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Professional Photographers of America has announced winner of Grand Imaging Award 2021
Professional photographers of America founded in 1868, is the longest-standing non-profitable photography trade association.  In its largest annual conference and trade show professional photographers association announced the winner of the cont
Hawaii Magazine 2021 Photography Contest Winners Announced
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-...
The International Photography Awards has announced the winners of its 2020 photography competition. Showcasing some of the most outstanding photographic work from around the globe, this year’s contest gathered a total of 13,000 entries from 120 countries. Discover the selection of winners and honorable mentions from the architecture sub-categories: fine art, cityscapes, bridges, buildings, interior, historic, industrial, abstract, and other. The IPA revealed its 2020 winners. To select the category frontrunners, an international jury of renowned photography...
You're in luck because there are lots of laughs to be had when looking at the winners of the 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards. With over 7,000 entries from photographers around the world, it wasn't an easy decision to narrow the field to a winner. But in the end, it was a photo of a sassy turtle that helped photographer Mark Fitzpatrick win the top award. “It's been amazing to see the reaction to my photo of Terry the Turtle flipping the bird, with Terry giving people a laugh in what has been a difficult year for many, as well as helping spread an...
Painting: Autodesk Sketchbook is an amazing painting software which will be suitable for both emerging and professional artists, architects, concept designers and other creative artists. Artists can create stunning illustrations and designs with the ease of technology and less paint mess at work place. It's easy to carry your sketchbook, so you can be a creative designer at all times. Autodesk Sketchbook Painting Software is compatabile in Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices. It's preloaded with 140 brushes and if you don't find your favourite brush, it has an...
Even amid stay-at-home order and restricted mobility, the cameramen who worked for stories this year were able to connect us with events around the world. To enjoy the New Year, now here is a screened selection of the most attractive photographs of 2020. This article consists of or favourite pictures from the photography competitions of the last 12 months from the following genres:   Wildlife Photography Award winning wildlife photography by sergey Food photography, Award winning food photography by kmasad Landscape photography, Award winning landscape...
Our Big Backyard Nature Photo Contest is Open for Entries | February 23 2021
Contest Closed
Greater Portland
Nature is shining bright as it breathes fresh air due to pandemic lockdown.  Everything around us is nature and you can shoot your backyard, your local park, or a trail.  Let us celebrate nature and share it with the rest of the world by entering the Big Backyard Nature Photo Contest.  The photo can be taken anywhere in Greater Portland, from Forest Grove in the west to the Sandy River in the east to Wilsonville in the south.  A 50 word description should be included along with the photo.  Digitally altered photos are eligible for the...
Photo Director is a free Photo Editing App developed by Cyberlink. You can use this photo editor on your smart phones to make them look like professional photographs. If you love to travel, you can use this photo editor to make your normal photos look like professional photos like from Canon or Nikon. This quick photo editing app combines a feature-rich photo editor with a richly creative collage maker that lets you adjust RGB with a visual histogram. Change white balance or saturation, or apply photo effects and adjustments to an entire image or specific regions...
Prairie Village Annual Art Competition Winners Announced
The Prairie Village Arts Council has announced the 2020 State of the Arts winners. For the last 13 years, State of the Arts has served as the council’s premiere art show of the year. But this year, the coronavirus pandemic brought on some challenges to navigate. Grace Roberts won best in show for her coloured pencil piece entitled ‘The Secret Garden’, while the People’s choice award went to Roland Escalona’s coloured pencil, pen and link drawing entitles, ‘Close Quarters’. Overall, there were 450 submissions from local,...
Painting: Rebelle is a poweful and useful paint software which has been creating waves in the art industry. Now with the launch of Rebelle 3, artists can create authentic digital paintings, which can be created using any of the techniques like oil painting, watercolors, acrylic and the result is similar to those of the traditional hand paintings. According to Rebelle,"is a one-of-a-kind paint software that lets you create realistic watercolor, acrylic, wet and dry media artwork, using real-world color blending, wet diffusion and drying". Rebelle paint software is...
Prestigious A Design Award and Competition 2021 | Entries by 28 Feb 2021
Contest Closed
* Entry Fee: https://competition.adesignaward.com/concurrentfees.php
World's largest and most prestigious design award opens for entries.  Innovative artists, architects, companies and brands are invited to showcase their best design products, projects and services from around the world. Categories of competition are interior design, architecture design, packaging design, furniture design, graphic design, consumer electronics design, jewelry design, lightning design, art design, home appliance design, vehicle design, kitchenware design, sanitary ware design, street furniture design, accessory design, toy design,  ...
Legendary Asian American Photographer Corky Lee Dies of Covid
The legendary photographer Corky Lee, who spent half a century in documenting a community that had long been unseen has passed away due to Covid complications.  To him his works which appeared in New York Times, Time Magazine and the Associated press, is an act of "photographic justice".  Mr.Lee's interest in photography dates back to time when he studied the iconic photograph marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.  This photograph had none of the chinese labourers who worked for the...
The beneficial life of a consumer electronic product is relatively short and decreasing as there is vast changes in the equipment features and abilities. This leads to a large waste stream of obsolete electronic equipment, electronic waste (e-waste). The conventional method of disposing the e-waste has lot of disadvantages both on economical and environmental grounds. So we need to think of new methods of e-waste management like recycling. Comparatively new method of electronic recycling is yet to have a solid infrastructure in place. A more challenging...
As the extraordinary year of 2020 comes to a close, one of the unifying sentiments that gripped the world has been that of gratitude for everyday joy. As a nod to the theme, Delhi-based art gallery DAG, unveils its exhibition The World Will Go On: A Gratitude Sale, a tribute to the simplicity of nature, culture and mythology. One of the featured painters and award-winning artist, Manu Parekh, elaborates on the concept of the event, “Institutions need to carry on their work even–or especially–when times are bad, since art is something beyond...
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...
Books became the most sought after recreation in 2020, thanks to the pandemic which shut people inside their houses. Reading books introduces us to an entirely different perspective of life and connects us to different people and ideas. The classical art works, drawing tips or behind the scenes craft of an animation, be it any kind, the artist gets greater knowledge through reading a proper art book. The art book collectives shared in our post will inspire and educate you if you happen to be an artist with a creative mind. Here we share some of the latest and...