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Instant Photography is quite popular and favorite amongst many photographers. Jollylook is a unique instant camera, since its made out of recycled paper and cardboard. This camera can take beautiful pictures, without the need of any electricity, sinc
Despicable Me 3, Illumination Universal's comedy adventure has officially crossed the $1 billion box office. This is the third movie of 2017 to reach the billion dollar mark, along with Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast and Universal's The Fate of the Furious. Illumination has developed quite the track record with its animated features, which combined have grossed nearly $6 billion worldwide. DM3 is its second film to take in more than $1B and its third to surpass $900M.
The team who brought you Despicable Me and the biggest animated hits of 2013 and...
Hawaii Magazine conducts annual photo contests in Land, Ocean, Wildlife, Sunset and People categories. The stunning pictures reveal the beauty of nature at its best. The underwater octopus picture shot by Shane Myers from Mililani has won the grand prize for photo contest 2021. The beautiful sunset in the pineapple field, awesome mountains and valleys of Kualoa, dolphins diving into the ocean and many more breath-taking pictures are chosen by the jurors in each category. Each category had a first prize winner and an honorary runner-...
Enjoy the diverse contemporary art ar Dubai world trade centre from 12-15 April 2017. The world art fair steps into it's third edition, which showcases the culture of dubai in contemporary art forms. According to their website, "As part of Dubai’s Official Art Season, World Art Dubai reflects the city’s growing prominence as a leading cultural and artistic hub with a unique fusion of art, education and entertainment featuring a diverse collection of contemporary art work, paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs and media ranging from $100 to $20,...
The Shigir Idol which was found in a peat bog by gold miners in 1890 is a relic known to be the oldest wooden sculpture that dates back to 12,500 years. The human figures with eerie face scattered among the geometric patterns like zigzags, chevrons and herringbones are the eight human faces with slashes for eyes. The head is shaped like an inverted teardrop with an open mouth. In 2018 scientists published the age of the sculpture about 11,500 years but a team reanalysed the radiocarbon dates and has come to a conclusion that it dates back to 12,...
Photography Contest : The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management(CIWEM) is hosting an international environmental photographer of the year Award and the deadline for submitting the entries is July 31st, 2018. The photography contest focuses mostly on the impact on the environment and it's immediate surroundings. The environment photographs should act as an eye opener, challenging, beautiful and people should start to take better care of their surroundings. According to CIWEM,"is the leading international Royal Chartered professional body...
Sculpture: Every year Sweden invites artists to sculptures of ice in it's Icehotel, which can be used by visitors. The icehotel has 35 suites and this year 36 artists from 16 different countries have designed the rooms. The artists who work on the bed sculptures have no prior experience in working on ice. This year we have stunning bed sculptures of Queen of the North, which a holds a bed in it's long hands. To build this icehotel, 30k cubic meters of snow and ice was used and for the ice sculptures 500 tons of clear ice was used. IceHotel reopens every year with...
Wildlife Photography: Nature's Best Photography by the Windland Smith Rice is an annual event and it celebrates the joy of photography and nature. This year more than 26000 entries were received and it was a whopping success. You can see the award winning wildlife photography here. It's one of the most respected awards in the wildlife photography. 2017 Grand Prize winner was Lakshitha Karunarathna and the winning picture was a pride of lioness found in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. The winner of the African Wildlife was Piper Mackay with giraffes...
Welcome to the 10th HPA awards 2017, the Humanity Photo awards was started in the year 1998 which mainly focuses on the folk culture of people across the world. HPA is organized by 'The China Folklore Photographic Association' and 'UNESCO'. You can submit images in any of these categories and entry is absolutely free. You could become the grand winner and take away prizes worth $2000. The winners will be announced on September 16th, 2017 with a gala event.
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Portraits of people from different nationalities; costumes and adornments...
Dubai welcomes 3D Artists which is all set to happen in March 2017. December 15th 2016 is the last date for submission. The award, which carries a total prize money of $650,000 was launched at the second Dubai Canvas Festival last March. The final prize-winner will be awarded $300,000 prize money. This is the first time an award of excellence is given for 3D art category. The theme for the 3D Art award is 'Happiness', so artists from all over the world are invited to take part and win laurels. A jury comprised of renowned international and local artists will...
500px is a photography community where you can get immediate exposure with your first upload, connect and share your photos with the world. This site conducted a quest to find the colourful buildings photography and announced the winner too. Italy, Greece, Japan, Cape Town, Denmark and the world has plenty of colourful cities for photographers to play with. Whether it’s a street with every colour of the rainbow or an entire monochrome skyscraper, for this Quest it's all about architecture with COLOR. Here we have listed the winning photo and...
Photography Contest : Digital photography and editing is evolving in great pace with popularity in image stitching particularly in panoramic format. The 8th EPSON International Pano Awards is encouraging the craft and art of panoramic photography. The competition is open to panoramic photographers around the world. There are competitions for amateur as well as professional photographers - with a photography earnings threshold of $20,000 per year – and categories for nature/landscapes and the built environment, as well as a special section for VR and 360...
More than 400 entries came from around the world for Audubon Community Nature Center’s 2020 Nature Photography Contest. Twelve countries plus 41 U.S. states and Puerto Rico were represented. Winners and finalists are from India, Saudi Arabia, Chile, northern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania, and Western New York.
Photographs from the following categories were accepted:
Wildlife Portraits (any wild animal; no photos of animals in captivity, such as pets, zoos, or rehab animals)
Macro Abstracts (anything that is natural/wild such as flowers, insects, leaves,...
Typography Conference : Clearleft's Ampersand is all set for a mega one day typography conference which will be held at Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton, UK on 29th June 2018. This year we have the industry's best conducting the workshop which will be beneficial for all emerging and professional typography and graphic designers. This year we have Bianca Berning from Dalton Maag who will be speaking about the huge potential about variable fonts. Michael Johnson will be conducting a seminar on the role of typography in branding. Mark Porter will be...
The popular iOS photo editing app Afterlight has upgraded its app which brings in most-powerful and user friendly features with it. The Afterlight 2 is a complete make-over of its predecessor Afterlight which is popular among the users. During the editing process the app uses a dark theme where focus is on the photos during the work. It has icons of various settings are placed in recognisable manner. Once the app is launched it opens up the images in camera roll where you can choose the image which need to be edited by tapping on the "use". Along the bottom...
Tata tea - Kannan Devan's 'The photography escapade contest' first launched in 2015 to bring out the enthralling story of its origin and creation. Photographers and videographers around the world can participate in the contest. It gives an opportunity for the budding photographers to capture the natural beauty of the munnar hills and the people of Munnar. An expert panel of photographers and heads of Tata tea kannan devan would judge the contest. 10 best photographers will be selected to go to Kanan Devan Hills in Munnar, Kerala, for the on-ground event. The...
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