WV Nature photographers serve up nature videos of the forests of

A team of nature photographers hike through the forests of West Virginia braving the dangers of steep cliffs, jagged rocks and various wildlife to capture some of the most remote and beautiful pictures of the Mountain State termed Almost Heaven. ForestWander Nature photography consists of a father and son team that has recently added another member to the team which is the youngest son of the family.

Some of the videos feature dangerous waterfalls, wonderful nature trails and trekking through the high mountain snow, just to mention a few.

Upcoming features include the scenic views of the wonderful floral display from the hills and valleys throughout the Monongahela forest.

For more information you may visit the ForestWander website at

http://www.ForestWander.com

Free Nature Pictures and Photography

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Industrious photographers

We are not talking some kind of supercool art deco photography, where the pipes and flues and steel I-beams are transformed into geometric abstractions of great energy and diagonal verve, but straight-on, middle-of-the-frame, precisely half-toned shots of gas tanks, winding towers, etc., often arranged in groups of nine or a dozen, each shot taken at a different factory in a different region around the world.

They are photographs an engineer might take, or possibly a munitions director, since they focus on steel plants and their attendant industries. But the Bechers' "Typologies" have become icons of contemporary art, helped along from the couple's perch at the Dusseldorf State Art Academy, where the husband-and-wife team worked and Bernd taught for nearly 50 years. Over that time they trained many of the best-known, often large-format contemporary German photographers, like Thomas Struth (famous for his mural-sized shots of tourists in art museums) and Andreas Gursky (celebrated for his gleaming, billboard-sized color photos of prismatically stocked supermarkets and over-the-top modern architecture).


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Helping others grow an entrepreneurial spirit

The camera-equipped signs would photograph the license plates of speeding cars, upload the information to a satellite and would automatically issue and mail them a citation. His second idea was to sell insurance in China. Glasheen dutifully reviewed both proposals, recommended some corrections and Hitchcock won the contest. He later advanced to the state finals, then the regional, and finally was selected to compete nationally.

"He came in third. Now I wished I'd worked with him even more. He would have won," Glasheen says flashing a broad smile.

Hitchcock was accepted at MIT, but decided to go to Worcester Poly Tech where he promptly enrolled in their real entrepreneur program. His third year in college, Hitchcock racked up a million dollars in sales, Glasheen recounted.


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Camera Grants Professor Access to Cultural Communities

Mason, 53, teaches African history, South African history and the history of photography. He also uses photography to document history, preserving for posterity images of seldom-studied corners of culture.

"There are plenty of photographs of the Cape Town Carnival, but never photos from the inside," Mason said.

Mason, a frequent visitor to Cape Town for more than 20 years, studies 19th-century slavery in South Africa and its impacts. Documenting the minstrels is part of this, since many in the mixed-race community are descendants of slaves.

Mason donned a uniform and spent six weeks with Cape Town's Pennsylvania Crooning Minstrels participating in their New Year's marches and six weeks of weekend competitions that followed all the while capturing their activities in photos.


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Missing Link Found

But a short time later, they said, she was able to photograph a man, sitting in front of her stolen laptop. The victim then was able to find photos of the person using the computer after it had been stolen.

Fischer said the victim did not know either man but showed the photos to one of her roommates, who recognized them as having attended a get-together at the apartment a few weeks before the burglary. Police both the men apparently are friends of a friend of the victims.

The computer-savvy victim contacted police, gave them the tell-tale photos, and the arrests were made a short time later. The burglars Shahikian and Frias are charged with second-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, both felonies. -The Journal News .


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The High Museum of Art will include some of his images in "Road to Freedom," its survey of civil rights photography opening next month. A one-man show opened last weekend at Jackson Fine Art in Buckhead.

Davidson, a 74-year-old native of Oak Park, Ill., talked about his work and experiences at the gallery.

Q: How did you become interested in civil rights?

A: I had spent a year in 1959 photographing a Brooklyn street gang. I applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship to keep working along those lines, documenting American youth.

Someone suggested I go along with the Freedom Riders, the young people who were challenging segregation on interstate buses. I didn't know much about civil rights at the time. That experience changed my life.


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This ‘Cat’ purrs: French Jewish cartoonist’s latest has gripping

And when he chooses to draw the cat with photorealism, he has great skill; for proof, one only needs to look at the photograph of the author (and his cat) on the jacket.

The Rabbi Cat sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Sfar native France and more in translated editions worldwide, and fans will be pleased with The Rabbi Cat 2. Set in Algiers during the 1930s, the first book introduced us to Rabbi Abraham, his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, and their mercurial cat who eats a parrot and is blessed with the ability to speak (and enter into talmudic discussions).

All of the principal characters return in for the sequel, and Sfar wisely fleshes out some of the more intriguing bit players from his first book. The Rabbi Cat 2 opens with a sojourn in the desert alongside a white-haired old gent named Malka of the Lions, Abraham swashbuckling cousin.



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Chorley photographer snaps up top award

Denise won the award in the Fine Art category, beating off tough competition, with her image Triple Head which featured three dying Snake's Head Fritillary blooms.

Another of her images was also shortlisted and received a Certificate of Merit.

Both had been taken during a visit to Ness Gardens last year.

"It's always nice for your work to get recognition, and while I was hopeful that the images I submitted might do well, I was still amazed to hear my name being read out at the awards ceremony," said Denise.

Past winner of one of the national UK Photographer of the Year awards, Denise is an Associate member of the BIPP and is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.

The North West Professional Photography Awards is a combined photography award run by the Master Photographers Association (MPA) and the British Institute of Professional Photographers (BIPP) in the north west region.


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Tate Modern Presents: Street & Studio - An Urban History of

Street & Studio is a magnificent exhibition of international photography. It presents a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken on the street or in the photographer studio, looking at the differences between these two key locations in which photographers work.

Street & Studio brings out the contrast between the photos taken in the carefully orchestrated studio, and images captured in the changing and uncontrollable street, whilst highlighting the crossovers between the genres and their influence on each other.

Over 350 striking works are gathered in this stylish exhibition, by some of the world most famous and important photographers including Francis Al, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidib, Paul Strand, James Van der Zee, Juergen Teller and Wolfgang Tillmans.


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Mandy in Matt-rimony

Her photography style uses both a photojournalistic approach with traditional lovey-dovey photos.

It's funny how money matters work. It wasn't two weeks after I sent off a check for the photography deposit when the mansion folks sent me an e-mail saying they needed a deposit to hold our date. Great timing, though I can't blame them for wanting to get paid.

Wedding and reception locale? Check. Photographer? Check.

Now all we need is the dress, the tux, cake, the pastor, a hotel to stay before the wedding, a hotel for the wedding night, a rental car, airplane tickets ... well, you get the picture.

I think it's going to be a long ride to matrimony lane.

You can e-mail Amanda at amillard@gastongazette.com.

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Reporter Hassled By Union Station Security While Reporting a Story

This is pretty good: Fox 5's Tom Fitzgerald decided to do a report on the ongoing harassment of photographers inside D.C.'s busy Union Station, a topic we've written about and heard about from our own Flickr contributors many times before. While he was there interviewing Amtrak's spokesperson on the subject, who in fact told the reporter that photography is absolutely allowed inside the Amtrak portion of the station, a security guard came up to the Fox 5 crew and told them turn their cameras off. You can watch the report here.

Interestingly enough, the company that owns the mall area of Union Station never got back to Fox 5 to clarify their policy.

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Rants about Wright overlook the pain of slavery

My grandmother Ethel shared with me an early 1870s photograph she cherished of her grandmother Sarah. She was a striking woman with a deep, dark complexion and long black hair, braided waist length. She may have been native Indian, given that Silver Bluff, S.C., established an Indian trading block in the 1700s, or she may have been from the British West Indies.

Sarah gave birth to my great-grandfather in the late 1870s, shortly after Abolition. Joe McElmurray was born out of the slave-master relationship between her and John McElmurray. The specifics of their relationship are unknown. However, oral history tells the story that the elder John was present at the birth of his son. One can speculate by John's presence at his son's birth there was affection between him and Sarah.


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Luminescence of Nature Press Releases New Guide to Nikon Capture

Digital photographers of all levels will be able to use Dr. Odell's Guide to quickly master Capture NX2. The Photographer's Guide to Capture NX2 is available as a downloadable PDF file, and includes ready-made software presets and copies of the actual Nikon NEF images used as examples in the guide. .


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Friend rightly considers them true art.

‘Graydon treats photographers like auteurs,' he says. ‘There is a trust not only between photographer and subject but also photographer and the magazine. And that's reflected in the pictures. Our publication commands a certain respect and that's reflected in the access we get. We tend to elevate the subject in magazines as lush as ours.'

In revisiting the magazine's near and distant history, Friend and Vanity Fair have helped illustrate how portraiture has changed. Einstein atop a mountain in ski boots and shorts like Arnie? I doubt it, somehow. Julianne Moore posed up like a Reuben-esque model? Not bloody likely. What is impressive is the scale and scope of the exhibition, and while it may not ask too much of us, there are some genuinely breathtaking photographs here, which is all that really matters.


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'Cosplay' queen

We had two photographers during that shoot-my close friend and favorite photographer Tricia Gosingtian and schoolmate Tata."

The shoot was held in San Agustin Church. "I remember this one incident where my mom even had to talk to a Spanish priest to allow us to shoot in the premises. We all had fun."

Recently, Gosiengfiao cosplayed the "Tekken" character Lili. "Every time I play with my friends, I would pick her. I practiced using her, and I now know most of her moves and poses."

Mainstream

Gosiengfiao plays an active role in the country's anim�, gaming and cosplay scenes, which are all intertwined, according to her.

"The scenes are quickly expanding and gaining recognition. How people look at it is starting to change.


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Art-Walk this way, Mountainfilmavarians

Photographer Chris Jordan is featured at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. Jordan, a former corporate attorney turned photographic artist, explores American consumerism and waste. "It was the first call I made after getting the Mountainfilm job last November," said Holbrooke. "I started to explain Mountainfilm, when Chris interrupted and said: 'You had me when you said 'Telluride.'" Art is nothing if not the recognition of an opportunity and the results of those happenstances being acted upon. Alongside Jordan, at the same venue, are paintings by Jennifer Lowe-Anker depicting Montana. She created the frames too. "As many know, Jennifer was once the wife of climbing star Alex Lowe, who was killed in a widely publicized accident," Holbrooke said. "She is now married to Alex's former partner, another climbing star, Conrad Anker.


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