7 Best Infrared Photos created by High Skilled Photographers

Infrared (IR) photos are based on films or image sensors that are sensitive to infrared light.

In photography, there usually are special filters that can help one achieve such results and we strongly sustain the idea that the investment is definitely worth it.

To prove this point, we have gathered 50 professional infrared photographs in a beautiful showcase.


Stony Mere Church
author: maclu2iaf

Stunning Pictures and Photos

Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the emotions a photographer experienced when clicking the shot button. Taking excellent pictures is damn hard as you need to find a perfect perspective and consider the perfect timing. To achieve brilliant photography you need practice and patience. However, it is worth it: the results can be truly stunning.

Below you’ll find 50 brilliant photos and stunning pictures — some pictures tell stories, some are incredibly beautiful, some are funny and some are very sad. Let we enjoy these photos below.


1. Water and a Girl
Beautiful composition, excellent scenery, amazing play of colors.

Texture Gallery: Miscellaneous

These photos have been created by Smashing Magazine readeres in our Smashing Texture Contest. What can you do with them? You can use all textures for both private and commercial projects for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. However, you are not allowed to offer these files for download; please respect the interestes of over 300 participants of our contest. Please also consider the license information attached to the .zip-archives you download from our server. When it comes to usage of textures, different photographers may have different opinions and intentions. Just see these photos below.



Pascal Immerzeel
This is a texture experiment for which I photographed the lawn sprinkler in front of our hedge.

7 Photos of the Most Famous Landmarks on Earth

Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area.

Now, a landmark includes anything that is easily recognizable, such as a monument or a building, or any other spot to designate places that might be of interest to tourists.

Last time we covered some of the most obvious, like the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. But there are so many countries, and even more landmarks…

So here are 50 more for you to recognize. Are you ready for another trip around the world?



Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
author: Jaci Rae

Amazing Black and White Photography

If you’ve been following Smashing Magazine for a while, you know that almost all posts from the Monday Inspiration series are pretty colorful and eye-catching. This post is an exception. Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white designs the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation.

Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its play of colors. Here close attention to composition, lighting, perspective and the context it is shot in are important. Hence, before considering the photos presented below please prepare some patience and time. This post presents some truly excellent examples of beautiful black-and-white photography. Just enjoy these photographs below.




Toni Frissell
In her legendary photos Toni Frissell impresses with a strong trend toward surrealism or realism. The photo presented below, although in black and white, is both extremely sharp and clear. To achieve such level of clarity in black and white is extremely hard.

7 Professional Photos of The Beauty of Bolivia Expressed

Today’s showcase main theme is traveling photography. Placed in the Southern Hemisphere, in South America, Bolivia is a country a little underestimated when it comes to vacations and sightseeing.

This country is a landlocked one, but it catches up with many other aspects: the Amazonian rainforests, the Chaco plain, the Nevado Sajama Peak and of course, Salar de Uyuni, which is the world’s largest salt flat.

The weather varies a lot, depending on the zones, therefore different types of vegetation flourishes, turning Bolivia into a paradise on Earth.

Our goal today is to prove that this country is definitely worth visiting and will for sure be a great addition to any photographer’s portfolio. Let's see these amazing picture!


Smoky Trees
author: Cabell Cox

Beauty Motion Blur Photographs

Photos taken with a camera do not represent a single moment of time. Due to technological constraints these shots stand for some scene over a brief period of time. This time frame depends on the camera’s shutter speed. In motion blur, any object moving with respect to the camera will look blurred or smeared along the direction of relative motion.

Motion blur is frequently used to show a sense of speed. You can achieve this effect in a usual scene using slow shutter speeds. You may want to take a look at resources provided in the end of the article — they show how one can add the motion blur effect in photos. Let we see these photographs below.

7 Adorable Newly Hatched Birds to Melt Your Heart

It isn’t easy, taking a close up of a newly hatched bird.
Some baby birds come out of their egg and are independent, like chicks, but others stay in the nest and have to be fed by both parents till they get stronger, grow feathers and fly out. The parents fly in and out of the nest constantly, feeding the young birds out of their crop.

Most young birds aren’t as pretty or colorful as their parents. They are helpless, not fully developed, the first few days even bald. But as you can see in the following photos, they all melt our hearts. Well, most of them, anyway…

Chipping Sparrow Nestlings
author: pannamoo

Beautiful examples of rain photography

Shooting in rain produces dramatic atmosphere and soft romantic scenes. Whether you are after lightning strikes or water drops, alone the incredible cloud formations can produce quite exciting and impressive photos. Reflections can occasionally produce mirrors or blurs of dancing colors, making the photography in rain beautiful and unpredictable.

Below we present the beautiful examples of rain photography. This post is supposed to provide you with some inspiration for rainy motifs and is not supposed to be the ultimate collection of best photographs. There are definitely thousands of beautiful “rainy” photos &ndsash; feel free to share links to them in comments to this post! Then enjoy the amazing photographs below.

Marcel Germain

7 Pictures of Bruges

Bruges is a beautiful city in Flanders, Belgium, known for its canals and its lace. The historic center of Bruges is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

One of its many medieval buildings, the Church of Our Lady, is one of the world’s highest brick towers. The sculpture Madonna and Child, which can be seen in the church, is believed to be Michelangelo’s only sculpture to have left Italy within his lifetime.

Some of the other amazing tourist attractions are the belfry, the swans at the Love Lake and the beguinage. A beguinage is a collection of small buildings used by Beguines. These were various lay sisterhoods of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in the 13th century in the Low Countries, comprising religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.

Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam, Bruges is sometimes referred to as “The Venice of the North”.


beguinage bruges
author: starsofglass