Photography by Cole Rise

Cole Rise has spent the better half of his life taking pleasure behind the lens; stalking cows and lying in the grass to capture the landscape. He can’t tell you how big the universe is, or why we’re really here, but his work sometimes flirts with the idea of knowing. Checkout his more work here.

One Would

Northern Colorado

Yosemite fires

Yosemite National Park

From the Fire

Sunset through the Smoke

From the Pass

Leaving the Snow Storm

Explorations with Space: no.1

Bear Mountain, Sedona

Explorations with Space: no.2

Magdelena before Sunrise

In Sun

North of Tehachapi, CA

Endless

Rain Storm in Wyoming

Lines

After the Rain

Relocationist

Escape from Some Prison

Salt

Dawn on the Flats

Ground Effect

Before Sunrise

Cirrus

Old Silicon Valley

Mission Path

Afternoon Hike

Mission Peak

A few bites down the Hill

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(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos

1. Water and a Girl
Beautiful composition, excellent scenery, amazing play of colors.

2. The Ball is Coming!
Analogue shot with Seagull 6×6 (Chinese clone of Rolleiflex), made in 1983. “The gulfball is suspended on a fishing line in front of the camera. It was a stormy day. So I had to shoot 5 or 6 films for getting one image with the ball in the center position AND a light reflection on the golf club.”

3. Sky
The sky is reflected in a drop of water. Beautiful scenery.

4. Returning to the same ocean
Beautiful sand textures, beautiful composition and somehow a very sad story hidden behind the image.

5. Tree
A colorful tree from a different perspective.

6. Glittery Ball
“The reflection in this water droplet, it looks like the glitter is stuck to the water, but NO, it is reflections from the glitter on the feather.”

7. Leap of Faith
What does being one step away from falling into the abyss feel like? The photo is taken by Paul Perton.

8. Astronaut Self-shot Over Earth
Could this be the best self-shot ever? It’s truly out of this world.

9. Autumn in red
Pure beauty. No words are necessary.

10. FlickrMeeting – Genova – G3
Blue baloon, a small detail, gives the picture an incredible power.

11. If I was an old building…
“If I was an old building I would want to be by the ocean. Till’ the end of times”. Photographed at the old fishing piers of the Texas Bolivar Peninsula.

12. Bee the Cat
“It’s hard to get the right exposure, with them being white, and with the fact they don’t stay still unless they’re sleeping.”

13. Passing the Golden Gate Bridge

14. Glow
Smoke from a leaf pile.

15. Swimming pool
Taking a look at the swimming pool. From a quite different perspective.

16. Reflect
A reflection from the louvre’s pyramid.

17. Time To Go Home…
“Tthe way the birds are lined up makes the composition extraordinary fantastic.”

18. Seagull on a sign
This seagull seems to have its own personal understanding of human’s rules.

19. Marshmellow girl
A beautiful composition.

20. Refashioned Dahlia
Photo taken at Duncan Garden in Spokane, WA.

21. Bird and Meat

22. Water drop
A photo taken at the exact right time. Available as a desktop wallpaper in various resolutions.

23. Mt. Fuji

24. Two ways at looking at a fish

25. Blessed fog
A shot of Grande Madre di Dio in Torino, Italy.

26. Family of bugs

27. Pigeon Point Lighthouse
“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.”

28. Fire Shot
Location: Changa Beach, Coquimbo.

29. A conversation
Fox, bird and snow. This picture is titled “Good afternoon, my name is chikiricuatro”.

30. Shanghai – Acrobatic
Picture taken during an acrobatic show in a Shanghainese theatre.

31. Northern lights as seen from space

32. Red October Rise
Sunrise over Bogie Lake, Michigan.

33. Crystal clarity

34. Skier’s Paradise
“Climbing partner at 17,000′ on Denali carrying his skis down to around 16,200′ where he will be able to ski down the rest of the way to base camp at 7200′.”

35. Bird and Water

36. Photograph Taken at the Exact Right Time

37. All alone.
This shot is taken on a Norway’s cliff Prekestolen (also known as Preacher’s Pulpit).

38. Looking out of the window

39. Above the clouds
The shot taken during the flight from Vienna to Frankfurt, approaching Frankfurt.

40. The Waves

41. The Waves. One more time.

42. Cockfight
Taken by Jan Sochor.

43. Polar lights
Öxarárfoss in Iceland – Aurora Borealis taken by Arnar Valdimarsson.

44. Concentra

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