A Source of Photography Inspiration

Swimming with dolphins seems to be a popular bucket list item, up there with skydiving and riding in a hot air balloon. With their smiling mouths, laughter and playfulness, dolphins come across as one of the happiest ocean creatures. They’re certainly beautiful, whether face-to-face or just in a photo.

The light of sunrises and sunsets – commonly referred to as the “golden hours” – provides a stunning blanket of light that can transform the landscape before you. This time has the ability to connect everyone to nature, and is a source of great inspiration that many landscape photographers treasure.

Yoga is a unique mixture of spirituality and exercise, Eastern philosophy and Western popularity, and depending on who’s teaching the yoga class, one side or the other tends to dominate. Yoga is also an interesting meeting point for extreme outdoor enthusiasts and people who’d rather just stay in the city.

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Barbaros Cangürgel is a portrait and conceptual photographer from Izmir, Turkey. For portraits, he tends to photograph his models in natural settings, either in a forest or on the overgrown outskirts of a city. The way he frames his models among wilderness, within sunbeams or tree shadows, makes them seem like nymphs or fairy tale characters.

For those of you starting to experience spring, you may find yourself spending more time outside with your camera enjoying the fresh air and new life that comes as winter weather withers away. To help inspire, here are 15 beautiful images of nature we found on Pixabay, a repository for outstanding public domain images, where you can find and share great images like these.

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Just like stone bridges, covered wooden bridges hint at a slower paced world that has long been forgotten. Unlike stone bridges however, which seem permanent no matter how old they are, wooden bridges won’t last forever.

Alex Benetel is a 19-year-old fine art photographer from Sydney, Australia. Her imaginative portraits give a sense of being a dream or a mythical story by mixing real-world objects and settings with strange effects and juxtapositions.

The official title of Rich Kuras‘s commercial video is simple: ‘Duality – a comparison between a black leopard and a black house cat’, shot on a Phantom Flex camera. The not-so-simple truth behind the film, however, is: ‘how all house cats see themselves – a journey into the imagination of a cat.’