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Photo of the Day | December 18 | Ipanema Night Soccer, by Cameron Cope

L&C Team — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:57:04 +0000

This gritty urban night soccer scene comes to you from Ipanema Beach in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The iconic peak of Pedra de Gavea rises in the background and the city lights of Favela da Rocinha (South America’s largest shanty town/slum) climb impossibly up the side of the mountain. I camped out on this beach for a few hours either side sunset to try to capture some of the intense atmosphere that this place just emanates.

Technical Info: Canon 5D Mark II | Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM lens | Exposure: 1/200sec @ f/2.8 | ISO 4000.
Title of the photograph: Ipanema Night Soccer
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Rio de Janeiro | Brazil
Photographer: Cameron James Cope (Melbourne, Australia.)
Cam Cope is an Australian emerging photographic artist dedicated to travel photography and producing personal and collaborative projects with focused themes of colonial history, indigenous culture and the environment. His travel work intends to inspire a sense of awe for the world around us and his personal projects intend to contribute to public debate and engineer platforms for people to tell their own stories.
Website: http://www.camcope.com
Blog: http://camcope.wordpress.com
Facebook: http://http://www.facebook.com/pages/CAM-COPE-Photography/359647440394

Photo of the Day | October 12 | Water, Sands, City, and the Sky, by Anubhav Jain

L&C Team — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:03:05 +0000

Although the Copacabana is the most famous beach in Rio de Janeiro, a short drive away is the equally beautiful and less crowded Tijuca Beach. This moment captures the water, sands, city, and sky coming together, and a human figure walking along the line of convergence. I timed this shot carefully, but was still lucky to get it!

Technical Info: Canon SD1000 at f/9, 1/500s at ISO 80
Title of the photograph: Water, Sands, City, and the Sky
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Rio de Janeiro | Brazil
Photographer: Anubhav Jain (Berkeley, CA)
Anubhav Jain is an amateur photographer. He is currently based in Berkeley, CA, but most of his photographs come from his travels. He usually shoots with consumer point-and-shoot cameras, such as the Canon SD1000 or S90.
Anubhav is interested in many genres of photography, as he believes all types of photos can tell a story. He is working to sharpen his skills so that he can communicate more clearly through his photographs and develop his style. This is his first submission to a contest and he is looking forward to learning from the photography community.
Web: www.anubhavjain.net/photos

Photo of the Day | April 19 | Departures and Arrivals by Nicole Pandolfo

L&C Team — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:00:55 +0000

I was waiting for my flight at the Afonso Pena International Airport, in Curitiba, capital of Paraná, in Brazil. In front of me, there was this large window from where people often watch the airplanes landing and taking off. At that hour of the day the light was perfect for the contrast and clouds in the sky gave me my favorite blue tone. The people’s postures and gestures completed one of my favorite compositions.

Technical Info: Nikon D40 | AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G | Focal length 42mm | aperture f/5.3 | shutter 1/400sec | ISO 400
Title of the photograph: Departures and Arrivals
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Brazil
Photographer: Nicole Pandolfo (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Nicole Pandolfo was born in Guaporé, a small city in the country of Rio Grande do Sul, south of Brazil. When she was 15-year-old, he moved to Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, specially to finish High School and, after that, to go to the University. In 2007 she started her Journalism degree at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. It was in her first photojournalism class that she discovered a passion for photography. So, it became part of her daily routine. Today, she is almost finishing the journalism degree course and she is working in the Multimedia Production Centre, at the University. Meanwhile, Nicole is working on her final paper, for which she chose photo documentary as the theme.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolepandolfo/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/NicolePandolfo
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=538840599

Photo of the Day | October 09 | Colorful Cake by Diego Bezerra

L&C Team — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:00:39 +0000

This is a delicious chocolate cake with cashew nut, dulce de leche and strawberries. This combination not only gives pleasure to the palate, but also to the eyes. The cake was made to celebrate the birthday of my friend Estela Maris and colorful candles were placed to represent her personality.
Title of the photograph: Colorful Cake
Photo of the Day Award Category: Food Photography
Photograph Location: Brazil
Photographer: Diego Bezerra (Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil)
Diego Bezerra always been a photography enthusiast, but only recently he bought an DSLR camera and then showed his photos on flickr. He loves photographing childrenand things in motion. He is a beginer amateur photographer, so I’m learning with shots of local places and people.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46116150@N02/

Photo of the Day | June 21 | Running at Elevado Costa e Silva by Marcus Laranjeira

L&C Team — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:00:39 +0000

This photo was taken on an avenue in downtown São Paulo-SP, Brazil, which is elevated from street level, about as high as the second floor of a building. Residential buildings around this avenue, when it was built, lost value and people who lived in them lost their privacy. So the whole area has worsened. Indigents, drug addicts, criminals and people on the margins of society began to frequent the area. To take pictures with security in this region, a group of photographers, amateur and professional, under the supervision of a journalist, organized a photographic output for this purpose. The tour lasted about two hours and yielded excellent images.

Title of the photograph: Running at Elevado Costa e Silva
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Brazil
Photographer: Marcus Laranjeira ( São Paulo, Brazil )

Marcus Laranjeira is a professional in the exact sciences, graduated in mathematics and computer science. Work with software development and have photography as his hobby and passion. With photography he explores the world and his feelings. With this, he shows the world the way he sees it. Since 2004 play, study, train and develop his knowledge of photography on his own. He is self-taught and he believes the more he learns, the more he wants to learn.

Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/mvlaran