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I have been using a number of underwater camera housings over the years – from inexpensive bag housings to professional dive housings. The problem with most underwater camera housings is that they usually cost more than the camera you’re buying them for. With digital cameras being upgradedevery 3 to 5 years, this makes the purchase […]

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Are you running out of space on your hard drive? If youre both a prolific photographer and a Lightroom user the answer may be yes. A hard drive thats close to being full is bad news because it slows down Lightroom and just about every other application that you use on your computer. So how can you boost your Lightroom performance and make your computer run faster?

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Artists are funny creatures and many of us struggle with creativity. Working out what we want to do, how to stand apart from others. What is really needed is to find your muse, or in other words, finding inspiration.

It is a rare artist that doesnt need inspiration to work. For the rest of us, we need help and we need to find what will inspire us to create our work.

One of my very first responses to the environment, the idea of cities becoming unlivable... more

I must admit, Ive had a fair share of activities in my life that turned out to be just a phase. When I look back, all of them involved something creative, but I ditched each of them after a few years tops. But theres one thing thats been around for almost a decade now, and […]

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I uploaded a clutch of photos to Flickr on Sunday evening and as I hit the big pink button it occurred to me that using Flickr furnishes me with some seriously retro credentials. While Flickr used to be the place to hang out around 2008, its growth has stalled and the consensus is that Flickr […]

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Expressing the passing of time using photography as a medium has fascinated me ever since I became interested in using a camera to make art. A single photograph is usually made in a fraction of a second and we have learned to perceive photographs this way. If we make photographs with a long exposure and […]

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Sometimes, photos tell incredible stories you find hard to believe. A Radio Free Europe photographer Amos Chapple tells a story thats exactly like this. He traveled with men who illegally mine for tusks of the long-extinct woolly mammoth. In Siberia, a vast and isolated region of Russia, these men go on real treasure hunts. Between […]

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For some summery images of fountains head over here first.

By Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Weekly Photography Challenge – Fountains

Head to the park or nearest playground or water park and find a fountain you can photograph this week for the challenge – fountains.... more

Its been reported before that Verizon was about to acquire Yahoo. Now its officially done Verizon is a new owner of Yahoo, along with Flickr, their (once) popular photo sharing platform. Verizon has acquired Yahoo for $4.48 billion, and they plan to combine it with AOL and create a new service called Oath. As […]

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When it comes to shooting portraits, there are plenty of tricks you can pull off to make someones flaws less visible. Koldunov Brothers have created a video with tips for photographing someone with a double chin and making this bodily feature less prominent. You dont need Photoshop or makeup, only a couple of lighting, posing […]

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