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26 November, 2014 – Luminous-Endowment Grant Winners Announced and More
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For our US readers, Happy Thanksgiving. We wish you a great Holiday and we hope you enjoy a lot of turkey and time with your family as well as some good ole US football.
So much is happening at LuLa these days. We’re busy working on a lot of projects and on new interesting articles and reviews as well as videos. Today though we want to share some special news.
As you hopefully are aware Michael Reichmann the founder of Luminous-Landscape started earlier this year the Luminous-Endowment. This is a program to help fund photographers that are working on special photographic endeavors. Today we announce the winners of the first round of grants. We are proud to announce that we have awarded $ 20,000 USD in grants this past week.
Luminous-Endowment Grant Winners
The amount of grant requests were incredible and we hope to see many more in our next round of grant requests. This program would not be possible without donations from our readers as well as some very generous private and corporate donors. Please take a look at our site and consider how you can be part of helping aspiring photographers make their dream projects come true.
A Special Opportunity For Giving And Receiving
We are also announcing a Special Opportunity For Giving and Receiving starting today and running to Christmas Day. To help raise money for the Endowment, to be used to finance future grants, The Luminous Endowment has created a special new and lower donation level of $ 200. The reward that you will receive for this tax-deductible donation is a copy of Michael Reichmann’s new book – A Twenty Year Retrospective. Normally this book requires a $ 350 donation to be received as a reward for your donation. This will be the price again after December, 25th. Please consider donating and helping the Luminous-Endowment.
Michael’s beautiful book would make a great Holiday gift for the photographer in your life or maybe you want to hint to someone special that you would like this as a gift. To learn more on how to Give and Receive – click here.
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25 November, 2014 – Yellowstone In The Winter
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In the last week just about all parts of North America received a very early preview of winter. In Buffalo they received nearly 6 feet of snow. And that is before Thanksgiving. So, in honor of a cold winter ahead we present Nigel Turner’s article on Yellowstone In The Winter. Nigel who shared an article Symphony In Stone takes us deep into Yellowstone during the coldest part of winter. Enjoy some beautiful photography and remember just because it is cold out doesn’t mean your cameras need to gather dust sitting on the shelf.
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23 November, 2014 – Antarctica 2015 Trip Winner Announced
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Nov
Earlier this year Luminous-Landscape announced a special promo for our video subscription services. The offer was that if you purchased an annual subscription to our videos we would enter your name for a chance to win an all expense paid trip to our 2015 Antarctica Workshop Trip. We are happy to today to announce the winner of this trip, Michele Sons from Roanoke, Virginia USA.
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24 November, 2014 – Samsung NX-1 First Impressions
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Nov
It’s been an exciting week at LuLa. All the cool new products that were announced at Photokina are finally shipping and arriving at our doorstep for testing and reviews. Every Photokina has its surprises and this Photokina the buzz was all about the Samsung NX-1. The specs of the NX-1 were certainly impressive. Of course we were skeptics as the camera was made by Samsung, a relatively new player in the camera field. So, does the NX-1 live up to its specs? Read Michael Reichmann’s Samsung NX-1 First Impressions article to see.
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19 November, 2014 – Photographers Block
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Nov
I’m sure you have experienced what is commonly called writers block. A time where you just can’t seem to get something on paper the way you want. The same thing happens to photographers too. It’s when you reach a point of not being able to creatively create an image the way you want. It can be frustrating to say the least. Today, Alain Briot dives into Photographers Block and how to get out of it. His article Photographers Block will help you find ways out of the doldrum and back to your groove.
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15 November, 2014 – My Astrophotography Adventure
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Nov
Lately, as many readers know, Michael Reichmann has ventured into a new area and interest for himself and that is astronomy and mixing it up with photography. Astrophotography is the term we’ll use and as usual when Michael dives into something he dives into the deep end head first. Today’s article is a look into his journey in Astro Photography – My Astrophotography Adventure.
Don’t forget we still have a small number of berths available for the Antarctica Trips due to a few cancellations. It’s still not too late to join us on Antarctica 2015. Also we have only a few spots left on our Iceland workshop in June. If you want to explore Iceland differently than other workshops then check out this Iceland 2015 Workshop .
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Europe’s Landscape Photography Event of the Year – Streamed Live
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Nov
Image By Joe Cornish
onLandscape magazine’s landscape photography conference takes place amongst some of Britain’s most dramatic countryside in the English Lake District on 22nd and 23rd November 2014.
Billed as Europe’s biggest landscape photography event of the year it brings together some of the continent’s best known and loved photographers and the entire weekend is to be beamed out live via satellite and streamed around the world by StreamScape.
Luminous-Landscape is happy to announce that our readers can stream the video from the conference or download segments all for a special price. (see below)
Speakers
The Swedish photographer Hans Strand tops the bill talking about the opportunity and inspiration Iceland has given him in his photography. Rafael Rojas the Spanish photographer, now living in Switzerland, who runs whytake.net, a massively popular photographic website, will be looking at which ingredients are needed to produce fine art landscape photographs.
While Britain’s best loved landscape photographer Joe Cornish pushes photographers to think at a higher level about their photographs, discusses some lesser known works and provides some thought provoking concepts for landscape photographers to take on-board.
Other speakers include the critically acclaimed Jem Southam whose work has been displayed in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Alan Hinks OBE, the only British photographer to climb all 14 of the world’s mountains over 8,000 meters.
The list goes on with David Ward, Paul Gallagher, David Clapp and Paul Wakefield all offering inspiration and insight any landscape photographer would love to hear.
Streamed Live
The streamed event will give internet viewers the opportunity to question the speakers in special internet only “Green Room” interviews after each of their presentations. Particular need to viewers who are in different time zones has also been taken into account with special DVR functions allowing viewers to tune in at any time and rewind to the start of the day.
For those who are unable to watch over weekend all the videos will be available to watch on-line or download for at least 1 year after the event.
The cost of the streaming weekend pass with the Luminous-Landscape discount code is £12.95 – just over US$ 20 and offers amazing value. Tickets to actually attend the event are still available at £225 (US$ 375).
The Luminous-Landscape discount code is LL35 and active till the end of the conference.
To book your weekend pass and for more information visit streamscape.uk
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2 November, 2014 – Five Brief Audio Interviews from PhotoPlus
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Nov
The PhotoPlus 2014 show in New York in late October saw a few new products being announced, for the first time in North America at least. I had been at Photokina in Germany the month before, and frankly, with only a few exceptions, found the industry to be a bit in the doldrums, as well as in a transition state. PhotoPlus, because it is a consumer show, was much more lively and the crowds seemed to looking at everything with enthusiasm.
Because I was at the show for only one day, I was traveling light, and so instead of the more extensive video interviews which Kevin and I did at Photokina in September, I did mostly audio interviews at PhotoPlus. I also focused my attention on some of the smaller companies exhibiting for the first time, but also with Epson who is just now announcing the SureColor P600 photo printer in North America, though it was shown at Photokina earlier.
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1 November, 2014 – Luminous Endowment Grant Applications
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Nov
As a visitor to this site you are one of over a million people each month who visit here from all over the globe. We share a common passion for photography.
But you may not know that a few months ago Michael Reichmann created a new not-for-profit called The Luminous Endowment for Photographers. The Endowment’s purpose is to fund photographic projects worldwide. Projects by photographers like you.
Our first grant period has just come to a close. Here are links to the applications received; a total of one hundred and thirty two for five different grants. There are some very exciting projects seeking funding, and you may enjoy reading about them.
80 Luminous Landscape Grant applications
41 M. Reichmann Grant applications
5 Mylo Grant applications
4 Lenswork Grant applications
2 N. Kitto Grant Applications
The number of applications is very satisfying. I wish that we had more grants and more money to give, But I must say that I am disappointed in the donor support receive thus far. The Luminous Endowment for Photographers will only thrive if it is support by photographers like you.
Please consider making a donation and receiving a beautiful 400 page book by Michael Reichmann as your reward for giving. These books will make fantastic Christmas presents!!
The winners of these grants will be announced before the end of November, and a new grant period will commence on December 1.
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