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This time around the weekly photography challenge is a little bit different than our usual topics. This one is pretty wide opened because I want you to get out there and get crazy creative!
By Holger Ejleby
If that is you – get out of there and try something different! Outside the box creativity is this week’s challenge.
Earlier today I shared some images I found for you to stir up some ideas – take a look at those if you haven’t already done so.
Need ideas? Try these articles to get you started:
Need more inspiration? Here are a few outside the box ideas and images:
By Alexey Kljatov
By Bernat Casero
By Spreng Ben
By Toby Keller
By sharyn morrow
By Matthias Weinberger
By Alice Popkorn
By Tim Hamilton
By Tc Morgan
So it could be a new shooting technique, post-processing magic, or a subject you’ve been meaning to try. Whatever it is that gets you thinking a bit, and results in a different finished product – do it!
Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Okay, ready to impress us?
The post Weekly Photography Challenge Outside the Box Creativity by Darlene Hildebrandt appeared first on Digital Photography School.
From over 10,000 entries, the shortlist selection has been revealed for the 2014 Atkins Ciwem environmental photographer of the year competition. In its seventh year, the competition sponsored by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (Ciwem) encourages entrants from around the globe to showcase work that ‘will inspire people around the world to start taking care of our environment’. See gallery
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
We’ve come to the end of another week here at dpreview, and as our thoughts drift to weekend shooting opportunities, it’s time to take things a little less seriously. Aaron Johnson’s comic strip ‘What the Duck’ is just the thing, taking a gently satirical look through the lens of a photographically inclined waterfowl. You can find it published here (and in our newsletter) every week; we hope you enjoy it, and your weekend.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
[ By Steph in Destinations & Sights & Travel. ]

Deep in a former Welsh slate quarry mining cavern twice the size of St. Paul’s Cathedral, children and adults alike gleefully jump up and down on a system of netting suspended from the walls. Bounce Below, the world’s largest underground trampoline, will open to the public July 3rd in the mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Operated by Zip World, the new tourist attraction features three massive trampolines that ascend from twenty feet to 180 feet above the bottom of the cavern, with ten-foot net walls preventing anyone from falling over the edge. Customers get dressed in cotton overalls and put on helmets, then board a train that travels deep into the mountain.


They disembark to the sight of the trampolines within the colorfully lit space. Each trampoline is linked by a slide for descending and a net walkway for getting back up. The largest slide is 60 feet long. A spiral staircase leads to the other side of the railway line.

Workers prepared the space by carrying about 500 tons of rubble out of the cavern, the task illuminated with portable lamps. The mining of slate in Wales dates back to Roman times and the industry peaked in 1898 with 17,000 employees, but by the end of World War II, the introduction of new roofing materials led to many of the mines closing.



[ By Steph in Destinations & Sights & Travel. ]
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After filing one last month, Apple has applied for another camera-related patent. The document an artificial muscle structure being used to replace traditional motors to control focus and aperture in a camera module. The design is interesting because it can carry relatively large and heavy optics and consumes very little power. Read more
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
This week’s theme seems to be all about sparking up the fires of creativity. A few articles this week have touched on this theme including:
So I dug around 500px and Flickr for some super creative and inspiring images to spur you into action. Enjoy!

A Splash of Rose by Anthony Chang on 500px


Frankenstein by Escalonilla PixeL a PixeL PasO a PasO on 500px


Swing Me by Steven Butler on 500px


Evolución Noctámbula by Juan González on 500px


Customized Exhibition Uniform by Ben Heine on 500px


OK, I’m not seeing you!! by Christopher Riestajuana on 500px


Daisy by Kunal Prasad on 500px


Flurry II. by Christopher Chung on 500px


The Spin by Bipphy Kath on 500px
Please practice full precautions and safety measures if you plan on attempting fire spinning. I have done it and can tell you the steel wool molten, burning bits fly a long way! Read up on this technique before you go to it or risk setting something on fire or burning yourself. This is real molten (melted) steel, do not mess around it is dangerous.


Feelin Blue by Alistair Campbell on 500px


Wishmaster by Renee Robyn on 500px


Beginning of the End by Renee Robyn on 500px
Editor’s note: Renee is a personal friend of mine, in fact she took my own headshot! Her work is amazing. Most of them are composites of several images, and hours spent in Photoshop. The one above “Wishmaster” is a self-portrait. I couldn’t do a collection on creative images without including some of her work. I don’t have it in me to create this kind of photography, but it sure is fun to admire.


Fly by Tina Terras & Michael Walter on 500px


afterglow by Beauty on 500px


Ground Perspective II by Vadim Za on 500px
By Victor1558
By Andrea
By ?ethan
By Tc Morgan
By Julian Evil
By Victor1558
By Adrien Sifre
By Zach Stern
By Kenny Louie
By Bjørn Giesenbauer
By greg westfall
The post A Set of Imaginative Images to Spark Your Creativity by Darlene Hildebrandt appeared first on Digital Photography School.
Edgar Martins is drawn to documenting off-limits places. This was part of the appeal for him in a project titled ‘The Time Machine,’ in which he gained access to hydro-electric power plants in Portugal, the country where he was born. Built between 1950 and ’70, these facilities were designed to accommodate dozens, even hundreds of employees working side-by-side with state-of-the-art technology. They’re now operated with only a handful of personnel and are largely disused. He answered a few questions for us about the project. See gallery
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
Khalik Allah. Dieser Name steht für Portraits mit Offenblende. Erst einmal nichts Besonderes, oder? Doch. Denn Khalik hat einen unverwechselbaren Stil, der sich locker von Hunderten anderen Fotografen, die technisch eigentlich dasselbe machen, deutlich unterscheidet. Und somit ein eigentlich ausgelutsches Thema neu belebt.
Khalik fotografiert in New York City. Und zwar ausschließlich nachts. Er portraitiert jedoch nicht jeden, der ihm vor die Kamera läuft, sondern ärmere Leute in Harlem, Lexington und der 125sten. Die Dunkelheit – oder das Nicht-Vorhandensein des Lichtes – definiert dabei die Menschen nur fein akzentuiert.
Aus dem Bildern geht hervor, dass Khalik die Blende öffnet, weil es notwendig ist. Nicht, weil er es kann, sondern weil er muss. Die Schwärze der Nacht zwingt ihn, mit spärlichsten Mitteln zu arbeiten und genau dieser Engpass führt zu sehr unkonventionellen Ergebnissen, die nicht nur technische Ursachen haben, sondern letztendlich auch seinem feinen Gespür für den entscheidenden Moment geschuldet sind.















Motiviert ist Khalik durch seinen Glauben an Gott. So erklärt er unter anderem, dass er der Aufforderung Gottes folgt, Gott, seinen Nächsten und sich zu lieben. Fotografie sei der Ausdruck dessen, dass er in jedem Menschen das Schöne sehe.
All das hat eine Freundlichkeit und Offenheit zur Folge, mit der Khalik Allah (!) Menschen begegnet. Vielleicht ist das auch der Grund dafür, warum seine Portraits so ehrlich, ungestellt und tief wirken.
Auf seinem Tumblr-Blog reagiert er auf die Frage* nach einem Tipp wie folgt:
Ich würde sagen: Fotografiere analog. Lerne Deine Kamera kennen. Entwickle Deinen eigenen Stil. Studiere die Werke anderer. Und vergleiche Dich nicht mit anderen.
* Wer Khalik eine Weile auf Tumblr folgt, wird irgendwann merken, dass er jede Frage, die ihm dort gestellt wird, beantwortet. Auch das ist Ausdruck seiner Persönlichkeit.
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