A Source of Photography Inspiration

Lauren Marek has put together a unique photography project in which she takes various macro shots of a person and then sizes each one to fit into a single grid photo featuring 9 shots.

Thirty years ago, the first space shuttle blasted into space. Chris Bray and his father Kenneth took a picture of them watching that first launch. Then last Friday, the shuttle Atlantis took its final trip. Once again, the Bray men were there and the two snapped a photo to capture the moment.

Landscape photography can be very rewarding if you’re willing to travel and/or hike to the right places, get up early and/or stay up late, and risk injury to both yourself and your equipment getting to some of the best spots. Of course, a photographer can always find great landscape shots from the road too, but half the cool factor is being able to tell what you had to do to get that awesome photo.

Darren Samuelson decided to build his very own giant camera. Took him around 6 months to build it in his own apartment and it takes 14×36 inch negatives.

Alan Jaras has mastered the art of creating some amazing images called refractographs.

Using traditional photographic techniques and pieces of complex shaped glass and plastics I project these patterns directly on to colour film. The resulting images and photographs that you see are purely analogue and are not computer generated, but a true representation of the patterns formed by the light beam after its complex journey through the refractive objects I create. This is ‘lensless’ photography – here the object itself becomes the lens.

This is a fun idea to try if you’ve got 24 digital cameras and a trampoline.

As many of you know, there have been a few uprisings in the Middle East. If you’d like to hear a eyewitness account from a photographer, then I recommend taking the time to view this interview with John Moore, who was on assignment covering the countries of Egypt, Bahrain and Libya during their conflicts.

Photographers Scott Martin and Lance Keimig have been teaching night photography workshops for around 3 years. This film documents a Full Moon Night Photography Workshop in the Big Bend region of West Texas that they recently did.

This is a great feature by Artists Wanted, a collaborative project between several New York City artists and organizations whose goal is to bring undiscovered talent to the forefront.

If you were an artist or a photographer and went blind, would you continue to paint or take pictures?

Meet Pete Eckert, a blind photographer.

A few years ago, Ryan Cashman, with the help of Sean Fau-Burnitz, put together this unique light painting video using a Canon Rebel, 20-30 second exposure time for each frame, and a small green LED keychain.