Today's Extraordinary Photos

Here is an interesting concept: There are more geniuses living today than all the geniuses in history. Not sure where I heard that, but it could be true given the population of the planet today. 

Well the same could be said for photos: There are more excellent, fantastic, fine, exciting etc. photos today than any time in the past.  We have thousands of people taking pictures as good or better than Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, or Annie Liebovitz.

Modern digital equipment and software make it possible. Plus there are just a lot of photographers on the planet.  The average person today, who cares even a little about photography, turns out stunning images.  As proof see below:

These pictures are from friends and contacts, not  professionals.

There are thousands more.

Photo by G. Killon  (Flickr)

Some of the very best pictures are loaded to the web, but download is restricted.

I couldn't do them justice here anyway.

Photo by Eli the Bearded  (Flickr)

To see some of the outstanding photos by the experts, check out the links below that take you to     the Vision Quality Group or the Carl Zeiss Lenses Group on Flickr. 

Photo by montanatom (Flickr)

Vision Quality Group ... Flickr
Carl Zeiss Lenses Group ... Flickr