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Early this year, two men started on a quest to save the Polaroid film after it was discontinued. Now, it seems Polaroid are going to team up with the brave folks from The Impossible Project to relaunch some of the classic instant cameras from Polaroid.

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  • classic, impossible, instant, photo, polaroid

 

A photograph of the top layers of the earth’s atmosphere leading to space

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  • atmosphere, earth, moon, space, wikipedia

 

An apple that was hand carved and then shot! Nice!

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  • apple, deviantart, voldemort

 

Breathtaking images from the Hubble Space Telescope that are completely out of this world

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  • astronomy, hubble, space, telescope

 

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Superb shot of a cup with clouds in the background that seem to come out like steam from the cup

A supreme example of wit without words.

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  • clever, cloud, cup, wit

 

Some truly hair-raising pictures of ghost towns from around the world; this picture is from Bodie State Park in California

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  • abandoned, decay, ghost town, industrial, photo, travel

 

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  • cute, hair, lawn mower, pose

 

Scenes from an electronics recycling factory (Notice the Cyrix and IBM processors? I used those before.)

Wired has some awesome pictures of computer equipment and parts awaiting their end at an electronics scrap recycling factory in the United States.

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  • computer, electronics, recycle

 

I want a simple love. I want a simple life.

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  • flickr, life, love, pose, simple, typeset

 

Dark rooms were where photographs were developed back in the old days. Now, darkly lit rooms are the source of rich photographic ideas, like Brian Hart’s output.

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  • camera, light, lighting, painting

 

Inconceivable! A shattered rubber ducky!

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  • handmade, idea, rubber, shatter

 

Tokyo in 2009 would be a heavier animated GIF file

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  • animation, gif, japan, signage

 

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  • art direction, beauty, glass, still, style

 

Some really beautiful photographs of bubbles by photographer Jason Tozer

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  • beauty, jason tozer, lighting, oil, photographer, planet

 

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