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La Piazzetta, by Sebastien Beun

L&C Team — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:13:59 +0000

It was 07:03 AM on that 4th of February, 2013, when I crossed the Piazzetta on my way to take some shots of the Basino di San Marco and its surroundings. I was quite surprised to see that there was already quite a lot of other photographers out there. But as I had planned to take cityscapes and architecture shots, they were all busy taking pictures of the disguised models posing in front of the beautiful buildings of that wonderful city.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 5D Mk II with EF 24-70mm f/2.8 | Exposure 1/50sec @ f/3.5 | Focal length 35mm | ISO 2500
Award Score: 70 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 13, Skill 13)
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 16

Title of the photograph: La Piazzetta
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Piazzetta, San Marco, Venice | Italy

Photographer: Sébastien Beun (Thuin, Belgium) Registered Photographer
Sébastien Beun is a Belgian based amateur photographer born in 1981. He came into photography at the age of 12. Sébastien bought his first single lens reflex and made his first attempts to develop black and white negatives and prints after having discovered his father’s old material in the attic. Few years later he bought more modern dark room material, and over the course of time moved into digital photography eventually. Today he takes digital photographs of everything that touches him. He keeps his dark room material in his attic, as he believes one day he can show how that works to his own son.

Website: http://www.sebastienbeunphotography.net
Portfolio: http://sebastienbeun.smugmug.com
Google+: https://plus.google.com/100488873649283094827
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/seb.bee.9
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ssebb_b

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Nueva York, by Madoka Hori

L&C Team — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:27:34 +0000

My second visit to Mecca for romance, Tiffany store on 5th Avenue was on a rainy Sunday. The store was crowded. The city was filled with shoppers and tourists like myself. I went on a business trip to New York City in early December, stayed for the weekend and experienced breathtakingly beautiful city, completely decorated for holidays. On the 3rd floor of Tiffany, I walked around looking jewelries and lots of happy faces. I looked outside from the window and knew I had to pull the camera out of my purse to steal this view and bring it back to Japan.

Technical Info: OLYMPUS E-P2 | Exposure 1/80 f/4 | Focal Length 16mm | ISO 200
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 10
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 17, Style 12, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: Nueva York
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Tiffany store on 5th Avenue, New York City, New York | United States

Photographer: Madoka Hori (Ashiya, Japan) Guest Photographer
Madoka Hori’s first camera was a toy she got in Singapore when she was on a family trip at age 4. She could press shutter release button, use flash, change filters to see the world differently and it amazed her. She knew it could be fun to hold a (real) camera someday rather than just being the subject of her father’s photography all the time. She started to take photos during high school and after she shifted to digital when she was 20, it got a lot easier for her to capture the moment she wanted to remember. Now she primarily uses Olympus Pen E-P2 and occasionally experiments with her father’s NIKON D800. Travelling and looking at people on the street through a lens is the most exciting thing for her. Feel free to contact her if you have any advice on photography or just want to know about Japan. She’s 27 years old and working for online marketing start-up.

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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/madoka.hori
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Riderv328

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Paradise Peak, by Sandra Frimpong

L&C Team — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:51:09 +0000

This picture was taken looking through the balcony from the hotel Iberostar Albufera Playa during a spring break stay on the Island of Mallorca Spain. It was beautiful just like in this picture. And a true glimpse of a spring vacation indeed.

Technical Info: Nikon D5100 with AF 18-55mm | ISO 100 | Exposure f/9.5 @ 1/350sec | Focal Length 18mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 29
Award Score: 62 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 15, Style 12, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: Paradise Peak
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Palma Majorca | Spain

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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Looking into the Vastness, by Dipanjan Mitra

L&C Team — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:48:55 +0000

A Belgian tourist enjoys the beauty and vastness of the Indian Himalayas.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 7D with EF-S 18-135mm | Exposure 1/1000sec @ f/7.1 | ISO 100 | Focal length 24mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 28
Award Score: 66 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: Looking into the Vastness
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Himachal Pradesh | India

Photographer: Dipanjan Mitra (Calcutta, India) Registered Photographer
Being a software professional since 1999, Dipanjan Mitra always had an intense desire to travel across the Indian terrains. It was long inhibited till 2006 when his journey began with a small digital camera in the state of Karnataka. The world of photography really got him going when he moved on to a relatively higher end digital camera in the form of Canon S5 IS which he had used for around 2 years, trying to learn the magic of shutter and aperture until the real journey began with a Rebel T1i in May 2010. Fascinated by the magic of being behind the lens keeps amazing him every day. He wishes this journey never ends.

Website: http://www.dipanjan-mitra.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anticlockonline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dipanjan.mitra
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dipmitra
Gallery: http://500px.com/dipanjan

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Tourist View, by Abdellah Azizi

L&C Team — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:01:08 +0000

I took this photo of a young sheep-run. at the extreme east of Morocco, where it’s still hard to live, and only the tourist gets to those places ridding comfortable SUV s..

Technical Info: Nikon D90 with 18-200mm | Exposure 1/640sec @ f/13 | ISO 320 | Focal Length 82mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 26
Award Score: 66 (Value 11, Clarity 12, Composition 18, Style 11, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: Tourist View
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Zagora | 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
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/azifoto

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Tashiding Buddhist Monastery, by Sergiy Kadulin

L&C Team — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:01:57 +0000

We (group of six Ukrainians) did trekking in Himalaya, western Sikkim, in October 2010. One the most impressive Tibetan monasteries we have been to, was Tashiding. Tashiding is one of oldest Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in the western Sikkim. It is considered to be the most sacred and holiest monasteries in Sikkim, and it is very energy powerful place. Tashiding means “The Devoted Central Glory” and it was founded in 1641. It is about 12 miles to the south east from Yuksom. This shot shows Mani stone slabs close to the entry.

Technical Info: Canon 5D Mark II with EF 24-70 f/2.8L | ISO 100 | Focal length 25mm | Exposure f/5 @ 1/200sec
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 25
Award Score: 66 (Value 12, Clarity 13, Composition 16, Style 13, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: Tashiding Buddhist Monastery
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Tashiding monastery, Western Sikkim | India

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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Seeking the Warmth, by Abdellah Azizi

L&C Team — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:01:42 +0000

I was in a assignment to photograph old Ksur and Kasbah in the south of morocco, in N’kob village, those two women sitting beside this old wall seeks some warmth of the setting sun, the colors of their clothing much pretty well with the surroundings, and the sky.

Technical Info: Nikon D90 with 18-200mm | Exposure 1/250sec @ f/13 | ISO 320 | Focal Length 105mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 24
Award Score: 67 (Value 13, Clarity 12, Composition 17.5, Style 11.5, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: Seeking the Warmth
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: N’kob | Morocco

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Behind the Fence, by Patricia Saraiva

L&C Team — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:24:15 +0000

When we arrived at the hotel to spend the weekend, it was already dark and nowhere to see or imagine where we are. We had to wait for the next day. In the morning I went out for a walk in the garden of the Inn, not believed in what I just saw! Behind the fence a paradise. Everything is in perfect harmony, the mountain, the lake, and the beautiful weather.

Title of the photograph: Behind the Fence
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Lapinha, Minas Gerais | Brazil

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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Dauki River Boats, by Rahat Azim Chowdhury

L&C Team — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:33:21 +0000

The Dauki river is in Jaflong, 25 km away from sylhet city. This river is stone collector’s river. Huge amount of stones are collected from this. I went there in November 2012 to catch the beauty and essence of nature in my camera. The rain was falling continuously over three days. Indian territory meghalaya (Cherapunji) is behind the hills. I took the landscape in the rain, but it was awesome experience to photo shoot in rain that i never meet before.

Technical Info: Canon EOS-550D with EF-S 18-135mm IS | Exposure 1/320sec @ f/11 | ISO 3200 | Focal length 32mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 12
Award Score: 56 (Value 11, Clarity 11, Composition 13, Style 10, Skill 11)

Title of the photograph: Dauki River Boats
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Jaflong, Sylhet | Bangladesh

Photographer: Rahat Azim Chowdhury (Dhaka,Bangladesh) Registered Photographer
Rahat Azim Chowdhury was born in 4th May 1984 and from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a Computer Engineer by profession. From his childhood he loved to take pictures of nature and people around him, but it was not his infatuation. Photography becomes his passion when his childhood friend Nazmul Shanji (Registered photographer of Light and composition ) inspired him around a year ago. He believes self-learning is the best learning so that he started learning photography from e-books, online articles, video tutorials and observing photo works . Obviously he learned from his friend Nazmul Shanji a lot of stuffs .His friend helped him a lot to quick start with his 1st DSLR camera. After five months he completed his first photographic course “Advance course in Basic Photography” from PRISM Photography Institute. Recently he has intended to do an “Advanced diploma course in professional photography.” He is fond of taking photos of different aspects of human lifestyle and nature. Nature, Lifestyle, Wildlife, Architectural, Street Photography, Candid, and Portraiture are his specialty. Rahat doesn’t like to do wedding and fashion photography as a machine of easy earning money. Creating own signature in photos is Rahat’s main awareness, where he always try to put his own styles, knowledge and views. He said “I’m a ghost of the navigator, I want to explore over the world various countries lifestyle. Specially third world countries religious views, architectural structure development and social pattern of thought are subject to me. My dream is to be a photo creator who can’t run after money enormously”

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/91334268@N08/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rahat.a.chowdhury.37?ref=tn_tnmn

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On the way to Tso kar, by Dipanjan Mitra

L&C Team — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:53:42 +0000

On the way to Tso kar lake in Ladakh in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India I was half hanging from the vehicle to click this frame. A family which consisted of husband, wife and their small kid were walking by a small river with blue sky and mountains in the background.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 60D with EF-S 10-22mm | Exposure f/11 @ 1/320 | Focal length 10mm | ISO 100
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 07
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 17, Style 12, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: On the way to Tso kar
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Jammu and Kashmir | India

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