Film Developers Recall the Most Surprising Things They Saw From Customers

I don’t know how many people get film developed these days with the rise of digital photography and camera phones, but it definitely still happens.

And it used to be the norm for folks to drop off their film to be developed, so you know a lot of folks out there have seen some seriously weird shit over the years.

Are you ready to see what kind of weird stuff people got a peek of when they were developing other peoples’ film?

Let’s dive into these stories from AskReddit users.

1. This person has some stories!

“I worked at a camera store all through college and saw a little but of everything. My favorites:

Biker rally photos are the craziest shit you will ever see. Like a bottle of whiskey in a metal hammock connected to a dudes scrotum rings as he walked around bare ass naked. And for anyone that thinks it’s all hot girls that flash their boobs for a camera, IT IS NOT. Never get those images out of your head.

Crime scene photos for the local PD were rough. We didn’t do many, mostly just when they needed photos immediately but those are hard. The worst is when you can’t tell what’s going on in the negatives and when the prints come out you realize you’ve been staring at the inside of a van after someone blew their head off with a shotgun.

Ok, now for the funniest. Sweet looking late 20s attractive woman brings in 4 rolls of film. She had on one of those teacher sweaters with the little schoolhouse, ABCs, 1 +1 =2, all that, so I assume she’s an elementary school teacher. Didn’t think anything of it.

Four rolls of this woman getting slammed in every sexual position you can imagine by a dude that looked like he was 10 feet tall and hung like a moose. Two hours later, moose cock himself walks in to pick up the photos.

I realize after he leaves, the pics at the beginning they had their clothes on. The same clothes that they were wearing when they came into the store. Maybe it’s a coincidence or maybe these people had just got done with what could only have been a 6 hour fuck marathon and ran immediately to the camera store to develop the film.”

2. Don’t tell her.

“This actually happened quite recently, an old lady came in with her late sons camera and a dozen of discs that she wanted to check if there would be anything in them.

The first couple of discs had some old albums on them, the next 6 or so we’re full of porn from the 90’s. I didn’t have the heart to tell this old lady who was over 80 years old that she was in possession of her late son’s porn collection.

She even gave me a tip for being helpful…”

3. Yikes!

“When I was a photo tech for Walgreens, one of our regular customers sent in a print order through the website.

The customer was 50-something,short and round, and half the pics in her order were collages of her gaping, lubed up butthole, cheeks spread wide apart.”

4. People are weird.

“The most interesting might be a woman in her late 20s or early 30s who would take hundreds of photos of her topless or nude. some were selfies, some with different men, some doing shit like gardening or posing under local bridges. just stacks on stacks of her breasts.

the weirdest photo was in a very small order that had pictures of a few men hunting together at some cabin or lodge or something. some pictures of them and of snowy tree lines and then one solitary photo in the middle of a fucking Sasquatch. it looked so unreal it may have been a painting?

i still don’t know. it was just one, standing in the center of the photo, in front of some trees in the snow. i’m sure it was some kind of art or… something, but it also fed my undying need to come across UFO photos during the two years i worked there (i didn’t 😭)”

5. She didn’t expect that!

“A friend of mine worked in a camera shop. When staff were bringing out a developed photo set you would call out the customers name to come up. Well one day two people had the same name.

He groaned, called it out and this old woman came up and asked which was hers. My friend told her to take a look in set A and if it is not hers to take set B . She says okay opens it up and screams. He runs over and takes a look.

The first photo was of an orgy in a forest.”

6. Shocking.

“The most shocking thing is when a former mortician brought in 35mm slides to be scanned, and they were all crime scene and bodies on an autopsy table type photos of extremely gory things.

Gun shot wounds, exposed insides, cut off heads, etc.

I couldn’t get through it and passed it off to my other lab guy. It didn’t bother him as much, but he couldn’t stare directly at the screen either. I cant remember what the exact excuse of why he needed them digitized, but I think it was something like educational purposes for others learning to be morticians?

I was still kinda new at the time, and today I wouldn’t accept that order. I would tell him to goto a crime lab instead. It was honestly one of the worst experiences in my life. I cant even handle gory movies.”

7. Wild times.

“Worked at a warehouse club photo lab for a few years and we saw tons of weird, wild and crazy shit. Never saw anything illegal (aside from pictures of a spray painted cow, pretty sure that was animal abuse). It was store policy to print everything unless it was illegal and not ask questions.

Most wild thing I ever saw was a group of people in their mid 50s all out on a fishing trip. After the fishing they took pictures at a bar. Then a strip club.

Then at a bon fire with a bunch of the strippers. Everyone was nude and it looked as though they were playing ring toss with a cowboy hat on the dudes dicks.”

8. Classy!

“A friend of mine worked at Walgreens developing photos during high school.

He said the best set of photos was of a child’s birthday party, a few photos in the middle of the parents having sex and top down views of a blow job, and then the continuation of the child’s birthday party.

For those too young to understand how film works – this means the sex and blowjob must have happened DURING the party.”

9. A creepy older man…

“A couple years back when I was 18, I was a trainee at a small local photography shop. They developed films but also had those PC stations where you can print or develop your digital pictures. As I was just the trainee I had exhausting job to help the customers with the procedure because it’s a bit confusing.

Most of the time those were just elderly women who wanted to develop pictures from their last family gathering or vacation. But once it was a really creepy older man.

At first he seemed nice and polite and he looked like a well kept elderly Business man. But after plugging in you could see all pictures saved on the medium (like a SD card or an USB Stick).

He wanted to select two innocent flower pictures or something and we had to look trough like 2000 files? But well, he had an amateur erotic photoshoot or something like that because there were many low quality pictures of him naked or half naked, with masks or leather lingerie for men

. I politely stood next to him and scrolled trough the pictures for him because my boss advised me to do it that way, except the customer didn’t want to. But he simply watched me with a creepy smile and didn’t say something.

I felt so uncomfortable and insecure and I never told my boss.”

10. Gettin’ dirty.

“Worked in a Kroger Photo Lab in the ‘rich’ area of town for about two years..

In the machine we used, we’d develop the film in one machine then feed it through a scanner to print, edit, etc.

Well, one day I come in and there’s like twenty rolls developed and waiting for me. My boss was basically like a second mom at the time, so she loved to give me embarrassing photos because I was very shy and she’d get a laugh teasing me about it.

Well, this slew of rolls happens to be from a biker rally, and as you can imagine there’s a lot going on and because of how the system works we have to go through each individual photo.

There was nothing but leather, tits, and leathery tits everywhere and a little group public sex peppered in here and there. It was wild. I was beet red the whole time developing it, and she had a laugh over my innocence. (It’s worth mentioning, I was an adult, it didn’t ‘hurt’ me or upset me or anything. Just embarrassing. So please don’t think badly of my boss dumb stuff like that was how we had fun with each other)

The revenge did come however, as she had a one hour order from a nice fellow, and she went and developed it and there were multiple rolls of a fella wearing a red dress with bright red painted fingernails and toenails just top down with his dong holding up the bottom of the dress, peeking out, and she had to review each photo individually thanks to that same system.

She was so embarrassed and her face was so red, she begged me to get the pictures for him because she couldn’t look him in the eye with a straight face after seeing that. I had a good laugh at her expense afterwards.”

11. That’s sad.

“Back in the late 90’s I worked at the Photo Lab in Wal-Mart. The companies policies on developing lewd photos meant I didn’t see anything too over the top but I did see something disturbing once.

The first half of the film roll contained pictures of an elderly gentleman celebrating his 75th birthday but then the pictures changed. The man from the birthday party was (and I’m not making this up) in a coffin.

The whole last half of the roll was pictures of the mans funeral.”

12. I saw EVERYTHING.

“My first job was at a photo lab that still processed old film rolls which we manually developed and printed, like I’m talking about hands in a black bag kind of old school.

At Christmas time, I was working on an order for an old couple that had been regulars for over a decade (and standing behind the counter waiting for their pictures, I might add). Well, apparently I wasn’t warned beforehand that at 17 years old, that I wasn’t supposed to handle this order while working alone.

This couple took dirty photos every year around Christmas and always themed, that year I got to see her as Santa’s naughty elf. And when I say see, I mean I saw everything.”

13. Yowza!

“Used to repair mobile phones so still saw hundreds if not thousands of personal pics, not on purpose but just because we used to have to manually back up pictures.

The most shocking was this 60+ year old woman in a gangbang. She had a distinctive tattoo on her shoulder which I noticed when she picked up the phone and in the pics.”

14. Burned into your brain.

“Naked pregnant woman wearing a bart Simpson full head mask.

12 years ago and I’ll never forget it.”

There sure are a lot of weirdoes out there, huh?

Have you ever had an experience like this at work? Or maybe you accidentally saw something on another person’s phone that you weren’t meant to see?

Tell us your stories in the comments!

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Here are Some Funny and Painful Glamour Shots For You to Enjoy

Remember when people went to their local malls to get glamour shots?

Of course, you do!

You got all dolled up, put on some fancy duds, sprayed a ton of hair spray onto your head, and then smiled BIG for the camera.

And the results were usually…hilarious…

Let’s relive those days together with these wonderful glamour shots…try not to cringe too much.

A good chunk of these photos are from an Instagram account called Bad Glamour Bios. These folks find old glamour shots online and then give them very funny (fake) bios.

Let’s dig in!

1. Look at these two!

Watch out for Tracy and Stacy!

2. An interesting mother-daughter combo.

Are you guys going to a leather bar?

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Follow these gals on Instagram: badglamourbios Mother-Stacy, 41 Daughter-Marissa 15, quiet the duo at the High School. Stacy has been known to use profanity towards other parents in the drop off line at the school, “Bitch, I will hit you if you try to cut in this line”…with a particular finger waving out the window. Friday night games can get heated when Marissa performs during half time shows at the foot ball games…Stacy’s in front of the girls doing the same performance, since she is the twirling coach, her favorite routine is to Cyndi Lauper, “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”…and since Marissa is head twirler, one drop of that baton, and Stacy is going to yell. Safe word is high-kick. #glam #glamour #glamorous #glamourshots #glamourgals #glamourphotography #90s #90sfashion #90shair #comedy #comedywoman #gay #gayboy #gaydaddy #instagay #twirling #twirler #batontwirling #safeword

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3. The Queen of Hearts.

Need I say more?

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Follow these gals on Instagram: badglamourbios Jenny, 25, has gambled her tuition for the local junior college away at Jerry’s Bar, and has done some questionable acts for repayment, for that gambling habit. Her parents had dreams of her becoming a nurse, but she’s just worried about winning that next big hand at Texas Hold ‘Em. After her shift at the pawn shop, she’s ready to get home and get those cards dealt. She gets all dolled up, gets into her Ford Taurus, and jams out to Pat Benatar “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”…that just gets her pumped for the nights game. Watch out boys, she’s got her Poker Face on and an Ace in the Hole! Safe word is flush. #glam #glamourphoto #glamourous #glamourshots #glamourphotography #glamourgals #glamourshot #glamourshoot #90sfashion #90s #90shair #poker #pokerface #comedy #gay #gayboy #instagay

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4. She’s a perky one!

How would you like a night on the town with this one?

5. Oh, my…

Viola has done it again!

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Follow these gals on Instagram: badglamourbios Viola, 78, spends her mornings at the YMCA doing water aerobics, and gossiping with the other ladies in town. Don’t get them started when Carl gets out of the water, they all blush. On Fridays, she goes down to Sue’s Beauty Shop to get the hair done, it’s a full day ordeal. Then she loads up the girls to go to The Catfish King for the Senior Special. Saturday evenings she is at Dukes Saloon, dancing with Carl to “I Fall To Pieces” by Patsy Cline. Sunday’s are spent in the choir section, she may doze off, just give her a nudge when it’s time to sing or pray. Safe word is Lycra. #glam #glamourphoto #glamourous #glamour #glamourgals #safeword #90sfashion #badglamourshots #90shair #90sphotoshoot #90sphotography #gay #gayboy #instagay

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6. She doesn’t look very happy about all of this.

She was dragged kicking and screaming to this photoshoot.

7. Heavily influenced by Debbie Gibson.

Electric Youth!

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Follow these gals on Instagram: badglamourbios Ginger, 39, head perfume brand ambassador at Bealls. HATES Tax-Free weekend, “Cannot be combined with other coupons, ma’am.” On Friday nights, you will catch her driving down Main Street with the windows down of her ‘90 Pontiac Firebird jamming out to Bon Jovi “Living On a Prayer”. And don’t catch her at the four-way stop, you will get a show of some air guitar and head banging, don’t worry, that hair has enough White Rain to keep it up! When she makes it to the bar, she likes her LIT’s strong, just like she likes her men. Safe word is cucumber melon. #glam #glamourphoto #glamourous #glamour #90sfashion #90shair #90sphotoshoot #gay #gayboy #instagay #safeword #glamgal #glamourgirl

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8. A real firecracker!

Be careful with this gal!

9. All I can say is WOW.

Are you tuff enuff?

10. Don’t mess with this family.

If you know what’s good for you…

11. A man and his cat.

They make a great team.

12. I’ll just leave this here.

On the wings of love!

Those sure brought back some memories…mind you, I didn’t say “good” memories.

But memories, nonetheless…

Okay, now we want to see what you got out there!

In the comments, please, please, please share your glamour shots from days gone by with us!

We’ll hold you in the highest regard, we promise…now let’s see those pics!

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This Artist Makes Interesting Photo Collages of People Who Live Very Different Lives

Art challenges us to see things from a new perspective. Turkish artist Uğur Gallenkuş is based in Istanbul, Turkey and is known for his photo collages.

A digital artist, Gallenkuş focuses on poverty, war zones, and refugees. He uses his art to spark conversations between their lives and those of people who are more privileged.

Here are 21 of his most powerful works.

21. Turkish-backed Syrian rebels

20. Refugee in the Aegean Sea

19. Child Laborer vs. Student

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A child carries bricks to an oven near Nyamlel, South Sudan on March 22, 2018. Child labour has been on the rise in South Sudan, a country where 60 percent of the population is under 18 and Unicef says that over 70 percent of children don’t attend school. In Nyamlel, up to 30 children work in the brickmaking business and they make between 50-100 South Sudanese Pounds (1 USD = 240 SSP on the black market). A brick factory owner said that he hires children because they are cheaper and he additionally thinks he is helping families survive. The economy of South Sudan is one of the world's most underdeveloped with South Sudan having little existing infrastructure and the highest maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates in the world as of 2011. South Sudan exports timber to the international market. The region also contains many natural resources such as petroleum, iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold, diamonds, hardwoods, limestone and hydropower. The oilfields in the south have been significant to the economy since the latter part of the 20th century. South Sudan has the third-largest oil reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa. The country's economy, as in many other developing countries, is heavily dependent on agriculture. . Photo: Stefanie Glinski @stephglinski @afpphoto . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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18. Asleep vs. Resting Migrant

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A migrant rests in front of a police barricade after Turkish riot police blocked the road towards Edirne on September 21, 2015 in Istanbul. A new march by migrants trying to reach Europe overland from Turkey was blocked by police outside Istanbul today. Around 700 mostly Syrian men, women and children from a group that had been blocked for the past week at Istanbul's main bus station set out overnight on footfor the northwestern city of Edirne, 250 kilometres (150 miles) away. At the end of 2015, in an agreement between the European Union and Turkey, Turkey agreed to prevent migrants from crossing into Europe on the condition of some terms and payment of 3 billion euros. As a result of this obstruction, the migrants chose to reach Europe through the Aegean Sea by illegal means. . Photo: Ozan Köse @ozannkoseee @afpphoto . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış📷

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17. Rio vs. Military Aircraft

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16. Student vs. Arrestee

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The most important characteristic of Homo Sapiens is that can think. Sometimes having different thoughts (or even thinking) can be dangerous and deadly, depending on the time, geography and the government you are in. For those who have never known you, you are a target to be destroyed. Societies that have peaceful thoughts on art, philosophy or problems are always win. Those who put pressure on those with different opinions are always doomed to lose. To think is good. If you don't think, you're not a homo sapiens. Photo’s Story; A young palestinian boy wearing a hang mans noose in a symbolic protest against the Bank of Palestine. Without explanation the bank recently stopped accepting money transfers sent from abroad to charitable and Islamic associations in Gaza. June 11, 2015, Gaza City, Gaza. The devastation across Gaza can still be seen nearly one year on from the 2014 conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants. United Nations official figures said that the 50 day war left at least 2,189 Palestinians killed, including more than 1,486 civilians, and 11,000 injured. 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians were killed. Money pledged by the international community six months ago to rebuild Gaza has not materialised leaving many Palestinians impoverished and still suffering. . Photo: Christopher Furlong @christopherfurlong @gettyimages . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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15. Together vs. Separate

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A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants' country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. Honduras is one of the poorest and most violent countries in Central America. The country experienced a coup d'état in 2009 and is one of the most unequal countries in the world, while the poverty rate stood at 64.3% in 2018. Drought and crop failure in the Central American dry corridor and Climate change in Honduras has been a factor in the formation of the caravans. Many communities have become refugees or immigrants for political, religious and economic reasons in throughout human history. And it will continue to be. It is a fact that there will be and will rises mass migrations in the future due to problems caused by war and global warming. According of the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency), we are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record. An unprecedented 70.8 million people around the world have been forced from home. Among them are nearly 25.9 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18. There are also millions of stateless people who have been denied a nationality and access to basic rights such as education, healthcare, employment and freedom of movement. In a world where nearly 1 person is forcibly displaced every two seconds as a result of conflict or persecution with we're live. . Photos: John Moore @jbmoorephoto @gettyimages . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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14. Carnival vs. War Zone

13. Bullet vs. Flower

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12. Santa vs. Protests

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(L) A migrant caravan walks into the interior of Mexico after crossing the Guatemalan border on October 21, 2018 near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico The caravan of Central Americans plans to eventually reach the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel the recent trade deal with Mexico and withhold aid to Central American countries if the caravan isn't stopped before reaching the U.S. Honduras is one of the poorest and most violent countries in Central America. The country experienced a coup d'état in 2009 and is one of the most unequal countries in the world, while the poverty rate stood at 64.3% in 2018. Drought and crop failure in the Central American dry corridor and Climate change in Honduras has been a factor in the formation of the caravans. (R) Thousands of people dressed as Santa Claus running during the annual Santa Claus Christmas race in Madrid, Spain. . Photos: John Moore @jbmoorephoto and Marcos del Mazo @marcos_del_mazo @gettyimages . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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11. Football Players vs. Criminals

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Young drug traffickers pose for photos holding their guns at a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 11, 2016. Teenage boys openly tote guns as they run in flip-flops through a maze of alleys. Brazil is one of the most violent countries in the world with a national homicide rate of 27.1 per 100,000 inhabitants. A large part of this violence and criminality can be linked to arms and drug trafficking operations by organized crime groups. Brazil is dealing with rising violence, a lot of it related to the illegal drug trade. Most of the victims are young. In 2016 alone, more than 33,000 Brazilian teens and adults under the age of 30 were killed by homicide. . Photo: Felipe Dana @felipedana @apnews . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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10. Grief vs. Relaxation

9. Love Wall vs. War Wall

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An orphaned boy walks past a wall with drawings depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in Bol, Chad on 13 October, 2018. A humanitarian crisis is underway in the Chad Basin, caused by a complex combination of political conflict and environmental factors. Lake Chad—once one of Africa’s largest lakes and a lifeline to 40 million people—is experiencing massive desertification. As a result of unplanned irrigation, extended drought, deforestation and resource mismanagement, the size of the lake has decreased by 90 percent over the past 60 years. Traditional livelihoods such as fishing have withered, and water shortages are causing conflict between farmers and cattle herders. Jihadist group Boko Haram, which is active in the area, both benefits from the hardship and widespread hunger and contributes to it. The group uses local villages as a recruiting ground, and the protracted conflict has uprooted 2.5 million people, exacerbating food insecurity. . Photo: Marco Gualazzini @marcogualazzini @worldpressphoto . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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8. Hell on Earth vs. Paradise on Earth

7. Child at School vs. Child Soldier (?)

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Palestinian boys raise toy guns in a gesture of defiance. The First Intifada, the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, started in December 1987 and strengthened the Arab population in their determination to fight the occupying Israeli force. In March 1993, Israel closed its border with Gaza, causing a massive rise in unemployment. With more than 800,000 people contained in the Israeli-patrolled, 8 km wide strip of land, bloodshed increased sharply. The violence reached a peak in May, when 30 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured. The peace agreement signed in Washington D.C. on 13 September 1993 promised limited authority for the Gaza Strip and a withdrawal of the Israeli army. via @worldpressphoto . Photo: Larry Towell @larrysgeneralstore @magnumphotos . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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6. Ice Cream vs. Bomb Cloud

5. Excess vs. Crowd

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Hands of refugees stretch out as they scramble for donations in the Balukhali camp on September 18, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. According the @UNDP, 26 people on Earth own the same wealth as the 3.8 billion who make up the poorest half of humanity. 1 out of 4 urban residents live in slum-like conditions. Children under the age of 18 are half of the world’s 1.3 billion people facing multidimensional poverty. (🇹🇷) 18 Eylül 2017'de Bangladeş, Cox's Bazar'daki Balukhali kampında yapılan bağışları mülteciler kapmak için çırpınıyorlar. @UNDP 'ye göre, Dünya'daki 26 kişinin serveti, insanlığın en fakir yarısını oluşturan 3,8 milyar insanın toplam servetiyle aynı. 4 şehir sakininden 1 tanesi gecekondu benzeri koşullardaki evlerde yaşamakta. Çok boyutlu yoksullukla karşı karşıya olan Dünya'daki 1,3 milyar insanın yarısı, 18 yaşının altındaki çocuklardır. . Photo: Allison Joyce @allisonsarahjoyce @gettyimages . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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4. Fine Art vs. Comrades

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A Serbian paramilitary couple celebrate the fall of the Croatian city of Vukovar. Fall from 1991. . The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Vukovar was defended by around 1,800 lightly armed soldiers of the Croatian National Guard (ZNG) and civilian volunteers, against as many as 36,000 JNA soldiers and Serb paramilitaries equipped with heavy armour and artillery. During the battle, shells and rockets were fired into the town at a rate of up to 12,000 a day. At the time, it was the fiercest and most protracted battle seen in Europe since 1945, and Vukovar was the first major European town to be entirely destroyed since the Second World War. When Vukovar fell on 18 November 1991, several hundred soldiers and civilians were massacred by Serb forces and at least 20,000 inhabitants were expelled. Most of Vukovar was ethnically cleansed of its non-Serb population and became part of the self-declared Republic of Serbian Krajina. Several Serb military and political officials, including Milošević, were later indicted and in some cases jailed for war crimes committed during and after the battle. The battle exhausted the JNA and proved a turning point in the Croatian war. A ceasefire was declared a few weeks later. Vukovar remained in Serb hands until 1998, when it was peacefully reintegrated into Croatia with the signing of the Erdut Agreement. It has since been rebuilt but has less than half of its pre-war population and many buildings are still scarred by the battle. Its two principal ethnic communities remain deeply divided and it has not regained its former prosperity. (Source: Wikipedia) . Photo: Ron Haviv @ronhaviv_vii Art Paint: Gustav Klimt – The Kiss (in German Der Kuss) . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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3. Wasteland vs. Forest

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Men walking on a pipe over a stream near a tannery, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Almost all of Bangladesh's 200 plus tanneries are concentrated in Hazaribagh, a densely populated, odious neighbourhood on the banks of the Buriganga River. Residents of Hazaribagh's slums complain of illnesses such as fevers, skin diseases, respiratory problems and diarrhoea. They blame the tanneries for polluting the air, water, and soil and therefore causing their afflictions.The lives of the tannery industry's estimated 20,000 workers are harsh with many dying before they turn 50. Everyday these factories discharge thousands of litres of foul-smelling liquid waste into the river. However, with almost one billion USD a year in export sales, the leather industry is one of Bangladesh's most profitable sectors and there has been limited progress in cleaning it up. For 60 years of operations an unrecorded amount of chromium sulphate, lead, organohalogens, lime, hydrogen sulphide, sulphuric acid, formic acid, bleach, dyes and oils have been discharged into the river. We have known for a long time that the climate crisis is threatening our lives badly in every possible way and that it needs to be treated like the emergency it is. Now we need world leaders who believe in science and who should fight to protect our planet for future generations from the dangers of this climate crisis. Educating ourselves on this climate crisis is one of the most important steps in taking action. It’s not yet too late to educate ourselves on the facts of this global climate crisis. Let’s each do our own part from now on, to protect our planet from further destruction. . Photo: GMB Akash @gmbakash . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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2. History vs. Regular Day

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Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams was on the streets of Saigon on February 1, 1968, two days after the forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong set off the Tet offensive and swarmed into dozens of South Vietnamese cities. As Adams photographed the turmoil, he came upon Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, standing alongside ­Nguyen Van Lem, the captain of a terrorist squad who had just killed the family of one of Loan’s friends. Adams thought he was watching the interrogation of a bound prisoner. But as he looked through his viewfinder, Loan calmly raised his .38-caliber pistol and summarily fired a bullet through Lem’s head. After shooting the suspect, the general justified the suddenness of his actions by saying, “If you hesitate, if you didn’t do your duty, the men won’t follow you.” The Tet offensive raged into March. Yet while U.S. forces beat back the communists, press reports of the anarchy convinced Americans that the war was unwinnable. The freezing of the moment of Lem’s death symbolized for many the brutality over there, and the picture’s widespread publication helped galvanize growing sentiment in America about the futility of the fight. “Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world.” – Eddie Adams . Photo: Eddie Adams @apnews . #ParalelEvrenSavaşBarış 📷

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1. Girl With a White Headband

These photographs are quite jarring and thought-provoking. You can view more of the artist’s works here.

In the meantime, how did these collages make you feel? Stir something inside you haven’t felt in a while?

Please share your thoughts in the comments!

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A Miner in Russia’s Arctic Circle Takes Beautiful Photos of Foxes During Breaks From Work

In the north-eastern Chukotka region of Russia’s Arctic, one photographer finds the animals living there and captures them with his camera on his breaks from mining.

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The environment is bleak, and sparsely populated with ethnic Russians, Chukchis, and other indigenous peoples.

Лисенок.Чукотка.2014г.

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There are virtually no roads and people here survive mostly by hunting reindeer.

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But wildlife thrives and Ivan Kislov has no problems finding it for his fantastic photos.

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Kislov lives in the north-eastern port city of Magadan and works as a mining engineer in Chukotka.

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He told Bored Panda that he likes to take “relaxation from routine,” go on “hikes to inaccessible places, raftings,” and walking to “observe the wildlife.” 

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He enjoys these activities on his breaks during long shifts at the mines.

Mining for oil, natural gas, coal, gold and tungsten is a major part of the economy here.

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He often finds bear, deer and wolves, but it’s the foxes who let their natural curiosity keep them from retreating.

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Kislov says they will let him get close-in so he can shoot with wide-angle and telephoto lenses for amazing shots.

Всем огромное спасибо за поздравления!!! Очень приятно.Снежный лис.Чукотка.Ноябрь 2014г.

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His photos show all the playfulness and beauty of these animals against the stark environment of the Russian Arctic.

What an absolutely wonderful hobby? But we want to know what you think! Would you get so close to take these beautiful pics?

Let us know in the comments!

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These Encouraging Photos Show How the Fire-Ravaged Australian Bush Is Already Coming Back

As fires continue to ravage Australia, two photographers on the New South Wales Central Coast have taken some hopeful images of rejuvenation.

Ventured out into the fire grounds today to capture some images of how the Aussie bush responds to fire, and the way it…

Posted by Murray Lowe on Monday, January 6, 2020

Mary Voorwinde and a friend saw how one ravaged area was already showing signs of new growth in Kulnura, New South Wales.

Fires came within miles of Voorwinde’s own Central Coast home, so the discovery inspired her to take her camera into the woods where she took some fantastic images of flowers growing around burnt tree trunks. Then she shared the images to show her fellow Australians and others that new life had arrived.

Another photographer, Murray Lowe, also saw young flowers and plants emerging through the char. He posted his shots on Facebook, to the amazement of tens of thousands of users. “Life bursts forth after the fires…,” he wrote.

Nature at it's best after a severe scorching …….. Image No 2

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His photos have been liked more than 28,000 times with over 6,000 shares. Just when things seem so bleak, colors come back to brighten the scene.

“Nature at it’s best after a severe scorching…”

So many commented too, joyful at seeing such pretty flowers. “Amazing,” people wrote.

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These areas were likely among the first to burn so regrowth at this point is entirely possible. Unfortunately, fires are still burning and destroying forestland, and though greenery may grow back, animals killed in the flames will never come back. And for species that are already vulnerable, this may be the final straw. We just don’t know.

But we can see a little bit of the future – and it certainly looking green.

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A Photographer Captured Images of Birds That Look like Stunning Sky Sculptures

A Spain photographer creates stunning photos of birds that, at first glance, don’t look like photos at all. Instead, they look like dynamic sculptures in the sky.

The photo project is titled “Ornitographies.” It’s the work of Xavi Bou, a Catalan photographer, whose goal was to draw attention to the natural beauty that many people take for granted.

“One of the topics that interests me is to make visible that in our near environment, we have more variety of fauna than most people imagine — we just have to pay attention,” Xavi told Insider. “It is not necessary to travel to distant places to enjoy nature.”

To create these images, Xavi takes timed photos from a distance. Thousands of birds combine into complex geometric shapes that appear to be moving. As Xavi says, the birds’ movement turns the sky into a canvas of sorts.

Xavi takes most of his photos in his home region of Catalonia, Spain. Most of the birds are common species that often live close to cities.

He’s been interested in the natural sciences since he was young; he used to go on bird walks with his grandfather as a child. He later went on to study both geology and photography as an adult. His work now combines his loves of nature and art into one.

“The first test was done in May of 2012,” Xavi explained. He began to work more deeply on the project in 2015. “Actually, it’s almost my full time dedication. I keep making new ones, working on the future book, and researching for my future projects.”

Check out some more of his photos:

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#ornitographies #yellowleggedgull

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Ornitography from Barcelona. July 2016

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Xavi hopes to inspire people to be “curious” about nature again: “We love
those we know and protect what we love.”

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Dogs Diving Underwater for Toys Is All You Need to See Today

Seth Casteel is best known for his photos of dogs diving underwater for toys. And why not? These pics are wonderful!

If you’ve ever played around with your pooch in a pool or in the ocean, you know you’ve seen these goofy faces before.

Enjoy and be sure to check out Casteel’s books and calendars that are for sale HERE.

1. Going deep!

2. Love that hairstyle.

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Ragnar!

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3. Extreme close-up.

4. A great swimmer.

5. Hi there!

6. Must. Get. The. Ball.

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Breezer!

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7. Chomper!

8. The Loch Ness Puppy.

9. Get after it!

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Buster!

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10. Sea creature of the deep. Okay, not really, just a good pup.

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Daisy!

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Those are great! Be sure to follow Casteel on Instagram and Facebook so you can keep up with his work!

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Dogs Diving Underwater for Toys Is All You Need to See Today

Seth Casteel is best known for his photos of dogs diving underwater for toys. And why not? These pics are wonderful!

If you’ve ever played around with your pooch in a pool or in the ocean, you know you’ve seen these goofy faces before.

Enjoy and be sure to check out Casteel’s books and calendars that are for sale HERE.

1. Going deep!

2. Love that hairstyle.

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Ragnar!

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3. Extreme close-up.

4. A great swimmer.

5. Hi there!

6. Must. Get. The. Ball.

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Breezer!

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7. Chomper!

8. The Loch Ness Puppy.

9. Get after it!

View this post on Instagram

Buster!

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10. Sea creature of the deep. Okay, not really, just a good pup.

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Daisy!

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Those are great! Be sure to follow Casteel on Instagram and Facebook so you can keep up with his work!

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A Mom’s Horror-Themed Photoshoot Features a Baby Zombie and She Steals the Show

There are your run-of-the-mill family photoshoots and then there are epic photoshoots like this one…especially just in time for Halloween. Tiffany Renfroe is a photographer who decided to put her own family in front of her lens when she enlisted her husband Daniel and her youngest child Oakley for a horror-filled zombie bloodbath photoshoot. Click HERE to check out Renfroe’s photography page.

Renfroe said,

“Daniel and I are very sarcastic, as people, as parents. Life is too short to take everything so seriously. Our babies (Kaiden-10, Gibson-5, Oakley-11 months) are our world. We are active parents that would rather be doing things with them or giving them experiences over gifts or money, although they still are spoiled. Our kids go everywhere with us and are included in everything we do (we live away from family due to jobs).”

Let’s go to the photos, shall we?

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

Renfroe continued, “Our daughter Kaiden and [Renfroe’s husband Daniel] started watching The Walking Dead, waiting day by day for the next season. It’s their thing. They also watch a lot of classic horror movies, even Gibson at 5. As long as he isn’t violent, I don’t really care, he isn’t scared and isn’t traumatized by them.”

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

Renfroe added:

“I didn’t particularly want the kids watching horror movies because they would be scared. But they aren’t. They sit there picking out different artistic stuff and laughing at the ridiculous props, makeup, and costumes used in the old classics! It wasn’t hurting them, making them scared, so whatever. It’s us. My kids are sweet and loving, do great in school, are nonviolent, love others, and that’s all that matters to us as parents.”

Here are a few more photos…and a familiar face showed up to make things even creepier…

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

Photo Credit: Facebook,Tiffany Renfroe

You can scroll through all the delightful photos from the shoot HERE.

Get ’em started young on all things horror, that’s what I always say.

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