Black and white photo of US today, by Katie Falkenberg (United States).

About the photo: “At the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in southwestern Virginia, thousands of people gathered outside of the fairgrounds gate each morning before dawn, waiting for their number to be called so they could enter into the clinic to receive free dental, vision, and medical treatment. The people in this photograph were still outside of the gate in the afternoon, hoping to be called before they stopped accepting patients. The family to the left of the photo said that this was a “once-a-year effort to get their eyes and teeth worked on,” so they were willing to wait as long as it took to get in. Most of the people who came to the clinic said that if it were not for RAM, they would go without this vital care. People drove hundreds of miles and waited for hours, even days, sleeping in their cars and tents outside the fairgrounds gate, hoping to make the cut-off of those admitted. Still, at the end of the weekend, some people had to be turned away as time ran out.”

Katie Falkenberg is a freelance photographer based in Los Angeles, California. She began her career photographing the 2004 presidential campaign, which led her to Washington, D.C., where she covered the White House, Capitol Hill, and other stories throughout the nation’s capital. In the fall of 2006, Katie joined the staff of The Washington Times where assignments took her from the hollows of West Virginia to the mountains of Pakistan. Her photography and multimedia work have been awarded by Pictures of the Year International, the White House News Photographers Association, Editor & Publisher, and the NPPA. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, TIME, Rolling Stone, GQ, and Vanity Fair, among others.

Source: vervephoto.wordpress.com

Reblogged from Good Shit

Kimberley Walsh: I’ve cried, felt fat and thrown clothes around. But I’m now happy with my body.

And she should. Slipping in and out of swimwear today, she looks amazing.

Photo of naked body and red towel. Photographer unknown.

Color photo of Kylie Minogue in wet lingerie. Unknown photographer.

A brown pelican is mired in heavy oil along the Louisiana coast. Photo: Charlie Riedel

Source: Big Picture

Nice color photo of Aria Giovanni, reblogged from samuraifrog

Another great photo shot of busty Denise Milani, from her own site. Photographer unknown.

More images of Denise our found on our tumblr-blog

This weeks Pin-up girl, Denise Milani. Photographer unknown. [[more]]

Dita Von Teese wearing yellow T-shirt, and bra with smilies

Dita is known for her glamorous appearance and classic retro style, largely inspired by Betty Grable, and pin-up model Bettie Page. Not always my style, but I like this photo of her.

Sourced from raincoatandaxe

Three more amazing photos by Sven Fennema.

For more information about Sven, see our earlier post: Deserted Buildings – I and Sven’s homepage boundlessmind.net

Photos by Sven Fennema.

The ambitious photo artist Sven Fennema was born in Xanten 1981 and is living in Krefeld near Düsseldorf today where he also works in his day job in the information technology.

After some experiences in digital processing and his first photographic steps in 2007 he actuated his photographic activities more passionate and developed his own photographic style rapidly in the following year. Sven learned his photographic and post processing skills always completely self-educated which are also under continuous development. This brings also the advantage that he never became seduced to just copy a style but always could evolve himself freely and creative.

Since the interest in abandoned places attends him already for many years it was definite that they became his first favourite motifs. But at the same time his second favoured domain motifs, the modern architecture evolved.
Is it primarily the atmosphere and the stories behind what catches him with the decayed motifs of abandoned places it is different with the modern motifs. In that case it is more the art of seeing a place or building in different eyes, to use them as tools to create completely new, own and individual sights.

Since a long time now the creative photo art is an important and elementary part in his life.
Sven’s pictures are stamped by extraordinary compositions with atmosphere, special light and mood but also by the play of light and forms. Himself he describes them as just “alive”.

While photographing he invests a lot of time, first he let the place affect on him for some time, he feels and collects its mood and history.

Sven thinks about it for a while and that is the way the picture he want to express later slowly evolves in his head.
Especially his decay related motifs are filled up with stories he wants to tell, good as well as bad ones. They are going to be told while watching the picture, always a little different depending on the viewer.

Sometimes Sven feels embraced to abrogate rules and reality and works beside existent ideals. For example his works use blooming or extraordinary camera positions as stylistic devices. This is also the reason he came to the working title of his website boundless mind. He does not want to have his fantasy and ideas controlled by rules, reality and limitations.

Sources: portfolio.artlimited.net, boundlessmind.net, 2photo.ru

Aria Giovanni by the window, a combination of an old Bill Ward cartoon and a photo of Aria Giovanni, made by the magazine Femme Fatales.

More information: Aria Giovanni Sitting on Desk

Sorry, I have no idea who this is. Do you?

Photo originally found by Mark on ilovepinups.tumblr.com