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I took this photo on a staircase down a hill, it was new year’s eve, and I decided go walk over when I found this staircase and sat down there to watch the fireworks over the city. At the end of the fireworks there was a huge smoke cloud over the city and I tried to take a photo on that.
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Flavia Contreras De la Parra – photographer based in Santiago, Chili / on flickr
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The photo was taken on the way back from a trip to the beach in Mexico. There are lots of alters like that on the highway- I later found out that bandits use them as a way to get tourists to pull over to the side of the road before mugging them or stealing their cars.
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Molly Mare- photographer living in in Flagstaff, Arizona / on flickr
Interview of Misma Andrews - photographer born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1981.
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This photograph was taken at one of the lookouts built over the beach known as “beach of the Cathedrals”, Lugo (Spain). It is a coastal region exposed to strong winds, that combined with the power of the sea, erode the coast forming spectacular cliffs.
During a walk for the coast, I climbed to the fence of the lookout and I told my girlfriend that she had two options: push me, or make me a photograph. The image is taken with a Contax T3.
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Vicente Fraga - photographer living in Pontavedra, Spain / on flickr - on tumblr
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This photo is from our honeymoon trip to the Canadian Rockies in June of 2007 – in this particular scene, we are enjoying a morning of paddling on Lake Louise.
Nearly six years later, I recall this scene by its contrasts. The lake and air were very calm that morning – visually, our eyes were leaping back and forth from these static, level waters to the dynamic peaks and icefields above – audibly, we had a quiet solitude through the calm of the lake divide abruptly by these immense sounds of ice breaking off the glaciers and falling several hundred feet in the basin above. At that point in my life, I had not heard a glacier calve off ice. I had thought all beauty to be harmonic, but this sound was anything but that – it was a very violent and unsettling sound that left a strong impression on me. At the center of all of this sat my wife in front of me – a source of stability through the highs, lows and contrasts of life.
For many years, I was hesitant to share this photo – I had a difficult time looking past what I saw as technical flaws and seeing the image for what it is, rather than what it isn’t. Along the way, something changed.
The slide is on Ektachrome 64 through a Canon Rebel K2 with a 50mm f1.8 Canon lens.
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Josh Couts – photographer residing near Boulder, Colorado / on flickr - on tumblr
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This picture was taken last summer in Navacerrada. It was a very hot day in the city, so my boyfriend and I decided to go to the mountains in the north of the Madrid region. We took a walk in the woods and found these enormous piles of lumber. He didn’t know he was being photographed and I had to be quick before he moved, because he was in the perfect position for the shot. I was especially careful with the exposure because the sunlight was very bright and direct.
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Iciar J. Carrasco - Photographer based in Madrid, Spain / iciarjcarrasco.com
