Fleeting Moments By Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck

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A fashion photographer and a professional animator came together to create these beautiful little animations based off of real life photos. On a first glance you might think that these are simply gifs, which use a sequence of stills extracted from video. However, the technique these guys used involves isolating a small part of a photo sequence and making it seems animated while everything else stands still. The technique is relatively new and has been dubbed as a, "Cinemagraph." Check out 11 more of these moments frozen in time after the break!