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Beautiful Pictures For Spring Inspiration
Inspiration is all around us: you can derive new ideas from people you meet, places you visit and observations you make. Sometimes it is enough just to take a look around and observe the beauty of nature surrounding us everywhere. For instance, spring is often considered the most beautiful and inspirational period of the year, with its refreshing, colorful, vivid imagery and structures. And this post hopes to prove just that.
In Web design, you can explore various facets of spring: the flourishing beauty of the environment; the time of passion, emotions and love; the time of warmth and the refreshing evening breeze; but also rainy storms and muddy ground.
Below, we present a showcase of 35 outstanding pictures related to spring. Hopefully, these will give you a new perspective and maybe provide some ideas for your next design. Please notice: every image is linked to the source from where it was taken. Feel free to explore further works of the talented photographers and artists presented here.
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35 Exceptional Spring Pictures
Clara Hinton (Sicilian Italiano)
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March 23rd, 2009 6:08 amWow, these are fantastic!
- 3March 23rd, 2009 6:18 am
Gorgeous collection of pictures.
Inspiring. - 4March 23rd, 2009 6:19 am
Where do you get all this amazing pictures?
Everytime it is a fantastic break for my tired eyes :DStay tuned for more happy days …
- 5March 23rd, 2009 6:24 am
These are great images and so tastefully put together :)
- 6March 23rd, 2009 6:41 am
fantastic pics, truly amazing.
- 7March 23rd, 2009 6:47 am
GREAT!
- 8March 23rd, 2009 6:48 am
good pics… amazing where digital photography has gone… several of those had some extensive photoshop work done to them to get the look or scene they were after, nothing wrong with that but I wouldn’t want up and coming photography students to think they can just go outside and take something that looks like that… some get photoshopped to the point of merging photography with painting
- 9March 23rd, 2009 6:50 am
So beautiful and uplifting!
- 10March 23rd, 2009 6:54 am
I love looking at these types of posts late in the afternoon when the day starts feeling long…
- 11March 23rd, 2009 7:04 am
The one from “indredi” is not really spring. ;)
- 12March 23rd, 2009 7:21 am
Beautiful assortment of varied subject matter. Very uplifting. I enjoyed the photographs as well as transitioning from one selection to the other, and the way the following picture carries forward the flavor of one particular element of the previous selection. Sensational selection.
- 13March 23rd, 2009 7:22 am
This was actually quite beautiful. Makes me want to get out of the office and go play in the rain…
- 14March 23rd, 2009 7:25 am
I can’t make it through Monday without my smashing monday photo fix. I was troubled when it wasn’t posted earlier this morning. Whew! Thanks Smashing.
- 15March 23rd, 2009 7:35 am
Very nice. Some beautiful work there.
- 16March 23rd, 2009 7:35 am
accha hai……..
- 17March 23rd, 2009 7:39 am
Really great collection… clean and very colorful. Thanks a lot.
- 18March 23rd, 2009 7:53 am
Not very ’springly’.
- 19March 23rd, 2009 8:21 am
like it!
- 20March 23rd, 2009 8:30 am
Nice~!!! I like the sunset picture~!
- 21March 23rd, 2009 8:33 am
A co-worker recommended me to take a look at this site and I have to say that I am very impressed by the collection of these photos. I have actually seen a couple of these phtos before and must say that the essence of spring is captured right on this page. The liberation, excitement, hopefulness and life that comes with spring is well-captured!
- 22March 23rd, 2009 8:44 am
Wow.. These are amazing pictures.
- 23March 23rd, 2009 8:48 am
superb !!!
- 24March 23rd, 2009 8:53 am
great selection!
- 25March 23rd, 2009 9:01 am
Wow those pics are amazing!!! Very beautiful and moving!!
- 26March 23rd, 2009 9:16 am
Lots of Photoshop, but a nice collection.
- 27March 23rd, 2009 9:16 am
The 23rd image, labeled “Unknown” (girl in a striped shirt) is by 15-year-old, Eleanor Hardwick (of England). Her flickr can be seen here: flickr.com/photos/lenaah
She’s rather incredible.
- 28March 23rd, 2009 9:22 am
These are fantastic
- 29March 23rd, 2009 9:26 am
Maybe you could do a post called, ‘50 unretouched or slightly retouched photos’ While these photos are charasmatic most of them are no longer photographs; they are photo illustrations. After awhile, the ‘bolt-on’ effects and processing are quickly becoming trite and hackneyed. And for the love of everything holy and unholy, please no more HDR franken-photos. Would you like some wine with all that cheese?
- 30March 23rd, 2009 9:44 am
while some are very beautiful and evoke a real emotion of springtime, some are so far from being photographs that depict a rawness and realness.i long to see original photos without the fantastical, over the top touches of photoshop. am i the only one who wants to see the real world and not manifestations?
- 31March 23rd, 2009 9:51 am
some nice photos
- 32March 23rd, 2009 9:55 am
very nice. you should def. check out ryanrichardphoto.com
- 33March 23rd, 2009 10:06 am
it only takes to photoshop something to the extreme to be considered beautiful
- 34March 23rd, 2009 10:31 am
Wow, the photographys are very very nice! Great liste! Thanks for that!
Best Regards
Julia - 35March 23rd, 2009 10:56 am
@peter: So what?! It still looks beautiful. Even photoshopping takes time. That doesn’t make the picture “less” inspiring.
- 36March 23rd, 2009 11:19 am
: )
Amazing selection, especially love the sunflowers ! - 37March 23rd, 2009 12:03 pm
I like these pictures they r pretty
- 38March 23rd, 2009 12:03 pm
beautiful selection of images. with the weather warming, they inspire me to get my camera out. thanks!
- 39March 23rd, 2009 12:17 pm
Wow these are incredible! I loved the umbrella with the rain & the water droplets with reflections of flowers in them. Very nice.
- 40March 23rd, 2009 1:12 pm
Cleverly the topic is now named a bundle of pictures and not a bundle photographs :)
Because many aren’t photographs at all. Not on film and not in a raw-file. - 41March 23rd, 2009 1:57 pm
This is simply wonderful. Very inspiring indeed.
- 42March 23rd, 2009 3:01 pm
amazzzzzzzzzinggggggggg!!
- 43March 23rd, 2009 3:28 pm
The photo posted here: http://data.tumblr.com/5745236_500.jpg
belongs to this Flickr user: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scape/
Please credit if possible!! Thank you. :) - 44March 23rd, 2009 3:53 pm
I like those also: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/signs_of_spring.html
- 45March 23rd, 2009 4:09 pm
i love spring and the photos
- 46March 23rd, 2009 4:52 pm
I agree with several others…a post dedicated to traditional/real photographs would be nice. It gets pretty tiring to see photographers grab the eye with psycho-color, blurring techniques and HDR. Half of these photos don’t even make sense when it comes to the direction of real light. How about educating some folks on the foundations of photography, the Masters who worked countless hours to produce even a few good negatives…not to mention printing time.
- 47March 23rd, 2009 10:17 pm
@Ron.
I couldn’t agree more.
Enough of the “Hey, let’s put a small flower in your palms and you can have dirty hands like it’s your baby” manufactured BS.
RAW PHOTOGRAPHY IS REAL PHOTOGRAHPY.
- 48March 23rd, 2009 10:27 pm
Beautiful pictures Karishma! Keep up with good work.
Cheers!
- 49March 23rd, 2009 10:34 pm
These photographs are brilliant! Karishma has a great eye for sharp dynamic images. As futile as it is to choose a favorite, the 7th, with the flower growing in the child’s hands would have to be it. The fragility of promise is truly the essence of Spring.
- 50March 23rd, 2009 10:57 pm
Really refreshing collection.
- 51March 24th, 2009 12:09 am
Awasome !
- 52March 24th, 2009 12:34 am
Nice pictures, but at least half of them is representing “Summer” not “Spring”…
- 53March 24th, 2009 12:48 am
These are simply stunning. I feel more inspired now. :)
- 54March 24th, 2009 3:20 am
excellent photos
- 55March 24th, 2009 3:38 am
Whenever I am in lack of inspiration, I often search for beauty in nature. I will either go outside or look for photos. I shall definitely add this to my list. Thanks!
- 56March 24th, 2009 4:54 am
It’s so nice and colorfull gallery! Thank’s a lot.
- 57March 24th, 2009 6:09 am
Great collection, very inspirational.
And regarding the “real/traditional/raw” photography argument – doesn’t exist, never has, never will. As soon as you capture that image with your camera it’s fake. The only real view any of us will ever have is the one we see with our own eyes. We see in 3D, not 2D, and we see movement, not a static ‘capture’ of a moment.
A lot of people (usually the burn-HDR-at-the-stake crowd) seem to have this rose-tinted nostalgia of some wonderful photography that only ever existed before the evils of Photoshop etc came along.
I welcome some other views!
- 58March 24th, 2009 6:45 am
Nice collection of photos. quite exceptional!
- 59March 24th, 2009 7:28 am
The revolt against Photoshop is growing as seen in some of the posts above. Photoshop has its place. Instead of using photoshop to enhance a photo they are using it to salvage an otherwise average shot. Is that wrong? Is it still art? When is it no longer a photograph? How do we decide? Just a thought…
There are a couple of interesting photos, thanks Smashing…cheers.
- 60March 24th, 2009 7:53 am
The way I look at it .. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder .. one person’s garbage might be another person’s art and vice versa.
Photoshop or not .. these pictures are inspiring.
- 61March 24th, 2009 4:04 pm
The author of the photo with a girl and a toy ship is Eleanor Hardwick. Please, correct this.
- 62March 25th, 2009 8:01 am
Fantastic. Is one upside down?
– Lee
- 63March 26th, 2009 3:09 am
“Incredi” with the tree with yellow leaves is rather about autumn than spring, but in general all are nice :) What I like in this pictures is that thay are not full of green grass etc. but still brings the feel of spring :D
- 64March 26th, 2009 10:18 am
I love Lord V!
- 65March 27th, 2009 1:35 pm
Very refreshing. Awesome.
- 66April 10th, 2009 1:03 am
Wonderful pictures! it’s for that i love spring!
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- 68June 10th, 2009 1:36 am
Nice photos, very interesting to watch
- 69July 20th, 2009 5:30 am
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- 70August 2nd, 2009 9:12 pm
ammmmmmmmaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzziiiiiing
- 71August 27th, 2009 3:46 pm
the best pictures ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how much i love spring
- 72September 20th, 2009 6:28 pm
It’s amazing…..Great pictures, Showing a wonderful nature…..
It’s great….I love it….life could not live without nature. - 73September 23rd, 2009 1:33 am
Nice Pics Collection………amaging………Intresting………and………wah..!
- 74October 11th, 2009 4:34 pm
how do people take these pictures? (not the intensely photoshopped ones)
or rather. how do you get that effect?
i’m craving that vibe but i cant create it myself… - 75January 5th, 2010 11:24 pm
oh! gosh …..breath stopping pics…
such hidden emtns in thm - 76January 6th, 2010 7:41 pm
nice pictures
- 77January 27th, 2010 11:53 pm
Wonder full…..!
- 78February 1st, 2010 11:32 am
very very nice pic.s
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- 79February 3rd, 2010 11:40 am
there really cool luv em!!!
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Some really nice photos here
Very good indeed
Tim