Out of the Box Magazine

The best  small towns  provide beautiful locales that inspire both creativity and activity. Check out the 25 most  picturesque small towns  that would definitely breathe back life to your travel and inspiration for your photos.

Time Slice is an  ongoing  series of photographs by  Richard Silver  that explores how iconic buildings and monuments change in appearance from day into night.  Silver  shoots some 36 photos at intervals over several hours and then layers them into a final composition. The result is amazing! Take a look!

Do you remember photographer  Seth Casteel ’s  adorable  underwater dog  photography  series? Now, the New York- and LA-based photographer is back with a sequel capturing the first moments of little puppies diving into the water for the first time. “ To create this series, I taught  swimming lessons  to over 1500 puppies, building their confidence in the water and helping them develop safety and survival skills, ” writes Casteel. “ Most of the puppies only swam for a few minutes and were not ready for pictures, but some decided to start jumping in on their own and chase after toys! “

The answer to the title is NO. These images are from a project entitled “Devour” by  Christopher Jonassen , which displays pictures of the bottom of worn-out frying pans. 

Australian traveler and photographer Mark Tipple is the author of an impressive series of underwater photographs. In addition to that, he managed to make a documentary during last summer.

Tokyo based photographer Martin Bailey has managed to create a unique series of shots showing the icy beauty of Antarctica.

Carl Warner  challenges how we view the human body in the photographic series shown here. His work is comprised of body parts organized in such a way that they resemble massive landscapes foregrounded against a neutral tinted sky.

Pennsylvania-based photographer Christopher McKenney creates composite  photos of horror scenes filled with disturbing characters that seem to exist on the edge between the worlds of the living and the dead.

Miki Asai is one talented macro photographer from Japan who follows ants as they explore within her own garden. This all began when she got her own macro lens which fascinates her about the beauty of it.

World renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has been capturing shots of celebrities as popular Disney characters for years, as part of her ongoing collection of Disney Dream Portraits. The latest addition to her portfolio of work is Academy Award nominated actress Jessica Chastain as the fiery-haired Merida from the animated feature film Brave .

Asia  is a wonderful and mysterious continent with breathtaking landscapes and deep-rooted traditions. That’s precisely how photographer Weerapong Chaipuck displays it in his photographs.

Some actors were born to play a role. With stunning performances, these stars captivate us, move us, and leave us with an enormous impression, even after the end of a film.

People say that a single picture is worth a thousand words for some a picture can capture a thousand different emotions at once. However New York based photographer Stephan Wilkes managed to capture the passage of time in a single photograph.

Yago Partal, has created these  surreal  pictures that blend the animal world with human fashion poses identified in  Zoo Portraits . We picked  the some of them from the series, but make sure to visit this  tumblr  blog, and follow it.

In a wanderlust-worthy photo series called "Follow Me To," photographer  Murad Osmann   is led around the world by his girlfriend, Nataly Zakharova. It started out as an accidental picture that was taken when Nataly pulled Murad forward after becoming impatient with his constant photo-snapping, but now, the world has fallen in love with this adventurous couple.

This project began in the spring of 2009, and is by far the most popular thing I've ever done. Hopefully you'll like it too. Images are made by finding old photographs of places, printing them out, and then holding the print up in the modern day location that the original photograph was taken. STATUE OF LIBERTY UNDER CONSTRUCTION, PARIS, FRANCE DEAD CONFEDERATE SOLDIER AT DEVIL'S DEN, GETTYSBURG, PA COUNTRY STORE ON DIRT ROAD, GORDONTON, NC BEHIND GARE ST. LAZARE, PARIS, FRANCE BENEATH THE EIFFEL TOWER, PARIS, FRANCE CHILD AS LIBERTY - PEACE MONUMENT, WASHIN CROWD WATCHING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BURNING GIRL TURNS AWAY FROM WATCHING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER PENTAGON FROM A DISTANCE, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 WORLD TRADE CENTER BURNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSE, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 LUTHER MEMORIAL CHURCH, WASHINGTON, DC For more information visit James E. Powel we...

Agueda is beautiful. Another year of Agitágueda, the music and  art festival  in this center Portugal city. During the month of July, the streets will be decorated with thousands of Umbrellas, a true Umbrella Sky.

The 26th annual  National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest  is now accepting submissions. Official categories include: Travel Portraits; Outdoor Scenes; Sense of Place; and Spontaneous Moments.

This satirical photo series called “In  Extremis  (Bodies With No Regret)” by photographer Sandro Giordano depicts unfortunate people the moment after they fell, surrounded by their material possessions. “ Each  shot  ‘tells’ about worn out characters who, as if a sudden black-out of  mind and body  took over, let themselves crash with no attempt to save themselves, unable, because of the fatigue of the everyday ‘representation’ of living, oppressed by ‘appearance’ instead of simply ‘existing’, ”  explains   Giordano .

Based out of Tucumcari, New Mexico, James Lout is a portrait and fine art photographer. He have been passionate about photography ever since he picked up a book on Ansel Adams and to this day he remains one of his favorite photographers. He stills shoot landscape photography in his spare time, but he loves making unique portraits that people can connect with and cherish for a lifetime.