Astronauts by Steve Pyke

About the project:

For the past two years, Steve Pyke has been involved in a photographic odyssey. The resulting project was triggered by a childhood experience. “I remember in 1969 sitting with my mother and father and watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. The memory will never leave me” From it came a desire to meet and photograph the principal characters in this incredible story.

Click on the images to see who’s who.

Chaos and serenity by photographer Peter Jamus

Beautiful work by Noell S. Oszvald 

Waves and clouds by Irene Kung

Moons over Africa by Mario Moreno

Beautifully minimalist work by photographer Hossein Zare

Visit Fast Co. for 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions from NASA’s archives.

The landscape and animal photography of Pentti Sammallahti is often minimal, sometimes whimsical and always wonderful.

Olivier Ratsi mixed and matched U.S. presidents in his collage series Once Upon a Time the Presidents.

A Portrait of the Matterhorn is one of several outstanding ongoing projects by Nenad Saljic.

Saljic on his photography:

Every living being has its own perception of the outer world. Limits of human senses determine our abilities to interpret reality. Quantum physics shows us that reality is ultimately “veiled” from us. We live in the state of maya or illusion, as has been said by Dharmic religions - nothing that we see is how it is.

Photography is the way I see reality. It is my emotional voyage to the remaining beauty in today’s world of artificial values. I make photographs from the images that thrill my senses and provide me with an experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction.

Dramatic black and white animal photography by Marina Cano

The Guardian has assembled a gallery of some of the 4,500 golden age of space exploration pictures that will be up for auction at the Westlicht Auction House in Vienna on November 23.

Micrographie (c. 1960) by Denis Brihat 

These intimate moments with gorillas were captured by photographer Sébastien Meys 

Stunning animal photography by Wolf Ademeit