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35 (Really) Stunning Photos and Pictures

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We love beautiful photography. In photos, the beauty isn’t necessarily reflected in an eye-catching combination of colors; perspectives, angle, composition and, most importantly, the idea behind the shot or the situation in which the shot was taken, are particularly important when it comes for our showcases.

Over the last months we have covered a variety of different photography arts, such as shadow photography, night photography, city photography, arial photography, urban decay and many others (you can find them in our section Inspiration). This time we present you a “mixed bag” of some truly outstanding photos and images, created by talented photographers and designers across the globe.

Below you’ll find 35 truly stunning, beautiful and unusual photos. Every image is linked and leads to the source from which it was taken. Please feel free to explore further works of the talented photographers presented above.

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  1. 1
    Kartik
    March 15th, 2009 8:14 pm

    Hey Thanks a lot for these wonderful images.

  2. 2
    Donny Reza
    March 15th, 2009 8:19 pm

    You’re always amaze me …

  3. 3
    zhang.h
    March 15th, 2009 8:26 pm

    amazing works
    I always feel free to view these pictures
    And to express in chinese, it is:太厉害了

  4. 4
    Omer Yaqub
    March 15th, 2009 8:49 pm

    nice collection

  5. 5
    Amir
    March 15th, 2009 9:38 pm

    you’re tremendous, smashing!

  6. 6
    tschai
    March 15th, 2009 9:39 pm

    Nice? Yes.
    Stunning? No.
    Good collection? Yes.
    Great collection? No.

  7. 7
    Naveed Ahmad
    March 15th, 2009 9:52 pm

    each and every shoot has an idea a concept and meaning plus emotion attached to it :)

    thanks for sharing they are really nice

  8. 8
    simon owen
    March 15th, 2009 10:27 pm

    I feel an instant emotional connection with each and every of these beautiful photographic images. Thanks Smashing!

  9. 9
    Andris
    March 15th, 2009 10:53 pm

    Some of these are pretty outstanding, some not. Love the ones from Jamie Fernandez, Steven (merriewells), Majed Sultan Ali, Brad Harris and Sarah Lee.

  10. 10
    Antti Lehtinen
    March 15th, 2009 11:31 pm

    There are some outstanding shots but unfortunately just some. I think it would be better to make a smaller collection, let’s say 10 photos, to keep the quality high. Same goes for some of your other collections and lists. Anyway, thanks for this, it was a pleasure to view some beautiful photos!

  11. 11
    sinsdesign
    March 15th, 2009 11:44 pm

    Clark Little, Brad Harris, Perico Terrades, Jaime Fernandez, Azzam Merchant, Rosie Hardywow! You really stand out! Great works all of you!

  12. 12
    Hafiz Ismail
    March 15th, 2009 11:44 pm

    Hey! great collections! really made my day! thanks

  13. 13
    Roy
    March 15th, 2009 11:48 pm

    some are great, some are good…

    I would prefer collections about a certain topic.

  14. 14
    Shaun Newman
    March 15th, 2009 11:50 pm

    Super collection, some very imaginative stuff.

  15. 15
    Brandon Turner
    March 16th, 2009 12:03 am

    They’re all good, clean photos with good qualities, but they all just seem so “stock” to me. the only one I really like which might even be the most simplistic, is the one that has “I MISS HER” painted on a wall. That’s the only one that really hits me.

  16. 16
    Jbcarey
    March 16th, 2009 12:06 am

    nice stuff

  17. 17
    Ray Schiel
    March 16th, 2009 12:11 am

    A great collection…thank you for the inspiration.

  18. 18
    Vinnsent
    March 16th, 2009 12:35 am

    Wow.. Thanks a lot – they’re beautiful

  19. 19
    greynor
    March 16th, 2009 1:11 am

    My absolute favorite:
    http://overflowing.tumblr.com/post/85689615

  20. 20
    V@s3K
    March 16th, 2009 1:16 am

    There are many beautiful photos, thanx. Especially with road.

  21. 21
    Dave
    March 16th, 2009 1:58 am

    Cool photos!

  22. 22
    Enk.
    March 16th, 2009 2:14 am

    Wow wow wow! What an art !
    Awesome Photographs really ! =)

  23. 23
    Jesse
    March 16th, 2009 2:21 am

    i love those bradharris.com photos

  24. 24
    Maria
    March 16th, 2009 2:35 am

    Absolutely stunning!! I love these posts ye do, they do my heart good! Although the one of the surfer makes me wanna cry, I need to surf NOW!!

    I really like Gavin Will’s shot, I do the same thing, leaning on the window watching the city go by, and it captures perfectly the feelings.

  25. 25
    Anorgan
    March 16th, 2009 2:44 am

    Some photos are REALLY bad

  26. 26
    merlinvicki
    March 16th, 2009 2:58 am

    Wow pics. loved the one with the sun peeping between the wave.

  27. 27
    Daniel Matthews
    March 16th, 2009 3:33 am

    Simply stunning…. Love the inspiration.

  28. 28
    Aakash
    March 16th, 2009 3:59 am

    Beautiful…

  29. 29
    Justafa
    March 16th, 2009 4:19 am

    Sorry fellas, but I’ve seen way more stunning photos than these above. Anyway, nice try (bow)

  30. 30
    wax
    March 16th, 2009 5:04 am

    These photos are just beautiful. Thank´s for the post.

  31. 31
    Greg
    March 16th, 2009 5:05 am

    honestly….. not that impressed.

  32. 32
    KEN
    March 16th, 2009 5:15 am

    great great great

  33. 33
    Marek
    March 16th, 2009 5:33 am

    Some photos are nice, but most of them are just colorful kitsch…

  34. 34
    AYANO
    March 16th, 2009 6:02 am

    Even colorful kitsch can be beautiful..

    Daniel Cheong’s picture is wonderful. Overall a very nice collection.

  35. 35
    caroline
    March 16th, 2009 6:11 am

    Are close-ups of flowers really stunning, though?

  36. 36
    Stephanie
    March 16th, 2009 6:11 am

    It’s unfortunate that for photos to be considered “stunning” that excessive editing in Photoshop or 3d Max is needed. Many of these have been edited QUITE a bit – and I’m not talking about just boosting the saturation. HDR – different exposures layered over each other and cloning is visible in at least a couple of these pieces.

    I’m all for the use of Photoshop to boost my photos, but there’s a line to where it becomes computer art rather than photography.

    I’d prefer to see a post of actual photographs with minimal editing – let me see what you saw through the viewfinder, rather than a couple of hours of fiddling on the computer, editing a base image, applying a couple different exposures on top, cloning out this, removing that, adding that shadow in…

  37. 37
    Nuno Amaral
    March 16th, 2009 6:21 am

    Beautiful photos

  38. 38
    Willem
    March 16th, 2009 6:53 am

    Lots of kitsch. I like photos that could be the beginning of a (short) story. Like the first one.

  39. 39
    Banhawi
    March 16th, 2009 6:57 am

    Very Nice

  40. 40
    Redaction
    March 16th, 2009 7:03 am

    man, I am tired of HDR manipulation.

  41. 41
    Kevin-K
    March 16th, 2009 7:17 am

    They are nice. However, not stunning.

  42. 42
    David
    March 16th, 2009 7:19 am

    47 photos != 35…

  43. 43
    Jason
    March 16th, 2009 7:20 am

    Some nice work but I feel the post could be split between photoshop modified and straight up photography.

  44. 44
    vanderleun
    March 16th, 2009 9:05 am

    Pretty much the slightly below average Smashing collection of “pretty.”

    Nice? Yes, with all the softness implied by “nice.”

    “Stunning?” Puhlease. Try harder and don’t be so lazy. You’ve done much, much better than this in the past. This selection verges on “Stock Photography.”

  45. 45
    Lexi
    March 16th, 2009 9:58 am

    The kitty pic was my favorite! : ) Thank you for these!

  46. 46
    tim
    March 16th, 2009 10:05 am

    I completely agree with Stephanie.

  47. 47
    Mainak
    March 16th, 2009 10:38 am

    Smashing!!!!! Very Inspiring . Clark Little’s was gr8!!

  48. 48
    Jurica
    March 16th, 2009 10:41 am

    The title of this article is “Stunning Photos and Pictures…” I will add with accent on Pictures.
    Yes some of them are really stunning.
    I noticed that editorial have tendencies for publishing HDR images, which I considered borderline with kitsch.
    About “stock looking photos”, internet audience is used to look at stock images, not just on internet there are tv commercials, magazines, etc., so with
    new generation of digital photographers, hobysts and everyone else with todays procurable
    digital cameras and software equipment, people are making stock looking photos consciously or subconsciously, we all are under influence of our enviroment.

    For those who never heard for Henri Cartier-Bresson, just type that name in google, and browse. Enjoy and learn something.

  49. 49
    Janckos
    March 16th, 2009 11:51 am

    Buenisimas imagenes.

  50. 50
    Check
    March 16th, 2009 11:58 am

    I have to agree with a handful of the folks here and say the overwhelming majority of the photos posted in these type collections on smashing simply are not stunning photographs.

    I mean, I get that people have their own tastes, and I’m cool with that, but for such a fine site to have such an amateur eye for photography is surprising!

    That said, there are 4 or 5 great photos in this collection. I won’t single them out so as to be rude, but I think most with a sensibility for photography can pick them out.

    I say – if you want smashing to be as good a source for stunning photgraphy as it is for web design, you should have a guest poster do your photo collections. Would be great I think…

  51. 51
    endri
    March 16th, 2009 12:09 pm

    janusz leszczynski’s foto isnt amazing is dull and boring -and there is nothing stunning

  52. 52
    Ufuk
    March 16th, 2009 12:26 pm

    I like Maria Budtova’s photos.

  53. 53
    Leland Clemmons
    March 16th, 2009 1:52 pm

    That helicopter light-painting is incredible! The amount of work that must have gone into preparation is astounding. That last photo looks great too, but I’m not sure if that rainbow-esque spectrum is attributed to processing.

  54. 54
    Bob Nolin
    March 16th, 2009 2:57 pm

    Careful, or you’ll wear out that link-bait strategy that has served you so well till now. This post was definitely sub-par.

  55. 55
    Matt Palmer
    March 16th, 2009 3:06 pm

    you guys could really use a photographer on board because these photography posts of yours are getting more and more average.

  56. 56
    Tony
    March 16th, 2009 3:26 pm

    Rosie Hardy as your last picture? You know she steals people’s images right? google “rosie hardy plagiarism”…

    Not cool

  57. 57
    ihsanrama
    March 16th, 2009 4:45 pm

    Gorgeous picture … Great

  58. 58
    smile
    March 16th, 2009 8:00 pm

    Clark Little, 5348 Franco AWAY, Daniel Cheong …. really STUNNING…!!!!

    thanks a lot!

  59. 59
    Ariyo
    March 16th, 2009 9:10 pm

    I absolutely LOVE Rosie Hardy’s photos. Thanks for the post.

  60. 60
    John
    March 16th, 2009 9:36 pm

    Rosie Hardy ? Are you kidding ?

    She is a copycat.

    She copies the original photos of DeviantArt artists and sells the images.

    Ps : Please google : Rosie hardy Plagiarism.

  61. 61
    Tony
    March 16th, 2009 10:39 pm

    @John – absolutely – she’s a fraud

    Read this

    This is a write up about her situation

  62. 62
    Dimis
    March 17th, 2009 12:30 am

    I suggest you to remove “(Really) Stunning” from the title…

  63. 63
    Ol`ga
    March 17th, 2009 12:50 am

    And truth to eat beautiful photos!

    Particularly gentle embraces…
    Thank!

  64. 64
    OverZero.it
    March 17th, 2009 1:06 am

    WOW!

  65. 65
    Amer Aranki
    March 17th, 2009 2:39 am

    This is great!!!
    Waves photo’s photographer is too lucky with such this photo :)

    Thanks

  66. 66
    Adam Alyan
    March 17th, 2009 4:44 am

    I love the mood in Jaime Fernandez’s and the colour feast in Mayela Fabbiani’s!

  67. 67
    Tom Bradshaw
    March 17th, 2009 5:37 am

    Does what it says on the tin… some really stunning photos. Though I agree that some do use alot of photoshop effects, which is a shame.

  68. 68
    Andrea
    March 17th, 2009 6:58 am

    Most of these are fantastic! But I don’t know why some of those are there.

  69. 69
    jonboy24/7
    March 17th, 2009 8:19 am

    One the images above has been placed on this site without my knowledge or permission, can anyone please tell me who I can send the bill to for the use of this image, thankyou.

  70. 70
    Santosh Puthran
    March 17th, 2009 9:00 am

    Excellent photos. My eyes are wide open.

  71. 71
    Ian
    March 17th, 2009 9:55 am

    Stunning…a few, but surely not all of them. Maybe I should start describing my own as amazing, extraordinary collections and they too will be Digged hundreds of times and soon enough I’ll be able to make a living doing this…hmmm…http://mackieimages.smugmug.com/

  72. 72
    Ariyo
    March 17th, 2009 10:08 am

    @John and @Tony, I had no idea about the “Rosie hardy Plagiarism”. That’s awful. I came across her photos through Flickr and really liked her style. I didn’t know that couple of her pictures were copied from other people’s hard work. She shouldn’t have done that cuz after all she has a lot of original work and that could ruin her career.

  73. 73
    youknowwhoitis
    March 17th, 2009 11:19 am

    sum of this stuff is preaty cool but most of it sucks

  74. 74
    Jorge
    March 18th, 2009 5:02 am

    What do you think about this one?

  75. 75
    graphiconcepts
    March 18th, 2009 3:06 pm

    I just love to check out your site from time to time and see inspiring photos, artworks, designs, tutorials, etc. and this is right up there. Thanks for posting, especially for people like me who enjoy being inspired and love all types of media for creation, rather than act like some mightier than thou art critic who thinks they made CREATIVITY up! Keep em coming!

  76. 76
    bobjoy
    March 18th, 2009 8:31 pm

    LOVE

  77. 77
    gaurav
    March 18th, 2009 8:57 pm

    Incredible GOD!

  78. 78
    Sagar Rajput
    March 18th, 2009 9:41 pm

    Nice Photos and Images!!!

  79. 79
    theamoeba
    March 18th, 2009 11:34 pm

    These pics are really great, as always. it always amazes me how you manage to find these pics. :)

  80. 80
    bee
    March 19th, 2009 4:00 am

    Some really great pictures! Thank you for showing!

  81. 81
    Perico Terrades
    March 20th, 2009 1:28 am

    Gracias por publicar mi foto, estoy realmente encantado

  82. 82
    Jascha
    March 20th, 2009 6:52 am

    so beautiful!!!

  83. 83
    Bim
    March 22nd, 2009 1:45 am

    I agree with 35, Stephanie…. most of these photos have been edited in someway.. some more than others… and I would agree that not all these are quite as earth shattering as you make out… I really don’t like too much photoshop editing. 1st photo was a good start and a few others but then a few others let down the notion that it is purely photography. Show me some photos which are purely photography and hardly any photoshop editing and I will be immensely impressed. I might as well add that my photos are awesome.. but I am biased :)

  84. 84
    Kyle007
    March 26th, 2009 7:05 pm

    Great Photo’s

  85. 85
    Soane Kim
    April 3rd, 2009 4:55 am

    These are really stunning photos. They are actually smashing.

  86. 86
    Rei
    April 14th, 2009 6:53 am

    Most of these are pretty boring. A few are cool I guess.
    Nothing amazing.

  87. 87
    bjeff7
    May 4th, 2009 11:37 am

    All these pictures are phenominal!!

  88. 88
    Unknown
    May 29th, 2009 11:52 pm

    That was outstanding and exceedingly inspirational! Excellent job. :)

  89. 89
    Prof Shah Murad Mastoi
    June 6th, 2009 7:58 pm

    VERY NICE TO SEE PICTURES

    I M DR SHAH MURAD MASTOI

  90. 90
    Ukwhqetl
    June 22nd, 2009 8:32 am

    jOuao9 comment6 ,

  91. 91
    Khalid Mastoi
    June 27th, 2009 7:52 pm

    hi chachoo im khalid mastoi

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