We’ve just published a new YouTube video, this one featuring me and Jason as we attempt to recreate a photo edit completely from memory. Thank you to Massimo Vignoli for sending us the photo in question! I won’t spoil the results, but I will say that it was harder than expected.
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There are about 3,000 species of dragonflies in the world, and they inhabit the entire planet with the exception of Antarctica. They have not changed much since they flew on their webbed wings over the Carboniferous swamps of what is now Europe, more than three hundred million years ago. Well, okay, their wingspan is no longer a mighty 70 centimeters, but the basic design has remained the same. And why change something that works so perfectly?
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A meeting with a legend—what else would you call an encounter with Lonesome George, the last known individual of his kind? On the remote Galápagos island of Pinta, the last male of the island’s unique subspecies of giant tortoise was discovered in 1971. Sadly, George passed away in 2012, and with him, the Pinta Island tortoise went extinct. “A symbol of hope,” reads the sign in the room that now holds his taxidermied body at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island. I don’t know… I might have chosen a more fitting phrase, though it probably wouldn’t flatter us humans. It is why I believe it is so important to photograph, film, and protect the world around you.
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Here on Photography Life, when we talk about cameras, it’s usually in reference to interchangeable lens cameras. There are many reasons for this, but probably the most important is that interchangeable lens systems have so much versatility and are usually of a higher quality. However, I have long been intrigued by the idea of a fixed lens “point-and-shoot” type camera that I could use for more casual photography.
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In every genre of photography, there seems to be a lesson that must be learned in order to get good photos more easily. For example, portrait photographers often talk about developing a rapport with their subjects, and from own experience with portraits, I do think that’s true. But what about bird photography? I think the lesson here should be: Every bird has a secret.
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