Charlotte, North Carolina, is nicknamed the Queen City, after Queen Charlotte. I moved to Charlotte from Frankfurt, Germany in July 1992. That was not just the year but also the month that the Bank of America (BofA) building was completed. The 871ft (265m) skyscraper is the tallest building in the Southern United States outside of Atlanta or Texas, with its “royal” crown on the top.
Are you an artist who struggles with releasing your work to the world because it's not yet perfect? It's a common problem many creatives grapple with, but learning to let go of your idea of perfection can actually allow you to move closer toward it.
One vital data point that you may not have considered when you started off on your photography journey is that success might not come down to how good of a photographer you are. The most successful photographers aren’t always the best photographers and the best photographers don’t necessarily get the work. This begs the question: is it more important to be a good photographer or a businessperson?
It begins in a specific place, and on a specific date: a country auction. March 26th. While I’m holding up a camera and looking for my one daily photograph, an Amish man swings the mirror he’s offering up to the highest bidder and briefly —for no more than a second— shows me… myself. And there it was: suddenly, I was Narcissus on the plains.
A photographer built a DIY medium format camera from an Epson flatbed scanner and shot a 514-megapixel picture with it.
A photographer had to wait two years for the temperature to drop to well below freezing to capture spectacular macro shots of soap bubbles freezing.
Streetlights have been turning purple across North America, confusing citizens and sparking concerned calls to authorities. However, for photographer Selina Roman, it's been a boon.
Getty Images, the world's best-known photo agency, has handpicked its most exciting pictures from this year's World Cup in Qatar with the photographers sharing the stories behind them.
A photographer's creative series called Dancers at Home explores their grace and skill, even as they perform mundane domestic tasks.
A wedding photographer has made a career taking pictures of newlyweds skiing on the slopes.
A photographer captured this beautiful solar halo to mark the winter solstice; the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
A photographer captured the portraits of South Korea's legendary "Grandma Divers," elderly women who freedive deep into the ocean for seafood.
I have one overarching tip for you today and it’s a big one. The only wrong way to learn photography is to stop learning. Whether you’re classically trained or self-taught, the key is to always be learning and growing.
Wouldn’t you like to stay focused and calm even when multitasking and shooting in a very demanding situation? How about being able to notice everything without being distracted by anything? Meditation can help and that's why many photographers are getting into it. Intrigued? Read on…
Two photographers perfectly recreated Annie Leibovitz’s record-breaking picture of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
A wildlife photographer has shown that nature doesn't need to be picture-perfect after she shared a series of funny animal photos.
A photographer built his own wildlife pond with an adjacent photo hide so he could capture beautiful photos of flora and fauna.
A group of polar bears exploring an abandoned Soviet village in the Arctic has won Nature Photographer of the Year 2022.
The winners of the 2022 Greatest Maasai Mara Photographer of the Year have been announced with a Kenyan photography duo clinching the top prize of $10,000.
Street photography can speak to our souls. Taking images of common, everyday people and transforming them into art—that’s what it’s all about.
Language is an underlying reality in our everyday world, present in our thoughts, our words, and even our haptic gestures. When interacting with someone else we are incorporating language to translate abstract thoughts into communication, communication into meaning, and meaning into understanding.
Timelapse and landscape photographer Michael Shainblum has shared a tip-filled guide showing how he uses long exposures to capture some of his more creative waterfall images in the Pacific Northwest.
A photographer who takes pictures of his "ordinary and plain" hometown wants to encourage others to see the beauty in the mundane.
A photographer who spent 28 hours constructing the Eiffel Tower from 10,001 LEGO pieces used forced perspective to make it look like the real thing.
A photographer uses a drone to capture these unique images of beautiful highrise buildings across the United States.
A photographer used a drone to capture a breathtaking cloud inversion; a rare weather phenomenon that makes for stunning scenes.
A photographer battled to get these extreme close-up photos of eyes that look like an otherworldly landscape.
As a photographer, there are many things that we feel may be holding us back. For some, it’s gear. For many, it might be limited free time. For others, there might be a lack of interesting locations to shoot.
Steam vents, suited businesspeople, the neon glow of the night, umbrellas on windy days, stray glances through bus windows, beachgoers in a boardwalk scene, or silhouetted figures dancing in the sunlight: as photographers, we want to capture things that give life and vivacity to the subjects of the streets. We capture their spirit and do it in a visually interesting way.
A photographer who has spent six years capturing magical photos of snowflakes seeks out the best-looking ice crystals, including rare 12-sided ones.
We live in a world where everyone has access to a camera in some form or another, and the content we create is often viewed through a phone screen. So it's no surprise that so many people have learned how to take and edit cool photos that will get them likes on Instagram.
Ten years ago, if you heard the word elopement, your thoughts might first go to images of a shotgun wedding in Las Vegas (or Gretna Green if you’re from the UK). These elopements would be typically short and sweet, no fuss, and over within an hour.
A photographer has headed out each day for the past seven years to capture a stranger's portrait in his diverse local community.
A treefrog peering into the darkness of a tropical rainforest has won the 2022 British Ecological Society photography competition.
So you’ve decided you want to learn wedding photography but you want to learn it fast and for free. Luckily there’s no better way to learn than by diving in and making mistakes along the way. Additionally, with countless resources and inspiration sources, you’re bound to find someone to teach and inspire you even if they don’t know they’re doing it.
A photographer captured this incredible image of the Leonid meteor shower earlier this month that shows himself and his wife enjoying the show.
A photographer who captured a clear face in a wave says he was "blown away" by the picture.
I think photography educators teach and talk about photography to beginners in an overly complicated way. It’s all concepts, jargon, theories, and numbers. It should be focused on composition and how to take ‘better’ photographs as this is what most beginners join courses to learn.
A photographer captured the aurora lights and details from the Orion constellation that have never been captured in the same image before.
A photographer flew into the world's deadliest airport and backpacked 103 miles in the Himilayas to capture the world's most elusive big cat.
A photographer revealed how she perfectly photoshopped herself into her family portrait after the battery on her remote trigger died at the worst moment during a shoot.
The Natural Landscape Photography Awards, which focuses on recognizing realism in photography, has announced the winners of its 2022 competition.
A photographer has created a stunning underwater floral garden photoshoot that was inspired by the hit Netflix television show Bridgerton.
A Ukrainian photographer documents his family's life on large format cameras as they live through the Russian invasion. He then prints the photos on the soil of his country.
These stunning photos are of secret locations off the beaten track where photographers will have to work a little harder to find.
For a whole generation of photographers, Instagram has become the default channel for finding and viewing inspiring photography.
Want to see some bad street photographs? I’ll share them and tell you why I think they’re not good. These photographs were all made during a five-day visit to New York City between October 31 and November 4, 2022.
During his recent trip to Iceland, landscape and adventure photographer Michael Shainblum managed to check a decade-old subject off of his photography bucket list by capturing some incredible images of lava during a volcanic eruption in Fagradalsfjall.
2012 was a helluva year for film photographers and a crossroads for me personally.
A photographer breathes fresh life into analog cameras by carefully disassembling and then painting them.
