Photoshoot and Beyond
I was asked by a reader recently if I still love photography. While I have had moments in my life when I tried to put my camera down – the answer is absolutely – yes – I still love photography. But it made me ponder why. Why do I love photography? I was forced to […]
Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome Nicci Widener. She’s a photographer and a mother of 3 from the Pacific Northwest. She first picked up a camera when her oldest child was born in 1998 but made the decision to make it a career in 2006. Please welcome her in the comments below. Everyone has a story about how […]
I wrote a blog post yesterday explaining why I shan’t be attending a 2-day $1850 “business conference.” Read here. I posted it on my Facebook page and someone replied, asking me what I think constitutes a GOOD bio. It’s a very legit question, so I put on my very legit thinking cap and wrote down my […]
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Tanya Musgrave edited those lucky newly-weds away from their comfortable lawn and into the planet Hoth. If you look at the before and after it is quite a travel, even at Ludicrous speed. Tanya shares that the process took about 12 hours of actually working the image, without research object retrieval and getting council. What’s […]
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Three hundred sixty five day photography projects are tough. There’s got to be a high level of dedication and desire to improve. Time has to be made everyday to conceive an idea, take the actual photograph, edit, and post it in your journal. Birthdays, holidays, sick days–it doesn’t matter, there’s still a photograph to be […]
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We’ve seen a lot from NASA over the years, from original space exploration photos to intriguing experiments to some of the most incredible time-lapse footage you will ever watch. Heck, we’ve even witnessed a moon landing Hasselblad go for three quarters of a million dollars! But, we’re talking mere rocket scientists here, not esteemed photographers with […]
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Holding my breathe for even a minute is a difficult task, let alone for four minutes straight. And I can’t say that I’ve ever been tied up and sunk to the bottom of a pool. But, for free diver Marina Kazakova, it’s all in a days work. “Lydia is a song about a failed relationship,” says […]
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Karen X. Cheng and Jerry Gabra take a look at how we’ve changed in the past 100 years Cosmopolitan Woah. Cosmopolitan covers started out with women dressed conservatively. Then they started showing some skin. Then more skin. Finally, they started posing in sexy positions. As women have earned more rights throughout the years, they’ve also […]
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In recent years we’ve become more familiar with the International Space Station (ISS) through live video feeds, experiment demonstrations, and fantastic images that have been brought back to earth. (Then again, maybe it’s all just thrown together on some Hollywood sound stage…who knows.) But, to the best of my knowledge, we have never before seen […]
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Let’s trade one famous city for another. Last week, we cruised along the train system of Berlin, Germany. This week, we’re going home! Well, we’re going to my home at least—New York City—and to celebrate, I’m going to include a few before & after photos for this episode! I spent the first 18 years of […]