Summer Invitation

Look what you can do with a shallow depth of field for your camera. It looks almost like an Impressionist painting.

Summer Invitation, originally uploaded by Joel Olives.

Flat, composite flowers blow in the breeze. Beyond a few inches, they’re out of focus.

Another Kinkade-Cthulhu mashup

Here’s another mashup of images from an idealized landscape and the the horror of the deeps.

Go forth, my minions!

I must remember to try this.

Origami octopus by Joseph Wu

Octopus (hunting) take 5, originally uploaded by Joseph Wu Origami.

If anyone has a paper anniversary coming up, such as a year of blogging or a year since a creationist promised to “get back to you” about their debunked claim, one of Joseph Wu’s origami octopods might be the perfect gift—to themselves.

Biggest X-ray ever!

Not Totally Rad talks about the X-ray art of Nick Veasey, who has taken what are probably the biggest X-ray images ever.

…work by photographer Nick Veasey, who has X-rayed backhoes and entire buses full of people. Check out this shot of a Boeing 777 and hangar, which may be the largest radiograph ever taken.

Besides these enormous objects, his online portfolio also includes a lot of other cool stuff, such as bats, spiders and….

I think that they must be manipulated or composed in some way, because how would you get an image of people inside (or in front of) the solid metal walls of an airplane? And wouldn’t more distant objects be fuzzy, not dim? And if you did take an image through a hangar, would it not fry the innards of the people in the scene?