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March 1 marked 50 years since Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Dark Side of the Moon was released, and there are a numbers of ways that the band is marking the anniversary.

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One of them, is the release of a 2CD/2LP/2-Blu-ray The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary deluxe box set, which is already selling out online.

The band is also releasing a special hardcover book to commemorate the occasion, which promises rare and never-before-seen photographs of the band, along with the original artwork for the now-iconic album.

Buy: Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon: The Official 50th Anniversary Book $48.00

If you want more Pink Floyd imagery, you’ll want to check out the latest release at Sonic Editions, a site that doubles as an online gallery of sorts, offering limited-edition photographs and prints of Pink Floyd, Elvis, The Rolling Stones and other notable acts.

You can purchase rare framed Pink Floyd prints on Sonic Editions starting from just $149 for a 14 x 11-inch print (the prints go all the way up to a 40 x 33-inch size). Every print is numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Buy Roger Waters Print $149+

The above print is taken from a photograph of Roger Waters performing during “The Wall” concert tour at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, NY in 1980. This print is only being released in an edition of 450.

The below frame print, meantime, captures the group members boarding a Japan Air DC-8 jet airliner that was chartered by Pink Floyd to take the group and their equipment to Japan for a 12-day tour in 1972. This print is released in an edition of 495.

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Buy Pink Floyd Goes to Japan Print $149+

Other pieces in the Pink Floyd Sonic Editions collection include a black and white photograph of Nick Mason in his Aston Martin vintage racer in 1986; a full-color print of David Gilmour on stage with his guitar; and an image of “Pink Floyd’s Pig” — the 40-foot long inflatable pig that was suspended between two chimneys at Battersea Power Station in London, during a photoshoot for the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1977 album, Animals.

See the full Pink Floyd art and photo collection online at SonicEditions.com.

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Travel photography is a popular genre for beginners, and some people have also made a career out of capturing their adventures. You might begin by sharing images from your trip on social media—but as you progress, you may wish to see how good your skills are compared to others.

Photography competitions have existed for a while, and the internet means it’s never been easier to enter one. Plenty of contests are available online, many of which take place each year. If you’re looking for some of the best to join, we’ll help you find them.

This article will go in-depth on a selection of travel photography competitions; you’ll learn about their pricing, the requirements, and how often they occur.

Travel Photographer of the Year, also known as TPOTY, is one of the most famous competitions in this genre. The contest began in 2003 and has helped several photographers worldwide gain recognition.

Of course, travel photography has several sub-niches—and TPOTY reflects this. You’ve got the overall prize, and separate categories exist for younger photographers. If you’re interested in capturing portraits on your travels, you’ll find prizes available for that as well.

Many photographers later add filmmaking to their skill set, and this competition has a prize for those interested in making HD short-form videos. Young TPOTY is free to enter, but others require you to pay a fee. You can see a full breakdown of the prices on the TPOTY website.

TPOTY takes place annually, and the entry deadline is usually in the fall. For example, the deadline for the 2023 competition was in October 2022.

Wanderlust is one of the most popular travel magazines, and you’ll find plenty of resources to help you plan a memorable trip. Once you’ve decided where to go, you may also wish to consider entering the Wanderlust Photo of the Year competition.

Like TPOTY, Wanderlust Photo of the Year takes place annually. You can submit your entries within four categories, and the contest is primarily targeted toward amateur photographers. If you’re successful, you could win prizes; the 2022 version offered a trip to Singapore, for example.

If you’ve taken photos on a trip that you love in the past, you don’t need to go out and capture new shots for the competition. Wanderlust Photo of the Year allows entries from years gone by, and you don’t need to pay an entry fee if you want to submit your shots.

National Geographic is among the most renowned names in science and technology. Its travel documentaries and articles are also popular, and one thing that’ll strike you when visiting the National Geographic Traveller website is its beautiful imagery.

Each year, National Geographic hosts the National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition. You can submit images in six categories, including one for landscape photography and another for urban environments.

The other four categories are:

• Food & travel
• People
• Portfolio
• Wildlife

You can enter each category if you’ve got a diverse portfolio and want to see how you do against other contestants. Besides the Grand Prize winners, you can also enjoy niceties if you’re a runner-up.

Like TPOTY, you’ll need to submit your entries in the fall of the year before the competition. However, the deadline is usually in late November.

Sony is one of the most popular camera manufacturers. Besides these devices’ capabilities for still images, many photographers with YouTube channels also use Sony cameras to film the footage they share with their audiences.

Each year, the Sony World Photography Awards offers amateur and professional picture-takers to share their art with others. You’ll find numerous categories, but travel is one of them. The prizes will depend on which competition you enter.

Any entries for the Sony World Photography Awards need to have been taken in the year leading up to it. In addition to the actual winners, dozens of photographers are shortlisted. The competition is free to enter; you can purchase a bundle if you want to submit more than the maximum limits.

The Telegraph is one of the largest newspapers in the UK, and its travel photography competition is a little unique compared to some of the others on our list. Whereas many we’ve already mentioned take place annually, The Big Picture is a weekly contest.

You can submit multiple kinds of travel photographs, but these aren’t broken into separate categories. Instead, you’ll need to send your image to the paper and explain what’s happening.

You must be at least 18 years old to enter The Big Picture. Moreover, you must live in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands. Winners of The Big Picture competition receive a voucher for the popular travel operator Trailfinders in the UK and Ireland.

CEWE is a photo printing company that operates throughout Europe. Each year, you can enter a selection of photography competitions—but the CEWE Photo Award is the best option if you want to submit images from your travels. The competition takes place each year, and you can choose from numerous categories.

Travel & Culture is one of the sections you can submit your images within. You can photograph events that take place on your adventures, along with landscapes and more. Entering the competition is free for all.

The CEWE Photo Award allows you to win numerous prizes, and entries feature on the company’s website. To enter the competition, you need to be at least 18.

Put Your Travel Photography to the Test

Even if you don’t share your photos with anyone else, travel photography is a lot of fun. But if you’ve been taking pictures for a while, you might want to see how you fare against others in your field. Regardless of whether you’re an amateur or a pro, you’ll find plenty of travel photography competitions.

A lot of the best travel photography competitions allow you to enter online. You can submit portraits, landscapes, and much more. Try out some of these on the list and see if you can achieve some recognition for your work. At the very least, these contests will force you to think more creatively.

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It feels like yesterday when the Instax Mini 11 came out, but apparently, that was in 2020! Three years later, Fujifilm has just announced the Instax Mini 12 instant camera.

Coming out in mid-March for $79.95, the Instax Mini 12 doesn’t deviate too far from the Instax Mini 11 or its predecessors. It’s still colorful (available in five colors including Clay White, Lilac Purple, Pastel Blue, Blossom Pink, and Mint Green), bubble-shaped instant camera that shoots the same Instax Mini film that everyone loves.

Tweaked ergonomics

The Instax Mini 12’s toy-ish design should clue you into where this model sits within Fujifilm’s instant camera lineup. It’s no $200 Instax Mini Evo that’s for sure.

Compared to the Instax Mini 11, the Instax Mini 12 comes with a less curvy body and straighter front grip. How that translates in everyday use is something I’ll need to test out. On that redesigned grip is a new gently recessed shutter button that should allow for a better press, something many people complained about with the Instax Mini 11’s flush shutter button.

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New Instax Up! app

The Instax Mini 12 also works with Fujifilm’s latest Instax Up! app for iOS and Android. The app lets you scan Instax pictures (frames and all) as digital versions for sharing online. Additionally, the app lets you import photos from other Instax apps such as the Instax Mini Link and Instax Link Wide apps to add photos to your digital collection. It sounds exactly like the kind of cute, fun thing that Fujifilm instant cameras are known for.

Same everything else

That’s not a bad thing. If it ain’t broke… don’t fix it? The Instax Mini 12 is powered by two AA batteries (included in the box) and has a regular and close-up mode accessible by rotating the ring of around the lens. There’s a honking flash on the front, an auto exposure light sensor and flashlight sensor next to it. A selfie mirror sits on the front of the lens just like on the Instax Mini 11.

If you’ve used an Instax Mini camera before, you know what to expect. The quality of the prints should be about the same as past models and the Instax Mini 12 still prints photos in about five seconds.

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Dorothy Wells, Rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church felt a personal connection and overall sadness from the death of Tyre Nichols. She mentioned she has a daughter that was born the same year as Tyre. 

“Some folks were sharing some his work on social media, and I went out to look at his website, to just see what he photographed,” said wells. She said she noticed that he took lots of photos of bridges. “That struck me as being a really great image. Bridges being those things that connect us when we are divided.”

She mentioned that the community being as divided as it is, she thought it would be a great idea to display his work in the church’s gallery. Wells’ main goal is to gift the prints to Tyre’s mother and stepfather, but has not being able to contact them. They will remain in the gallery until that happens. 

The theme for the third round of the 2023/24 Camera Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competition is ‘Spring’. Spring is a fickle season with false starts proceeding chilly spells that remind us that winter isn’t quite over. But with snowdrops, daffodils and crocuses all putting in an appearance, spring is on our minds. This month we want to see photographs of whatever spring means to you, be that colourful flowers, sharp showers, leaping lambs or bobbing blossom – but the shots can be taken at any time.

This round of our monthly competition is open for submissions until 23:59 GMT (00:59 CET and 15:59 PST) on 31st March 2023.

To submit your entry follow the link to cjpoty or click on the CJPOTY button at the top of any of our website pages. You can submit up to three entries for £2.00 plus payment processing costs (£0.26). Images should be Jpegs at least 1920 pixels along their longest side but no larger than 2MB.

Spring photography

Spring (and the run up to it) is when some colour starts to emerge in gardens, parks and hedgerows, and its a welcome sight for most photographers. Flowers make great springtime subjects, but they can be tricky to capture as they bob about in the breeze. As well as making it hard to get the focus where you want it, gusts of wind means you need to use a fast shutter speed to freeze the flowers. Alternatively, why not use a longer exposure to get some deliberate blur, it can be especially effective if you step back to take a wider view of a landscape – but don’t forget your tripod.

There are also lots of birds around in the search for nest, and they can be easier to spot before the leaves emerge fully. Spring lambs and baby rabbits are also around and make attractive subjects.

Camera Jabber Photographer of the Year prizes

At the end of the month, the Camera Jabber team will pick one winning image and nine runners up from the March entries. The photographer of the winning image will receive a voucher from MPB.com to the value of £500 which can be spent on anything from a huge range of kit from the World’s biggest platform for used photographic gear.

All 10 of the selected images will go into our shortlist for the year.

We’ll do this each month in 2023 so that by the end of the year, there will be 120 shortlisted images. These will then go before our fantastic panel of judges who will decide the 1st, 2nd and 3rd-placed images.

The photographer of the first-placed image overall, as decided by the panel of judges, will receive a voucher to the value of £1000 from MPB.com as well as a trophy and the title ‘Camera Jabber Photographer of the Year 2024‘. The photographers who come second and third will receive vouchers worth £500 and £250 respectively.

You don’t have to enter the competition every month, but you are welcome to do so and the more shortlisted images you have at the end of the year, the greater than chance of winning the top prize.

CJPOTY VIP Judges

At the end of the year, our illustrious panel of judges has the onerous task of selecting the first, second and third-placed images overall from the shortlist of 120. Our judges are:

Benedict Brain – Photographer, journalist & Sigma ambassador
Sophie Collins – Chief Marketing Office at MPB, Trustee of Royal Photographic Society
Donna Crous – Food photographer, author, Nikon Europe ambassador and Rotolight Master of Light
Ross Hoddinott – Landscape photographer, wildlife photographer, author, tutor, conservationist
Tracy Marshall-Grant – Arts Director, curator and producer
Denise Maxwell – Multi-genre photographer and lecturer
Carolyn Mendelsohn – Artist and portrait photographer
Paul Sanders – fine art photographer
Jemella Ukaegbu – Photographer & founder of UK Black Female Photographers (UKBFTOG)
Christina Vaughan – Founder of Cultura Creative, the home of inclusive stock photography

Follow the link to find out more about the CJPOTY judges.

About MPB

Founded by Matt Barker in 2011, MPB is the world’s largest platform for used photography and videography kit. MPB has transformed the way people buy, sell and trade equipment, making photography more accessible, affordable and sustainable.

Headquartered in the creative communities of Brighton, Brooklyn and Berlin, the MPB team includes trained camera experts and seasoned photographers and videographers who bring their passion to work every day to deliver outstanding service. Every piece of kit is inspected carefully by product specialists and comes with a six-month warranty to give customers peace of mind that buying used doesn’t mean sacrificing reliability.

Photography is, without a doubt, the new art form of the modern era. Why? Because almost everyone now possesses a camera and software that can edit images in numerous ways. This has made a lot of people step into the photography world in a bid to be among the best in the business.

So, it is no surprise that a new and large wave of photographers (amateurs, of course) is now coming into the photography niche. But not all of them will become the next stars in the field due to several factors. For some, it might be that they cannot afford to pay for their photography schooling. Those in school might be so caught up with activities that they might not be able to find someone to “do my papers” online and meet assignments or homework.

So what comes next? How else can you learn to be a professional photographer? Continue reading to find out more.

Steps to Adopt to Learn Professional Photography

Learning any skill comes at a cost many people cannot afford. But skills need to be developed to increase earning power and life positions. So, if you plan to improve at photography, here are some steps to adopt and become a professional photographer.

Know your onions (in this instance, cameras)

There is a reason why some technical equipment comes with manuals, so you can learn the basics and level up from there. After all, cars also come with manuals. However, manuals do not have to be read from cover to cover before they can be useful. You only need to read on a need-to-know basis and continue increasing your knowledge. Again, understand that there is a reason why manuals come with some equipment, and no one knows their equipment better than the manufacturers.

Ingest quality tutorials online

With the advent of the internet making manuals as useless as the p is “pseudo,” it is essential to learn as much as possible from it. An excellent way to suck knowledge from the internet for just about any modern-day skill is through tutorials. You can check tutorials on how people use their cameras (preferably the model you have chosen) and what they do to achieve great shots. You can be on the lookout for experienced camera handlers and rigs and check out channels that do reviews on products. Remember to put into practice what you have watched and learned. YouTube is an excellent place to start; you never can tell if you will be uploading your tutorials to show your mastery soon.

Lots and Lots of Practice

In all truth, nothing teaches more than experience; to get it, you must shoot many pictures. You can watch all the videos on Peter McKinnon’s channel and read all the manuals that came with your product, but all that does not apply until you take pictures. You need this to unlock and develop your natural skill and style. As you take pictures and fill up your storage card, you can spot what you have done well and what you have not. Perfection comes only after what has been done is improved upon.

Check out people’s works and books.

It’s okay to check out people’s works and books they have produced on the subject. This helps you understand and uniquely notice details and processes. However, focus on the genre you enjoy, and make it a priority to focus on the niche you plan to grow in. Also, if you have not seen a niche you are interested in, looking at many works will surely help you choose.

Ensure you are not overloaded and bogged down with thinking of how you can produce work as good as this. Instead, use this as a springboard to learn all you can and push in your chosen direction. Photography is an art form, and art, like many other things, takes time to gain mastery in.

Check out photography competitions

Photography competitions are a great way to judge your progress and get feedback on a grand scale, especially when you are no longer getting critiques in your corner. Some photography competitions can also fetch you a lot of money IF you get to the final stages and place you on a pedestal for the world to take notice of and pitch at you. Your shots can be a way to get you a lot of money. However, as with any competition, hosts are more likely to get the big bucks, so research the details before paying the entry fee and other charges.

Snap your interests

If there is anything you need to learn fast in photography, it is the fact that a hobby could turn into a morale-draining exercise in a short while. This is why you must keep taking shots that interest and please you. This will also help you easily maintain relevance in your niche for a long time. You should focus on nature and wildlife if you cannot get enough of those wide radial flowers, and you can also focus on animals in their natural habitat. Get motivated, and stay motivated.

Conclusion

Photography is a big profession; there is space for everyone in it. However, you must be intentional to ensure you do not end up as one of the fishes in the pond. Ensure you stay true to what motivates you, and you can be in with the time of your life while also getting what you deserve. Ciao!

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Vadym Belikov, “Launch of S-300 missiles from the territory of Belgorod (Russia) towards Kharkiv (Ukraine). . . .” 2022

Strictly speaking, “Who Holds Up the Sky?” is a notably small show. It consists of just six photographs, along with a slide show, a video, and an extensive set of images from a visual graphic diary. The exhibition runs through May 21 at the Museum of Fine Arts. Yet there’s nothing small about its subject matter, the war in Ukraine.

The show’s limited size has the advantage of allowing it to be hung by the museum’s Sharf Visitor Center. That location makes it harder to overlook. Forty-five-hundred miles from the front lines and now more than a year into the fighting, it’s understandable if museumgoers find themselves forgetting about the war. As a nation, the United States has safety, security, and peace. “Who Holds Up the Sky?” reminds us how much Ukraine does not. All photographic images document. Those here do something rarer: They bear witness.

The show has been jointly organized by the MFA, the Wartime Art Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Art NGO, Kyiv, and the Odesa Fine Arts Museum.

The six photographs dominate the show. Part of that dominance is a function of size. The smallest are 28 inches by 36 inches. The largest are 48 inches by 36 inches. The scale makes the images all the more arresting. Two of them evince the terrible beauty that has come to be associated with war photography.

Vadym Belikov shows the launch of a Russian S-300 missile. The loveliness of the image — and it is lovely — is subverted (poisoned?) by the knowledge that Belikov is located where the missile is aimed, the now largely destroyed city of Kharkiv; and he took the photograph from his apartment. It isn’t just war Belikov is showing us. It’s his life.

The war is part of Kostiantyn Polishchuk’s life in a different, even more immediate way. He’s serving in Ukraine’s military. His “Night Watch” alludes to Rembrandt’s famous painting of another military group. The example on display shows a group of soldiers from behind, silhouetted against the sky. “Silhouetted” makes them sound insubstantial. The bagginess of their combat gear lends them an overwhelming solidity.

The other four photographs could be mistaken for something other than what they are, images of war damage. Efrem Lukatsky’s from-on-high view of a crater left in an agricultural field by a Russian missile might look at first glance like a crop circle. Once one realizes what’s being shown, the image becomes a potent reminder of what happens when what is, in effect, the world’s breadbasket becomes an invader’s plaything. The caption informs us of the date when Lukatsky took the photograph, July 4. That makes it a different kind of reminder, at least for Americans.

The torn, tortured-looking war destruction in the three black-and-white photographs from Yana Kononova’s “X-Scapes” series resemble abstract sculpture, a toxic cross between Darth Vader and the work of Louise Nevelson. They look inhuman, malevolent.

As against that inhumanity and malevolence there is the record of everyday life during wartime found in Inga Levi’s “Double exposure” series. Starting two days after the Russians invaded, Levi began to do two daily drawings, hence the title, showing both the military and civilian realities of life in Ukraine. The text is in Cyrillic, but the drawings are easy enough to parse. The panels are presented on four columns, which they encircle, like a kind of flattened frieze. Whether intentionally or not, the architectural presentation recalls Trajan’s Column, in Rome. That column honors a victorious imperial conquest, yes, but soon enough the conquering empire collapsed.

The slide show, which lasts 14 minutes, and the video, which lasts 4, are in a corner of the center, on the Huntington Avenue side. The show is a kind of diptych: On the left, we see a young Ukrainian; on the right a series of photographs taken by her or him. There are four photographers in all, ranging in age from 7 to 13. They received their cameras from the Behind Blue Eyes project, and the video is about Behind Blue Eyes. The value of the slides and video is as a reminder of a truth so basic as to go easily unnoticed: the effect of the war on average people away from the battlefield, people like you or me, our children or grandchildren.

WHO HOLDS UP THE SKY?

At Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., through May 21. 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org