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Inside your own 10, by Ronnie Glover

L&C Team — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:30:18 +0000

This is an image of the playing field of the American game of football. It is my favorite sport. The goals are located 100 yards apart. Being inside your own 10 is not ideal as the team must work to cover over 90 yards to score. It requires persistence, determination and lack of critical errors to accomplish the task. It is a “back against the wall” situation.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 20D | Exposure 1/320sec @ f/11 | Focal Length 21mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 16
Award Score: 58 (Value 11, Clarity 11, Composition 13, Style 12, Skill 11)

Title of the photograph: Inside your own 10
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Superior, Colorado | United States

Photographer: Ronnie Glover (Gig Harbor, WA, USA) Registered Photographer
Photography took a backseat while Ronnie obtained his college degree. After graduation, he purchased his first camera but was unable to produce the images that he saw in his mind. He then took a few continuing education classes to learn the technical aspects of the camera and realized there was so much more to learn about photography. So Ronnie enrolled in the professional program at Southeastern Center for the Arts in Atlanta. The school was operated by Jeanne & Neil Chaput de Saintonge, who currently operate Rocky Mountain School of Photography. He spent 14 years living in Alaska and this gave him unbelievable opportunities to experience nature and capture many images. Ronnie also enjoys sports and travel photography and the experience of different cultures. It is his wish that his images will expose others to the beauty of nature, the inspiration of physical pursuits, and other cultures and promote a greater understanding of each. Most recently, he has ventured into the exploding mobile photography realm using his iPhone to document running and sporting events. He invites everyone to enjoy his gallery and feel free to contact him with any comments.

Portfolio: http://ronnie-glover.artistwebsites.com/
Blog: http://thelandslidephotography.wordpress.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/The-Land-Slide-Photography/
Google+: https://plus.google.com/118337134835944475819
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/thelandslide/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TheLandSlide

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Loving Hands, by Jerry Caruthers

L&C Team — Fri, 03 May 2013 03:12:18 +0000

Photograph was my first baby shoot, I used natural lighting in this one, had the subjects stand next to a window. This was a challenging shoot both because it was a new born and it was my first attempt of its kind as I usually do landscapes.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 5D Mark II with 50mm f/1.8 | Exposure 1/60sec @ f/2.8 | Focal Length 50mm | ISO 320
Award Score: 65.5 (Value 12, Clarity 12.5, Composition 17, Style 11.5, Skill 12.5)
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 03

Title of the photograph: Loving Hands
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Florida | United States

Photographer: Jerry Caruthers (Safety Harbor, USA) Registered Photographer
Jerry Caruthers lives in the USA, and has been shooting off and on for about three years now, as he really enjoys photography. Jerry started with a Nikon D60, and then to a NIkon D300. He now uses a Canon 5D Mark II. His goals are to continually work on his skill and composition. He is not a natural artist, as he has to think about the shots. He hopes to get into some freelance work here to start that journey, and would love to travel the world and be a professional photographer.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tampajerry/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ijerryc

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Their Shadows, by Abdellah Azizi

L&C Team — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:01:30 +0000

I’ve taken this photo when I was covering a music concert, the two policemen were standing under a hard streetlight, while people travel around them, I’ve waited until a man with a bicycle get in, to add some dynamic to the shoot.

Technical Info: Nikon D90 with 18-200mm | Exposure 1/25sec @ f/7,1 | ISO 800 | Focal Length 46mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 29
Award Score: 66 (Value 13, Clarity 12, Composition 17, Style 12, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: Their Shadows
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Ouarzazate | 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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Frame in frame, by Minh Nghia Le

L&C Team — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:04:10 +0000

Not only that I saw the masterpieces and great art at the Lourve museum, but also the wonderful architecture or the scene from the past. The museum window makes a perfect frame for it, I think.

Technical Info: Olympus E520 with Zuiko Digital 12-60mm | Exposure 1/500sec @ f/5.6 | ISO 400
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | March 31
Award Score: 70 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 13, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: Frame in frame
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Louvre Museum, Paris | France

Photographer: Minh Nghia Le (Singapore) Registered Photographer
Minh Nghia Le and his wife Mai Phuong Duong are two Singapore-based photographers. Photography has nothing to do with their daily job but it has become their passion for years. His main interests currently are street photography and portraiture, which certainly have influences on his other work in travel and wedding photography. His favourite quote is: “Well, I don’t believe in photography as an art or a job or anything. I think of photography as a language and I think a language should be used to speak, to say what you have to say. So, the only things I have to say about my life and what I know about the world, is the way I see it.” – from Antoine d’Agata”

Our travel: https://a2nh.jux.com/
Our street photography: http://a2nh.tumblr.com/
Our wedding photography: http://a2nh-wedding.blogspot.sg/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/analox.admire
Twitter: http://twitter.com/a2nh

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Enlightened, by Minh Nghia Le

L&C Team — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:29:00 +0000

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” – Victor Hugo

Technical Info: Olympus OM2 with Zuiko OM 50mm f1.4 | Fuji Neopan 400 | Exposure 1/500sec @ f/16
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | March 16
Award Score: 65 (Value 12.5, Clarity 12, Composition 16.5, Style 12, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: Enlightened
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Nha Trang Beach | Vietnam

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Passage of the Witches, by Mauro Squiz Daviddi

L&C Team — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:04:56 +0000

The beauty of San Marino in a day of bad weather. The name of this place is “Passage of the Witches”. The fog has created a magical and want to show it in the picture. Wait for the right moment was exciting.

Technical Info: Exposure 1/800 @ f/2.8 | Focal Length 5.8mm | ISO 60
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 28
Award Score: 66 (Value 12, Clarity 13, Composition 17, Style 12, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: Passage of the Witches
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Republic of San Marino

Photographer: Mauro Squiz Daviddi (Ozzano dell’Emilia, Bologna, Italy) Registered Photographer
Mauro Squiz Daviddi started photographing in 1976 with the camera of his father, a Vitoret Voigtländer. Photography is his love, and in 1986 Mauro obtain the degree of “Master of Art” at the Art Institute of Bologna. His last photographic exhibitions was from 16 November 2012 to 16 January 2013 at the Museum of Wax Anatomical Bologna.
Currently Exhibition ASCE in the European project EUCEMET, and “The Charterhouse of Bologna through the eyes of Dickens” at the town hall of Bologna is in process.

Website: http://www.maurosquizdaviddi.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mauro.squiz.daviddi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MauroDaviddi
Google+: https://plus.google.com/107306004039004911477

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Bless the Broken Road, by Sandra Frimpong

L&C Team — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:18:22 +0000

We all set off in our journey of life, we come to a lot of crossroads, some are broad and others narrow, as we figure out our next move we ask for some guidance from above. Just like the bird in this Photo, life that day is foggy, cloudy, and broken and makes me wonder do the birds also ask for blessing for a broken road? They seem to find their way no matter what. May we be like this bird with no worries, and during our journey when we come to a broken road find our way too.

Technical Info: PENTAX Optio WG-1GPS | Exposure f/ 5.5 @ 1/250sec | ISO 800 | Focal length 25mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 17
Award Score: 63 (Value 11, Clarity 11, Composition 16, Style 12, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: Bless the Broken Road
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Schönbrunn Zoo, Vienna | Austria

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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The Exit Strategy, by Andrea Migliari

L&C Team — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:27:43 +0000

Here is one of my favorite subject, urban exploration. I shot this image in an abandoned factory close to Milan. The door was the only way to exit from the building; I was captured by the light of the midday sun that comes through.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 1D Mark III with EF 14mm f/2.8 | ISO 100 | Exposure 1/25sec @ f/6.3
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 05
Award Score: 65 (Value 11, Clarity 12, Composition 16, Style 13, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: The Exit Strategy
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Milan | Italy

Photographer: Andrea Migliari (Treviglio, Italy) Registered Photographer
Born in Italy in 1981, Andrea Migliari and his family moved after 12 years spent in the big city of Milan to a small countryside village close to the lake Maggiore called Castelletto Ticino. He left school at 17 to start his working life as a junior carpenter and after a while he decided to take a gap year in London. In the English capital he used to work in many different places while studying English in the London West Collage. Now he is living in Italy, close to Bergamo where he works for a rental car company.

Since he was a teenager he used to take pictures of everything he came across; the beauty of the lake and the marvelous places in the area of Verbano made him become a passionate photographer. He started using a film camera and learning dark room processing in black and white, and then finally moved to digital in 2009 when he bought his first Canon 50D. He attended various photography workshop and post-processing courses that made him developed a particular workflow from the raw capture to the final image. He loves taking picture of everything he likes, from landscapes to portraits and live music event. Some of his pictures were published in a prestigious Italian art magazine Overart. He won the photography competition contest of “Passione Italia” in 2011 with the photo “Quando la città dorme” that was used as a cover image for the White Pages of the Bergamo area. He tries to share his love for photography and visual art through his images, knowing that the beauty may be found just across the street corner.

Website: http://www.andreamigliari.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/migliariandrea/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MigliariAndrea

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Too Dark Park, by Andrea Migliari

L&C Team — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:35:32 +0000

This picture has been taken in the middle of the night, I was wondering through the city with no fixed direction. As soon as I stepped into the park I noticed that at that time, 2 am, it assumes a completely different look, almost a sinister look. In this image I was captured by the contrast between the deep dark areas and the illuminated part of the scenes, with the road-path that disappear just behind the tree.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 50D with EF 17-85mm | ISO 100 | Exposure 30sec @ f/8 | Focal Length 33mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 03
Award Score: 55 (Value 09, Clarity 10, Composition 15, Style 11, Skill 10)

Title of the photograph: Too Dark Park
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Treviglio | Italy

Website: http://www.andreamigliari.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/migliariandrea/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MigliariAndrea

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Foggy Tree, by Rob van der Waal

L&C Team — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:36:00 +0000

During a short trip to Madeira we decided to hike to the top of Pico Ruivo, foggy conditions created a sinister atmosphere, when passing an area with burned trees. Just another side of natures beauty.

Technical Info: Nikon D800 | Exposure 1/1000sec @ f/8 | Focal Length 62mm | ISO 100
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | January 28
Award Score: 68 (Value 13, Clarity 12, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: Foggy Tree
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Madeira | Portuguese Island

Photographer: Rob van der Waal (Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands.) Registered Photographer
Rob van der Waal was born in 1957 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His father was a passionate photographer who taught him the basics of photography. When he was 7 years old, his family already had a darkroom on the top floor of their family house. His dad was on the edge of what was possible those days, using 2 Leica M3 bodies, and was developing black/white and color films by himself and with some modifications to his equipment, created images of 40x60cm. Apart from his father’s touch and some workshops, Rob van der Waal is an autodidact. With reading, listening and most of all just doing, he developed his creative and photography skills. To briefly summarize his style in photography; pure and honest are the key words that come close. He loves to be out in nature and enjoys the space, light and birds, and on those frequent trips his camera is his companion. He believes, some interest build into his DNA is “maritime”. It’s his preference to be at the waterfront, the sea, and close to ships and its related activity. He feels fortunate to live close to Rotterdam, a harbor area in the Netherlands. He will always respect nature and animals. He hopes more people will support this principle. What triggers him in photography is that, it is never done, complete or finish, as there is always a way to playing with the light and the moment, which gives the opportunity in another way to tell the story!

Portfolio: http://www.robvanderwaal-fotografie.nl
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rvdwaal_foto/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/waalrob

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