El Teide

El Teide is the highest mountain in Spain. Located in the Canary Islands, Tenerife the mountain is the highest point in the atlantic ocean. The norwegian artist who filmed the time-lapse 'The Mountain' was Terje Sorgjerd, and here's what he said about the experience;

"This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide.Spain´s highest mountain @(3718m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories. 
The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies.
A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April (bit.ly/​g3tsDW) and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.
Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32."

Anyway the video speaks for itself, here it is!


The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

Julian Bialowas

Julian Bialowas is a Canadian graphic design student with a love of photography. He has combined photographs he has taken on his travels with quotes, and some of the results are pretty amazing. They may be simple but I think thats why I love them so much. He has a current project 365q, where he posts one of his photos every day for a year, heres a few examples, and you can find the rest here!

Ryan Tatar

My favourite season will always be summer and I came across this photographer who captures it in ever picture he takes! He has a few different series of work, my favourites are sea tribes and the cape fear kooks.
Heres what Tatar has to say about the cape fear kooks,

"The Cape Fear Kooks is an ongoing photo essay, and subset of the sea-tribes body of work, that focuses on a small pocket sized capsule of eccentric surfers in North Carolina.  The photographs in this subset continue the tradition and attributes of the sea-tribes essay, however are specifically focused in the area around the photographer’s home and personal lifestyle from the fall of 2008 until early 2010.   Also, like sea-tribes, the photographs were taken with fully manual 1960s and 1970s era equipment and shot on a variety of black and white, cross processed, and expired films.  The colours are unique to the film processing technique (various slide films processed in C-41 chemicals) and polaroid."

 Every single photograph makes me wish it was summer and want to go on a road trip, here's some of my favourites, you can see all of his work here!