Mark Geistweite is a photographer from Bakersfield, California, who has been working with photography for over 25 years.  Initially, he used photography as a method of documenting his travels, and over time, it evolved into an artistic expression.   His work has been featured in a variety of publications, and he also produces prints of his work.

His landscape photographs are really beautiful works of art, so today, we have 67 gorgeous photographs from Mark.  Be sure to check out his whole gallery, located here: http://www.markgphotos.com/

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Hey again everyone, hope everything is well.  I’ve been pretty busy lately, so I apologize for the sporadic updates.  Another week has gone by in the blogosphere, so there were a lot of new posts to choose from for this week’s Best of the Web edition.

Case studies are becoming more and more popular as a method of learning, where designers can show off their thought process without giving away all their secrets, so we have included some here today.  As always, there’s some photography inspiration, and some web design inspiration.  And of course, some awesome roundups of tutorials to keep you motivated and learning.  Be sure to check out all the posts I’ve included below, they’re all pretty awesome.

Hope you have a great start to your week, and stay inspired.  See you tomorrow!

The Making of Constant Slip

50 Stunning Video Game Concept Art

30 Unique and Artistic Web Designs

43 Mindbending Mudbox Tutorials

3D Portraits that Make You Say Wow

Showcase of Popular TV Show Website Designs

Really Neat Illustrations by Grzegorz Domaradzki

Super Funny Illustrations by Fatheed

25 Astonishing Photographs of Rainbows

Jesse van Dijk is a 32 year old concept artist from Amsterdam, Netherlands.  He works for Guerilla Games as a senior concept artist, and also contributes frequently to artist magazines such as ImagineFX, 2D Artist Magazine, and 3D Total Magazine.  He demonstrates an ability to work in both fantasy and science fiction environments, along with depicting natural environments.  He is an incredibly talented concept artist, and his work is astonishingly beautiful.

Today, we have 33 spectacular concept artworks by Jesse, which showcase his beautiful portfolio.  If you like his work, be sure to check out his full portfolio, located here: http://www.jessevandijk.net/

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Welcome back everyone, hope you had a good Halloween if you celebrated it, if not, hope you had a great weekend anyways.  In keeping with the season of spookiness, there were a lot of Halloween roundups last week, so we’ve got a few related posts included in this edition of Best of the Web.

Aside from the Halloween posts, there was a great post by SixRevisions showcasing some jQuery techniques, as well as a web design tutorial by @abduzeedo using Pixelmator.  And as always, there are some great inspirational and showcase posts for your viewing pleasure.

Check back later this week as we’ll have some more awesome artist features!

Thanks, have a great day all!

Stunning Pictures of Jellyfishes

How to Create a Basic House Icon in Photoshop

30 Jaw Dropping 3D Character Creations

40 Most Useful Wordpress Plugins

55 Amazing Halloween Wallpapers to Charm Up Your Desktop

The Most Freakiest Digital Art Collection for Halloween Season

Web Design in Pixelmator

10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery

Frank Dpunkt is famous photographer with a great photography portfolio, and he also is a skilled photomanipulator as well. In this collection, we’ll show off his amazing skills in listed photographs, which present some great ideas about photography, along with some learning tips.

Frank Dpunkt says on his Flickr profile “Why do I photograph? Because I want to see, how things look, if they were photographed and ” The sense of a camera is not to produce smooth and unverrauschte pixel quantities with best sharpness in the edges but pictures! And those define themselves first from contents and the formative idea. It is not to be despised however, if technical execution contents becomes fair. Therefore it is important to know and control the rules relating to crafts. Only who controls the rules, can also break them.”

Hope you like these listed portfolio and leave your comments for more inspiration.

This post was written by Kashif Mughal, the owner of http://dzinepress.com, http://tutoriallounge.com/, and http://smashingbuzz.com/

Christopher Haines is a graphic designer from Perth, Australia, who has a long held passion for all things art and design.  His primary styles of digital art range from typography, photomanipulation, to 3D matte painting and surreal landscapes.  He works at a local design studio, and does freelance on the side, as well as submitting to the depthCORE collective.

His work is astounding, and he is a master of his tools in every way.  In this post, it’s an honor to feature some of Chris’ work.  If you want to see his full gallery, you can check out his personal site, NeonDreams or you can find him on Behance: http://www.behance.net/neondistractions

I’m sure you’ll like his work, so please vote for this post on your favorite social network, so that everyone can see his amazing work.

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Stjepan Sejic, also known as nebezial, is a digital painter and illustrator from Crikvenica, Croatia.  He works extensively in the field of illustration and his preferred tools are Photoshop, zBrush and 3DSMax.  Many of his works focus on comic book covers and illustrations, which you can see in his galleries, located on CGSociety here: http://nebezial.cgsociety.org/ and on deviantART here: http://nebezial.deviantart.com/

Today, we have 38 extraordinary digital illustrations from nebezial, which showcase his awesome gallery.  Each image is breathtaking, capturing the concept perfectly and executed using flawless techniques.

I hope you like his work, and be sure to view all of them, because there’s a really awesome Spider-Man illustration that you won’t see unless you scroll all the way to the bottom.

If you do like his work, please Digg or Stumble this post!  Thanks, and enjoy!