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This Camera Camel Helps Shoot Hard-to-Reach Desert Locations

A group of photographers recently enlisted the help of the world’s first remote photographer camel. It wandered inaccessible areas in Saudi Arabia and worked as their photography assistant through the use of a remote shooting rig mounted to her hump. There are many areas in the world still very inaccessible to even the most adventurous photographers, but innovative methods are often deployed to…
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Reflex SLR Camera Project Derailed by Development Issues

Three years after raising £100,000 on Kickstarter, the Reflex SLR project may be shelved indefinitely due to major issues in developing a prototype that have burned through the cash raised from backers. Reflex was launched in a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign by Laurence…
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8 Helpful Camera Hacks for Landscape Photography

Much of successful landscape photography depends on having the right location, composition, and light, but photographer Mark Denney has shared 8 camera tips and hacks that can further enhance the shooting process and benefit photographers of all levels of experience. Denney is a passionate landscape photographer and educator who often shares valuable knowledge with the audience, such as his 5…
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Man Busted Getting Into Water with Grizzlies for Photos

Here’s a good example of how NOT to photograph grizzly bears out in the wild. This video shows a man who was caught on camera wading into Brooks River in Alaska and getting too close to feeding grizzly bears in order to snap some smartphone selfies and photos. A common piece of advice in photography is to “zoom with your feet,” or to get closer to your subject instead of relying on a longer…
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Moon Over Zabriskie Point, or: Seeing Photos in a New Light

In 1991, near the end of some book projects that took me on some lengthy photographic journeys through the American West by car for two years, I came up with the idea of creating posters of some of my black and white images for a few of our western National Parks. My idea was to provide park visitors with a choice instead of the commonplace color posters. Some of those color posters were…
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