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Equipment: Phantom 4 Pro Location: Aperture: 3.2 Shutter Speed: 1/320s Focal Length: 8.8 Comet Into Darkness 2017-12-27SkyPixel Use Only2017 SKYPIXEL PHOTO CONTEST-Professional-Landscape One of my favourite shots. An early morning in Newfoundland, I was hiking on the East Coast Trail when I heard a bunch of seagulls. I quickly launched my drone to find-out what was causing the mayhem. It was a small cod fishing boat steaming towards the harbour, a truly magical moment.

Equipment: Phantom 4 Pro. Aperture: 3.2. Shutter Speed: 1/320s. Focal Length: 8.8
Comet Into Darkness by Drone Hikers. 2017-12-27 SKYPIXEL PHOTO CONTEST-Professional-Landscape.
One of my favourite shots. An early morning in Newfoundland, I was hiking on the East Coast Trail when I heard a bunch of seagulls. I quickly launched my drone to find-out what was causing the mayhem. It was a small cod fishing boat steaming towards the harbour, a truly magical moment.

Equipment: Mavic Pro. Aperture: 2.2. Shutter Speed: 1/200s. Focal Length: 4.7. Waterfall Hero by 夜雾深沉. 他是一位年过六旬的长者，他是吉尼斯瀑布跳水世界纪录保持者，在中国著名的黄河壶口、黑龙江吊水楼大瀑布他惊鸿一跃，令世人为之赞叹。在空中，他舒展矫健的身姿与神奇壮美的大自然融为了一体，“御”见英雄，定格那震撼人心的一瞬，将这飞跃化为了永恒…… He is over sixty, he is the world record holder for the Guinness waterfall diving. In China's famous spout of the Yellow River and the great falls of the water tower in Heilongjiang province, he surprised the world with his leap. In the air, his action stretches the beautiful. Freeze the moment of the shock, take this leap into eternity.

Equipment: Mavic Pro. Aperture: 2.2. Shutter Speed: 1/200s. Focal Length: 4.7. Waterfall Hero by 夜雾深沉. 他是一位年过六旬的长者，他是吉尼斯瀑布跳水世界纪录保持者，在中国著名的黄河壶口、黑龙江吊水楼大瀑布他惊鸿一跃，令世人为之赞叹。在空中，他舒展矫健的身姿与神奇壮美的大自然融为了一体，“御”见英雄，定格那震撼人心的一瞬，将这飞跃化为了永恒…… He is over sixty, he is the world record holder for the Guinness waterfall diving. In China’s famous spout of the Yellow River and the great falls of the water tower in Heilongjiang province, he surprised the world with his leap. In the air, his action stretches the beautiful. Freeze the moment of the shock, take this leap into eternity.

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The Daily Bird #643.

Bullfinches from Charly: Just an illustration of how smart these birdies are. This is in my neighbour’s garden, where they were waiting for my father to go out and fill the feeder. Right after he did so and went home, they descended on it to tuck in. They learned the time when he goes to refill and come in time not to miss it. One day father only went out to check post and did not fill the feeder and the birds still went and looked if it is full. So they evidently recognize him as their personal waiter. Click for full size!

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A Love Letter To Bolivia.

© Kevin Faingnaert.

© Kevin Faingnaert.

© Kevin Faingnaert.

© Kevin Faingnaert.

Belgian photographer Kevin Faingnaert spent a month capturing what he calls a love letter to Bolivia, penned to, “the land and to the generations of people and animals who have shaped it.”

Bolivia is a country of extremes: from the Andes to the Amazon, its landscape offers seemingly infinite horizons, each more spectacular than the next. Enchanted by both the topographic extremes and the cultural tradition of the country, Faingnaert photographed what he saw as he traveled from the famed Lake Titicaca, across the Salt Flats and to the wild-west of the country. In the interview below, we spoke to him about his month in Bolivia, the majesty of its landscape, and the traditions that still thrive there.

You can read and see so much more at iGNANT. Amazing photographs!

Crow with Fish.

From Ice Swimmer: This crow was sitting in spruce tree in an island, eating a small fish (probably a perch, caught by somebody fishing on the sea ice). The crow is there in the first picture, but the branches obscure it. The bird was worried that I might take its seafood meal and flew to another tree (a deciduous one). Click for full size!

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U.S. Government Abuse: Manzanar to Guantánamo.

Clem Albers, “San Pedro, California, April 5, 1942” (courtesy National Archives and Records Administration).

Clem Albers, “San Pedro, California, April 5, 1942” (courtesy National Archives and Records Administration).

Edmund Clark, “Camp 1, isolation unit” from the series Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out (2009) (© Edmund Clark).

Edmund Clark, “Camp 1, isolation unit” from the series Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out (2009) (© Edmund Clark).

Edmund Clark, “Camp 6, Immediate Response Force equipment,” from the series Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out (2009) (© Edmund Clark).

Edmund Clark, “Camp 6, Immediate Response Force equipment,” from the series Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out (2009) (© Edmund Clark).

The exhibition Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is what brought me to the International Center of Photography. After all, the wartime photos of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake are much celebrated today, historical artifacts in themselves. But I felt compelled to stay for The Day the Music Died, British photographer Edmund Clark’s eight video, music, and photography installations on the post-9/11“War on Terror” around the globe.

The pairing of the two exhibitions invites viewers to search for parallels between US national security efforts more than 70 years ago and today: How does the forced relocation of virtually all ethnic Japanese people residing in the US during World War II resemble the dragnet of the current anti-terrorism apparatus around the globe? Both shows shed light on people, more that half a century apart, swept into detention by the US government without due process, in the name of national security. And the juxtaposition has become all the more timely since President Trump’s late January signing of an executive order to keep Guantánamo Bay’s prison open.

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The exhibitions Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died continue at the International Center of Photography (250 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through May 6.

You can read and see much more about these terribly poignant photographs and their history at Hyperallergic.

Snowprints.

From Ice Swimmer: These footprints in snow were on dry land and on the sea ice, or both in Helsinki, first four near the former Presidential Residence, Tamminiemi and the museum island Seurasaari and the last two near the Hietaranta beach and Hietaniemi cemetery. Click for full size!

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