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Life in a Flash - Photo Contest by 500px Open for Entries | June 25 2021
Contest Closed
$ 300 US
Every day has something new in store for everyone.  A great photograph doesn't need big dynamics and advanced technical instruments, it's just a beautiful timely click that excels. Life along the way has many interesting things around us
Monochrome Photography Contest 2021 and Winning Black and White Photos
Contest Closed
$2000
The Monochrome Photography Awards 2020 has announced the winner of black and white photography recently. Ksystof Mozyro won the Monochrome Photographer of the year 2020 for his arresting photograph “Opponents” taken at a Black lives matter rally in London. Further, the Monochrome Discovery of the Year award won by Svetlin Yosifov, for his ‘Portrait Woman Mursi’ photograph, taken in Southern Ethiopia. A monochrome photography award is an annual contest conducted for both professional and amateur photographers. To celebrate...
Famous Indian Artist Illayaraja passed away due to covid - The King of Hyper Realism Artworks | Tamil nadu
Illayaraja born in Tamil Nadu is quite popular for his oil paintings which focus on south indian culture. Most of his oil paintings are set on village themes. Women doing their daily chores, cooking, temple visits, women creating art and more. Women are portrayed as strong and independent women. Ilayaraja was born in Sembiyavarambil village near Kumbakonam. He had graduated with a degree in fine arts from a notable college from Chennai. His fine art oil paintings and illustrations have been published in popular lifestyle magazine " Ananda Vikatan"....
Constructed Patterns Photography Contest Open for Entries by 500px
Contest Closed
150$
The contest aims to bring out the unexpected patterns we see in our daily lives and frame them in a captivating way.  To click a photograph in this way one needs to look at the world around in an unconventional way and capture the different patterns created by human intervention.  Editors are looking for different odd shapes constructed by man, be it products or structures.  It can be an alignment of different colours in a playful sense or lining up of subjects to form patterns like triangle, circle or rectangle.  500px is one of the largest...
Winners of Sony World Photography Award 2021 Unveiled
The World Photography Organisation is an Internationally recognised platform for photographers which was founded in the year 2007 by Scott Gray.  They run a lot of exhibitions, awards and competitions round the year for photographers to enhance their global reach.  The World Photography Organisation is part of Angus Montgomery Arts group, an art fair organiser in Asia-Pacific.  "African Victorian", a portrait by Zimbabwean Photographer Tamary Kudita won the Open Photographer of the Year, a category that honours single images.  Tamary...
Visionary Architecture comes live through IK Lab - Tropical Art Gallery at Tulum, Mexico
The new modern art space which by itself is a work of art, is designed by Jorge Eduardo Neira Serkel, a self-taught architect and Santiago Rumney Guggenheim, who is the great grand son of the famous collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim and the director of the Gallery. Yucatan Peninsula near Tulum in Mexico, is an important tourist spot famous for its sandy beaches and the Mayan relics which has sea and jungle facing residences. It is a paradise for the nature lovers and artist. The modern art gallery, IK LAB is the prototype of Yucatan peninsula's heritage...
Logo Foundry is developed by XLabz Technologies Pvt Ltd and this app allows you to create stunning professional looking logo within minutes. This app is very easy to use and it's suitable for both professionals and amateurs. You really don't need any prior experience to create beautiful logos with this app. According to Logo Foundry, "Whatever branding you want to create - may it be a logo, sticker or label, Logo Maker & Logo Creator would allow you to create one at ease". This is a free app with in-app purchases. It's available for both Android and IOS...
Google Ends the Development of its Virtual Reality Painting App - The Tilt Brush
Tilt brush is going to join the list of apps that were taken down by google recently. A few weeks before, Google announced that it is planning to end the development of Tilt brush, its own virtual reality painting app. By using the app, one can make cool sculptures and sketches. This application is now open-sourced on GitHub for everyone to learn about how it was made. Now that the Tilt brush access code is available at the reach, there are prime opportunities for developers to learn and enrich their skills. Another sad news of the year is the Tilt brush will not...
Australian Photography Magazine Announced Winners of Photographer of the Year 2020
The year 2020 was challenging yet it brought out many beautiful talents in many fields and so proves the winning photographs of the photographer of the year awards by Nokia.  The Australian Photography organises photo contest for amateur photographers of Australia and New Zealand to encourage the growth of new talents.  This was the 8th annual photo contest and the winning images are stunning with their perfection and creativity.  Photographer of the year includes six categories - landscape, people, animal&nature, black and white, travel and...
Irish Examiner Announces the Winners of Readers Photography Competition 2020
Irish Examiner organises photography contest to encourage its readers who had a passion for photography.  This contest provides a forum for amateur photographers to expose their talents to a wider audience and is also rewarded for their work.  In today's technological advancement anyone with an interest in photography can take pictures with their smartphones or affordable high-end cameras.  A good picture doesn't depend totally on technology and equipment but also needs a creative mind behind it.  The photography competition received...
The Cotient World Photography Award has recently announced the winners of its 2020 competition, including a brilliantly surreal piece of portrait photography from Nimai Chandra Ghosh that grabbed the top prize of £1,000. The Cotient World Photography Award is free to enter and open to anyone around the world. Nimai Chandra Ghosh topped the winners list with his surreal portrait of a boy floating in water. Meanwhile, second place went to Yevhan Samuchenko for his beautiful black and photo (below) captioned ‘Childhood Dreams'. The image that grabbed...
Celebrated French Artist Claude Monet's Painting From Water Lilies Goes for Auction
Oscar-Claude Monet is one of the celebrated western painters of all time and the founder of Impressionist painting.  Monet is a household name in France and his iconic Water Lilies series symbolises French paintings.  A painting of Claude from his famous Water Lilies series is to go on sale at the New York auction for around $40m.  The work is 40in*79in which was painted from 1917 to 1919 and will be kept in the Impressionist session and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 12th.  The painting will be in Taipei, Taiwan on 26th April and will be...
World's Oldest Wooden Sculpture Shigir Idol is found Older than Great Pyramids of Giza
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,...
The non-profit Sanctuary Nature Foundation, which publishes wildlife and photography magazine Sanctuary Asia, presented the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards at a virtual ceremony on Saturday. The first prize went to photographer Pratik Uday Pradhan for capturing a crane fly on a thin twig in Matheran, a hill station near Mumbai. Photographers Sitaram Dinkar Raul and Mousam Ray shared the second prize. While Raul captured a fruit bat framed by a ring of leaves in Maharashtra’s Badlapur, Ray took a picture of a crimson sunbird in the petal of a banana...
In a perfect world, no one would ever have to worry about workplace injuries because there would never be any accidents or mistakes. Everything would go according to plan and every job would be risk-free. Unfortunately, we’re not living in a perfect world and workplace injuries are not uncommon. Your employer is legally responsible for your safety while you are on the job. Regardless of where you are, at the office or out on location, your employer has to take the necessary precautions to keep you safe. The necessary precautions are described in the...
Photographer Jacquie Matechuk Represents Canada at the 2021 World Photographic Cup
Jacquie Matechuk is representing Canada in the 2021 World Photographic Cup, a prestigious photography award in which photographers from 38 to 40 countries participate.  To unite photographers with a spirit of friendship and co-operation the World Photographic Cup was founded in the year 2103 by The Federation of European Photographers(FEP) and Professional Photographers of America(PPA).  Matechuk says it is an Olympic of the photographic cup as the concept ensures the best and top images from each country.  The pandemic locked down the people...