A small selection of  artists works and websites who I admire, find inspiration from and follow.

The latest art that I have been following is "The National Geographic's Photo Contest 2010",
every year I follow this competition and this year's entries are absolutely gorgeous once again.
My top 5 being, #2, #6, #18, #28 and #36.

See for yourself at www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html

2. A supercell thunderstorm rolls across the Montana prairie at sunset. (Photo and caption by Sean Heavey)

6. Liquid Planet. Another picture from the Liquid Vision Series, which shows a different point of view of waves. An angle that people are not used to seeing. (Photo and caption by Freddy Cerdeira)

18. Yes it's spring. Fishing on the end of the bridge. (Photo and caption by Stan Bouman)

28. Lightning Crashes. A lightning bolt strikes the antenna of The Center building in Central Hong Kong during a storm on September 13, 2009. (Photo and caption by Michael Siward)

36. Silhouetted against the headlights of their engine, Firemen attempt to put out a blaze caused by a gigantic natural gas line explosion near San Francisco in September of 2010. The fire destroyed 37 homes, and resulted in seven fatalities. (Photo and caption by Josh Edelson)

An artist who I came across while researching my "Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?!" project was Mathew Collishaw. His work deals with such sinistre aspects of life which I really liked about him, he touches on things like child abuse and pornography, beastiality, drug abuse, religion, to beings like butterflies and flowers, with a constant referring to Victorian times, art, artists, scholars, etc. Collishaw works with many different techniques and mediums, mainly video projection and photogrpahy. My favourite series of his would have to be his "Sugar and Spice and All things Nice, That's What Little Girls are Made of".

See these images and all of Collishaw's works at www.matcollishaw.com