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May 13

Salgado’s new exhibit opens at Natural History Museum

Sebastião Salgado’s photographic exhibition’s world premier Genesis has started at London’s Natural History Museum. The balance of human relationships and majesty of nature with this fragile planet are invented through more than two hundred magnificent black and white snaps by this world renowned photographer.

The culmination of his photographic work, ‘Sebastião Salgado: Genesis’ exhibit draws together pictures of wildlife and landscapes, along with depictions of human communities which goes on to live in accordance with the old culture and traditions. The exhibit builds on Museum’s reputation as the home of the world’s best photography exhibitor.

speaking about this new photography exhibit, Salgado  told that this has been one of his longest photographic adventures – 8 years exploring, researching as well as celebrating the unspoiled legacy of nature. He has journeyed through thirty two nations re-discover the oceans, mountains and deserts; the animals as well as the people that have escaped the imprint of modern society till now.

He added that this is a pictorial depiction of the lives and lands of a still pristine world. Genesis exhibit also speaks to this age by sketching the magnificent beauty of a lost world which somehow survives. It says that this is what is in peril and this the thing that we must save.

Genesis is Salgado’s 3rd long term examination of recent global issues, after his previous well known collections Workers and Migrations. He has received numerous major photographic awards in recognition of his photography accomplishments. Recently, he has received Gold Medal Award for Photography from New York’s National Arts Club.

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Mar 13

Three Vietnamese pictures shortlisted for US magazine competition

Three photos clicked by Vietnamese photographers in their country have been selected as finalists among forty seven others for Smithsonian magazine photo competition. The three photographs are ‘People Harvesting Salt at Sunset’ clicked by Hoang Giang Hai of Hanoi, ‘Alternating Rice Plots in the Bac Son Valley’ taken by Hai Thinh Hoang, who is also from Hanoi and ‘Rice Terraces Close to Harvest Season’ clicked by Vo Anh Kiet of Ho Chi Minh City.

The first photograph, showing the hardship of diligent lady working the salt fields. The snap was taken  in August 2012 in Ninh Hoa District which is in Khanh Hoa, the central coastal province. The second picture, a click of an early fog over the yellow rice paddy in Bac Son in Lang Son, the northern upland province.The photographer took the picture after he reached a 617 meters altitude after climbing up a mountain for 2 hours on 15th July 2012.

The third picture, depicting rolling rice terraces which are almost ready for harvesting in Mu Cang Chay in Yen Ba, the northern upland province. The photographers were among the several photographers who were there to click a picture of the life cycle of the grain in September 2012.

All these pictures have been grouped under ‘travel’ category which comprises of ten best pictures elected by US Smithsonian magazine’s editor. They selected the ten best pictures from 37600 pictures from 112 countries.

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Feb 13

Wildlife photography program returns

The well known wildlife photography course is coming back to Lough Neagh Discovery Centre. Danny Gibson, a Semi-professional photographer, will host the 2nd of his series of 4 courses. The 2 day course will take place on Friday, 25th January, and Saturday, 26th January , from 10 am to 4 pm and it is open to all ability expertise and levels.

Danny Gibson is a full time member of AWFN (Amateur Wildlife Filmmakers Network) and also a Craigavon Borough Council employee. He has been clicking wildlife pictures in his spare time for 3 years with a long portfolio that specializes in outdoor and wildlife photography.

His eapertness has already been called upon by the in both radio and television with Danny Gibson featuring on BBC’s ‘Wild Week Live’ show and BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Your Place and Mine’ program and having his snaps printed in different publications and calendars. The photography course will be first based at covering photographic theory, sample shots, field craft, techniques and equipment. the 2nd day will be outdoor and that will be based on working from natural cover and hides on the nature covering macro photography of fungi as well as taking pictures of bird species.

The whole program will cost £ 120 each person and it would offer all the important techniques and information required to get started in capturing the pictures of wildlife. Participants are told to bring their own equipments for photography and perfect outdoor clothings. To know more about the whole course, then contact the Lough Neagh Discovery Centre.

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Jan 13

Indian photographer grabs National Geographic award

Pune Regional Transport Office’s assistant regional transport officer S. Bhor was recently honored at the Viewers’ Choice Award event presented by National Geographic for his talent when it comes to wildlife photography. The amateur photographer got an award in nature category for his picture called – Tender Moment which portrays a shot of a mom cheetah along with her cub at Masai Mara National Park. Around 22000 entries from 150 countries were received by the channel for the competition.

Bhor told that the cheetah is well known for her habit of climbing up on vehicles to spot the prey. The photo was clicked while she was teaching her cub how to spot and hunt prey. He added that since the plains in the Masai Mara has less trees, the cheetah have learnt to climb on the vehicles.

The amateur photographer told that they had been watching the cheetah mom and her cubs for a long time and they were expecting to see the mom go for a kill. He took the picture in the evening light. It was really an unguarded moment.

It was around ten years ago that Bhor became interested in photography and he used to study photography techniques online. Later he had also taken a formal training.

Bhor has not let go the opportunity to go to a national reserve or a wildlife sanctuary through India and across the world. He told that he is not a full time photographer as he tends to be busy with work. But when he gets chance, he watches wildlife and click photographs. It is a kind of relaxation for him.

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Dec 12

Paul Nicklen wins wildlife photographer award

Who does not love penguins; they are funny, cuddle, and remarkably graceful at times. But photographer Paul Nicklen has done something more interested. With his picture of penguins called ‘Bubble-jetting emperors’, he has just won the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer Year title.

Capturing those penguins was not an easy task. Paul was near a penguin colony in a full frozen region of the Antarctica’s Ross Sea. One day, he saw a hole and thought that the emperor penguins would come out from the water with this hole and they would be a perfect time to click them. He waited underwater with his camera and breathed with a snorkel to avoid producing bubbles.

By the time when the penguins came, his fingers were frozen. They were moving very fast and therefore he had to take the picture quite fast forgetting about focusing and framing.

He told that it was really a great a site, hundreds of penguins forced themselves out of the water and stood on to the ice above him. He felt incredible after taking the snap and thought that it was a once in a lifetime kind of event and he would never forget it.

Paul is a well known figure when it comes to clicking pictures of animal inhabitants of the coolest regions of the world. In his career, he clicked leopard seals, walruses, polar bears and a whole lot of other species in the tundra backdrop. All his pictures have a deep environmental message and he is concerned about global warming and how the environment is changing.

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Nov 12

Ron Smith celebrating nature in his photographs

Ron Smith captures shots of nature whenever he travels through the trails of forests in Connecticut. Smith is the owner of Copper City Photography and he has captured snaps of everything starting sporting events to lighthouses to the sands of Arabia.

Still for Ron, who is also an avid nature enthusiast and hiker, would prefer to lose on the roads of the forests in Connecticut with his Nikon camera one day. He told that once he used to think that one neer to travel exotic places to capture great snaps. But now he knows that beauty exists everywhere. Spots like Macedonia Brook State Park (Kent), Lake Chamberlain (Bethany) and Tunxis State Forest have drawn Ron to capture snaps of waterfalls, paths and ponds.

Smith told that he is a kind of self taught photographer who came to know this craft by going after his brother in the woods with a thirty five mm camera. With a passion for hiking through the trails of Connecticut, Ron often goes to the Ansonia Nature Center and Osbornedale State Park, where he captures pictures of rabbits, birds, butterflies and even lightning.

He tells that he prefers to be outside and the solitude – the quiet and the peace. He just loves seeing the animals. One can just disappear and listen to the silence of the woods. Early morning light is his favorite as it is not harsh. The sun tends to be a lot lower; therefore one gets more shadow on things.