At the end of June this year, 26 new inscriptions were added to the World Heritage Site List, UNESCO’s cultural collection of 1,007 properties. The Queen’s Stepwell (aka Rani-ki-Vav) at Patan, Gujarat, was one of them, stunning visitors with its astonishing structure of architectural and technological skill that India possessed over 800 years ago.
We’re briefly interrupting your hopefully awesome weekend with our latest Weekend Samplr. Enjoy the featured photography and be inspired to go out and shoot.
From industrial designer to touring musician for Ladytron to exhibiting photographer, Reuben shares his creative experiences. “It’s all about narrative and pace,” he says. And after hundreds of destinations visited and over a dozen years of photo experimentation, he has an amazing oeuvre for us to appreciate.
Congratulations and thank you for your great contributions for #FlickrFriday! We felt jet lagged, we lost all notions of time, we traveled with you between sleep and awakening, trying to keep our eyes open. We saw the world’s shape blurred and vague. Now we all need a good night’s sleep!
For Mono Monday this week, a fantastic smile captured in a portrait by Nicola Battistini led us on a journey for more black-and-white photography taken in Thailand. From street market scenes to majestic temples, the Southeast Asian country has much to offer.
We’re happy to present to you a selection of our recent faves in this latest installment of our Weekend Samplr. Click through and enjoy the weekend!
Yesterday we asked you to show us your most interesting Travel photos for #TwitterTuesday.
Benjamin Von Wong likes to light people on fire, transport them into surreal worlds, and sink them in underwater shipwrecks. The 27-year-old photographer aims to blur the line between fantasy and reality with his epic photo shoots, and the results are mesmerizing larger-than-life images.
Our friends at Yahoo Travel offer “a shot of daily inspiration” via Snapshot, and many of you have already contributed to this exceptional photography program. Join the Yahoo Travel group and add where you’ve been with your photography to partake.
We noticed Catherine Marshall has been busy capturing what she’s seen in her diving adventures. And after admiring over 200 of her photo albums, we asked Catherine to give us a little insight into her story as an underwater photographer, particularly her explorations of Japanese military shipwrecks in Micronesia.
Designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985, the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, offers carved-rock architecture unlike any other, some of which may have been built back in the 5th century BCE.