New Delhi, India: A schoolboy walks in the early morning sunlight in the Hauz Khaz neighbourhood
(Source: Guardian)
This is super cute - the artist takes photos of everyday things, and adds a few extra lines to show you what she sees when she looks at it.
(Source: petapixel.com)
Long exposure photos of gold fireflies in Japan (via Petapixel)
From the new book Advice to Sink In Slowly, of snippets of advice to design students.
Happy new year! (Image credit: nytimes.com)
It looks almost like a painting, but this is actually a photo of the Dead Sea salt formations. More aerial photos from Boing Boing here.
Hefei, China: A man walks past giant vase-shaped lanterns during the first Heritage Park Lantern Art Festival
(Source: Guardian)
Now That Books Mean Nothing
A beautifully written essay about a woman’s recovery after a double mastectomy, and her struggle to find something to keep her occupied when books have lost their appeal:
Just as the possibility of doing what you love for a job risks turning that love into a chore, doing what you love during a difficult time risks illuminating the shortcomings of that thing you love because it cannot solve all—if any—of your problems.
Craig Easton’s photograph of Tweeddale in Scotland was commended in the Your View category of the Take a View landscape photographer of the year 2011 awards
Bruce Munro’s installation Field of Light in the grounds of the Holbourne Museum, Bath
