Take one of your photos and replace the person within the photo with a drawing.  It's simple enough to do and creates an interesting effect.  You can view more of Themanwhofellasleep's Invisibilia images at his website as well as take advantage of the tutorial has has provided.  Link (via Neatorama)

Okinawa Soba posted a fascinating flickr set of 3D stereoviews of old Japan.

Almos 60 of the stereoviews in this set were photographed by Japanese photographer T. ENAMI [His self-portrait in Japanese Armor is the face of my flickr Icon]. The rest are divided up mostly among works by HERBERT PONTING, HENRY STROHMEYER, AND JULIAN COCHRANE. A few other 3-D photographers from both Japan and abroad are also represented here.

Most of the views were taken during the years 1895 to 1910, with the majority taken ca.1898-1905.

Land of the Free by Steven Schofield:

Steven Schofield takes photos of british sci-fi fans, dressed in character in their homes. He treats it as 'found' photography, which seems to illustrate the subjects vulnerability. The title of the work is Land of the Free - and illustrates how American culture infiltrates, with the ironic edge of questioning the idea of the freedom of choosing to copy the look of these fictional characters.  [via MeFi]

flickrvision is a site where you can see images uploaded to flickr throughout the world in real-time.  It has a 3-D view, however, I'm unable to try out at the moment because it's being hit hard by digg users.  From what I hear it's a very cool feature.  Someone should definitely make a screensaver out of this.  Link.

Alfabet in Huid was created by Thijs Verbeek.  Clothes pins were used to form letters from the alphabet on human skin.  Link [via Grow a Brain]

This truly is an amazing photo of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse [wikipedia].

From MumbleyJoe's Flickr photostream:

Once per year at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse they shut down the weak insipid modern (presumably electric) light and switch over the the 5 kerosene lamps and fresnel lens of the original, as it was 135 years ago.

Last night was the night, and it's really quite a sight. When they fire it up there's really a collective sense of "whoa!" from the audience (which was WAY bigger than I expected - I probably had to park a mile away and I was there an hour early).

Capturing a shot like this is tricky because the lens itself actually rotates, which looks great but is tough for long exposures. But for the first 5 minutes they leave it static to indulge all of the photographers who turn out and want this shot (this highly unique and one-of-a-kind shot of course). When they switched to this light my camera still had about a minute of noise reduction to do on my final test shot to get the exposure right, so I missed the first minute. Then I started this shot which was about 2 minutes long, followed by 2 minutes of noise reduction again. So by the time I had my shot it was too late for a do-over. So this is it, I only got to take one photo and this is what I got, so I hope it worked out.

Jan Von Holleben's photographs are amazing. Crossing the desert on the back of a dog, or searching for lost treasures on the bottom of the ocean. Jan von Holleben’s photographs allow children to make their dreams come true.
Von Holleben really brings out the true innocence and creative imagination of a child.  To see the world through a child's eyes...  what a wonderful thing.

Link to gallery.

In December of 2006, a former United States Army Intelligence officer donated photographs of German SS officers in the notorious Auschwitz he had found more than 60 years ago while serving in Germany.

As Ms. Erbelding and other archivists reviewed the album, they realized they had a scrapbook of sorts of the lives of Auschwitz’s senior SS officers that was maintained by Karl Höcker, the adjutant to the camp commandant. Rather than showing the men performing their death camp duties, the photos depicted, among other things, a horde of SS men singing cheerily to the accompaniment of an accordionist, Höcker lighting the camp’s Christmas tree, a cadre of young SS women frolicking and officers relaxing, some with tunics shed, for a smoking break.

Last holiday season I was trying to think of a way to create a pop-up card, but figured it would just more work than I actually wanted to deal with.  I came across this howto on making pop-ups out of your very own photographs which seems easy enough.  I just might give it a try.

Here are a few stunning wildlife photographs taken by Steve Bloom.  [via digg]

Previously:
BBC Wildlife Magazine's Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Wildlife photos by John Hyde (LwL)