Julia Fullerton-Batten had done some work for internationally renowned fashion magazine Vogue and is recognized in the field of fine art photography through her project Teenage Stories. The same project where she placed the girls in a model village environment, dwarfing their surroundings and acknowledged as one of the best among up and coming talents proven by awards given to her by The Royal Photographic Society, The John Kobal Awards and Schweppes Awards.

This time, however, this multi-awarded youngster shocks us once again by turning her sights to healthcare. The National Portrait Gallery presents her sixteen newly commissioned large format colour photographs, shot with a Technicarden, 5x4 plate camera for A Picture of Health. It profiles some of some of the outstanding men and women who have shaped healthcare at the beginning of the 21st century.

A Picture of Health runs from June 6 to September 10 at the NPG.

So you were bored, and you thought that a couple of helium balloons were calling out your name. So you go about inflating all 150 of them, wondering why you did, and still doing it in the first place.

Now, if you think that a bird's-eye-view of your town would be nice, then you might want to hold on to those balloons a little longer. Why? Well, you might want to try what two guys (Stefan and Michel, whose site we also got these pictures from) in Willemstad, Netherlands did: do aerial photography by making use of 150 helium balloons.

How? Just grab a decent (meaning something cheap and disposable, but can automatically take pictures within intervals) camera, tie the balloons around it, and voila! Instant aerial photography without the fuss of a chopper. And how did it turn out? Let's just say this is one experiment that's worth inflating 150 balloons for.

A few weeks ago, we made an article on how to capture motion in photography. If you recall, one technique we cited was "freezing the motion" where you'll make it seem as if the action was paused when you took the picture. An example would be a car about to crash at stand-still, or a basketball player doing a slam dunk.

If you still have no idea as to what I'm saying here, just take a look at some pictures taken by photographer extraordinaire Andrew Davidhazy, that might prove to be better examples of "frozen motion." The first batch are objects about to explode. From left to right are a lemon, an orange, and an egg.

The next batch are black and white photos of water falling from a glass:

The next batch of pictures are candle flames seen from a "schlieren-perspective:"

Sydney Harbour is renowned not only for the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, but also for its panoramic night view. No wonder tons of photos and images of that particular area keep popping up on the net. Let's face it, though - not everyone is good at taking pictures. It's difficult to cram something so grand and majestic in one single shot. This is why Scott Howard put together 170 images taken with a Canon 10D and a Canon 100-400L lens. The result? An awesome 715 megapixel (40,000 x 18,000) photo of Sydney Harbor at night.

Most of the photos were taken using 400mm, with some "fill" shots (e.g. sky in the top left corner) taken at around 200mm. All photos are at ISO 200, 6 seconds, f/6.7 in manual mode. All the office buildings are taken at least 1200 meters (about 1300 yards) away from the camera. The Harbour Bridge shot was taken about half of that distance. When zoomed in, the image is made up of 14,729 .jpg files, each about 5 to 15kb in size. The original image is a 1.3GB Photoshop file.

Check out Scott Howard's photography site and play around with the picture. You can zoom in, zoom out, move it left, right, up, and down. It's fun and it's breathtaking.

Patrick Di Fruscia would know how to view Canada's wonderful countryside, having lived there for most of his life. Son to his father Joseph, who was once a  professional photographer and his mother Michele, who's a woman gifted with an array of artistic talents like drawing, painting and decorating. All these factors combined could be the only possible explanation why his photographs reflect the subtle yet overwhelming beauty of nature. View the rest of the stunning images he took by clicking on the read link. You can also order his prints for $90.00 (8x11), $110.00 (11x17) and $125.00 (13x19).

Who says there isn't anything to see in Canada? Clearly you haven't looked through infrared eyes for you to be able to say that. Jeffrey Klassen's photographs show Canada's breathtaking sceneries in a different light. Achieving this effect required him to use a Tiffen 87 filter and some manual white balance for the best effect possible. Those in Black and White came directly from the camera while those in color needed some post tweaking. If you want to own one of Klassen's images you can order it for in a variety of sizes that will start at 4x6 Matte print for $4.26 up to 16x24 for $24.00. Click on the Read link to view the rest of his gallery.

While some taxi drivers go for a smoke or grab a bite when business is slow, Phil Flash stays on the driver's seat. He's always on the lookout for interesting people, places and situations and wouldn't think twice of capturing them on his camera. He's been doing this for quite some time now and he has recently taken quite a lot of really nice pictures of the San Francisco scene. He even cornered Francis Ford Coppola reading a book outside his cafe in North Beach.

Here are some of the scenes as captured from the taxi driver's seat:

For more images captured from the driver's seat, just click 'Read' below.

While not big with American audiences, soccer is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world. The FIFA World Cup is aired in 213 countries and the 2002 games in Korea earned a total cumulative audience of 28.8 billion viewers. The stats for the ongoing games in Germany isn't in yet but we have a feeling these photographs by Steven Young will draw its share of fans. Originally featured in a Japanese magazine, the series of images shows soccer's more feminine side.  But don't pooh-pooh these women field warriors, they took off their kid gloves (and almost everything else) when they took on each other on the field. 

    

I have never fancied going to Paris at a time when everybody wanted to go there. Teenage girl with so much angst, I thought the beauty of Paris was overrated. But as I got older I started to see it in a different light. A vibrant city that can evoke inspiration from anybody that's searching for it.

Arnaud Frich, achieved this panoramic effect by using numerous cameras and putting those photographs together. The photo will take some time to load so just be patient. The city of lights await.

If you're a Windows user, then this sight is pretty familiar to you.

But if you're a city dweller like me, then wouldn't you want this as wallpaper instead?

Inspired by very interesting cloud formations, Sam Javanrouh took this image of a city landscape in Canada. The image was made with only one exposure. The post processing involves various adjustment layers including channel mixer, curves and selective dodging and burning in Photoshop. Here's a "before/after processing" of the raw photo.