Appuru Pai has taken some fantastic long exposure photos of the Yurikamome transit line that travels between the Japanese cities of Shimbashi and Toyosu. I love the dynamic lines created by the train's movement and the variety of colors you would never notice when just riding a train. You can check out some other photos from Pai on his Flickr.

This is a cool project by photographer Michael Wesley entitled Open Shutter Projekt was created from exposures over a three year period from 2001-2004. It shows the changes that have taken place in New York and Berlin over that time.

From National Geographic's space photos.

Here's the caption: "The plane of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, seems to cascade over sandstone hills in a long-exposure nighttime shot taken earlier this month in Algeria's Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, in the heart of the Sahara. The bright "star" at left is the gas giant planet Jupiter. A UN World Heritage site, Tassili n'Ajjer is famous for its caves filled with thousands of drawings and engravings that date as far back as 6000 B.C. Photographer Babak Tafreshi writes on The World At Night (TWAN) astrophotography website that "prehistoric skygazers surely witnessed a similar sky." (See a similar picture of the southern sky over Brazil's Iguaçu Falls.)"

This is just one of the amazing shots in the Splashes series by Alexandra Zaharova and Ilya Plotnikov. How you can create a shot like this is beyond me.

A great photo from Hougaard Malan of a fence in Strand, South Africa. Here's a quote from Malan, "My Favourite fence from Strand, South Africa, once again.....a lot of people have got more than one deviation in their galleries of the exact same location,with the exact same composition, just different weather.and i hate that so i try to avoid that....this is a 7 minute exposure." Check out more of his work at his website.