@ZachDriftwood’s #Petheadz

Some say pets look like their owners, but one Canadian photographer has taken it to a new and creative extreme. In his series, #petheadz, Zachary Rose (@zachdriftwood) takes DSLR portraits of people’s pets and mashes them up with portraits of their owners by cleverly holding the camera in the foreground.

The series started as an exercise in creativity with his two roommates but quickly caught on. To date, Zach has taken 18 #petheadz portraits of people all over Toronto. (His mom even posed for a photo with her German shepherd.) The project is still on-going with a lengthy wait-list, and Zach is excited to continue meeting people—and pets—around the city as he keeps shooting.

Happy 80th Birthday to Artist Dan Flavin (1933-1996)

For more of Dan Flavin’s works, check out the #DanFlavin hashtag.

Today marks what would have been American minimalist artist Dan Flavin’s 80th birthday. Flavin was a New-York-born artist who used florescent lights to explore how light and color interact with space. His works are still on display in museums and galleries throughout the world, where they’ve become a favorite for Instagrammers due to their bright colors and interesting shadows.

Hashtag Highlight: #followmeto with @muradosmann and @yourleo

Russian photographer Murad Osmann (@muradosmann) and his girlfriend Nataly Zakharova (@yourleo) travel constantly for work and they’ve come up with a unique and romantic perspective for sharing their experiences around the globe on Instagram that has caught the attention of publications like the Daily Mail and the Huffington Post. The entire project actually started as an accident: “I was taking pictures of everything and Nataly got annoyed, so she dragged me forward to move on. That’s how the first #followmeto was taken, and I quite liked the result so we have continued the series ever since.” Murad started using the hashtag #followmeto to catalog photos of Nataly leading him to landmarks and exotic places.

Be sure to follow Murad (@muradosmann) and Nataly (@yourleo) on Instagram for more of their around-the-world photos and a behind-the-scenes look at how to take them yourself!

Hashtag Highlight: #LosMurosHablan

Want to see more murals? Browse the #LosMurosHablan tag page.

Los Muros Hablan, or The Walls Speak, is the first international street art festival in Puerto Rico. During the festival, twelve of the world’s top street artists painted massive murals on different walls in the city of San Juan. Instagrammers in San Juan have been snapping photos of the murals over the past month, and so far more than 2,400 photos have been shared with the tag #LosMurosHablan!

Hashtag Highlight: #TrumpetTravels with @followalter and @utopist

With a simple, plastic trumpet, two Dutchies on a pilgrimage to the United States added humor and character to their travel photography.

Emiel Sondag (@utopist) surprised his friend Tom Walter (@followalter) in New York City with the trumpet, a gift Tom had received while in the Netherlands but accidentally left behind in his home country. Emiel explains the idea of making odd pictures at various locations just came naturally after that:

Our trumpet really gave us an incentive to get out there. We went to see things solely to take pictures with the trumpet. Vacation pictures can be pretty boring, and having a fun element, really added a bit extra to our photos. All the cheesy descriptions, stupid jokes and compositions inspired us to be creative.

Want to see all of the shots from Tom (@followalter) and Emiel (@utopist)’s trip? Be sure to visit the #trumpettravels hashtag and browse their photo maps!

Hashtag Highlight: Pumpkin Season

October, the month of the pumpkin, is in full swing. Instagrammers everywhere are capturing and sharing the full life cycle of Halloween’s favorite squash, starting with growing a #giantpumpkin, to visiting the #pumpkinpatch, to #pumpkincarving a perfect #jackolantern! Be sure to check out more photos under those hashtags and tag your own pumpkin photos.

Hashtag Highlight: @amoebahollywood’s Wax Museum

Instagrammer @elghosthost and some coworkers at Amoeba Music in Hollywood (@amoebahollywood) mix up their work day hunting for the perfect record-human mash ups to add to the tag #amoebawaxmuseum. They’re not the first Instagrammers to hold photos in front of continuous backgrounds, but they may be the first to do so from the record store employee perspective. As @elghosthost explains, the Amoebans “snap pics as the records present themselves throughout our work day, we never seek them out. Vinyl rules!”

Hashtag Highlight: #LookingAtArt

What’s better than looking at art? Instagramming people who are #lookingatart if you’re @johnbarnett! The iPhoneography enthusiast, and co-developer of Wood Camera, has shared a slew of photos from top museums with the hashtag.

Are you heading to a museum of gallery soon? If photography is permitted, be sure to tag your shots of art admirers with #lookingatart.