Photos taken in Tasmania and Australia by Stuart Gibson. See more of his work at Stugibson.net (via The Blog of Yoland).

See more at: Winners gallery 2010 — World Press Photo.

The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909–1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He traveled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900’s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting.

Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s

See more at: Pictures of the Year International 2009 Winners Gallery

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An interesting concept from Matt Siber. See more at: Floating Logos.

British photographer Justin Quinnell is making waves with an amazing six month exposure he made in Bristol, England of the sun rising and falling over the city’s famous suspension bridge.

He made the photo not with a fancy digital camera but with an extremely rude, homemade device — a pinhole camera made from an empty soda can with a .25mm hole punched in it and one sheet of photo paper inside. He strapped it to a telephone pole and left it there for six months, from December 19, 2007 to June 21, 2008. If those dates sound familiar (or astronomically significant), they are — they’re the winter and summer solstices, respectively.

The lowest arc in the photo is the sun’s trail on the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. The highest arc is the summer solstice. The lines which are punctuated by dots represent overcast days when the sun penetrated the clouds only intermittently.

via mental_floss Blog » The World’s Longest Exposures.

For those that don’t know who Darth Vader is, these two Star Wars plot descriptions should help clear things up:

Photo via kinod.net

More photos from the New York Times can be found at: 2008 — The Year in Pictures