Storm Photos of the Year Monday April 18, 2022
The noted storm photographer Mike Olbinski, whom we've featured many times at PPD, created the annual Storm Photos of the Year contest as a way to help the public recognize the dedication of both professional and amateur storm photographers, notes PetaPixel. Olbinski and a team of judges have now announced the winners of the 2021 Storm Photos of the Year contest. The Photo of the Year award goes to Alexis Mailliard for a shot of a lightning strike in Chardonnay, Saône-et-Loire, France. Read the full Story >>
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Wonderful Machine Monday April 18, 2022
Morgan Hoffman had been the world's top-ranked amateur golfer when he received the life-changing diagnosis of muscular dystrophy. Frustrated with western medicine, he looked to healing practices
elsewhere. This journey led him to Nosara, Costa Rica, where residents, on average, live longer than most other places on earth. In this setting, Morgan has been able to learn how to intuitively heal
himself by way … Read the full Story >>
AccuWeather Friday April 15, 2022
What will the weather be like on April 8, 2024? That will be the question on the minds of millions of people — perhaps photographers foremost — over the next two years, leading up to a spectacular total solar eclipse, notes AccuWeather. The eclipse that day will be the only chance to see a total solar eclipse from the contiguous U.S. until one unfolds on Aug. 22, 2044. This makes the 2024 event one of the must-see astronomy events of the decade, notes the website. According to experts, the 2024 eclipse will be even more impressive than the one in 2017. Read the full Story >>
Reuters Friday April 15, 2022
Letizia Battaglia, who won renown by documenting the Mafia's stranglehold on her native Sicily, died on April 13 in Palermo, reports Reuters. She was 87. Battaglia depicted the brutal Sicilian Mafia wars of the 1980s and 1990s with images of political assassinations and dead bodies lying in pools of blood on sidewalks or abandoned on the side of rural roads. Her images also showed the Mafia's impact on Sicilians. "I did what I could to shake consciences by showing not only violent deaths but also the poverty caused by the Mafia," Battaglia once said. Read the full Story >>
