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Along These Roads – A Film Exploring the Realities of Being a Travel Photographer
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Are you a travel photographer or long to be one?

In this film by, Mitchell Kanashkevich, author of the dPS books, Transcending Travel, Natural Light, and Captivating Color, explores what life is like as a travel photographer.

Beautifully shot, with incredible imagery of some epic, and often isolated landscapes, Mitchell explores the inner struggle he has with the need to be on the road doing what he loves and his commitment to family life.

He also explores the effects that being alone in isolated places has on him mentally and his need to revisit the chaos of cities to escape the loneliness of those very isolated landscapes he is drawn to.

Watch this thought-provoking film by talented landscape photographer and filmmaker, Mitchell Kanashevich, and let him take you on a visual and emotional journey.

If you are interested in becoming a travel photographer, be sure to check out Mitchell’s dPS e-book, Transcending Travel.

Also, share your thoughts on the film, or your travel photography adventures in the comments below.

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November 30, 2019
Weekly Photography Challenge – Roads

The post Weekly Photography Challenge – Roads appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Caz Nowaczyk.

This week’s photography challenge topic is ROADS!

Roads by Caz Nowaczyk ©.

I’m currently road-tripping and have been seeing plenty of Roads on my journey. I love the open road – it always feels like an adventure awaits. So that is why this week’s challenge is roads!

You can capture roads in cities or countries. The roads can be bitumen, paved, cobble-stoned or dirt. They can be the main focus of your composition or a minor part of another story.

They can be color, or black and white. They can use leading lines, patterns, light trails – the choice is yours.

So, have fun, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Photo by Caz Nowaczyk ©

Old Montreal. Photo by Mark C. Hughes ©

Check out some of the articles below that give you tips on this week’s challenge.

Tips for Shooting ROADS

How to Achieve Cool Urban Cityscapes

How to Create Dynamic Photos of Car Light Trails

7 Tips for Urban Landscape Photography

6 Ways to Plan a Photography Road Trip

6 Tips to Master Panning Photography

28 Wondrous Images of Long and Winding Roads

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

If you tag your photos on Flickr, Instagram, Twitter or other sites – tag them as #DPSroads to help others find them. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.

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November 30, 2019
Electroads: Wireless Vehicle-Charging Roads Rolling Out in Tel Aviv

[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ]

A series of roads and public buses in Israel are being retrofitted to test an electromagnetic induction system designed to recharge vehicles on the go, eliminating the cost, time, emissions and waste associated with conventional fuel and refueling stops.

Electroad, an Israeli startup, boasts a relatively straightforward and fast-deploying system compared to competitors. Their copper and rubber chargers can be rolled out at a rate of a close to a half a mile per day into shallow trenches just a few inches deep. The ease of retrofitting is one of the striking advantages of the system — more involved variants can require ripping up substantial sections of pavement, taking longer and costing more to implement.

Their technology has already been tested in controlled settings (small sections of test track outside Electroad’s lab) but will now be demonstrated at scale under real-world conditions along public transit routes. Like other induction technologies, no connection is needed between the vehicle and the road — a radiation-shielded coil simply picks up energy from the lines below, tied into the grid at intervals along the way.

To deploy the system, an asphalt scraper digs a trench while a second vehicle unrolls the the rubber-and-plastic strips. Electric buses following the revamped route will be able to store a charge for any jumps off the invisible grid. That may not sound like much, but the reduced storage capacity means the bus can travel lighter, using less energy and requiring a cheaper battery. Ultimately, the cost and power saved upfront will help pay back for the system installation more rapidly.

Road Blocks: LEGO-Like Modular Roads & Paths Snap Into Place

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January 11, 2017
Weekly Photography Challenge – Roads

Paths and roadways make great photographic subjects. This is your chance to go find some and photograph them.

By Moyan Brenn

Weekly Photography Challenge – Roads

What draws you to a road to photograph it? Look deeper than just the road. Check out the scenery around the road, where does it lead, what’s in the distance? How can you photograph the road to make it interesting?

How about a low camera angle? Or a motorbike or car on the road? This week it’s your challenge to photograph roads.

By HD_Vision

By CONCAVO WHEELS

By Murat Livaneli

Share your images below:

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) 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. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images on the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

By Geoffrey Froment

By Billy Woodford

By Taylor Robinson

By Kevin Dooley

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August 6, 2016
21 Enjoyable Images of Long and Winding Roads

Using lines and in particular, leading lines, in photography is a popular method of composition to create more interesting and dynamic images.

Roads, pathways, and trails can give you a great opportunity to photograph such leading lines. Let’s look at these images of long and winding roads and see where they lead us:

By Thomas Hawk

By Carl Jones

By Ozzy Delaney

By joshuadelaughter

By Anthony Wright

By C.C. Chapman

By Dom Crossley

By Kylie_Jaxxon

By Terry Chapman

By Ed Suominen

By paul bica

By Del Brown

By cushmok

By Diana Robinson

By Geee Kay

By Jon Noel

By nrg_crisis

By David Menidrey

By Todd Martin

By UnShuttered Soul~ Good to be busy!

By Andrés Nieto Porras

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August 5, 2016
All Roads Really Lead to Rome: City-Centric Arterial Renderings

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

During the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, a German newspaper published step-by-step driving directions from Berlin to Baghdad, highlighting the interconnectivity of contiguous European and Middle Eastern land masses.

This series of maps from Moovel Lab highlights similar phenomena, starting with a map that shows the truth of an old aphorism about all roads leading to Rome. Ancient Romans created an estimated 50,000 miles of road across Europe, Asia and Africa, with their coastal Italian capital as the origin point.

Next, they moved on to 10 major cities in the United States, analyzing how regional traffic flowed into each, before going through a full analysis of fastest routes to state capitals. The results were surprisingly varied: “Remarkable are the different road networks throughout the States. While the east coast seems to rely on roads parallel to the coast. The rockies and appalachian mountains reveal their topography with their curvy roads containing some blank spots not reached by any road. While the mid west of the USA show long straight road networks in rectangular alignment.”

Their process is relatively intuitive. The mapmakers overlaid a grid on existing open-source maps, then added a query: how would one get from here to Rome (or other cities)? The results have been turned into maps that look almost like a study of the human vascular system, with small veins feeding larger arteries along the path to the hub point. “The outcome of this project is somewhere between information visualisation and data art, unveiling mobility and a very large scale. View and interactively explore all roads to rome and other cities.”

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January 6, 2016
Holloway Roads: Tunnels Eroded by Passage of People Over Time

[ By WebUrbanist in Culture & History & Travel. ]

Holloways (or: hollow ways) are desire paths gone wild, reflecting centuries or even millennia of informal, slowly transforming them from flat paths to sunken lanes and, in some cases, semi-subterranean tunnels worn right into the Earth.

Eroded by foot traffic, farm animals, laden carts and the passage of water, many of these remarkable half-tunnels are thought to date back to Roman times. Their development is often aided by the presence of softer ground materials like sandstone and chalk.

Over time, trees can be found on either side, reinforcing the impression of a completely-enclosed tunnel. Some plants also thrive in the peculiar light and temperature conditions formed by these passageways.

In times of war, holloways have served as passages as well as defensive positions, effectively serving as already-existing trenches for troops in the Civil War and World Wars. In Germany, a network of holloway hiking trails winds for dozens of miles at up to 15 feet deep. In the Middle East, many holloways are thought to be thousands of years old.

While most examples formed naturally over time, some younger ones were simply created for irrigation or other purposes, their presence then reinforced by foot or vehicle traffic over the years. Photographs by Jean-François Gornet, Olybrius, Romain Bréget, Jean-François Gornet, David Coombes, Nigel Mykura, Jibi44, Tim Green, Andrew.

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October 21, 2015
Road Blocks: LEGO-Like Modular Roads & Paths Snap Into Place

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New roads could be quickly and easily slotted into place, piece by piece, with a new Lego-like modular plastic system that makes the building process feel more like playtime. Prototypes of the PlasticRoad concept will soon be tested in a collaboration with the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, potentially replacing asphalt and tar with a strong, corrosion-resistant recycled aggregate made of plastic waste removed from the oceans.

According to manufacturer VolkerWessels, these modular components can withstand temperatures between -40 and 176 degrees Fahrenheit and other harsh weather conditions, and are ideal for roads built upon structurally unsound ground like sand. It’s unclear whether they would shift around on surfaces like that over time, however, or how cars would handle on their surfaces when it’s rainy, snowy or icy.

They’re hollow, so cables and utility pipelines can be installed under the surface, protected from the elements and easy to maintain. Quick installation means far briefer periods of disrupted traffic during construction, and the prefabricated panels can simply be transported to the sight and lowered into place. If they pass the tests, the PlasticRoad project could see its first real-life installation in Rotterdam within three years.

The concept is reminiscent of other asphalt alternatives that have been proposed over the years, like ‘smart highways’ covered with dynamic paint providing useful information to drivers (pictured above) and heated, LED-light-embedded solar roadways. The latter concept has been dismissed by many critics as unrealistic, considering the vast expense involved in manufacturing and maintaining them and the likelihood that they would draw power from the grid anytime it’s not sunny.

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July 21, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Roads and Pathways

In this earlier post from this morning I share: 28 Wondrous Images of Long and Winding Roads

By Trey Ratcliff

Roads and paths are easy to find – whether you live in the city in an urban area, or in the country – there are roads. A dirt track, a walkway, a sidewalk, or a highway – find a road or path and start shooting.

Use the lines of the road to create an interesting and powerful composition. Lead the viewer into the image and tell a story. Like this images:

By nate2b

By paojus alquiza

By Oleg Zaytsev

By Tommy Clark

By Andi Campbell-Jones

Share your images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) 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. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

By Miwok

By Alberto Carrasco Casado

By sherifx

By Steve Schnabel

By flamouroux

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May 16, 2015
28 Wondrous Images of Long and Winding Roads

Leading lines are a powerful element in composition. Nothing makes better lines in photos than roads and pathways. leading

Let’s take a look at a few images using these to create strong compositions. Keep in mind light is also important so it all comes together.

A ribbon of light by Dino Marsango on 500px

The road of kings by Jorge Maia on 500px

Road To The Heavens by Tristan O’Tierney on 500px

VIP Bridge #2 by Marek Kijevský on 500px

Road to… by Aydin Palabiyikoglu on 500px

Fairy Castle Walkway by Paul O’ Hanlon on 500px

Wooden catwalk by Roberto D’Antoni on 500px

Road to Cave Point by Scott Norris on 500px

Aurora Road by Christopher Waddell on 500px

Leading lines by Simon Roppel on 500px

The Way by Pablo Belastegui on 500px

Senbon Torii, Kyoto by Zachary Voo on 500px

Pathway by Mikko Lagerstedt on 500px

Never Crossings by Philip Avellana on 500px

The pathway by Jorge Maia on 500px

Path to Serenity by Eva Lima on 500px

magic autumn landscape in park by Sergiy Trofimov on 500px

Rise & Shine by Philip Escott on 500px

The Way by Pat Teglia on 500px

Tree on a Path by Carlos Gotay on 500px

Wood & water II by Ramón Menéndez Covelo on 500px

Boshar’s golden curves by Randy Legaspi on 500px

Zigzag by Gerald Macua on 500px

Zig Zag by Jeff Wallace on 500px

Dark Tube by Thiemo Hesse on 500px

Route to Exit by Pete Lebow on 500px

Red and white snakes by Kristian D. Hansen on 500px

Out Of Sight by Ivor Sheehan on 500px

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May 15, 2015