Inspiration

Puffins are beautiful seabirds with a colorful beak during mating season and a preference for nesting in crevices and rocks along coastal cliffs or offshore islands. Because of their living environment and fast flight over the water, while feeding, the Puffin can be a difficult bird to photograph. Didier Baertschiger – Iceland – Látrabjarg – […]

Macro photography is about shooting objects up close. Flowers are popular subjects that provide lots of detail, have a variety of shapes and colors, work well with lighting, and they generally are very beautiful and pleasing to look at which provides a photographer with a lot to work with when making great images. Roy Niswanger […]

Here are the results from our last challenge, “One Color”. A big thanks for the photographers that submitted, we had an awesome pool of images to chose from. Make sure and let us know what you think of the images below. Whats your favorite and why? onkel\wart> > View Exif Data>> dbnunley> > View Exif […]

Smoke is such a mysterious subject to shoot. It’s really unknown as to what your going to get until you start shooting and later look at what you’ve captured. The smoke can create the most interesting shapes and take on familiar forms. Below are great examples of this process. What forms can you see the […]

If you follow this blog you are very familiar with the work of Christopher O’Donnell. Chris has been a prolific contributor to the site with excellent insight on the world of landscape photography. Today we would like to showcase some of Christopher’s amazing photography. Interesting compositions and unique post processing make his images stand out […]

A popular photography trend that has taken shape over the past few year, in part thanks to Instagram, is low saturation photography. By reducing saturation you can start to achieve a vintage or dreamy look to your photos. You can achieve this look several ways — one being in-camera but the most popular is in […]

Long before the age of highways and ultra-fast planes, trains were the most common and steady way to travel long distances. Through wilderness and tunnels, over hills and mountains, through snow and rain, the railroad track is a symbol of our need to visit new places, find adventure, and be free. Railway tracks are almost […]

Wind is a powerful natural force which is not visible, but the effects it creates are. Thus it can act as a good storytelling device in photography. By taking advantage of the wind in your photography, you give yourself plenty of opportunities to create very dynamic shots. Here I have shared 20 fantastic wind photographs […]

Julie de Waroquier is a self-taught photographer from France and also a philosophy teacher. She started her photography career back in 2008 and since 2010 she has won a few national and international awards, notably the International Emerging Artist Award. Her photography are exhibited all over the world. In the end of 2012 was launched […]

Most of us don’t need to go too far to photograph boats. We are usually just a short distance from the coasts, rivers, canals and inland waterways to be able to photograph this type of transport. A fishing boat carving through the glassy water on a sunny cloudless morning is a great view to shoot. […]