Spectacular Images

Quang-Tuan Photo © Luong

The new book-Tuan Luong Quang, Spectacular Yosemite, is a journey through one of the country's most picturesque parks nationwide. San Jose, CA Yosemite photographer has explored with his large format camera over the past five years, capturing the park's geology, ecology, and natural splendor. His book was recently published by a division of Rizzoli Universe.

Photo © Pieter Ten Hooper. Above: Pakistan earthquake, Balakot ..

Pieter Ten Hooper to Sweden in 1999 and studied photojournalism at the Fotoskola Nordens. He then worked as a photojournalist for four years and was represented by Moment Agency (Sweden). It has been published in major newspapers in Sweden and international journals and has taught at several schools in Scandinavian photojournalism. Received the "Mario Giacomelli Memorial Award" in 2008 and also received the first prize in the category of history in everyday life of the World Press Photo. In 2009, won the Excellence Award in the category of series of portraits of the yarn. In 2010, he won two World Press Photo Awards in portraits and categories of the daily life of his series on Hungry Horse, Montana. Featured here is a gallery of images from a variety of projects of Pieter.

Photo of Luis Fabini. The cowboys wear the uniform handmade leather clothing necessary protection to lasso cows amid deadly thorns along the caatinga Bush

"Riders of the Americas" is a personal study of a race of men whose culture and the relationship with their natural habitat has continued to adapt and evolve over 400 years. These riders work, though rarely acknowledged, have been a mainstay of the economy and American history from the time of the Conquest. In the United States and Canada, these riders are called cowboys in Mexico are known as charros, chagras in Ecuador and in Colombia and Venezuela, Llanos, Peru, barges and qorilazos in Chile are called the huasos, Brazil has its pantaneiros and vaqueiros, and Uruguay and Argentina, the gauchos.

Larry Louie

The fog envelops the Mahadev Mandir Tripureshwas abandoned Temple, a cultural heritage site in Nepal. It was built as a traditional Newari temple by Lalita Tripura Sundari Queen in 1818. Located in Kathmandu, has spoken of the restoration of this temple evening. Picture of Larry Louie is included in the 2011 World Focus online gallery.

Photo © Scott Conarroe. Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur CA, 2010

On March 3, an exhibition of Scott Conarroe the "edge" of the project, a series of landscape images explored the coasts of North America, will open at Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto and runs through April 2. Says Stephen Bulger Gallery, "Canada has the longest coastline of the Earth, its border with the United States is the world's longest non-militarized border. Together, these two nations are a geo-cultural block that extends from the polar extremes of the tropics, from small catchment areas in the modern metropolis. [Conarroe work] a North American study on the cusp of a new era in weather. Weather catastrophic global social unrest is expected, but for the moment, are seen as problems for others elsewhere. Photo Conarroe present fading innocence of this idyll and a visual reference of the current situation of the coasts of the continent. "Conarroe has also traveled extensively in North America documentation rail infrastructure on the continent.

ManhattanManhattanhenge is the term used to describe an event in New York six months when the sun aligns with the east-west streets of Manhattan's main network. Adopted in 1811 the network of the famous street of Manhattan, Plan Commissioners, was the original plan for the design of streets in which compensated for by the plan of the network to 29.0 degrees east-west. Twice a year, photographers gather to witness this solar urban phenomenon, when the sun goes perfectly between the corridors and illuminates skyscrapers north and south facades of the streets. Tripods and full pedestrian crosswalks, on Wednesday to take a look at this time.

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