Catch a Buck Moon, luminous Venus, and more in the sky this July

A full moon known as the Buck Moon is seen as a deer grazes outside the village of Taarbaek, Denmark on July 14, 2022. Sergei Gapon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images This article was originally featured on Popular Science. July 1 Conjunction of Venus and Mars July 3 Full Buck Supermoon July 7 Venus at its Brightest July… Continue reading Catch a Buck Moon, luminous Venus, and more in the sky this July

5 Ways to Improve Your Composition Skills

The post 5 Ways to Improve Your Composition Skills appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Andrew S. Gibson. Composition is one of the most important skills you can learn as a photographer. It’s also one of the trickiest elements for beginners to master, and even experienced photographers struggle to perfect their… Continue reading 5 Ways to Improve Your Composition Skills

Fiction and absurdity: Thomas Rousset’s exaggerated explorations of rural life

Reading Time: 2 minutes © Thomas Rousset. Set in the village of Prabert in France, Rousset’s images play on the eccentricities of the village and its people, transforming them lovingly into caricatures and tableaus During his childhood, Thomas Rousset spent a great deal of time among the detritus of a traditional rural life. Alongside the… Continue reading Fiction and absurdity: Thomas Rousset’s exaggerated explorations of rural life

Lisbon: Through the Eyes of Ricardo Junqueira

Lisbon’s pastel dreamland still feels like a small European village. Photographer Ricardo Junqueira gives us a candid view through his lens. The post Lisbon: Through the Eyes of Ricardo Junqueira appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.

Freebie: Build Your Own Gingerbread Village

Build your own gingerbread village with these FREE holiday illustrations. Bring seasonal charm to greetings cards and holiday designs. The post Freebie: Build Your Own Gingerbread Village appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.

Portraits from the Summer of Love, and four other photo book picks

Shenandoah Jordan, Super Adaptoid, Lady Glorious, Matthew, and Steve Culligan in a Convertible, Haight Street, August 13, 1968. From Elaine Mayes’ “The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968”. © Elaine Mayes In this season’s photo book selection, we look at early color photographs by urban street photographer, Mitch Epstein; Elaine Mayes’s portraits of hippies and oddballs at the… Continue reading Portraits from the Summer of Love, and four other photo book picks

Jamie Beck’s photos from the French countryside look like Renaissance paintings

One of Beck’s self portraits in a Provence lavender field. Jamie Beck Six years ago, photographer Jamie Beck was seemingly living the life. She was running a thriving commercial photography studio in New York City and had all the trappings of success—prestigious clients from Vogue to Nike, a beautiful apartment, designer clothes, a vintage car.… Continue reading Jamie Beck’s photos from the French countryside look like Renaissance paintings

Why Northern and Southern Hemisphere seasons matter in Licensing

A few years back, Aldi Australia released a Christmas commercial set in a small, snow-blanketed Scandinavian village. The spot followed Johan, a young man returning from a trip to Australia with stories of a warm Christmas, complete with surfing and summer foods. While the elders of the village were skeptical, they eventually came around to… Continue reading Why Northern and Southern Hemisphere seasons matter in Licensing

See the tempestuous finalists of the Weather Photographer of the Year Awards

“Inside a cumulonimbus cloud, particles of rain, snow or ice move up and down, colliding and causing an imbalance in the electrical charge. Cloud-to-ground lightning, as seen in this image, happens when a channel of negative charge zigzags downward in a ‘forked pattern‘. This is usually invisible to the human eye and travels to the… Continue reading See the tempestuous finalists of the Weather Photographer of the Year Awards

Festival preview: 10 shows & workshops to check out at Les Rencontres d’Arles this summer

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 1981. Black River Productions, Ltd. / Galerie Thomas Zander / Mitch Epstein If you ask this editor what’s better than summer in Europe, the only acceptable answer is summer in France, specifically. Throw in a legendary photography festival and that might just be la crème de la crème. This summer, Les Rencontres… Continue reading Festival preview: 10 shows & workshops to check out at Les Rencontres d’Arles this summer