After the games photo series

In an insightful project, io9 has procured a series of photographs documenting what has happened to the buildings used in past Olympic Games. 

The series focuses on the structures that have gone unused and derelict, including some from recent games in Athens and Beijing.

Take a look at the full collection here.

New York London photo series

Award-winning photojournalist Daniella Zalcman has released an incredible series of photographs called New York + London.

The series was created as a way to connect the time she spent in New York with her new home London. The series was released on Instagram using a set of photos she took of New York on her iPhone during her last month in the city, she then took the same number upon arrival in London. She then used software on her phone to carefully overlap the images, created a merged image of the two cities.

The full collection can be seen on Yatzer here. Zalcman also has a Kickstarter to get the photographs published as a book here.

Google takes you back in time

Google has been working with the U.S. Geological Society and NASA to produce some amazing time lapse images of our planet.

Collating images from over 40 years of Landsat satellite footage, the search engine has produced a several timelapse videos, that start in 1984 and finish 2012.

They map out several major changes to the planet, from the Shrinking of the Amazon forest to the growth of Las Vegas. The project was also partnered with Time Magazine, for their Timelapse project.

You can read more on the Google Blog, and see the timelapse here.

2013 Sony World Photography Awards

This year's Sony World Photography Award winners have been announced, and are currently on display at Somerset House, London.

The awards are organised by the World Photography Organisation, and have two main categories; open and professional. They are judged by an Honorary Judging Committee which is broken up in to groups for a selection of categories from Architecture to Sport.

The Professional winners from each of the 15 categories are being exhibited at Somerset House until 12th May 2013, including the overall winner, Andrea Gjestvang for her series, "One day in history," which intimately captures the young survivors of Utoeya, Norway July 2011 massacre.

Other winners include Fabrice Fouillet in the Architecture category and Christian Aslund for Campaigns.

Take a look at all the entries and winners here.

Buy tickets for the exhibition here.

Photographer captures artistic design of airports

New York based photographer Jeffrey Milstein has captured the design of two well known airports from above. In his series entitled 'flying' he has captured scenes of Newark Liberty Airport and JFK International Airport as well as a couple of shots of the city.

The images allow us to see the true artistic design of airports, which at ground level can seem sterile and daunting. Seeing them from above grasps the true nature of the design.

Milstein was inspired from his childhood, which was spent filming planes at LAX, and he is now renowned for his images of the underbellies of planes.

Milstein’s work was on display at the AIPAD Photo Show New York between April 4-7, 2013. View the full portfolio for 'flying' here.

National Geographic launches 'Found'

To celebrate their 125th anniversary National Geographic have dug through their archives to create a new Tumblr Blog called 'Found'.

The blog contains many photos that you will have never seen before as they have never been published.

The blog showcases photographs that reveal cultures and moments of the past and allows for contributions. Due to the age of some of the photos background information has been lost so visitors are invited to fill in the blanks.

The collection is a great window into the past and is like a journey through the history of photography from the last 125 years.

Take a look at the blog here.

A visual exploration of Google Image Search

In her latest and ongoing project, artist Dina Kelberman has created a fantastic blog that documents patterns found on Google Image Search. 

Called 'I'm google' the project involves a seamless link between pictures found via image search, from one subject to the next based on similarities in form, composition, colour, and theme.

The result is a colourful and intriging compliation of images that links pictures of planes dropping fire retardant to orange kayak to a bridge, which all feels so natural when you go through the blog.

The Tumblr blog came out of Dina's natural tendency to spend long hours obsessing over Google Image searches, collecting photos she found beautiful and storing them by theme.

Often the images that interested her are of industrial or municipal materials or everyday photo snapshots, not those that appear to be intentionally artistic.

Follow her blog here.

Trees of ice

Photographer Tim Corbin braved the cold to travel to Lake Ontario, North America to take these amazing shots of tree's covered in ice from the waves of the lake. 

Quite beautiful.

See some more images at his Flickr page here.

Glass farm for Dutch town

After waiting 23 years for their market square to be redeveloped, the people of the Dutch town of Schijndel have an incredible new structure that pays homage to the local farming heritage.

Architects MVRDV noticed that the area put aside by the town planners resembled the layout of a traditional local farm. They used this idea to create a 1.6 times bigger model of a farm, made from glass and printed with images of a variety of different buildings from local farms, taken by artist Frank van der Salm.

The structure isn't just for show, it also houses several retail and business premises on the 1600sqm of Schijndel’s large market square.

Images from MVRDV and Persbureau van Eijndhoven.

Amazing ice photos from inside a building

Photographer Gary Jensenwas asked to snap some incredible photos prior to the thawing of a former cold storage building that was about to be renovated in Chicago. The thawing itself was also caught on video.

The building was the former home of Fulton Market Cold Storage company, and was recently sold to Sterling Bay, who are renovating the building with help from architects Perkins & Will. Before they could start, they had to defrost the enormous storage area that had turned into an icy cavern. Luckily Gary was able to take these incredible photos first. 

See more photos on his website. 

Hélène Binet - a master of architectural photography

It's Nice That has featured inspiring architectural photographer Hélène Binet on their website.

The piece covers her relationship with some of the world's top architects and her amazing ability to capture their creations in a truly unique and breath-taking manner. Due to her stunning work, she is regarded as one of the best architectural photographers in the world and when you see the images she has taken it is no surprise that architects such as Le Corbusier, David Chipperfield, Alvar Aalto and Zaha Hadid have all used her to document their work.

Read the piece and see more images here.

National Geographic 2012 Photo Contest

The entries are in and the decision has been made, the winner’s of the National Geographic 2012 Photography Contest, have been announced.

The contest had over 220,000 entries from more than 150 countries and features some of the most spectacular photos submitted by professionals and amateurs alike, with the categories being People, Places and Nature.  

The winner's were:
Nature: Ashley Vincent (also won grand prize)
Places: Nenad Saljic
People: Micah Albert

Have a look at the Winners and Honourable Mentions here.  

Or see all the entries here