This week our commmunity moved onto exploring “Quiet Landscapes Using HDR” as the weekly challenge (falling under our “Nature’s Whispers” monthly theme. Of course, all landscapes are quite quiet when placed in perspective. However, you can’t deny that feeling you’ve experienced when looking at a certain vibe in some soothing landscape photographs. The following shots […]
Author: Federico Alegria
Federico has a decade of experience in documentary photography, and is a University Professor in photography and research methodology. He's a scientist studying the social uses of photography in contemporary culture who writes about photography and develops documentary projects. Other activities Federico is involved in photography are curation, critique, education, mentoring, outreach and reviews. Get to know him better here.
A little while back we were very sad to hear about the passing of our good friend and irreplaceable community member, David Chesterfield. The way in which David’s departure has resonated in our community and has been profound the overwhelming response in our little photography group got us thinking about how he had a huge […]
This week, we’ve had another fantastic week of photography on Light Stalking through our wonderful community. Tersha was kind enough to assign a weekly photography challenge theme that required looking closer and slower, out of the ordinary. For this, we focused on the gentle giants of the micro world. A couple of years ago, the […]
This is a message to all photographers around the world — nature enthusiast or not — we all own the means to address this directly. As an art form, photography took a pivotal turn towards this straight path thanks to nature. Ansel Adams and his talented squad of f/64 aperture lovers can be seen as […]
Capturing nature in aesthetic ways is something desirable for photographers for sure. But beyond the required visual taste for achieving such shots, it also requires patience. Nature demands exploration and a sense of adventure, but sometimes those conditions are constrained by financial and physical variables we simply can’t escape from… Thankfully, photography is benevolent and […]
One could think there’s nothing much more to say about the beauty of flowers. And all of a sudden, you find yourself in a situation in which it becomes novel and unique; even unfamiliar. Just like what happened to Isabela’s gift in Encanto after finding the charm in desert and tropical flora. Earlier this week, […]