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From The Star:
"A year ago, Michael Chrisman placed a pinhole camera in Toronto’s Port Lands and aimed it — as best one can aim such a camera — at the city skyline.

For 365 straight days and nights, light has crept through the pinhole, slowly building an exposure on a piece of photosensitive paper."

Full story:
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1109339

Pripyat is the abandoned city near the Chernobyl power plant

Tim Suess has a collection of fascinating photos from there.

Maybe it isn't fair to tag this as steampunk, since that is locked into the Victorian Age, while this aesthetic fits more with the post-apocalyptic genre set in the near-future.

Childrens respirators (never used) in a school in the ghost town of Pripyat near Chernobyl.

If you couldn't guess what URL to type in to see this, it's:
http://www.turtleseatingthings.com/

Tilt-shift is still cool.
And 3-D is still cool.

3D effects can be achieved by simulating a tilt-shift style - essentially by selectively adjusting an image's blurriness and color saturation.

ArtCyclopedia has applied these techniques to some of Van Gogh's paintings with amazing results.

Chris McVeigh has a lot of fun and funny photos. There is something about the composition and color that makes them more compelling than simple snapshots of toys and animals.

"Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. Picture taken May 2, 2008. (Carlos Gutierrez)"

from the Boston Globe's The year 2008 in photographs

One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

details here

Dark City
by Kim Erlandsen

from Wired's 2008's Best Contest Photos You Never Saw