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Greenpeace: half a century on the frontline of environmental photo activism | Environment
Fifty years ago, on 15 September 1971, a ship named the Greenpeace set out to confront and stop US nuclear weapons testing at Amchitka, one of the Aleutian Islands in south-west Alaska. Two years later a small boat called the Vega, crewed by David McTaggart, Ann-Marie Horne, Mary Horne and Nigel Ingram sailed into the French nuclear test site area at Moruroa, French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean. Photographers had been using their images for years to publicise situations around the world. But Greenpeace was a young organisation pioneering a new kind of activism: this was the moment they began to realise that capturing images of what they were…
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Grandview Heights Moment in Time
Fred Behmer was born in 1886 in Columbus, and at an early age he gained access to a camera and quickly developed an eye for photography. At 16 years old he started taking photographs for money, and at 17 he began working at Jeffrey Manufacturing doing corporate photography. He married in 1907, and he and his wife, Sophia, had a son and two daughters. The family later moved to a new home at 1407 Wyandotte Road in Grandview. After about a year, Behmer left Jeffrey to join Baker Art Gallery of Columbus, which was the largest photo studio in the country. After two years he went to work for the Ohio Sun, a…
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How Influencers Impact Photographers
This is a special edition of Please Like Me! We’re running this newsletter alongside JPG, our newsletter about powerful photography that enthralls the internet. You can sign up for Please Like Me here, and JPG here. For influencers to attract sponsorship opportunities, the photos on their feeds need to look polished. That extra glisten comes from hiring professionals — which in turn has changed the photography industry. This week I spoke to Julia D’Agostino, a 25-year-old photographer based in Stamford, Connecticut, who works mainly with lifestyle and fashion influencers. “My first ever postcollege client was actually an influencer — I jumped right into the world,” she told me. She now…
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Navy veteran finds peace in photography
Our country’s heroes are all around us and with November as National Veterans and Military Families Month, we’re introducing a veteran who used to forecast the weather for the U.S. Navy, and is now finding peace through photography. Photographing birds is a fairly new hobby for Navy veteran Michael French, a man with a very analytical mind which works for an eye for photography, but was also perfect for his former job. “We don’t use percents. It’s not a ‘10{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6} chance of rain today’. It’s not a ‘I think this’ or ‘I think that’. It’s, ‘It’s going to rain’ or ‘it’s going to rain at this time, the wind is…
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Nikon Z9 Dual-Stream technology, Through the Lens, 10 ways to improve wildlife photography & more
by Jeremy Gray posted Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 9:30 AM EST After a lengthy hiatus, we’re back with another edition of ‘In Other News.’ This time, we’ve got a quick look at the Dual-Stream Technology in the upcoming Nikon Z9 flagship camera, the first episode of the new season of Adorama’s ‘Through the Lens,’ many tips and tricks videos and much more. Let’s dive in. Nikon Z9 Dual-Stream technology showed off in new Nikon Asia video The Nikon Z9 is Nikon’s upcoming flagship pro-oriented mirrorless camera. The camera includes a lot of new, impressive features, such as a stacked 45.7-megapixel image sensor, incredibly fast shooting speeds, 8K…
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Nature inFocus Photography Contest 2021: Winning Photos Announced! (PHOTOS) | The Weather Channel – Articles from The Weather Channel
Blue Symphony (Special Mention: Creative Nature Photography category) (Kallol Mukherjee) The Nature inFocus Photography Contest 2021 has announced its winners for this year’s edition of the competition! Organised by wildlife photographers Rohit Varma and Kalyan Varma, this contest honours shutterbugs that document unique natural history moments and critical conservation issues. Describing the competition, Rohit says: “The Nature InFocus Photography & Film Contest is more than just a competition. It is about inspiring people to do more with their cameras. To think beyond the ordinary, to make images and films that stand out and can drive action.” This year, the competition received about 18,000 images from more than 2000 competing photographers…
