Wild blackberries and red salmon berries gathered in Upstate New York, Harriman State Park. I never had salmon berries before.  They are so delicious! Almost as good as or better than raspberries.

July 19, 2010 by Designsquish

Photos taken in Harriman State Park, NY + motylek (small butterfly)

June 28, 2010 by Designsquish

April 26, 2010 by Designsquish

“Biopsy” photograph series by Yedda Morrison

This work takes as its starting point the human desire for permanence, a desire made acute by the inevitability of our passing. If photography itself is a manifestation of this desire, our attempt to arrest or “still life,” plastic plants and flowers are a low-rent corollary. Suspended mid bloom and scattered throughout graveyards and empty parlors, they offer the promise of perennial youth, an eternal flowering, life ever after. Fake flowers both immortalize and render static the natural world. As such, they articulate a crisis between beauty and horror, desire and loss, artificiality and “the natural.” In our fall from the “pre” or “no” time of Eden, we have landed squarely in the artificial garden, the stilled remains of paradise. These sights of frozen or no time and the scale, duration and technology that make them possible, work to articulate a world where boundaries between the real and the artificial are increasingly blurred. If, in our contemporary moment, we are experiencing a gradual substitution of the machine for the body/mind, the image for the thing, and the simulation of the environment for the environment itself, then perhaps we are realizing Robert Smithson’s “frozen actuality,” the hallucinatory disjunction where “nothing is known but the impenetrable surfaces,” where “the artificial ingenuity of time allows no return to nature.”

April 13, 2010 by Designsquish

February 05, 2010 by Designsquish

Victorial from Tel Aviv, Israel and originally from Kiev, Ukraine makes these beautiful, delicate mesmerizing photographs of the natural world with different vintage film cameras.

“And he retraced his wanderings in those deep old lanes that began from the common road and went away towards the unknown, climbing steep hills, and piercing the woods of shadows, and dipping down into valleys that seemed virgin, unexplored, secret for the foot of man. He entered such a lane not knowing where it might bring him, hoping he had found the way to fairyland, to the woods beyond the world, to that vague territory that haunts all the dreams of a boy.”
Arthur Machen

-Inmost Light on Etsy

January 05, 2010 by Designsquish

Frozen lake in Pennsylvania.

December 30, 2009 by Designsquish

Involuntary Parks by Caitlin Parker.

“The continent’s imperiled rims therefore become a new kind of landscape, the Involuntary Parks. They are not representations of untouched nature, but of vengeful nature, of natural processes reasserting themselves in areas of political and technological collapse. An embarrassment during the twentieth century, Involuntary Parks could become a somber necessity during the twenty-first.” —Bruce Sterling

November 25, 2009 by Designsquish

Laurie Sermos’ photographs deal with the visible intersection of natural and created environments. Within these modern landscape images, nature or constructed environments of nature are represented as places to be considered and looked at. The environments photographed are often places built with an intended functionality. However through the act of photography, we are able to pause and engage with these environments in a way that allows for a different kind of reflection.

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Guatemala City Dump by Misty Keasler

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Youngsuk Suh:  “For the past three years, I have been living in the central valley of Northern California and this has afforded opportunities to observe a variety of human activities within natural environments. Many of these activities take place in less-regulated (or private) lands and seem to be a more direct expression of our desire to commune with nature. The images in this series are monuments to this individual desire. One travels away from civilization in order to be immersed in ’pure’ nature only to discover oneself an alternative civilized institution. Yet despite the cynicism implied in the study of modern travel, the genuine desire for close bodily contact with nature cannot be ignored. No matter how illusory the “nature” experience may be, one stands at the peak of a mountain yearning to be profoundly moved. Instant Traveler collects these traces of longing”

November 17, 2009 by Designsquish

October 23, 2009 by Designsquish

Beautiful photographs by LANE CODER.  Found on ART RUBY

October 20, 2009 by Designsquish

Installation view, Fog, 2004
2 rollei medium format projectors,
medium format slides

Fog study, 2004
Lightjet photo
24” × 24”

Fog study, 2004
Lightjet photo
24” × 24”

Fog study, 2004
Lightjet photo
24” × 24”

Burning Bush, 2005
HD DVD
05:03:15

Burning Bush, 2005
HD DVD
05:03:15

Face Lake, 2006
KEVIN SCHMIDT
Lightjet photo
48” × 48 ½”

Little Blue Lake, 2006
KEVIN SCHMIDT
Lightjet photo
48” × 48 ½”

Johnson Lake, 2006
KEVIN SCHMIDT
Lightjet photo
48” × 48 ½”

Installation view,
Sad Wolf, 2006
DIY projector video installation
00:04:11 (looped)

Installation view,
Sad Wolf, 2006
DIY projector video installation
00:04:11 (looped)

Still, Sad Wolf, 2006
DIY projector video installation
00:04:11 (looped)

Still, Sad Wolf, 2006
DIY projector video installation
00:04:11 (looped)

October 18, 2009 by Designsquish

July 01, 2009 by Designsquish

April 21, 2009 by Designsquish

To make your photos look like miniature models go to tiltshiftmaker.com

April 06, 2009 by Designsquish

I am happy to show some of my watercolors at the Eponymy gallery and store.  It is owned by Andrea Miller and located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. The store is a mix of vintage and designer clothes, antique mirrors as well as tightly curated modern photography from emerging artists of Humble Arts Foundation.

February 19, 2009 by Designsquish

SEVEN DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS is a title of the show in Gagosian Gallery, NY and series of gelatin silver prints by Hiroshi Sugimoto.  Photographs in the show are of the sea and its horizon in locations all over the world. The photographs are taken different in time of the day and with different exposure time. All the photographs have remarkable sense of stillness and eternity. The ocean is still and seems as though it is floating in space and we are floating with it.  Hiroshi returns to the same subject repeatedly to reveal the “subtleties that he finds in the primordial sea, site of the origin and emergence of life as well as of eternal continuity”.
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo. In 1970 he moved to Los Angeles to study photography at the Art Center College of Design. Now he lives and works in New York City and Tokyo.

February 13, 2009 by Designsquish

Taken by Adrien Casey in Massachusetts, near where he lives.

December 20, 2008 by Designsquish

This photograph is by Andrea Galvani.  Andrea Galvani was born in Verona, Italy in 1973. He lives and works in Milan and New York.
It looks like the rabbits were relocated to the North Pole or are trying survive Ice Age.  I think this photograph can be about global warming and mass extinction. 

December 19, 2008 by Designsquish

This photograph is from Tema Stauffer‘s American Stills.  Tema Stauffer is a photographer based in Brooklyn.  Tema teaches at The School of the International Center of Photography.  I wish horses run around like this all the time. Lots and lots of beautiful white horses. Everywhere.

December 08, 2008 by Designsquish

One of my favorite online galleries, Humble Arts Foundation featured photographs of Angie Smith.  I instantly fell in love with her artwork.  Angie’s photographs remind me of Chinese ink landscape paintings where a person is the size of a small ant lost in between giant mountains, fields and forest. In these photographs, civilization, humans, society is in the conflict with nature, elements and gravity. 

December 03, 2008 by Designsquish

I love going on flickr and finding photographs of places I want to visit or move to and then marking them favorite. 
To view my favorites go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anastasia_ugorskaya/favorites/

- Ana

November 19, 2008 by Designsquish

Beautiful laundry arrangement drying in the sun in Brooklyn near Cortelyou Rd station, Q line.

November 01, 2007 by Designsquish