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Today creative community EyeEm announced the top 100 images from its annual photography competition, which received over 590,000 submissions from more than 88,000 photographers in over 150 countries.
The jury features representatives from National Geographic, VII Photo Agency, Refinery29, BBC and more. The jury judged 5 categories: The Architect, The Portraitist, The Photojournalist, The Street Photographer and The Great Outdoors.
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#1
By Marc Leppin - The Great Outdoors
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
I believe it is contrived. I copied the image, found the 'centre-line' (the line where the upper image gets reflected), copied the upper half and re-pasted it over the lower half. 'flipped'. Watching closely I deleted the overlying image ... NO CHANGE. A true reflection is always slightly different, in colour, texture, and most importantly parallax - wherein the more distant objects are less visible (more obscured) by the closer objects. This simple flip-test reveals a lot.
Maggie Collins 8 years ago
You really cannot tell which is up and which is down, can you? I cannot sometimes.
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#2
By Pau Buscató - The Street Photographer
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
That is *lucky*. What is amazing is the ripped fabric that also looks like a bird. (& I cannot see any evidence of the real bird being photoshopped in.)
John Nathan Neil Dion 8 years ago
Splendid but I wonder how did they ever achieve such a photo shot? Did they wait there for the entire day until a bird fly over?
#3
By Yicheng Xiao - The Great Outdoors
Anna Thouvenin 8 years ago
It's in Indonesia. It's called Angel's Billabong, if I'm not wrong.
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Ged Maybury 8 years ago
The human figure allows me to grasp the *scale* of this location. Yup, wow.
#4
By Masaki Sato - The Great Outdoors
Joan Taylor 8 years ago
I feel as though I'd like to be there..............................maybe
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
A great photo, finding the quirky angle adds a sort of ironic commentary. Yatta ne, Sato-San!
#5
By Guiga Pirá - The Great Outdoors
#6
By Xiao Han - The Great Outdoors
Anna Thouvenin 8 years ago
It doesn't say, but she has been trapped there for the last 100 years.
Kaye LaVee Swanson 8 years ago
I just saw a. Wildlife program which had similar rock formations !
Susann Campbell 8 years ago
So did I and I can never remember what they are called. The hexagons are the strangest to me.
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Marzena Økland 8 years ago
it`s nice but those blocs are so raw and naked so naked body could be more expressive
#7
By Simon - The Great Outdoors
Hunter Pynchon 8 years ago
Great composition capturing joy is one of the hardest things to do. Documenting darkness is easier because there is so much of it.
#8
By Anthony Castro - The Great Outdoors
#9
By Justin Edward Okoye - The Great Outdoors
Arnoud Lievers 8 years ago
wow can't all sports fisherman become photographers. I mean is there a better way to catch a fish? I think not
#10
By Kimberly Dela Cruz - The Photojournalist
Joan Taylor 8 years ago
and we all "SPEND" so much money on junk, time on senselessness, when will we learn to live simply and reach out to others..it's called compassion and love for all people everyone has a story, let's listen and use our resources to heal our home and family
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Excellent use of the various light-sources. Real or contrived? I cannot tell? But it tells a story either way.
Lisa Biesinger 8 years ago
I see a person worshipping...praying.... meditating. I see a home. Electricity. Transportation. The person is clothed, shod, well fed (not fat). I think humanity is doing just fine here.
Manang Y. Torres 8 years ago
mmm ... can you see the blood near the candle or the yellow police ribbon? i think the story of this picture is about extra judicial killing in the Philippines. the child's parent was probably a drug suspect and got killed ... it is our religious practice to light a candle where the person died
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By Uta Lauterbach - The Portraitist
#12
By Michael Shauer - The Great Outdoors
Wyndmere 8 years ago
Sings, "As I travel down that Lonesome Road on my way back to you darling".
*Mrs. Voldemort* 8 years ago
This reminds me to the movie "Woman in Black" 😅 But this is the non scary version of it, this is beautiful...
#13
By Maciej Dakowicz- The Street Photographer
#14
By Angkul - The Street Photographer
Hunter Pynchon 8 years ago
WARNING! As you look through these MARVELOUS photo's, a person, Wyndemere (sp?) has decided to make fun of many of the pictures. It is not funny, it is disrespectful and mean. Note: he has up and down arrows to show if you think a comment is good or bad. If you feel as I do, choose the down arrow and let him know you see through him and do not respect him. People have the right to express their opinions, critism is one thing, sarcastic bullying is unacceptable, or it is in my opinion.
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jeremyphart 8 years ago
Dafuq is up with the light in this photo, the shadow on the bike it from the opposite direction!
Doc Robinson 8 years ago
Really you don't understand ? Really ?! ... the came from the sun between building not from the bike...
Load More Replies... Lisa Biesinger 8 years ago
Such a well planned split-second composition of moving objects in a temporarily grouped position ! Respect!
#15
By Stefano Rulli - The Great Outdoors
#16
By Denise Kwong - The Photojournalist
*Mrs. Voldemort* 8 years ago
Another creepy one...I thought I'm going to see some Asian ghost somewhere...
#17
By Michael Moeller - The Great Outdoors
#18
By Lennin Ruiz - The Street Photographer
Lisa Biesinger 8 years ago
Young face full of tentative curiosity, mature face full of worry and concern. Life.
Adeola Balogun 8 years ago
Looking through the glass.....watching the world blur past her window.
#19
By Tim Gaweco - The Photojournalist
#20
By Md. Enaul Kabir - The Photojournalist
sumit kumar dey 8 years ago
and it says "it's illegal and punishable to travel on the roof of the train"
#21
By Iván Ferrero - The Great Outdoors
#22
By Nils Leithold - The Great Outdoors
#23
By Ngoc Van Anh Nguyen - The Photojournalist
#24
By Michael Lynch - The Great Outdoors
#25
By Francisco Javier Hoyos Carcedo - The Photojournalist
#26
By Jeremy Cheung - The Architect
Kira Leseman 8 years ago
I wonder if this was hung in a gallery would a passerby flip it cause they thought was upside down on accident.
#27
By Fong Han Wei - The Photojournalist
#28
By Maximilian Schulz - The Portraitist
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 8 years ago
that, and a "gummy"-tablecloth for outdoor-tables.
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#29
By Niko S. - The Photojournalist
*Mrs. Voldemort* 8 years ago
Modern sculpture...I think no ice storm would happen when the sky is so beautifully blue like that...
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logical fallacy 8 years ago
It's the sculpture of the Runner in Athens. It's made of millions of sheets of glass. Every few years they take it apart, clean every sheet and put it back together.
#30
By Scott Firestone - The Architect
logical fallacy 8 years ago
So they chose to have the only tree in the area enclosed in a street?
#31
By Francis Malapris - The Portraitist
#33
By Olivier Morisse - The Portraitist
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
A mirror, stuck into the sand, camera angled to catch the man who is standing near the photographer.
*Mrs. Voldemort* 8 years ago
This would win my big 5 list...the dude was actually standing in the right arm of the photographer, I think. The mirror was buried in the sand, and the shadow coming from the left. This is amazing...
Anna Thouvenin 8 years ago
This picture makes my brain painful either way.
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By Jonathan Kalifat - The Photojournalist
Lisa Panos Fullerton 8 years ago
I agree with Wyndmere... Whom ever took this pic.. Appears unwanted !
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Unless I was actually there, and knew the entire context, including the language and culture of these three people, I cannot even begin to speculate what is going on here.
Hunter Pynchon 8 years ago
Wyndmere, making fun of people (and the photographs) is NOT funny. It is wrong. The photos in this collection are compelling, and your lack of respect says a lot about you.
#35
By Michael Färber - The Great Outdoors
Wyndmere 8 years ago
The surface of the water is so still and dark on her right. It is so blue and full of motion on her left. -- She is the living epitome of the Great Barrier Reef.
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Amazingly effective. (The water is very shallow to her right. And I hope it was warm!)
*Mrs. Voldemort* 8 years ago
This creeps me out...she looks like a corpse in the inferi lake...
logical fallacy 8 years ago
Well, it is supposed to be filled with Muggles. But I think this woman is beautiful.
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By Linus Strandholm - The Great Outdoors
#37
By Keanoja - The Photojournalist
#38
By André Dogbey - The Great Outdoors
#39
By Linus Guardian Escandor Ii - The Photojournalist
Kjersti Valberg 8 years ago
that poor guy down right in the pic fell asleep with his nose in the other guys armpit :P
*Mrs. Voldemort* 8 years ago
And the other guy's touching himself on his sleep...only wearing a speedo? What the hell happened here? 😅
Load More Replies... *Mrs. Voldemort* 8 years ago
The dude with the pink blanket in the middle put his heels on the other dude's crotch... 😅
Rhiannon Lee 8 years ago
If you look at the guy laying right next to him, his foot is laying right under the other guys' chin! Also, whose leg is that coming out from the bottom of the pink blanket??
Load More Replies... Kira Leseman 8 years ago
The smell and the noise would have driven me over the edge into crazyville.
Solange Ferrer 8 years ago
Detainees from the Philippines.. due to lack of space for hundreds of prisoners there is no more room for most of these guys..
#40
By Mubariz Khan - The Street Photographer
#41
By Zane Jēkabsone - The Great Outdoors
#42
By John Jerome E. Ganzon - The Photojournalist
#43
By Patrick Lee Yong Choon - The Great Outdoors
#44
By Adelou Osibodu - The Portraitist
#45
By Patrick Wendt - The Portraitist
#46
By Bernardo Guerreiro - The Photojournalist
Kira Leseman 8 years ago
Some of these pics need a sentence or two about what's going on. So many interesting looking stories.
#47
By Ritesh Shukla - The Photojournalist
Patti 8 years ago
He looks like he has that disease where he ages very quickly. They don't live much past 20 years. It's a very rare disease.
Lisa Biesinger 8 years ago
Malformed? Yes. Cognitively challenged? Probably. Underfed? Looks so. Institutionalized? No. Free to move and decide? Seems so. Cared for and loved? Sure looks like it. Has his own role in society? Very possible. Compare the picture to your mental image of a person institutionalized with hydrocephaly in the western world. Who is probably happier in their daily life?
Anna Thouvenin 8 years ago
Probably someone who isn't bound to die before they reach 20.
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By Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet - The Street Photographer
#49
By Fabian Palencia - The Street Photographer
Kira Leseman 8 years ago
Sorry but someone has to say it and I guess it's going to be me. BLOCK PENIS!!! Again sorry.
#50
By Alp Peker - The Street Photographer
Eva Michelle Avdal 8 years ago
it's from Vigelandsparken in Oslo, Norway.. Filled with naked statues! ;)
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#51
By David Schulman - The Portraitist
#52
By Slawomir Olzacki - The Photojournalist
*Mrs. Voldemort* 8 years ago
This is so sad...flood, fire, earthquake, tornado, tsunami...I hope I never have to go through any of that (again, for earthquake and tsunami).
#53
By Gilberto Gennero - The Portraitist
#55
By Evelyne Sieber - The Photojournalist
#57
By Jan T. - The Portraitist
#58
By Michael Gabriele - The Portraitist
#59
By Ioanna Malkogianni - The Photojournalist
#60
By Willum.berlin - The Photojournalist
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
A re-composition of multiple exposures? To make it seem one? A bit of wild guessing here.
#61
By Zach Louw - The Portraitist
#62
By Rui Miguel Grilo Ramos - The Portraitist
#64
By Rosley Majid - The Photojournalist
#65
By F.d. Walker - The Street Photographer
#66
By Daren Mauree - The Photojournalist
#68
By Ezequiel Ferreira - The Photojournalist
#69
By Junhan F - The Street Photographer
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
A tiny street-side stall. Sorry, my Japanese isn't up to reading much more that the word 'scratchy' (I think) at right.
#70
By Jatuporn Pateepaparnee - The Street Photographer
#71
By Benjamin Van Der Spek - The Portraitist
#72
By Banar Fil Ardhi - The Portraitist
Dapur Cep Bobi 8 years ago
pasphoto jadi keren gini... mata orang tua memang seringkali jadi abu kebiru2an
#74
By Zhang Yang - The Great Outdoors
#75
By Clara González - The Photojournalist
#78
By Pantea Naghavi Anaraki - The Photojournalist
#80
By Ramin Mazur - The Photojournalist
#81
By Victòria Rovira Casanovas - The Photojournalist
#82
By Paul Crudgington - The Photojournalist
#83
By Allan Borebor - The Photojournalist
Kjersti Valberg 8 years ago
Cant stop thinking what would happen if it started burning . Or got hit by an earthquake. so many floors and so many people....
Andrzej Raczynski 8 years ago
nature will make more, everyone's expendable.
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Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
That's not what I see. I see so many people living their lives. Whenever I look out the window and see a sight like this I think of each individual moment happening in each of those windows. There could be a couple fighting (or having sex) in one, a man watching t.v.....you know what I mean. Just individual lives and it's all so much life and love and hate and energy all in one area like ants.
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#85
By Julie Hrudova - The Street Photographer
#87
By Tomasz Kulbowski - The Photojournalist
#90
By Raffaele De Vivo - The Street Photographer
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
"Is that the guy?" - "Yee-up, that's the guy who painted my truck." - "Thought so." - "How'd you know?!" - "Dunno. Just intuition, I guess."
#93
By Joanne Coates - The Portraitist
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Notice? A Christmas-themed swimsuit. Obviously very symbolic! [Naaaah, I'm just jerking you round!]
#95
By Erik Sellgren - The Photojournalist
#100
By Kanrapee Chokpaiboon - The Street Photographer
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