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Clever “So God Made a Photographer” video plays off “Farmer” commercial from Super Bowl

 
 

If you watched the Super Bowl last month, or even if you didn't, you might have seen the popular "Farmer" commercial for Ram trucks, which features a slideshow of beautiful photos by a range of great photographers including William Albert Allard, Andy Anderson, Jim Arndt, Daniel Beltra, Mark Gooch and others. The only...

Here’s a sample of the fantastic photos on the shortlist for the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards

 
 

The World Photography Organization just revealed the shortlist of photos for the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards and, as expected, some amazing work has made the cut. We've included a selection of some of our favorite photos from the Professional and Open category shortlists below.

Organizers said they received the...

Celebrating Flickr Commons’ fifth birthday with 15 of its most popular and striking images

Some five years ago, photo-sharing service Flickr launched The Commons in cooperation with the Library of Congress. Since then, 56 libraries, archives and museums from around the globe have added more than 250,000 copyright-free photographs to the catalog.

To celebrate The Commons' fifth birthday, the Library of Congress asked Flickr Common contributors to share their most...

November’s Photo of the Day winners chosen!


It's sadly been many months since we last managed to post Judges' Comments for the monthly Photo of the Day winners, and we apologize to all the winners over that period of time whose photos haven't received the recognition they deserved. The reason has simply been the ongoing editorial overload here at Imaging Resource headquarters.

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“We Never Look Up” blog features beautiful black-and-white images of the tech obsessed

 
 

Have you ever been so engrossed with the blips of information scrolling across your smartphone you've accidentally walked into a tree or a signpost? Have you ever accidentally walked into another person?

If you have serious texting "issues" like these, you might want to check out a tumblr blog called "We Never Look...

National Geographic shows off impressive winners in annual photography contest

 
 

After sifting through more than 22,000 entries from over 150 countries, the winners have been picked in the 2012 National Geographic Photography contest and there's some pretty spectacular stuff. Both professionals and amateurs competed in this year's competition and photos were submitted in three categories: people,...

Seven perfectly timed cat photos that are absolutely feline-tastic

Continuing our light, animal-themed holiday photo posts, here's something for all the cat lovers out there. Last month we shared seven perfectly timed photos of humans doing crazy things and now here are seven perfectly timed photos showing off the wonders of the feline world.

The below images were culled from 25 perfectly timed cat photos posted on BuzzFeed.

If you like...

Not in the holiday spirit yet? Check out these amazing macro photos of snowflakes.

 
 

With forecasters already predicting another down year for snowfall in the U.S. (global warming, anyone?), these stunning macro images of snowflakes by Russian photographer Andrew Osokin should help remind you that winter is coming (as the Starks often say on HBO's "Game of Thrones").

Osokin, who lives and works in...

Photo of iceberg that allegedly sank the Titanic goes up for auction

 
 

Is this or is it not an image of the iceberg that sank the Titanic? That's what potential buyers will have to consider when a photograph purportedly of the infamous iceberg goes up for auction at RR Auction in Nashua, N.H. next month.

The photo was captured by the captain of another steam ship, the S.S. Etonian, just...

Budding photographer and full-time Duchess Kate Middleton posts her Borneo travel photos

 
 

In case you didn't know it, along with being the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton is a budding photographer. Duchess Kate shot images during her and her husband Prince William's trip to Borneo earlier this year and just today had them posted on their official website.

Unfortunately, the royal website has been hit...

7 photos of vintage balloons from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

 
 

The 86th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with be held this Thursday, Nov. 22, with millions of people lining the streets around Central Park in New York City (and tens of millions watching live on TV) to get a glimpse of the colorful gigantic balloons and floats.

While the balloons have changed over time -- the...

Seven perfectly timed photos that capture life’s decisive moments

They say that timing is everything and that's certainly the case with the seven photos on this page, all of which were captured at just the right moment for maximum impact. (In the case of the photo of the cyclist, we mean that quite literally.)

The below images were culled from nearly 70 perfectly timed shots posted on Bored Panda here and here.

(Thanks Phil!)

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Crazy image of a sink draining looks like an eye

Earlier this evening we shared some amazing extreme macro shots of food captured with an electron microscope and yesterday we posted a group of powerful perfectly timed images. In a similar vein, here's a freaky photo captured by Reddit user Liamm of a sink draining that looks a lot like an eye.

Optical illusion or just good timing?

See a bigger version of the "sinkeye" here....

Hilarious images of photographer’s grandmother as superhero captivate Internet

 
 

Photographer Sacha Goldberger lives with his grandmother and takes hilariously artful photos of her in a variety of whimsical situations, oftentimes with his beloved "Mamika" dressed as a superhero. When a friend of Sacha's decided to post his images on Reddit, the Internet went crazy, with many "Redditors" praising the...

Photographer details how he shot iconic image of half-blacked-out New York City after Hurricane Sandy

It's already become one of the most iconic images of New York City post-Hurricane Sandy. The photo, captured by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan, shows the city's powerless southern end mostly blacked-out in the wake of Sandy, and the more fortunate midtown and northern areas still lit.

 
 

Baan shot the aerial image with a...

Compelling behind-the-scenes photos from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

 
 

Landmark adventure film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" returned to the big screen a few months ago and as part of that re-release, a raft of behind-the-scenes images of the movie have been making the rounds.

Many of these candid shots are wonderful, showing director Stephen Spielberg, producer George Lucas and stars...

Powerful photos of the devastation and aftermath of Hurricane Sandy around New York City

 
 

Hurricane Sandy walloped New York City and the upper Atlantic coast yesterday, and along with leaving a trail of devastation in its wake it brought thousands of incredible photos showing the destructive power of Mother Nature.

We scoured government agency websites and social networks to compile the following images...

Amazing (& terrifying) satellite photo of Hurricane Sandy from space

Here's a seriously impressive photo of Hurricane Sandy captured from the NOAA-NASA GOES-13 satellite yesterday.

There are no words that quite describe the power of nature as this single image does.

(Via Laughing Squid)

 
NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at 1302...

Hurricane Sandy’s coming and here are photos of an emptied New York City to prove it

 
 

As everyone knows, big, bad Hurricane Sandy is in the process of walloping the East Coast but these photos of an emptied out New York City show the (panicked) calm before the storm.

They're photos of some of New York's busiest transit hubs including Grand Central Station, Penn Station, and various subway stations,...

Love those underwater dogs photos? This video shows how they were shot

 
Photo by Seth Casteel

What is it about these underwater dogs photos that the Internet just can't seem to get enough of? A few weeks ago we posted this super slow motion video of dogs catching balls underwater and got a great response from Imaging Resource readers.

Now here's a behind-the-scenes video from ABC News of...