Category: Inspiration

Drone the World: pay a professional drone photographer to capture your travel memories

Dunja Djudjic

When I first saw a selfie stick, I thought it was quite a strange way of capturing travel memories. And now I’ve discovered another quite unusual way of doing this – and a more expensive one. A London-based company Black Tomato offers you a service of hiring a professional drone photographer. He or she will […]

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This is the story behind Robert Capa’s D-Day photos on Normandy Beach

John Aldred

Every iconic photograph through history has a story to go with it. Sometimes, the picture tells the story all by itself. Robert Capa’s photographs of the D-Day landings on Normandy beach are a prime example. But there are other stories, too. The photographs themselves takes on a life of their own. Studying them infers things […]

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The Blue Room is an epic Speedride through a natural ice tunnel

John Aldred

Speed riding is a terrifying combination of freestyle skiing and paragliding. Described by those who participate as “staggeringly difficult and dangerous as hell“, it’s very impressive to watch. When Swiss speedriding pioneer and Olympic snowboarding medalist, Ueli Kestenholz discovered a massive natural ice tunnel, he knew he had to go through it. So, he contacted photographer Marc […]

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TraffickCam: an app that helps fight human trafficking with a smartphone

Dunja Djudjic

Human trafficking is undoubtedly a huge problem on a global level. There are many organizations trying to solve it, and now there’s an app that helps all of us join this fight. TraffickCam is an app that allows users to contribute to the database of hotel rooms all over the world. All you need to […]

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Photographer creates Star Wars planet Jakku for his daughter to star in

Udi Tirosh

Photographer Rich Johnson is no stranger to Star Wars and space, a lot of his work revolves around space (and some not), but I think it’s safe to say that none of his previous works is as total and as encapsulation as his celebration or Rey portrayed by his daughter. Rich tells DIYP a little bit about […]

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Putting a night vision lens on your camera won’t help it see in the dark but it does look pretty cool

John Aldred

I’m a huge fan of old and weird lenses. They have unique qualities to them that can be difficult or impossible to achieve in post. So, when I see new a new video from Mathieu Stern, it always piques my interest. His latest video shows off a very strange lens. Designed for military and police […]

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