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nice collection

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

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

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!

Hey! great collections! really made my day! thanks

Super collection, some very imaginative stuff.

nice stuff

Wow.. Thanks a lot – they’re beautiful

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

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

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.

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

Beautiful…

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

great great great

Even colorful kitsch can be beautiful..

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

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…

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

man, I am tired of HDR manipulation.

47 photos != 35…

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.”

I completely agree with Stephanie.

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.

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…

I like Maria Budtova’s photos.

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

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

Not cool

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

thanks a lot!

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.

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

WOW!

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

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

Excellent photos. My eyes are wide open.

@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.

What do you think about this one?

LOVE

Nice Photos and Images!!!

Some really great pictures! Thank you for showing!

so beautiful!!!

Great Photo’s

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

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

jOuao9 comment6 ,

Amazing, all are really stunning beautiful, but I really like the first, and the last, and from these photographers Akhilesh Sharma, ~Anti-Pati-ya , Berryness, Azzam Merchant, Steven (merriewells), Mayela Fabbiani…. Thanks a lot for these stunning photos.

Awesome pics!