I love the curated selection of abandoned swimming pool photos on Feature Shoot today, featuring work by Carlo Van de Roer and Albert Jodar, amongst others.

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Paris-based Amelie Lombard is an advertising photographer specializing in food and still life. These photos are from the series, Aphrodisiaques.

These amazing photos of coiled snakes are the work of Parisian photographer Guido Mocafico, whose work has appeared in Numèro, Paris Vogue, Big, The Face, and Wallpaper, amongst other publications.

Bieke Depoorter’s photo series, Oe Menia, won the Magnum Expression Award and the Photo Academy Award for GUP magazine. Of the work, she says: ‘For three periods of one month, I have let the Trans-Siberian train guide me alongside forgotten villages, from living room to living room. Some Russian words scribbled on a little piece of paper allowed me to be welcomed and absorbed in the warm chaos of a family. Accidental encounters led me to the places where I could sleep. The living room, the epicentre of their life, establishes an intimate contact between the Russian inhabitants. This way, I experienced transient, but very powerful, shared moments. We communicated without words. We understood each other somehow’.

I can’t quite explain it, but when I see really amazing photography, I hear a low rumbling in the back of my head sort of like a lot of the atmospheric sounds in Blue Velvet or sometimes a white noise like a distant ocean. The images of Croatian photographer Snjezana Josipovic certainly make me hear those sounds.

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Francesco Giusti lives and works in Rome. Of this photo series, he says, ‘In Congo-Brazzaville, SAPE is an old passion that has never stopped, not even during war years. At the arrival of the French in Congo, the myth of elegance was born among young people working for the settlers. In 1922, Andre Grenard Matsoua, well-known for his resistance to the settlers, was the first Congolese to come back from Paris dressed like a true French “Monsieur”, and greatly admired by all his fellow citizens. Today’s members of the SAPE consider themselves as artists and are respected and admired by the whole community’.

Leila Berney was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and currently lives in Sydney, where she has just graduated high school. She uses Canon EOS 400D and does not yet have Photoshop, but she does have creativity, great ideas and concepts to unleash, and a passion for photography.

Brad Moore’s photographs present the Magritte-like surrealism and repetition of post-war, suburban Californian architecture. Neither sentimental nor critical, Moore’s images are frightening and lonely in their emptiness, but beautiful and lyrical in their symmetrical compositions.

Between 1986 and 1990, photographer David Hlynsky documented shop windows and restaurants across communist Europe, documenting an awkward relationship people in those countries had with capitalism. He intentionally avoided photographing people and dramatic moments, attempting to draw out the differences between East and West via the ways in which the storefronts were decorated and arranged.

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Of his photo series — Tales From The island — New York photographer Jiri Makovec says: ‘Within the city’s rigid grid, moments of mystery and terror unveil, and are captured as a series of encounters and events. Whether the viewer is facing truth or fiction, this body of work shows the photographers’ relationship to the city’.

Young Colombian artist and photographer Daniel Santiago Salguero creates images from simple digital photographs to personal diaries which drive a world of imagination, colors and unique perspectives.

The Armed America website compiles portraits of the owners of weapons in America. Photographer and writer Kyle Cassidy traveled more than 12,000 miles for more than two years taking pictures of armed Americans in their houses, all the while looking for the answer to the complex question: ‘Why do you own a gun?’ Cassidy’s work has become an item of incalculable value, not only because of its conceptual strength, but also because of the description of the way of living, feeling and thinking of many inhabitants of America.

Joshua Hoffine goes through all the work of creating make-up, special-effects, and sets that horror movie creators go through, but for single photographic images rather than entire films.

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More than a decade after the JonBenet Ramsey case broke, people are still entering their daughters into child beauty pageants. Susan Anderson’s creepy photographs document the subjects (victims?) of this bizarre cultural phenomenon.

There’s an interesting interview up on the Lomography website with Feature Shoot founder, and photographer in her own right, Alison Zavos — a contributor to Lost At E Minor — discussing, among other things, her experience shooting with a Diana F+ camera.

Philippine born, Chicago resident, Miriam Fanger is addicted to coffee, and capturing moments that don’t exist with the reality of passing time. The subtle intensity she has, along with a tenacity for shooting, makes her work powerful and moving. Her photos seem to catch all people at a passing instant of vulnerability, and the posture and eyes of her subjects radiate with a chemistry that I rarely see in portraiture.

Of his series, Black Sea Of Concrete, Polish photographer, Rafal Milach says: ‘Eight photographers from Sputnik Photos collective were asked to cover contemporary Ukraine. Some got particular assignments, but I was free to choose the topic. As I knew I would be working in winter, I decided to go to the Black Sea. I wanted to have raw landscapes and real people. It was the only time of the year when I was able to avoid the tourist facade. The other reason why I picked the Black Sea coast was the fact that, for many years, it was a place where the entire Soviet Union went for summer holidays. Since the Orange Revolution in 2004, Ukraine has been an independent country, but still, very often, people are not able to detach it from its Soviet past. You can feel that strange mixture by the Black Sea coast’.

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Working out of the Netherlands, Margriet Smulders’ Endless Garlands of Flowers series features ‘huge mirrors, elaborate glass vases, rich draperies, fruit and cut blooms’. Of these photo-paintings, she says: ‘I love this sensual state. To lose myself, to deliver myself as in a love affair. Reality doesn’t matter. When making photos, I get lost in the scenes, as if the flowers were caressing me in the gulfs of the sea’.

German photographer and video artist Mirko Martin has some great photos of car crashes, arrests, and street scenes taken in LA. They are very much imbued with the character of the city, blurring the distinction between Hollywood and reality.

Despite their tranquility and sparseness, there is an epic struggle between nature, death, religion, and the human need for a sense of permanence in French-Canadian photographer Annie-Eve Dumontier’s images.