside down!  The results are fabulous, and truly impressive.

Via PetaPixel.

Garden Guest: Cath Schneider.

So sweet! Takes me right back to the days of reading Beatrix Potter.

From Colossal: "Paris-based photographer Cath Schneider recently became aware of a small hedgehog living in her garden and decided to investigate a bit closer with her daughter. Schneider tells me they set out a small plate of (lactose free) milk and sure enough the fearless little guy ambled over and started blowing bubbles. Camera in-hand and graced with perfect lighting, she captured this amazing shot. (via 500px)"

Holga's First Summer.

My Holga's first trip to the coast (and Photoworks).

Beneath the Sea.

I am entranced by this light filled underwater scene... reminds me of the sun peaking through the clouds after a storm. I would love to have a large print of this in my home.

Artist unknown, found via Vain and Vapid.

A la Plage.

Bringing you another dose of summer today with this stunning series of beach scenes shot from a doorless helicopter by photographer Gray Malin. Can you imagine?  I hope he also touched down on these beautiful sands which ranged from St. Tropez to Manhattan Beach to enjoy a different perspective!

Via Honestly WTF.