Visual Supply Co., the makers of the popular VSCO Cam smartphone app, has announced the VSCO Artist Initiative which is a $ 100,000 (~£60,082/~€71,757) scholarship fund ‘providing artists the resources to pursue their creative vision.’ If you could do with a few extra dollars to fund your art and think you’ve got what it takes, you can apply on the VSCO website. Learn more
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One of the best science museums in the world and a local favorite of mine here in San Francisco, the California Academy of Science is in the final stretch of their Natural World Photography Competition. Winners have their photographs exhibited at the museum and are eligible to win a grand prize of $ 5000. Categories include “Land Mammals”, “Birds”, “Insects, Reptiles, Marine Mammals, Fish and Amphibians”, “Waterscapes, Landscapes and Plant Life” and “Conservation Imagery”. I should also note that the terms of the competition are photographer friendly.
If you want to enter do so by the deadline of March 31st, 2014. Don’t miss it.
Enter the Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition
Also…
The contest is sponsored by the late Calumet, but from my conversation with the organizers there is no impact to prizes.
Have fun and good luck with your entries!
Copyright Jim M. Goldstein, All Rights Reserved
Don’t Miss The Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition
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Ein Beitrag von: Ella Ruth Cowperthwaite
Natürliches Licht, satte Farben und vor allem Märchen sind Teil meiner Bilder. Ich versuche, meine Bilder verträumt, aber auch etwas dunkel zu halten. Sie sollen eine Geschichte erzählen, die man gern ansieht, aber auch Mehrdeutigkeit beinhalten, damit sich der Betrachter die Geschichte nach seinem Empfinden zu Ende denken kann.
Als Kind war ich in der Lage, mich komplett in einem Bild zu verlieren. Ich konnte hineintauchen in diese Bilderwelt und darin leben, Dinge erleben. Besonders Rapunzel hatte mich in den Bann gezogen, vor allem die Illustrationen dazu in meinen Märchenbüchern. Ich denke, dies ist in meine Bilder eingesickert und ich bemerke, wie ich selbst immer stärker darum bemüht bin, die kindliche Vorstellungswelt in meiner eigenen Arbeit zu reflektieren.
Ich liebe es, Menschen zu fotografieren, sie sich schön fühlen zu lassen und ich habe viel Spaß dabei, zusammen mit meinen Teams Charaktere zu entwerfen. Nichts ist besser, als durch die Wälder und Hügel zu laufen und im Regen Kronen tragend Fotos zu machen!
Manchmal bin ich dabei nur allein mit einem Modell, manchmal aber auch mit einem großen Team von bis zu 12 Personen. Es hängt stark von der Komplexität des Shootings ab.
Schönheit (die visuelle Form davon) bedeutet für mich, von etwas gefesselt zu sein. Wie wir etwas ansehen und ob wir es wirklich, wirklich sehen. Ich glaube nicht, dass es darauf ankommt, ob diese Schönheit durch Farben, Ausdrücke oder unser fotografisches Können kommt. Es gibt mehr Schönheit im Unperfekten als in der Perfektion und für mich ist es die Kombination von allem, die ein Bild als Ganzes schön macht.
Im Hinblick auf die jugendliche Schönheit vieler meiner Modelle, die ich fotografiert habe, würde ich sagen, es hat sich ziemlich genau auf diese Weise entfaltet. Meine Bilder sind voll von märchenhaften Elementen und Nostalgie – sie appellieren an ein junges Publikum und damit erreiche ich vor allem junge Menschen, die wiederum fotografiert werden möchten. Beim Casting für ein Shooting geht es mir jedoch weniger um Alter und Schönheit, sondern viel mehr um Charakter.
Dieser Artikel wurde von Katja Kemnitz für Euch aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche übersetzt.
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I wanna take a minute just sittin right here to tell all of you about the super-fine contest that we have going on at the moment in partnership with ViewBug.com. It’s called the “Puddle Reflections Photo Contest,” and anyone can enter. This means YOU. That’s right…you sitting there…reading this right now. You. It’s unbelievably easy and highly enjoyable. It takes Continue Reading
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With the increase in popularity of the smaller, more portable Mirrorless Four Thirds cameras I’m curious to see where you stand on this discussion. Personally I’m ready to jump on and get myself an Olympus OM-D EM-5, only thing holding me back as of now is justifying the cost of having a second camera.
I’m in the “I’m not ditching my full sized DSLR just yet” camp as I still use it for teaching and doing portraits. However the more travelling and photography tours I do, the more appealing the Olympus becomes. One of the guys on my Cuba tour had one and it took great images, and video as well! I was really impressed.
We could have this debate all day but some of the pros and cons generally tossed about include:
small and lightweight (that’s a given)Are your feet firmly planted one side of the fence or the other? Or are you still on the fence, as yet undecided like our little friends here?
By KENNETH BARKER
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Is this where the future is taking us? Are full frame cameras obsolete? Who knows – but maybe I’ll see you over there!
By Stefan Tan
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Buildings are forever in tension, being static objects in a dynamic world – light conditions in particular shift predictably yet variably throughout the day, week, season and year, in turn demanding an adaptive response.
Thus the Penumbra system by Tyler Short, “designed to offer a kinetic and mechanical solution to a problem that would otherwise be nearly impossible to solve with static architectural components: providing shading across a building facade for both low evening sun and high afternoon sun conditions.”
The constituent parts can shift side to side while in their vertical orientation, then turn on a proverbial dime to form a horizontal shading solution, all creating a way to deflect (and let in) light while maintaining control over views.
More from the designer: “Our solution was a series of vertical shading louvers, that can independently pivot to maximize solar protection, and when the sun reaches an altitude in which vertical louvers would be ineffective, completely rotate upwards to act as a horizontal shading element and light shelf. All of the mechanical components and gear ratios were fully resolved, and the result is a hand or computer-operated system that creates a beautiful undulating form across the facade.”
Bio-reactors and micro-algae sound like the stuff of science fiction, but this is the real deal: biomass built into panel glass on an actual working structure.
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On an unusual kind of cross-country road trip, this couple visited garage sales, antique dealers and added these to other roadside finds, all toward the quest …
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So many recycled projects out there, but few can boast they live in a boat, or a plane, or a church, for that matter – here are a few that do.
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Taxis have a checkered history and few mourn when one or more of the used, abused and disused private transit vehicles reaches the end of the meter.
(image via: Aqualite)
The historic “London Black Cab” isn’t and wasn’t always painted black, a few of the iconic Austin FX4 taxis sported other shades including the more-familiar (to North Americans, at least) bright yellow. The late model taxi above was visually captured by Flickr user Aqualite in late 1997 using a cheap disposable camera that imbues the sorry scene with an extra degree of decrepit-ness. A little WD-40 and that’ll buff right out though.
(images via: Valid Mesic and Financial Times)
Taxis may be economical conveyances but their numbers are governed by the laws of economics: the more demand there is for taxicabs, the more will enter the market… and vice versa. Even Chongqing, China’s shiny fleet of yellow, natural gas-powered cabs isn’t immune to the negative implications of positive economic growth.
(image via: BBC News)
The scene of post-apocalyptic taxicab desolation above dates from March 4th, 2009, and features some of the hundreds of abandoned taxis dumped in a field (though doubtless more than a few are in decent running condition). As China’s working classes become more wealthy and upwardly mobile, they’re showing their new status by buying cars of their own. Good for Chinese automakers; not so much for China’s taxicabs and their drivers.
(images via: SG Forums)
Taxis in Hong Kong are color-coded with red being most expensive, green less so, and blue the lowest-priced. The LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) powered 2002 Nissan Cedric cab above, recently abandoned for unknown reasons, looks little the worse for wear… the meter inside might still be running.
(image via: Babacar)
In Dakar, Senegal, the streets’ soft shoulders really are soft. They also make great places to abandon a taxi though by the looks of it, the African city’s Fadia neighborhood looks more than a little abandoned itself. Salutations and stuff to Panoramio user Babacar for venturing out into Fadia’s mean streets to snap this dusty castoff cab.
(images via: Guernica)
When is an abandoned taxi still useful? When it’s inhabited by the world’s most desperate denizens, for example. Photographer Nyani Quarmyne discovered one such lost soul, Mohammed, who lives in an abandoned taxi parked behind his mother’s house in Kueyor, eastern Sierra Leone. Canadian writer Catherine Cooper documents the lives of some of Sierra Leone’s mentally ill citizens, fighting to survive in a war-torn land woefully lacking in the resources required to treat them. As miserable as Mohammed’s existence may seem at first glance, he’s still better off living independently in an abandoned cab compared to others unable to exploit that “luxury”.
Where do obsolete trains go when they die? Many end up in railroad graveyards where these former station-stopping locomotives stay stopped and stationary.
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An abandoned car left to rust by the curb in São Paulo, Brazil became a ‘yellow submarine’ art installation for World Car Free Day, turning an …
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In some cases disaster strikes. In others, changing technologies render old designs obsolete, leaving majestic airplanes and giant steamers to rust and gather …
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