American Photography Open 2022: March Highlights From Our Judges

By David Schonauer   Wednesday April 13, 2022

The American Photography Open competition is back for 2022. The contest, open to photographers at any level using any device, from DSLRs and mirrorless cameras to smartphones, got underway in March, and the first month of the competition saw entries coming in from around the world. Today we're featuring several images that caught the attention of our judges, from a shot of cypress trees …   Read the full Story >>

Feats: Photographer Spots Spacewalking Astronauts From His Back Yard

PetaPixel   Tuesday April 12, 2022

Astrophotographer Dr. Sebastian Voltmer recently managed to photograph two astronauts making a space walk outside the space station—shooting from his back yard, notes PetaPixel. Voltmer lives in Sankt Wendel, Germany, which is where one of the two astronauts performing the spacewalk — Matthias Maurer — is from. “I used a C11 EdgeHD telescope on a 10micron GM 2000 HPS mount. One day before the ISS pass I updated my mount with the recent coordinates of the space station,” he tells PP. “With my servo motors I was able to track the really fast ISS.”   Read the full Story >>

Exhibitions: How Marcia Resnick Pushed Conceptual Boundaries

ARTnews   Tuesday April 12, 2022

“For artist Marcia Resnick, a photograph is not a static thing—it’s an exchange, a performance, a selectively rendered reality. Her pictures tell a tightly choreographed story, revealing a worldview centered on exposing and poking fun at life’s absurdities.” So notes Art News, which spotlights an exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, featuring work that Resnick, now 71, made decades ago. (The show will travel to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York.)   Read the full Story >>

What We're Reading: How the Metaverse Will Reinvent Photography

Fast Company   Tuesday April 12, 2022

“Free from limitations of past devices or even the laws of physics, photography in the metaverse unlocks previously unimaginable liberty to explore light, color, perspective and output,” writes Bryan O’Neil Hughes at FastCompany. Photography can and will become more than the still images we exchange today. With 3D layers embedded with sound (even smell), metaverse photography will enable perception beyond the eyes, forging a new category of art, a new kind of sensory experience, declares Hughes.   Read the full Story >>