!Solid Planet: December 2014

Watch This Teen Learn To Draw Like A Disney Artist In Just One Year

Seventeen-year-old Mandy Wang is not your average Instagram user. Instead of selfies and snapshots of sunsets, the California teen shares her amazing colored pencil and watercolor pictures on her account, Lovemandywang. Via huffingtonpost.com

Fantastic Photography by Danil Sigidin

Daniel Sigidin is a Russian photographer born in Vladivostok, all the way in chilly Siberia, who specializes in beauty and fashion. He started out as an IT-focused professional, which he eventually mixed with his passion for picture-taking: in his last year at University, he also taught photography and digital photo manipulation. Nowadays, he dabbles in wedding photography, photojournalism and commercial work. He uses a Canon 5D Mark II and several Tokina, Sigma and Canon lenses. His portfolio is diverse enough to be showcased on all sorts of specialized websites, but we chose to focus on his beauty work in particular, since it exudes a sort of toned-down insouciance we have rarely ever seen in other photographers

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Illustrations by Brian Scott

Brian Scott is a self taught artist, drawing with coloured pencils. He comes from the United Kingdom and convinced with breathtaking portraits full of emotions

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Mountain Wedding Photo:Antonie Hodge Ewing & Bob Ewing

Bob Ewing has gotten a lot of mileage out of his decade-old tuxedo and has even run a couple of marathons in it. Now he's been married in it, after he and his new bride made the 900-foot sheer climb on one of West Virginia's most striking landmarks in full wedding regalia.

Photos of the bride and groom atop the narrow peak of Seneca Rocks in West Virginia have become a hit on the Internet, with more than 500,000 views.

The bride, Antonie Hodge Ewing, made the climb in her mother's wedding gown. Her mother, Evangeline Hodge of Los Alamos, N.M., made the climb as well.

It was Antonie's idea to get married on the peak. Ewing proposed to her in March as the couple scaled the rocks, and after she said yes, she informed him that she wanted to get married there as well.

The family pitched in. Brother Scott Ewing got himself ordained and performed the ceremony. A second brother, John Ewing, made a separate climb and photographed the ceremony with a rented, high-powered lens. Family and friends who couldn't make the Aug. 11 climb participated in a second ceremony and reception the next day.

Initially, the plan was for immediate family and some close friends to all make the climb, Antonie said. But it became unwieldy, and they had to cut most everyone from the climbing party.

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Our Solar System Takes a Holiday by David Jordan Williams

These creative illustrations by photographer and graphic designer David Jordan Williams bring the planets of our solar system right down into our everyday lives. In the project, entitled Our Solar System Takes a Holiday, Williams features stunning, everyday landscapes that, at first, don't seem out of the ordinary. Yet, viewers will fairly instantly notice the presence of a planet, quite out of place along the beaches, woods, and city streets of each scene.