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Puffin bathed in golden light wins Scavenger Hunt Photo Contest 2025

Sixteen-year-old Anwen from South Wales, in the United Kingdom, won a bunch of Canon photo kit and got her photo printed on the front cover of The Week Junior Science+Nature magazine. Her capture, titled Golden Hour, shows a puffin bathed in golden light, its beak brimming with sand eels. “I had been dreaming of a photo of a puffin during golden hour ever since I started wildlife…
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How to create Actions in Affinity Photo 2 to enhance your landscape photographs

There are some things you always tweak when editing landscape photos. Sure, you’ve straightened the horizon and cropped that dodgy looking bloke out of the corner of the photo, but the color, contrast and sharpening adjustments tend to be very similar, making them ideal to implement as macros. That’s just the start though, because whatever ideas you can come up with, you can create and save a…
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"For plant portraits, it has to be this beautiful prime, which has great bokeh capability," explains multi-award-winning photographer

What does it take to make it as a photographer? I’ve been following the career path of a seasoned garden and landscape professional to find out what it really takes to break into the industry. I caught up with Annie Green-Armytage – who works exclusively with Canon gear – to hear how she carved out a name for herself behind the lens. Annie Green-Armytage (Image credit: Annie…
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“I believe artists should suffer.” Photographer Sally Mann’s comments on rejection, grief and passion are a must-watch for any struggling creative

Photographer Sally Mann’s work has graced the walls of numerous galleries, museums, books and magazines, but the now-renowned artist was once told her work would never sell. Mann’s new memoir, Art Work: On the Creative Life, places an intentional space in “artwork” and delves into the struggles and heartbreak that she has faced in her decades-long career. The memoir, which is illustrated…
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