Fisherman’s Wooden Pier by Paulo Costa

83’’ long exposure of the “Caís Palafítico” da Carrasqueira, Comporta, Portugal at sunset.
The “Caís Palafítico” is a unique harbor that was built in the 20th century. Resting on wood pillars driven into the mud, this harbor seems to move from the margin into the river, serving as a dock for fishing boats. Depending on the tide it is buried in the mud or water.

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The Philosophy of Absolutely Nothing by Timothy Poulton

With so many photographers falling into the cliche Instagram trap, how do you stay true to your original style? What happens when everyone starts wearing fedora hats, standing on a jetty or edge of a mountain pointing towards absolutely fuck all, setting the exposure a few stops over, purposely blowing out the sky. Or better still, hanging off a toilet with only my slick sneakers in view. Why do we follow trends, even the tragically uncreative? History has proven that artists become famous for their own original style, not following trends. Its almost the weekend so feel free to write whatever comes to mind, at least it will be interesting and original.

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Lion by Adrian Sommeling

I shot the photo of the lion in the zoo and added some dust and particles around him 😉 Later on I will create a composite with this image 😉 If you are interested in creating composites yourself take a look at: tutorials.adriansommeling.com/shop 😉

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Simple Portrait by David Dubnitskiy

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Trifecta by Keith Connelly

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. by Patrick Joust

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Everything might be going terribly wrong in Rio leading up to the 2016 Olympics (always remember your keys when you lock up the stadium, folks!) but Katy Perry’s rollout of her latest inspirational feminist anthem “Rise” has been going exactly according to plan. Now, Perry is dropping the official music video for the track just a day before the Rio Olympics opening ceremonies are set to begin. NBC already cut together an inspirational set of moments with a bit of Rio’s color and traditions, so anything too over the top on Katy’s part would take away from the glory and the accomplishments that the competing athletes so rightly deserve.

Turbulent Skies by Ryan Dyar

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Processing Instruction via Skype I should have known the trip was going to have problems before I walked out the door. Two hours before leaving with my wife and my bff Miles Morgan for a week of off roading, photography and camping, I went for a coffee run after loading up all the gear into my rig. I pulled back into my driveway and just happened to catch something out of the corner of my eye. Fluid. Fluid everywhere… all over the rear wheel. Now this was a sunny and warm day, so when one of your wheels is covered in fluid and the rest of the rig is bone dry, you get a little pit in your gut. Upon closer inspection it appears to be differential oil. Very awesome. Turns out a wheel bearing had basically been hulk smashed causing a failed axle seal and blah blah blah. I walked inside our house and told Candace “Uhh, yeah, we aren’t leaving today.” I think she wanted to hurt me when first said it. To clarify, this truck of mine has been a very slow and very expensive project. I’ve been throwing money and time into this thing to prepare it for a kickass trip like this. New bumpers for bumping stuff, sliders (which turns out weren’t small cheeseburgers), a winch for rescuing Miles when he inevitably falls into a well, completely new suspension set up to make sure the truck can carry my chubby self, etc. I’ve put more money into building this thing than the truck is worth (I’m super good with investing. I’d probably buy 100 pennies for two dollars). It was the first big inaugural trip now that it’s finally off-road worthy. Candace, Miles and I had been looking forward to this for almost a year. So, to have all this work go into the vehicle to get it all rugged so I can beat it up off road at 12k feet in the mountains, it really hurt to find out I probably couldn’t even safely drive it to Taco Bell. Story of my life and a bad omen. Well a major headache, some new parts, and a couple days later we were on the road. We made the 20 hour drive to the San Juan mountains in Colorado and had a week of thunderstorms, rainbows, lightning, flowers, and mountains. Our last day in Colorado found us here in American Basin. A fun trail, mostly easy, but a little bit of a “moderate” or 4lo section towards the end. We set up the roof top tents, scouted the area a bit, and were surprised that after an hour or so we had the place mostly to ourselves. Just one other photographer in an FJ who said he’d been there for several days… lucky guy! In between a couple passing storms the afternoon light was looking pretty good so I decided it would be a nice opportunity to fly the drone that I’ve had for 8 months and almost never used. Miles was pretty excited to see it as I had been bragging about all the cool aerial photos I was gonna get and telling him how I’m a better pilot than he is and could probably do his job since I can fly a drone. I got the thing into the air, did some flying around, and photographed the gorgeous light on the mountains. I was showing Miles all the cool features, camera settings, etc, when all of the sudden I realized I was shooting everything in jpeg instead of RAW. Such a rookie mistake. I fiddled around and tried to switch it back to RAW while I got an earful of “rookie” jokes from Miles when I was alerted by the drone that the battery was low and it was returning back to me using the built in GPS… it has this cool auto-return feature so dummies like me don’t end up losing them out in the mountains. Then it happened. I lost it out in the mountains. I don’t know what happened, but I got an “aircraft disconnected” message then never saw the thing again. So if you head out to American Basin this summer or fall, there is a DJI Phantom 3 Pro in the hillsides up there with some pretty cool jpegs on the memory card. You can have them. Obviously the “return to home” feature doesn’t work on it, so don’t bother trying to get it to me or my home if you find it. The only consolation prize was the light that evening. The sun came in and out of clouds towards the west while thunder and lightning pounded us from the east. Miles found this comp first, but then abandoned it, so I stole it from him. But he got some better stuff upstream anyways, so I don’t feel so bad. I have a massive amount of images to process from this trip, Namibia, Norway, etc… and am finally finding the time to process them. Also I have a brand new video coming out next week along with the shot that goes with it. So if you care at all, there’s that.

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Classic. by Dominic Starley

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The Justice Department said on Thursday that it will not alter consent decrees that it originally reached with ASCAP and BMI in 1941 but would require the licensing organizations to change how they collect royalties, prompting a furious response. In the complicated world of music royalties, songwriters and publishers such as Sony/ATV hire ASCAP, BMI and other performance rights groups to license their songs to digital streaming services, radio and television stations, bars and other music users. For years, in cases where ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) or BMI (Broadcast Music Inc) did not represent all of the authors of a song, they would issue fractional licenses and presume that the licensee would ensure others were paid.

For anyone who can't wait for the next season of "Game of Thrones," a live concert of the show's music in Los Angeles next week might make the loss a little less bitter.

Kirkjufell by Dylan Furst

Morning at the iconic Kirkjufell in Iceland

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