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Abandoned Chairs Get an Artistic Home
Images from abandonedchairsblogspot.com: Queen West
There is something so forlorn and sad about a chair abandoned on the roadside. Innocent and sometimes beautiful, it is hard to resist taking them home and giving them a reason to live again.
Some artists have been having the same problem.
Africa's Agbogbloshie Market is a Computer Graveyard
Images from flavorwire
A good documentary photographer takes us to places that we never could imagine and teaches us something at the same time.
Ed Burtynsky on the Gulf Oil Spill
Images from metiviergallery: Oil Spill #4, Oil Skimming Boat near Ground Zero, May 12, 2010, chromogenic print
The Canadian photographer, Ed Burtynsky, has been photographing the impact of industrialization on the environment for the last 30 years.
'Pretty Pollution' Minnesota Lake Now Pretty For Real
Mary Taffe took these pictures at the same spot in Big Stone Lake last summer (left) and this summer (right).
Great Trees of Toronto as Photographed by Vince Pietropaolo
Images from sidespacegallery: American Elm
Everyone has their favourite tree; one that they pass en route to work or school or in the neighbour's front yard. Toronto has its own fair share and they are immortalized in a new exhibition: Vincenzo Pietropoalo's Toronto Tree Portraits.
Artist Drenches Models in Fake Oil to Protest Gulf Oil Spill (Slideshow)
Image credit: Jane Fulton Alt
When news broke on April 20, 2010 that an explosion had occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, artist Jane Fulton Alt was in the hospital, meeting
Man Helps Bear Rescue Cub from Fishing Net (Video)
Image: From video supplied by Dane Havard, via Daily Motion
This gives the term "bear hug" a whole new meaning.
Ansel Adams' Negatives Found in a Garage Sale--Maybe
Image from wsj.online
We are always extolling the virtues of garage sales; the joy of recycling and re-using and respecting perfectly good finds. And then there is the joy of Ansel Adams' photography: he was one of the original environmentalists who understood the beauty and inspirational quality of nature.
Gorgeous Animal and Nature Photography From European Wildlife Book (Slideshow)
We have followed nature conservation organization Wild Wonders of Europe since they launched the biggest nature photography project ever.
Barenaked Ladies Say Get Outside, Get $1,000
Credit: Courtesy Reverb.org
Let me get this straight. You want me to leave my house, go outside and run around like a bunch of Barenaked Ladies? And you'll give me $1,000 toward a cool camping trip if you like the picture I take?
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