Outstanding Photographers

Breathtaking ocean landscapes and visually stunning compositions, meet photographer Louise Denton!

Posted by Arnaud | Filed under Conceptual, Landscape, Photomanipulation, Still life

Some photographers seem to freeze, slow, or speed up time while others intrigue and twist our imagination to new and imaginative concepts. Our 148th featured artist Louise Denton uses various photography techniques to take her imagery into entirely new dimensions! In fact a brief look through Louise’s photostream and you will be treated to a variety of styles, color, breathtaking ocean landscapes and visually stunning compositions! Enough said! For a taste of Louise’s artistry here is a visual guide to 18 of her most awesome captures!

About me -

I’m Lou, originally from the UK but lucky enough to now be living in the tropical region of Darwin, northern Australia.

The environment I live in is awesome, which has led me to become interested mainly in landscape photography. Darwin has everything from beautiful beaches, the best sunsets, amazing waterfalls, gorges and national parks everywhere. I still haven’t explored everywhere I want to and it will be a long time before I become exhausted with this location!

I began my interest in photography in October 2010, using my first DSLR; a Canon 450D. My passion (bordering on obsession, now!!) was furthered when I bought my first wide angle lens; a Sigma 10-20mm. All of my landscapes use this lens. I do like to create inspirational images, and shoot still life with my 50mm prime lens.

My other passion is travel, and I am lucky enough to have been able to travel through Europe several times, through SE Asia a couple of times and all around Australia. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as interested in photography then so I think I need to go and travel it all again!

My next trip planned is to Kakadu National Park, which is within my home state. It is the second largest national park in the world. I also would love to revisit Uluru and the “red centre”. I just don’t have enough time!

Anyway, that’s just a bit about me – I’m pretty crazy, a bit hyper sometimes….. but I love to hear from people, so if you have something to say check out my Flickr account and get in touch! All of my images are available as prints on request.
www.flickr.com/photos/lou1003

18 shots -

Like glass

Rapid Creek

Blue Hour

Palm Trees

Ebb and Flow

Where have you come from, driftwood?

Another Darwin sunset

A moment shared

Lonesome

Is there anyone out there?

Backlit

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful!

Under a blanket of cloud

Simple and Beautiful

Simplicity is beautiful

Sunshine

For Everyone

Coffee splash, with a twist!

You can contact Louise at: Louise Denton Photography

Use of these images on websites, blogs or any other media without the explicit permission of the artists is absolutely prohibited. © All rights reserved. It is prohibited to download, copy or use a photo in any other way without the express permission of the photographer.

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Tags: Australia, conceptual, landscape, Louise Denton, photomanipulation, still life, United Kingdom

Read more | Comments off | July 18th, 2011

Kush Chadda is an artist that sees and interprets every magical moment with a click of his shutter yet likes to keep his pictures as close to how the camera spits them out as possible.

Posted by Arnaud | Filed under Landscape, Macro, Urban

Introducing our 146th featured photographer Kush Chadda (Kush)! Be it cityscape or macro, a beautiful waterfall or a lush forest framed, Kush is an artist that sees and interprets every magical moment with a click of his shutter! His secret? Kush paints in our mind’s eye that once in a lifetime ocean sunset or foggy mountain sunrise just the way he saw it! Looking at these brilliant pieces will of course make you feel as if you were there in person! Relax and enjoy the incredible photography of Kush Chadda!

Artist’s statement:

It was in early 2004 when first I looked through the viewfinder of an SLR – it was a friend’s Canon EOS 300 (Film). Ever since I have been hooked to photography.

Over these years I have owned a couple of Film SLRs – Canon EOS 300 and Nikon F75. My first DSLR was a Nikon D50 which I still have. No sooner I got this my learning and creativity graph kept climbing higher. But, its taken off in the last few months of being active on flickr and being inspired by the work of some awesome photographers in my contacts.

Today I own the following

Bodies
2 Nikon D90
Nikon D50
Lenses
Nikkor 18 – 200 VR
Tokina 11 – 16 F2.8
Nikkor 50mm F1.8
Tripod
Manfrotto 190 XDB
Head
Manfrotto 496 RC2 Ball Head
Bag
Lowepro Back Pack (not sure which one)

I almost messed up my D50 trying to clean the sensor for the first time. Ever since I hate changing lenses on my DSLRs. As far as possible I try an avoid it. I know it kinda sounds beginnerish….but I cant really help this. I suffer from NAS (Nikon Acquisition Syndrome), something which doesn’t go down very well with my wife and my wallet…:-).

The Himalayas have always fascinated me. I had been wanting to go to Leh since 1996 but just couldn’t do it. Flying to Leh was never an option. I finally embarked, on what had by then become a Spiritual Journey for my soul, in 2009. Loved every bit of it. I am sure I will keep going back to that part of the world again and again.

As of now I mainly shoot landscapes.I am however really keen on Street Photography and would love to get better at it.

I like to keep my pictures as close to how the camera spits them out as possible. Mostly all I do with my images is adjust the curves, vibrancy and sharpening. This can also be attributed to the fact that I am no PhotoShop Guru. The 3:2 aspect ratio of pictures is not really my favourite. Thus I often chop (crop) my images. When I look through the viewfinder I keep two principles in mind before I release the shutter

1. KISS – Keep it simple stupid.
2. Its all about composition.

I guess that is all I have to say about myself and my hobby.

Happy Clicking Guys

Above the tree line

Planking

Barbie (Bribie) Island

The Talismanic Cove

Pt Arkwright

Early Morning – Pt. Cartwright

Blue Morning

Wellington point – 26th March

It doesn’t get any better – Wellington point

Going green

I love black

Purling Brook Falls – Springwood

Reflection 2

White balance

Sunset in the Sangla Valley

Time to reflect

Getting Naughty?

Brisbane Storm 2

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Read more | Comments off | July 12th, 2011

Photographer Tim Poulton, is a natural! His unique way of seeing translates in an ability to single out that emotional response in any image!

Posted by Arnaud | Filed under Landscape, Macro, Photographers

What makes some photographers so outstanding? I think we can confidently say that good photographers have an “eye”. Some learn it, others may have a natural ability. While skill, knowledge, dedication, and experience play an important role, creativity is what defines and separates outstanding photographers from others. Our 40th featured photographer Tim Poulton, is a natural! His unique way of seeing translates in an ability to single out that emotional response in any image.

“My name is Timothy Poulton, I’m a photographer living in Sydney, Australia. The vast majority of my photographs are panoramic landscapes from the east coast of Australia, though I also love taking macro shots of insects. One of my images, “Shocking Bondi’, won the 2009 International Landscape Awards. It depicts a series of lightning strikes during a storm that lashed Bondi Beach in 2008. More recently”Purple Rain”, an image of a Jumping Spider (Salticidae), won the Australian Museum Up Close and Spineless competition and this image as well as other will be displayed in all Australian Museums during 2011. ??

My passion for visual imagery dates to the early ’90s when I joined forces with Katie Little to launch a graphic design business One Of A Kind Media Group. It is now a business working for famous fashion labels, music festivals, shopping centers and retail outlets. This was what originally attracted me to fashion photography. Building the business and raising a family with Katie meant that there was little time for photography until my interest was rekindled by my brother Peter Anthony.

I replaced my aging Hasselblad with Nikon camera bodies and Carl Ziess Lenses and fell in love with landscape photography. My panoramic images come from locations up and down the coast of Australia, Tasmania and Bangkok.

In 2010 my brother and I started Leading Lines Photography to share our art. We have plans to start a photography school as well”.

Here are some of the beautiful shots of Timothy Poulton!

A Pier Too Far

Four Mile Beach

Sunset Beach

Forever Blue

I can see for miles and miles

Bed of Nails

Wax On!

Vincent (Starry Starry Night)

Cradle Mountain

Toothy Pegs

Wrong Side of the Tracks

Purple Rain

Case of the missing stick…

Never Never

Shimmer

Countdown

Shocking Bondi

Windy City

You can contact Timothy at: One Of A Kind

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Read more | Comments off | June 3rd, 2011

Watching his images you will find yourself dreaming!! Wonder from down-under, photographer Soren Martensen!

Posted by Arnaud | Filed under Landscape, Nature

Our 27th featured photographer Soren Martensen, is a wonder from down-under! Known on flickr as danishpm, Soren is an inspiration, his every capture a splendid unfolding of the beauty of Australia! Indeed, watching his images you will find yourself dreaming!!

“A bit about myself:

I’m Soren Martensen, known on flickr as danishpm – I was born in Denmark in 1958, but moved to, and settled in Northern New South Wales on Australia’s East coast in 1987.
I have always been interested in photography and really enjoy a great image when I see one. I have had many cameras, right back from the film days, but it wasn’t until I got my current DSLR in late 2008, that post-processing really started to capture my interest. Now I go out actively looking for what could become a nice image”.

Some of Soren’s delightful images for your taste!

Wave Action at Sunrise

Sunrise Spectacle

Sunrise? What Sunrise?

Natural Arch – Springbrook National Park

Swwoooosh!

Sunshine on the Rocks

Raindrops keep falling on my head

Clarrie Hall Dam – Uki

The Line is Drawn

Breaking the rules

Sunset over Mount Warning – Murwillumbah

Morning Has Broken

Surf’s Down?

Todays Colour is Pink

Waterfall at the Beach

Morning Blessings

Another Beautiful Morning at Hastings Point

Frangipani Flowers

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Read more | Comments off | May 31st, 2011

Top notch photographer Aaron Pryor delights his viewers time and again with his artistic captures!

Posted by Arnaud | Filed under Landscape, Macro, Nature, Night, Portrait

Our 135th featured artist is Aaron Pryor, a top notch photographer whose innovative style and effective use of light and composition brilliantly captures the emotion and thrill of the moment with a click of the shutter! Innovative and creative, and definitely not shy to experiment, Aaron delights his viewers time and again with his artistic captures! Be it landscapes, nature, macro, portrait or simply painting with light you can be sure to be inspired and a visit to his stream won’t leave you disappointed! !

Artist’s statement:

” My name is Aaron Pryor, I’m a Sydney based photographer living on the Northern Beaches.
Landscape, Seascape, Nature, and Macro photography is my passion.

Learning the art of photography is so inspirational to me just trying to capture a moment in time by the clicking of a button just makes so much sense to me and you can hold on to the memories for a lifetime.

If I can give any advice for taking photos it would be to look at things differently with a unique eye and be different from others, experiment and try things out.
{ think outside the box as they say }

Places I’d love to go photograph, one day I hope to get to theses places.

1, Iceland
2, Africa
3, America
4, Alaska
5, Scotland
6, New Zealand – South Island 7th – 19th April 2011.
7, Japan

I use,
Canon 7D body
Canon 100mm L f2.8 IS USM macro
Canon 300mm L f4 IS USM – EF 1.4 x II extender
Canon 50mm f1.8 II
Tokina 12-24 f4 AT-X PRO DX II
Hoya ND400 filter
Hoya HD CIR-PL
Lee filters hard 0.3, 0.6, 0.9 soft 0.3, 0.6, 0.9
INDURO tripod with ball head
Canon cable release

Software,
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5 MASTER COLLECTION
PHOTOMATIX PRO
APPLE – IMAC 27inch + MACBOOK 13inch

Many thanks for your time and looking at my photography”.

Moeraki

Wanaka stars

Wanaka – sunrise

THIS IS – dreamscape

THIS IS – in search for the sunrise

tacking point lighthouse

what you need

catching the moons light

emotion

Bee

the surfer

gibbous

light-painting

whispering eyes

THIS IS – actual events

natural sound

nightscape II

the light

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Tags: Aaron Pryor, Australia, landscape, macro, nature, night, portrait

Read more | Comments off | May 11th, 2011

Photographer Tony Dailo, where photography is an art! “If you can’t enjoy it,then you are wasting your time!”

Posted by Arnaud | Filed under Landscape

Introducing Tony Dailo (forurglory), our 111th featured artist in the Hall of Fame! There’s no doubt of Tony’s exceptional skill as a landscape photographer but as he says in his own words, “I desire to dabble more in other areas of the art. I am just overwhelmed before my very eyes, of the wonders of God’s creation”. Looking forward to more stunning photos Tony and good luck in all your endeavors!

Artist’s statement:

I am Tony Dailo. I live in the beautiful city of Cairns, Queensland Australia. My passion for photography was re-kindled when my wife bought me a Canon Rebel XT. Prior to that, I was really into photography during my college days.

My images comprises of seascapes, sunrise and landscapes. Cairns has an unlimited supply of beaches and the sunrises are magnificent.

My photography is my art and vice-versa. Photography for me is about enjoyment. If you can’t enjoy it,then you are wasting your time. I get up early for a shoot whenever I can, before work or not. The only way to learn and improve is to go out there and do it. I read anything about photography. I try to learn more about my camera. I use Photoshop for editing and I am constantly experimenting with techniques and workflow.

Fortunately, I derive inspiration and motivation from looking at the works of all these creative and talented artists in Flickr and Photographer’s Choice group.

I would like to to thank my family for their support. To Arnaud, for inviting me to this awesome group. And lastly, to give glory to God, our creator.

Storm brewing

Rocks-Second Beach,Cairns

Sunrise-Ellis Beach,Cairns

Barr creek-Machans Beach,Cairns

Good as Gold

Northern Beaches,Cairns

Red Clouds-Trinity Inlet,Cairns

Sunrise at Ellis

The kingdom of the Yabby

Red Sky in the morning,Sailor’s Warning

Sunrise-Northern Beaches,Cairns

Palm Cove Jetty,Cairns

Buchan Point,Cairns

Northern Beaches,Cairns

Trawlers at rest-Trinity Inlet,Cairns

Sunrise-Northern Beaches,Cairns

Four Mile Beach,Port Douglas,Australia

Rain Clouds-Northern Beaches,Cairns,Australia

Northern Beaches-Cairns,Australia

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Read more | Comments off | March 28th, 2011

Incredible moments captured in time, meet wonder photographer Dylan Toh!

Posted by Arnaud | Filed under Landscape, Wedding

Dylan Toh is our 101th featured artist, a truly phenomenal photographer to get some amazing inspiration from! Dylan has dedicated a lot of time and experience in the outdoors and together with his wife in his travels abroad, he has been shooting the wonders of this amazing world around them! Browsing these images you’ll get the feel of those incredible moments captured in time!

Self Portrait (Bein Alligin Scotland)

Artist Statement :

Photography has been a growing passion of mine since 2006. My wife and I have established everlook photography which started off primarily as a landscape photography website but has since grown to encompass a growing portfolio of wedding images as well. We have had the good fortune to travel to remote reaches of the world and each time we do, we hope to bring back images that will help us remember the feeling of being in those wonderful places. We hope by bringing the image to the viewer, that some of our feeling can also be conveyed.

Personally, I have an intense love for hiking and some of my favourite locations have been somewhat difficult to access, especially with a heavy backpack of camera gear and hiking equipment. I carry any piece of equipment I feel I will put to use during these hikes and this usually includes an ultra wide angle (16-35mm F2.8) a midrange zoom (24-70mm F2.8) and a longer zoom (70-200mm F2.8 with 2X converter). If this means getting accustomed to carrying more weight, this is a sacrifice I am more than willing to make my doing extra conditioning before beginning a trek.

I have had the good fortune to meet some wonderful contacts from photo-sharing sites such as flickr, deviant art and the Australian photography forum. The most recent highlight was spending a weekend shooting Jokulsarlon with Orvar Atli in Iceland. Our images have recently been published in Australian Photography magazine and Popular Photography magazine and we hope that we will be able to bring our images to more eyes through print media in the future.

There is always a gold standard to strive for and I will never reach it. That is my mantra for ongoing self-improvement and the day I feel I cannot improve will be a sad day as it will be the day which I will stop taking pictures. I am sure that that day will never come though ?

Kirkjufell 2010