Each year, in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Windland Smith Rice International Awards are presented to America’s best nature photographers. This year Colorado’s own Nate Zeman, a resident of Breckenridge, was honored when his “Dawn of Winter” was named Highly Honored Winner. Category and Highly Honored Winners will be on display at … Continue reading Zeman named one of best nature photographers
Every year in late December the media do their annual roundups. Stories of the year. Movies of the year. Products of the year. Every list and category you can imagine. My favorites, however, are usually the photo roundups. Best pictures of the year or the year in pictures. Visual feasts of the year’s great photojournalism. … Continue reading NYT and CNN present year in pictures
A year ago I stumbled across the website of one of Colorado’s great outdoor photographers, Nate Zeman of Breckenridge. I revisited his site a few days ago to see what he’s been up to lately and found this magnificent photo of White Sands National Monument, NM. There’s a lovely companion photo showing how spectacularly white this … Continue reading No vacant lots in nature
Digital Globe is currently conducting its annual contest to choose the Top Satellite Image of 2013. Voting will close Dec. 16 at midnight PST, so hurry over to their Facebook page, check out the 20 finalists, and cast your vote. You can vote for as many photos as you like. The top five vote-getters will go … Continue reading Voting still open for year’s top satellite image
This photograph by Nicolas Reusens Boden, Sweden, is one of the early entries in the Nature and Wildlife category of Sony’s 2014 World Photography Awards. Photographers have about a month left to submit their best work. In this seventh year of the international competition, the overall winner will receive $25,000 and winners of each of 15 … Continue reading Peek at entries in Sony World Photography 2014 competition
If you’ve read the captions, you already know what these pictures have in common. They’re all paintings. Not photographs. Paintings. By some of the world’s greatest photorealists, artists who snap photos and then paint exacting, realistic copies of them. Some of the paintings are so detailed and meticulous that the artist produces only one or … Continue reading What do these pictures have in common?
