Light & Composition » Aerial Photography http://www.lightandcomposition.com Towards the true essence of photography Mon, 20 May 2013 15:07:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 New York, by Patricia Saraivahttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-march-15-new-york-by-patricia-saraiva/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-march-15-new-york-by-patricia-saraiva/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:38:13 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=28493 For the first time in New York, I could not fail to do this tour. It was taken from the top of the Empire State, which can be seen in shadow in this photo. The strength, beauty, and be sure to be at the center of the world! A place to attend ever! Technical Info: [...]

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]]> For the first time in New York, I could not fail to do this tour. It was taken from the top of the Empire State, which can be seen in shadow in this photo. The strength, beauty, and be sure to be at the center of the world! A place to attend ever!

Sunset in Central Park, by Patricia Saraiva
Technical Info: iPhone 4 | Exposure 1/120sec @ f/2.8 | ISO 80 | Focal Length 3.9mm | Flash Did not Fire
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | March 15
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 16, Style 12, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: New York
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: New York City, New York | United States

Photographer: Patricia Saraiva (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil) Registered Photographer
Patricia Saraiva born in the city of Apucarana, in Parana, Brazil, in 1969, daughter of Alda and Osmundo Saraiva. Lived with her parents and her two sisters, Angelica and Luciana, until the age of 16. Then, she moved to Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, to do the first and the second years in high school, and then entered the medicine college. There, she lived with maternal grandparents. She graduated from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Minas Gerais in 1993, specializing in next 5 years in Plastic Surgery. With the birth of her two children, Victoria and Andre, she started to take pictures of them and these were her first contacts with a camera.. She took photos that recordered growth, the rides, the games, the birthdays… The extent to which photographed, came to have their photos noticed and praised, as good quality and frame. Nowadays, whenever leaving home, and even within her medical bag, takes her camera and in the absence of that, she uses the phone’s camera, to record what calls her attention during the day, and during trips. Her first photographic exhibition, “Barcelona Balconies” occurred in 2011 in the city of Sao Paulo-SP-Brasil. In 2012, the same exhibition went to Belo Horizonte-MG, which ran for two months. She took records of the works of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, icon of Baroque art in Brazil, in the book: “The Aleijadinho-Catálogo Geral da obra” by Marcio Jardim(2012). Her greatest desire is to devote more time to photography and to improve her talent, which is her hobby and passion, through social networks and internet, where the photos are appreciated and known without borders.

Flickr: http://www.patriciasaraiva.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/patsaraiva
Tumblr: http://patsaraiva.tumblr.com/

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-march-15-new-york-by-patricia-saraiva/feed/ 0 Colorado River, by Sergiy Kadulinhttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-march-09-colorado-river-by-sergiy-kadulin/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-march-09-colorado-river-by-sergiy-kadulin/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:38:30 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=28254 I was visiting Grand Canyon in Arizona for the first time in my life in October, 2012. My wife suggested we take helicopter flight over canyon. It were five tourists in the cabin, and I was lucky to be front seated, next to pilot window. The photograph is taken from the helicopter, pointing top-down to [...]

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]]> I was visiting Grand Canyon in Arizona for the first time in my life in October, 2012. My wife suggested we take helicopter flight over canyon. It were five tourists in the cabin, and I was lucky to be front seated, next to pilot window. The photograph is taken from the helicopter, pointing top-down to Colorado river. There is no camera in the world which is able to show all the beauty of this place. Mountain formations along the river show multiple of colors created by centuries of joint work of sun, wind, water and temperature. Probably, because of the helicopter window, the picture is a bit ‘milky’, even despite I tried to use short shutter speed to avoid vibration.

Colorado River, by Sergiy Kadulin
Technical Info: Canon 5D Mark II with EF 24-70 f/2.8L | ISO 100 | Exposure 1/1000 @ f/4 | Focal length 70mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | March 09
Award Score: 66.5 (Value 13, Clarity 12, Composition 16.5, Style 12, Skill 14)

Title of the photograph: Colorado River
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona | United States

Photographer: Sergiy Kadulin (Kyiv, Ukraine) Registered Photographer
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1967, Sergiy Kadulin grew up in the family with his sister and mother, as his father died when they were two years old. He graduated from the military aviation academy (avionics engineer), and later on, from MBA school (IBR school, based in Ukraine). While majority of his professional career was with information technology, where he worked for such companies as American Power Conversion, hp, Microsoft, and now working with Apple as director of Apple VAD in Ukraine, but photography is his greatest passion and hobby.

Sergiy’s first experience was with his grandfather’s camera (made in 1936), and while he was studying in school he started mode in-depth learning of photography, including dark room processing, shooting on color films, etc. His first own camera (shared with his sister) was Smena-8M, which was very popular in Soviet Union as basic and very affordable camera for children. In upper class his mother gave him a gift – Zenit-12SD, which was his first real film DSLR and he enjoyed it for many years. Later on, while being on business trip in Canada, he bought Minolta with set of lenses, which was far more advanced one. Large part of his film photo collection was made with it. Sergiy was quite skeptical towards digital photography at the beginning, and switched completely to digital workflow by late 90’s until early 2000. About 7 years ago he graduated from the professional photography course in the Kyiv School of Photography, and later on, continued to study (distance learning course of professional photography) in New York Institute of Photography. He also attended number of training courses in different other schools and on top of it, learn new interesting areas online. He did his first photo exhibition in April, 2011, which was named “Sikkim. Beginning” and was devoted to his trekking in Himalaya, Sikkim, India, in 2010.

Sergiy’s favorite type of photography is travel and landscape; however he likes reportage as well. He does devote significant portion of his time to internal growth and development, which to his strong opinion, is the most important part of any creative human. He is trying to use photography as means to share his deep love to the world, to other people and nature, and pass warmth of his heart to them.

Website: http://www.serge-photo.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skadulin/
Gallery: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/gallery/1414006/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sergiy.Kadulin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/skadulin

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-march-09-colorado-river-by-sergiy-kadulin/feed/ 0 Sky collection, by Sandra Frimponghttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-january-15-sky-collection-by-sandra-frimpong/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-january-15-sky-collection-by-sandra-frimpong/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:29:19 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=26364 This picture was taken on my way back from Germany to Italy on a temporary duty assignment. I believe it was some time in the late February of 2012. And the exact location was somewhere in France. As always I am always grateful and humbled during my tours and the scene was so beautiful I [...]

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]]> This picture was taken on my way back from Germany to Italy on a temporary duty assignment. I believe it was some time in the late February of 2012. And the exact location was somewhere in France. As always I am always grateful and humbled during my tours and the scene was so beautiful I just couldn’t help myself to take some few pictures and not to let that moment pass me by. Regardless of how tired I was in the right place and the right time to capture this moment that I may never relive and this was the outcome of that opportunity, and how beautiful our world is if we can allow ourselves to see.

Sky collection, by Sandra Frimpong
Technical Info: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H90 | ISO 80 | Exposure f/3.3 @ 1/500sec | Focal Length 42.8mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | January 15
Award Score: 66 (Value 11.5, Clarity 12.5, Composition 16.5, Style 13, Skill 12.5)

Title of the photograph: Sky collection
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: On a flight from Germany to Italy, somewhere in France

Photographer: Sandra Frimpong (Campania, Italy) Registered Photographer
Sandra Asantewaa Frimpong was born and raised in Ghana West Africa. She moved to the United States with his father at the age of 17. Where she joined the United States military to pursue her dream for higher education and travel. She graduated from Florida States College with a degree in General studies and BS in Business Administration with the University of Maryland.
Her primary career in the United States Navy has given her the opportunity to travel across the globe, during her tours she takes the time to capture the simple beauty of life to show her family and friends around the world. Her pure love for photography started about four years ago when she received her first professional camera Nikon D3100 as a birthday present. Although still an Amateur in photography, the art of Photography suits her passion, her favorite is taking pictures of families during holidays as my way of volunteering in my community is to capture and share moments with families, capturing the little details and the moments that we seldom forgo and not pay attention to.
The artist has international ties in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and America, Her passion, is to explore and appreciate a similarly varied list of fields in arts through photography. She has been taking distance learning courses in Photography and a few face to face photography seminars. And she is anticipating in taking more in depth photography courses in the near future. Her vision now includes works in capturing moment, illustration, among others across the globe to her friends, and family. Sandra Frimpong currently resides in Italy.

Gallery: http://www.worldphoto.org/profile/sandrafrimpong
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NanaAmaAsantewaaPhotography

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-january-15-sky-collection-by-sandra-frimpong/feed/ 0 Bright Road, by Abdellah Azizihttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-20-bright-road-by-abdellah-azizi/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-20-bright-road-by-abdellah-azizi/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:55:16 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=21132 While doing reportage at Tinghir for a local magazine “almaouja.com,” a handicraft took us to a top of a hill to show us an old house of an Amazigh resistant. Looking around, this road takes my attention, especially with the car coming from distant, so a took a picture of it, just in case!.” Technical [...]

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]]> While doing reportage at Tinghir for a local magazine “almaouja.com,” a handicraft took us to a top of a hill to show us an old house of an Amazigh resistant. Looking around, this road takes my attention, especially with the car coming from distant, so a took a picture of it, just in case!.”

Bright Road, by Abdellah Azizi
Technical Info: NIKON D90 | Exposure: 1/400s @ f/20 | ISO 320 | Focal Length 62mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | December 20
Award Score: 67 (Value 12, Clarity 12.5, Composition 17, Style 12.5, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: Bright Road
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: Tinghir | Morocco

Photographer: Abdellah Azizi (Ouarzazate, Morocco) Registered Photographer
Born in Ouarzazate in 1987, Abdellah Azizi is a passionate photographer from Morocco, who loves to photograph South Moroccan landscapes, people, folklorists’ bands, and the life of the rich part of Africa. After finishing high school, Abdellah applied for the Institute specialized for film industry, where he studied for two years on techniques of lighting, and griping. Then he moved to Casablanca to study camera work, and audio-visual post production for a year. He started to work as camera an assistant, lighting technician, and also worked for a local e-magazine, as videographer. The e-magazine didn’t have a photographer, so they asked him to do some photo assignments for them, and they liked his work. From then Abdellah moved to photography. There are lots of other reasons too, but the main one he believes is the freedom he enjoys in this medium.

Portfolio: http://www.facebook.com/aziphoto
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aziphoto
Twitter: http://twitter.com/azifoto

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-20-bright-road-by-abdellah-azizi/feed/ 0 Dominikana Ocean Line, by Sergiy Kadulinhttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-july-26-dominikana-ocean-line-by-sergiy-kadulin/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-july-26-dominikana-ocean-line-by-sergiy-kadulin/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:48:40 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=12299 I took helicopter flight with my friends during our visit to Dominikana Republic in November, 2004. At that time I used one of first digital cameras from hp (PhotoSmart series) with very basic operations. The flight gave possibility to see nice aerial views onto ocean coast line and surrounding. It was a few days after [...]

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]]> I took helicopter flight with my friends during our visit to Dominikana Republic in November, 2004. At that time I used one of first digital cameras from hp (PhotoSmart series) with very basic operations. The flight gave possibility to see nice aerial views onto ocean coast line and surrounding. It was a few days after tunderstorm hit the coast, and one can see lots of debris on the sand.

Dominikana Ocean Line, by Sergiy Kadulin
Due to relatively short length of flight (only 10 minutes) and high speed, we didn’t have time to make perfect exposition and compose frame, I had only one chance to make shot and next second we were away from that place. This shot was really nice to capture white waves and coast line with palm-trees. However, the weather was cloudy, and unfortunately, I was shooting in JPEG, and didn’t have RAW file for better processing.

Technical Info: HP PhotoSmart C935 | Exposure: 1/686sec @ f/5.5 | ISO 200 | WB Auto
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | July 26
Award Score: 63.5 (Value 12, Clarity 11.5, Composition 16, Style 12.5, Skill 11.5)

Title of the photograph: Dominikana Ocean Line
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: Punta Cana | Dominikana Republic

Photographer: Sergiy Kadulin (Kyiv, Ukraine) Registered Photographer
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1967, Sergiy Kadulin grew up in the family with his sister and mother, as his father died when they were two years old. He graduated from the military aviation academy (avionics engineer), and later on, from MBA school (IBR school, based in Ukraine). While majority of his professional career was with information technology, where he worked for such companies as American Power Conversion, hp, Microsoft, and now working in Apple as director of Apple VAD in Ukraine, but photography is his greatest passion and hobby.

Sergiy’s first experience was with his grandfather’s camera (made in 1936), and while he was studying in school he started mode in-depth learning of photography, including dark room processing, shooting on color films, etc. His first own camera (shared with his sister) was Smena-8M, which was very popular in Soviet Union as basic and very affordable camera for children. In upper class his mother gave him a gift – Zenit-12SD, which was his first real film DSLR and he enjoyed it for many years. Later on, while being on business trip in Canada, he bought Minolta with set of lenses, which was far more advanced one. Large part of his film photo collection was made with it.

Sergiy was quite skeptical towards digital photography at the beginning, and switched completely to digital workflow by late 90’s until early 2000. About 7 years ago he graduated from the professional photography course in the Kyiv School of Photography, and later on, continued to study (distance learning course of professional photography) in New York Institute of Photography. He also attended number of training courses in different other schools and on top of it, learn new interesting areas online. He did his first photo exhibition in April, 2011, which was named “Sikkim. Beginning” and was devoted to his trekking in Himalaya, Sikkim, India, in 2010.

Sergiy’s favorite type of photography is travel and landscape; however he likes reportage as well. He does devote significant portion of his time to internal growth and development, which to his strong opinion, is the most important part of any creative human. He is trying to use photography as means to share his deep love to the world, to other people and nature, and pass warmth of his heart to them.

Website: http://www.serge-photo.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skadulin/
Gallery: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/gallery/1414006/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sergiy.Kadulin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/skadulin

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-july-26-dominikana-ocean-line-by-sergiy-kadulin/feed/ 2 Keep Clear, by Keeny Newtonhttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-12-keep-clear-by-keeny-newton/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-12-keep-clear-by-keeny-newton/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:52:23 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=7377 This is the view of the road from a hotel in Melbourne. I stayed there for a week and watched this space almost everyday. This specific day, there were just enough cars and that one person walking through the right spot on the road. This photograph was shot at Market Street in Melbourne. Technical Info: [...]

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]]> This is the view of the road from a hotel in Melbourne. I stayed there for a week and watched this space almost everyday. This specific day, there were just enough cars and that one person walking through the right spot on the road. This photograph was shot at Market Street in Melbourne.

Keep Clear, by Keeny Newton

Technical Info: Canon 30D | 46mm | 1/125 | f/5.6 | ISO 200
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | December 12
Title of the photograph: Keep Clear
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: Oaks at Market, Melbourne | Australia

Photographer: Keeny Newton ( Bangalore, India )
Keeny Newton is a freelance photographer based out of Bangalore, India. His day time job is as an IT consultant. He is inclined towards the art side of photography and primarily shoots fashion and does travel photography.

Website: www.keenyPhoto.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/keenyPhoto
Twitter: @keeny76

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-12-keep-clear-by-keeny-newton/feed/ 0 On a Rainy Day in Varanasi, by Anindya Chakrabortyhttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-01-on-a-rainy-day-in-varanasi-by-anindya-chakraborty/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-01-on-a-rainy-day-in-varanasi-by-anindya-chakraborty/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:47:14 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=7305 During my first visit to Varanasi due to a heavy rain I got struck in my hotel. The ghats of Varanasi which are generally full color and people were empty and I wanted to capture the mood of the place. Technical Info: Nikon D700 | 20-35Nikkor | f/5.6 at 1/40sec | ISO 200 Award Winner: [...]

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]]> During my first visit to Varanasi due to a heavy rain I got struck in my hotel. The ghats of Varanasi which are generally full color and people were empty and I wanted to capture the mood of the place.

On a Rainy Day in Varanasi, by Anindya Chakraborty
Technical Info: Nikon D700 | 20-35Nikkor | f/5.6 at 1/40sec | ISO 200
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | December 01
Award Score: 69 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 17, Style 14, Skill 14)

Title of the photograph: On a Rainy Day in Varanasi
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh | India

Photographer: Anindya Chakraborty (Kolkata, India)
Anindya Chakraborty is a self taught photographer from Kolkata. He is a software engineer by profession, who started photography in 2006. He is gravitating towards documentary photography, and during his stay in United States, did a series on Bodie Ghost Town, New Orleans, broken American Dreams and finally Last few months. Some of his work was published in Picsean Travel Magazine and National Geographic..

Portfolio: http://anindya.smugmug.com

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-december-01-on-a-rainy-day-in-varanasi-by-anindya-chakraborty/feed/ 1 My Home, My Nation, by Easa Shamihhttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-october-18-my-home-my-nation-by-easa-shamih/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-october-18-my-home-my-nation-by-easa-shamih/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:12:14 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=6996 This photograph was taken on my way to Fuvahmulah Island. The Photograph represents the whole Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, Maldives. It’s showing the island formation like chains. This is one of my most favorites, and very first aerial photographs from Maldives. Technical Info: Canon EOS 450D | Exposure 1/250 | Aperture f/13 | Focal Length 46 [...]

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]]> This photograph was taken on my way to Fuvahmulah Island. The Photograph represents the whole Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, Maldives. It’s showing the island formation like chains. This is one of my most favorites, and very first aerial photographs from Maldives.

My Home, My Nation, by Easa Shamih

Technical Info: Canon EOS 450D | Exposure 1/250 | Aperture f/13 | Focal Length 46 mm | ISO 200
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | October 18
Title of the photograph: My Home, My Nation
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll | Maldives

Photographer: Easa Shamih (Male’, Maldives)
Easa Shamih is from Maldives (The Paradise on the earth or The Sunny side of Life). He is married, and with the praise of Allah, he has a little baby princess name Sara. Shamih loves going out with friends and to shoot different genre of photography, specially Sports, Landscapes, Macro, B&W, HDR & Portraits. He really wants to advance more in the field of photography works as much as he gets chances. Other then photography, he is busy with network administration, graphics designing, listening to music, watching movies, series, gaming, and watching live football and cricket.

Flickr: www.flickr.com/eeko
Twitter: twitter.com/#!/iZZo28
Facebook: www.facebook.com/izzo28

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-october-18-my-home-my-nation-by-easa-shamih/feed/ 0 Hawk’s Eye, by Prasanta Singhahttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-september-11-hawks-eye-by-prasanta-singha/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-september-11-hawks-eye-by-prasanta-singha/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:02:57 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=6541 This shot was taken at Varanasi, India from the top of a bridge over river Ganges. Technical Info: Nikon D3000 | 1/200sec at f11 | ISO 100 | Focal Length 48mm Award Winner: Photo of the Day | September 11 Title of the photograph: Hawk’s Eye Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography Photograph [...]

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]]> This shot was taken at Varanasi, India from the top of a bridge over river Ganges.

Hawk's Eye, by Prasanta Singha

Technical Info: Nikon D3000 | 1/200sec at f11 | ISO 100 | Focal Length 48mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | September 11
Title of the photograph: Hawk’s Eye
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: Varanasi | India

Photographer: Prasanta Singha (Kolkata, INDIA)
Prasanta Singha consider himself as a travel photographer. He loves to depict the life of inhabitants & portrait of the people and also loves to capture their surroundings. He loves photography as he feels the passion in my blood flowing all the time from the heart to my brain. He has a hope that one day he would be able to contribute at least a little to the magical world of Photography.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/prasantaphotography
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/prasantaphotography

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]]> http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-september-11-hawks-eye-by-prasanta-singha/feed/ 0 Riding Into the Sunset, by Jon Rendellhttp://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-february-26-riding-into-the-sunset-by-jon-rendell/ http://www.lightandcomposition.com/photo-of-the-day-february-26-riding-into-the-sunset-by-jon-rendell/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:00:32 +0000 L&C Team http://www.lightandcomposition.com/?p=3331 An aerial view from an apartment high above Fillmore and Eddy Streets in San Francisco at dusk. Technical Info: Nikon D80 camera with Nikor 18-200mm, focal length: 170m, 1/180sec at f/5.6, ISO: 100 Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 26 Title of the photograph: Riding Into the Sunset Photo of the Day Award [...]

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]]> An aerial view from an apartment high above Fillmore and Eddy Streets in San Francisco at dusk.

Riding Into the Sunset, by Jon Rendell
Technical Info: Nikon D80 camera with Nikor 18-200mm, focal length: 170m, 1/180sec at f/5.6, ISO: 100
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 26

Title of the photograph: Riding Into the Sunset
Photo of the Day Award Category: Aerial Photography
Photograph Location: San Francisco, California | United States

Photographer: Jon Rendell (San Francisco, USA)
Jon Rendell was born into an auteur/photog family in Melbourne, Australia in 1957; his grandfather owned a Paillard Bolex 16mm movie camera in the 50s and his father always had his Braun 35mm loaded with Kodachrome 25. At age 8 his parents gave him their old Kodak Box Brownie. He paparazzied birthday parties, friends at school, and their vacations. At high school he learned basic darkroom techniques and decided he had to have his own darkroom. His family knew that on certain evenings the kitchen (his makeshift darkroom) was out of bounds. In the 70s he had the sublime pleasure of being tutored by renowned photographer Athol Shmith. he was always captivated by shadows. It was Athol who one day selected one of his negatives as an example of perfect exposure and development. He cringed because his ever-present cigarette was dangling dangerously close to the negative as he held it aloft to the class. That photo depicted a structure with an unusually shaped shadow across its facade. To this day he cannot tell anyone what made that shadow, but from that day forward he found himself hard-wired to focusing upon the transitory, abstract shapes that come and go with the available light.

Portfolio: http://www.jonrendell.com/
Flickr: http://bit.ly/FlickrFolio
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JonRendellPhotography
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JonRendell

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