Wondered about the strange illustrations on Adobe’s CS2 Suite packaging? They’re x-rays. Easy. But a plane?!?

Bumbuț uses public transportation.

“Terrorists taking pictures is a quintessential detail in any good movie.” Or how Hollywood fucks up.

Via DF.

The product of an 8-week helicopter expedition from Hamburg to Cape Town: Eyes Over Africa by Michael Poliza.

Bumbuț posts an incredible image. Ironic and depressing at the same time.

The “Feature Photography” 2008 Pulitzer Prize goes to Preston Gannaway for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness. To see the feature, go to PrestonGannaway.com → Stories & Essays → Remember Me. Via TOP.

An image is worth a thousand lies, when Photoshop gets involved.

Photographer Cosmin Bumbuț puts bumbutz.ro at work by launching a photo-blog. His regular web site remains at bumbutz.com.

“I think it would look better without… without… without the crown” — Annie Leibovitz photographing the Queen.

Thank you, Mendoza aus Berlin.

“A big warm kiss, like a shot from a revolver, and like the psychoanalyst’s couch.” Cartier-Bresson on how he thought of the Leica.

Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Issue: reenacting Hitchcock.

End of chapter in photographic art: Polaroid to exit instant film as demand goes digital. Via LL.

Celebrities doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing. Amazing.

360° panorama of Patong Beach. Click to enlarge.

Bangkok street panorama. Click to enlarge.

Siam Paragon’s top floor, Bangkok. Click to enlarge.

Siam Paragon, Bangkok. Click to enlarge.

Tilt-shift photography: Ben Thomas, City Shrinker; Cosmin Bumbuț, Tilted Land [pdf].

Flickr introduces Stats — feature only available to pro account holders.

Now you can edit your pics on Flickr.

Skin — official Nikon importer in Romania — announces D3 and D300 DSLRs launch on Romanian market. Links in Romanian.

Tongue in cheek mastery: Matt Stuart. Thank you, Iancu.

Peace Wall photo went right from this blog into the pages of Esquire Romania, illustrating an article about Russia. Thank you, Raymond.

What a charming species we are in October! Whipping scars, guys “clearing out” other guys, “The last Jew in Vinnitsa” and a woman crying for uncertain reasons. [Thanks, Roxana.]

We’ll always have Paris. 360° of it. And Shakespeare. [From Alia]

Surrealism is alive and doing well on Flickr, in Noah Wilson’s black and white set Aberrations. Lay back and view it as a slideshow. [via Tumblr]

Video for FORM video installation shot by Richard Reens in Malaysia, Frankfurt and New York, starring supermodel Chandra North. Beautiful black and white photography — besides directing, Richard is an amazingly gifted DOP.

Horrible, horrible weather in Bucharest today — sabotage it by peeking at Jan von Holleben’s Dreams Of Flying and you’ll automagically remember how to smile. I even laughed loudly at the ninth. Fuck the rainy day. [from Vudu Cat]

Mihai Ovidiu Popa (aka Spargluna, aka Psalmplasma) shots Tokyo like a mash-up of Matrix, Gattaca and Blade Runner. Don’t miss it.

After a hiatus since closing her old blog, Miri Bratu is back with a new one: Simț enorm și văz monstruos. Update your bookmarks. [in Romanian]

For those enjoying their day-after coffees, here’s a drop of milk to go with your brewed goodie.

Don Hong-Oai studied with the famous 104-year-old master, Long Chin-San in Taiwan. Here he learned to work in a Chinese “pictorial” style, using several negatives to compose a picture and perfecting his landscape work. Unspeakably graceful.