The In-Sect - photography

Recently I had a closer look at Google Maps and I noticed that Denver has got Street View images now too. So I clicked my way through Denver which I never visited in reality. (The airport is nice, but somehow most of the photos downtown were made in the dark.)
Then I found this! Is it an alien ship materializing? Is it an ESP phenomen? Ghosts? What is it? If anyone lives in or near Denver – could you checkout 6113, Wadsworth Bypass?
The Aliens in Denver.

Sequoia trees live about 2000 years and only for 100 years men started to drive through them with cars. The tallest tree of all is Hyperion measuring 115.55 m, making him the world’s tallest living thing. At the website of Alameda, CA you can find dozens of postcards of the most popular drivethroughs through the times. It’s really interesting to compare them. (But the whole collection is worth a click.)
Drive Thru Redwood Tree Postcards.

Laura Domela is a photographer born in Anchorage, Alaska and now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She got lot of attention for her work with Storm Large (Remember, that contestant from Rock Star: Supernova) and possesses a well stocked website that’s worth a visit. Her latest production is a serial of photos she made out of the window of a car on a trip from the Badlands, South Dakota back to Portland. It’s really a photographic report and proves that she’s just got the eye!
Laura Domela’s Roadtrip through the Badlands, her homepage and her online shop.

Another piece left from my bookmark purification: The creators of this playful website collected lost photos for years. Quote:“They come from photobooths and pavements all over the UK. The isthisyou-project was born out of a simple question: Is it possible to reunite these images with their owners?”
When I bookmarked it last summer no owner was found – but then a Japanese photo ID card was claimed by a woman who said it was stolen in London last year. Now about 8% of the photos found their face again!
States the creator: “All I ever wanted was for someone to see themselves on the site and experience that flash of recognition, that moment of synchronicity that happens only a very few times in any life.”
Are you there, too? Is this you?

Many photographs that can be found in blogs around the web simply need a little photoshopping. Some of them begin to show their hidden beauty only after a little surgical intervention. Because I – as an graphic artist – tend to suffer physically when I see those sleeping beauties I had to write a little Photoshop tutorial for my fellow bloggers. Alt least this is what my therapist says…
Read the whole tutorial here…

I always wondered why humanity populated ALL of this planet. There are abundantly clear signs of human population in most hostable environments like the sahara, siberia, death valley, the north pole and Los Angeles. Ragnar Axelsson is a photographer from Iceland who is specialized in capturing the sheer beauty of places like Iceland, Greenland, Siberia or the Faroe Islands and of the people who live there.
Ragnar’s site: RAX Photographs