PhotoOwl.com » Photographers http://photoowl.com Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:58:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever (Video) http://photoowl.com/biggest-tallest-tree-photo-ever-video/ http://photoowl.com/biggest-tallest-tree-photo-ever-video/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:00:43 +0000 http://photoowl.com/?p=262 National Geographic sent Nichols to spend an entire year in California’s redwood forest. His mission was to capture the majesty of some of the tallest trees on Earth, some of which date back before Christ. And if you’ve ever photographed in a forest, you’ll understand the challenge this presented. There’s no capturing the awe one feels before these monoliths that measure, in some cases, upward of 300 feet.

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Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/09/redwoods.html

]]> http://photoowl.com/biggest-tallest-tree-photo-ever-video/feed/ 0 Rich Legg http://photoowl.com/rich-legg/ http://photoowl.com/rich-legg/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:14:28 +0000 http://photoowl.com/?p=208 rich_leggPresenting Rich Legg, a photographer living in Salt Lake City, Utah.

His web site: http://www.leggnet.com/

Also take a look at his awesome Tutorials & Tips part of the site.

]]> http://photoowl.com/rich-legg/feed/ 0 Bebbs – Canon 5D Mark II review http://photoowl.com/bebbs-canon-5d-mark-ii-review/ http://photoowl.com/bebbs-canon-5d-mark-ii-review/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:07:30 +0000 http://photoowl.com/?p=160

]]> http://photoowl.com/bebbs-canon-5d-mark-ii-review/feed/ 0 Miroslav Tichý http://photoowl.com/miroslav-tichy/ http://photoowl.com/miroslav-tichy/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:40:40 +0000 http://photoowl.com/?p=128 In a nearly obsessive manner he takes close to one hundred photographs a day, equipped with archaicly looking instruments that turn out to be self-made cameras. Build from scraps, such as metal plates, crown caps, rubber bands, cardboard, scotch tape, and plexi glass, his awkward yet masterful cameras display an ingenious inventiveness.

Hi’s webiste www.tichyocean.ch and gallery

]]> http://photoowl.com/miroslav-tichy/feed/ 0 George Lawrence and The World’s Largest Camera http://photoowl.com/george-lawrence-and-the-worlds-largest-camera/ http://photoowl.com/george-lawrence-and-the-worlds-largest-camera/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:32:46 +0000 http://photoowl.com/?p=108 George Lawrence was one of the foremost panoramic photographers of the 20th century, as well as being the greatest KAP’er (Kite Aerial Photographer) of all time!

Link: http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/intro.html

A photo-plate size 2.44 m by 1.06 m was used to take picture of russian battalion:

    

]]> http://photoowl.com/george-lawrence-and-the-worlds-largest-camera/feed/ 0 Ansel Adams’s Yosemite http://photoowl.com/ansel-adamss-yosemite/ http://photoowl.com/ansel-adamss-yosemite/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 16:00:59 +0000 http://photoowl.com/?p=88 Hear the backstory on the photographer’s iconic images from his former assistant Andrea Stillman, development director of The Morgan Library & Museum. 

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/04/2…

]]> http://photoowl.com/ansel-adamss-yosemite/feed/ 0 George Steinmetz http://photoowl.com/george-steinmetz/ http://photoowl.com/george-steinmetz/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:36:26 +0000 http://photoowl.com/?p=84

]]> http://photoowl.com/george-steinmetz/feed/ 0 Beautiful photographs by Paul Nicklen http://photoowl.com/beautiful-photographs-by-paul-nicklen/ http://photoowl.com/beautiful-photographs-by-paul-nicklen/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:28:59 +0000 http://photoowl.com/wp/?p=75

]]> http://photoowl.com/beautiful-photographs-by-paul-nicklen/feed/ 0 Incredible Wildlife Photography by Nick Brandt http://photoowl.com/incredible-wildlife-photography-by-nick-brandt/ http://photoowl.com/incredible-wildlife-photography-by-nick-brandt/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:11:21 +0000 http://photoowl.com/wp/?p=63

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