Astonishing Photos of Poland from Above

The photographer of this series is a man by the name of Kacper Kowalski. He specializes in aerial photography and his images are simply stunning. The series shown on Feature Shoot was just to showcase his photography and the interesting shots he has taken. On his website, I found out that my favorite series (he has many) is one he did that he called "Toxic Beauty", in which he took aerial shots of "chemical plants, open-pit mines, and areas processed by the industry". While this particular photo series may have a deeper meaning to it, I just really like the colors and the way the images are presented overall.

How Instagram Changed Street Photography

While prior to Instagram, street photography was prominent for a small number of photographers, it has now blown up, like many other things, with the advances in technology. Because everyone is attached to their phone 24/7/365, taking an interesting, pleasing-to-the-eye picture, that has no real meaning is a simple as touching a button. With street photography today, someone can be in a city and see something that catches their eye and immediately post it to the internet and get 2737654 likes. On the other hand, some true photographers who never got any recognition before can go to a place like Instagram and upload images they took and get feedback and have people actually view and appreciate their work. So while like so many other technologies, Instagram has ruined some of the authenticity of street photography, it has also gained a sort of fanbase with the "hipster" communities of posting really cool images that everyone can appreciate for their quality.

Architecture or Nature?

If we work with architecture, I would want to do something like one of these four images, showcasing interesting styles of architecture and layering them together (or repeating patterns like in the second one).

If we were to work with nature, I would really like to do portraits with the double exposure.

BLUR: Project Real

This photographer, Luca Di Lotti, was inspired by an Italian city "park", if you will,  that was being turned from public property to private. This site, called "Cavallerizza Reale", has significant historical and architectural value and should not be sold by the City Council to private investors. Di Lotti's photography in itself is really cool.  I don't know if the images 100% convey the messages the artist is trying to convey, but the images are really deep and do convey a message and make a statement.

I love the simplicity of the images and the partial consistancy in the photos with the "real" in the different languages. Each of the images are very diverse and very different, but having the same overall idea (with the "real") is really cool to have this in a photo series.

This is my favorite photo from the series, mostly because of the symmetry.  But also with that, the "real" words are slightly off center which balances out the image.