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Sand Hill Cranes

May 8, 2019

You might say it was the perfect storm. National Geographic photographer Randy Olson was hunkered down in a bird blind on his last night working on an assignment about the Ogallala Aquifer near Wood River, Nebraska, USA when a storm rolled in. The area ... Read More

Interview with KM Asad: Winner, 2018 SIPA Photographer of the Year

KM Asad

May 7, 2019

Discover, Uncategorized

I caught up recently with 2018 SIPA honoree and overall winner KM Asad, an independent documentary photographer based in Bangladesh. He generously agreed to answer my questions via email. --Gina Williams GW: Congrats on your amazing winning image from SIPA... Read More

Hope From Above: Florian Ledoux’s pursuit of conservation and action

Florian Ledoux

April 23, 2019

Editorial, Uncategorized

Florian Ledoux is smitten by icy landscapes and the creatures that live there -- and committed to saving them while inspiring action in others. The more he explores the world's polar regions, the further he wants to go. And thanks to his keen eye and skil... Read More

Take Your Drone Photography to New Heights: Luca Bracali’s Top 10 Tips

Luca Bracali

April 22, 2019

On Photography, Uncategorized

By Luca Bracali https://youtu.be/gqljZp1lXB0 Ever since I began traveling for work, I’ve looked for ways to capture the beauty of planet Earth from above. As early as the 1990s I began experimenting with every alternative imaginable: ultralights, heli... Read More

PHOTOGRAPHY: OVEREXPOSED

Marianna Santoni

April 9, 2019

On Photography

Free yourself from ISO-phobia and learn to overexpose. There are many good reasons for this. In the shooting phase, a strong intentional overexposure is the most important factor in acquiring images of surprising sharpness... even with high ISO setting... Read More

Travelers

Mariusz Potocki

April 9, 2019

Nice shot

Not everyone can dive with seals, ski on glaciers and spelunk in ice caves. And not everyone can see firsthand how climate change is rapidly impacting ecosystems and cultures around the globe. And that's one primary reason why glaciologist, photographer, expl... Read More

Six Degrees South

Gilles Nicolet

April 9, 2019

Uncategorized, Worldwide Stories

"I believe that as a photographer, you can get close to the truth while still being concerned with aesthetic elements." - Gilles Nicolet "The Captain" More than 30 years ago, Gilles Nicolet arrived in Somalia to work as an agricultural engineer. "I was a y... Read More

Roie Galitz: Challenge Yourself to the Extreme

Roie Galitz

March 27, 2019

On Photography, Uncategorized

Roie Galitz, an award-winning wildlife photographer and founder of Israel’s renowned Galitz School of photography nearly gave up on photography as a career. A multi-year SIPA honoree, he’d gotten his first camera at age 22 and “fell in love with it,” Galitz s... Read More

Snowfall

Matthias Hangst

March 27, 2019

Nice shot, Uncategorized

Getty Images Chief Photographer Matthias Hangst made this spectacular unstaged shot during a ski jumping competition of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on February 26, 2017 in Lahti, Finland. The award-winning sports photographer manages a team of ... Read More

Sergey Gorshkov

March 27, 2019

Discover

As a child growing up in a Siberian village, celebrated Russian wildlife photographer and multi-year SIPA honoree Sergey Gorshkov didn’t have television. Nature was his “entertainment” and he loved being fully immersed in the wild world around him. But then, ... Read More