I’ve been seeing so many lists of 50/100 breathtaking, amazing, beautiful, awesome, insertwhatever thisandthat photos that I thought I might give it a go myself. It seems an interesting exercise in photo editing which of course means you probably won’t agree with my selection, at least not entirely.

I thought I’d start with the Aegean island of Ikaria where I spent a few months last year and it’s still on my mind a lot. And I should probably point out that most photos featured here were found in the very active Ikaria – Ικαρία group on Flickr.

so here goes in no particular order…

Ed Webb

Christos Malahias

jelgajelga

megaonbeirne

onirorama

Paul Lewis

T@asos

Thanos Anthopoulos

Jo&Joli

angeloska

Metroindian

IRDKETAS

‘Lele(awol)

Geoponos

Ray Cunningham

Stelios Kiousis

fliegender

Tragopodaros

streunerin

Ikariancenter

mamanian

adespotos79

Yann!s

Pez Luna

isl_gr

cheeseontaoist

I cannot finish without at least mentioning some other photographers whose photos I absolutely adored but they chose not to share their photos outside Flickr. I’ve been toying with the idea of hosting them on my server but that would be crossing the line…

very honorable mentions:

• Καλημερα KALIMERA
• Karl Hauser
• chocolatte
• antonis
• annagal
• plakidas
• jeffzoet
• w3510

And should you still wish to see more, my photos from Ikaria are divided into Part 1, the goat interviews, and finally Part 2

Project Pedal

Teaser 001 from mike ambs on Vimeo.

Teaser 002 from mike ambs on Vimeo.

Teaser 003 from mike ambs on Vimeo.

Teaser 004 from mike ambs on Vimeo.

Teaser 005 from mike ambs on Vimeo.

Teaser 006 from mike ambs on Vimeo.

Years ago, in what feels almost like another life, I contributed a minor part towards development of a student project at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. That project is now complete and the result is absolutely light years beyond what I expected at the time. They blew me away!

Photo copyright by Alan Orlič Belšak & StudentRoadster.com

It was the turn of the millennium when a few guys, students at the end of their B Sc, decided to build their own car. At the time me and a friend from high school joined the team, the project had a really bad name for some reason, Frog-K, now changed thankfully (however the car should still have at least a nickname). Those were my first weeks at university and I was keen to do something on a practical level, rather than listen to boring theory day in and day out.

As it turned out the project didn’t really seem to be going anywhere fast at the time and it was all still on a very theoretical, vaporware level. All the contributions were done as thesis projects, seminars for extra points at certain courses etc. and although we did have a donor car (Peugeot 406) nothing substantial, dare I say dirty, was being done back then. I wanted a hands-on approach not calculations and writing reports. I had much to learn…

My assignment on transmission/power transfer settings using data from Peugeot 406 1.6l engine and transmission was completed fairly quickly but after that I pretty much gave up on the deal. It seemed to me that nothing will ever get done at the pace and direction it was going.

diagram of time/speed/revs, copyright: StudentRoadster/Jernej Burkeljca

acceleration diagram, copyright: StudentRoadster/Jernej Burkeljca

I stayed on at the faculty for another year before quitting and moving on to other things. And I all but forgot about that little car. Until about a year ago when I saw an article in some magazine saying it was nearly completed. It caught my interest to say the least. The thing was beautiful.

For some reason it crept into my mind a few days ago and I went looking for more news about it. The end result was stunning. I was more than proven wrong and for that I applaud the entire team that worked on it over the years.

Photo copyright by Alan Orlič Belšak & StudentRoadster.com

More photos and plenty of other details on the making of this car can be found on their website.