A cool semi annual celestial event made popular by braniac Neil deGrasse Tyson is commonly referred to as Manhattenhenge. For those of you not familiar with the event, the same planetary tilt that determines the seasons also dictates exactly where the sun will go down each evening — and because of the way that Manhattan’s dominant street grid is laid out, killer sunsets are potentially visible from some of the borough’s best-known east-west streets in late May and mid-July. New Yorkers were wowed on Wednesday night by a sunset that was perfectly framed by skyscrapers.
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Limbo – Caught Between Dreams and Reality
Limbo is a collection of portraits featuring men who are trapped in a symbolic struggle between two choices. Based in El Salvador, artist Rodrigo Dada produced this series to illustrate the concept of transition. In the photographs, each person can choose to go one of two ways, continuing the descent underwater or moving forward and emerging above the surface.
Dada challenges his viewer’s perspective by turning each image sideways, which produces the illusion that the men are standing, trapped in a personal conflict. According to the artist, “The subject is found buoyant in between dreams and reality, calm and violence. This project is about threat and confusion: to float or to drown.”
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Tilt Shift Photography Turns Famous Places Into Miniature Scenes
New York-based photographer Richard Silver is a passionate traveler, and his primary goal as an artist is to share his life experiences by creating beautiful photographs during his travels. Rather than shoot traditional photos, he uses techniques such as tilt shift, HDR, panorama, and time-slice in order to capture the world in eye-catching ways.
A major project he has been working on is called “Tilt Shift.” He has been photographing some of the world’s most famous locations and turning them into miniature scenes.
The project contains photos snapped in locations ranging from the famous structures of Machu Picchu to runners streaming down a road during the New York Marathon.
Silver says, “People always ask me, How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small? Simple, we are!” Thus, his goal with the project is to “give the viewer a new way of seeing themselves and their place in the world.”
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey