Have you ever wondered what it would be like if famous historical figures had access to our modern mobile phones? Would they have taken selfies? Graphic designer Jyo John Mulloor has delved into this thought-provoking concept by using a blend of photoshop and AI to create a captivating series of images depicting historical figures as selfie-takers.
From Martin Luther King Jr. to Neil Armstrong and William Shakespeare, these iconic individuals are reimagined in a modern-day setting, giving us a glimpse into how they may have looked if they had captured a selfie during their time. Check out some of Jyo’s most intriguing depictions below and be transported through time to experience history in a whole new light.
In his words “Upon retrieving my old hard drive, I stumbled upon a veritable treasure trove of memories in the form of selfies sent to me by friends from my past. I carefully restored each one using Photoshop, reliving cherished moments and rekindling old friendships.”
Scroll down and inspire yourself. Check Jyo’s Instagram for more information.
The Wichita Falls – Rolling Plains Region will host its third City Nature Challenge April 28 through May 1. Participants are encouraged to go outside in the community and take photos either with a smart phone or digital camera, then upload them at iNaturalist.org or save them on the iNaturalist app.
Bluebonnets bloom along I-44 near Wichita Falls.
All observations of living things, such as wildflowers, insects, or any wild living organism, made on these days in the 10-county region around Wichita Falls will be added to the region’s project, according to a release from the organization.
The goal is to document species found in the region to help scientists who study these species learn more about where and what type of organisms are here.
A snowy egret wading in the Wichita River.
The City Nature Challenge is sponsored by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Academy of Sciences.
Texas Yellow Star at Lake Arrowhead
For more information, go to the Rolling Plains Chapter of Texas Master Naturalist at [email protected] or visit https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/.
This article originally appeared on Wichita Falls Times Record News: Join the Wichita Falls – Rolling Plains city nature photo challenge
“Boy wearing mask, New York City, c. 1946-1950,” Sonia Handelman Meyer. (Courtesy of Monroe Gallery)
Two pioneering women photographers who were blacklisted by the Red Scare share wall space at Santa Fe’s Monroe Gallery of Photography.
Both Sonia Handelman Meyer and Ida Wyman were members of the Photo League. The league was a collective of photographers active from 1936-1951, who believed their work could change poor social conditions and champion photography as an art form. It thrived as one of the most progressive, dynamic and creative centers for photography in the country. About one-third of its members were women.
Handelman Meyer and Wyman roamed the streets of New York, capturing the humanity of ordinary people. In some ways, their gender helped them remain invisible to the people they photographed.
“There was a great advantage to being a woman at that time, to be considered as no consequence,” gallery co-owner Michelle Monroe said.
Handelman Meyer learned about socially engaged photography in workshops by one of the Photo League founders Sid Grossman.
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She captured three boys affecting tough guy poses after chasing her down the streets of Spanish Harlem demanding that she photograph them. She also shot “Boy Wearing Mask, New York City” (1946-1950), an image less mysterious that it seems.
“He was playing cops and robbers,” Monroe said. “The way he’s looking at her; there’s a lot of ambiguities about that child. Was he playing? Is it mistrust? Was it just an interruption from an adult? He’s just playing.”
Wyman photographed for Life and Business Week magazines, as well as her own enjoyment. Her work went unheralded for decades.
She was 19 and working in Manhattan as a photo printer for the Acme Newspictures agency when she photographed several men in Manhattan’s garment district in April 1945. One held up a copy of The Jewish Daily Forward, the Yiddish-language newspaper, as the others read about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. Wyman’s “Looking East on 41st Street, NYC” (1947) down a canyon of skyscrapers captures the majesty and industry of the city.
“Men of the Garment District Read of President Roosevelt’s Death, NYC, 1945,” Ida Wyman. (Courtesy of Monroe Gallery)
Before Handelman Meyer and Wyman, women were often assigned to shoot department store openings, Monroe said.
In 1947, the Photo League appeared on a long list of organizations identified with the Communist Party. Efforts to counter the allegation included a large exhibition, “This Is the Photo League.” But in 1949, Angela Calomiris, a Photo League member and F.B.I. informant, publicly testified that members of the organization were Communists. The League disbanded in 1951, a casualty of the Red Scare.
The league’s secretary at the time, Handelman Meyer answered the office phone when requests for comment about the accusations poured in from the media. She also received threatening calls.
“It got to be too much,” she told The New York Times. “They were blacklisting people. There were photographers who could not get their passports for overseas jobs. Little by little, it dissolved.”
When the league closed, Handelman Meyer put her photos and negatives in boxes and moved on with her life. They wouldn’t be opened for many years.
In the early 1940s, the list of notable photographers who were active in the league or supported their activities also included Margaret Bourke-White, W. Eugene Smith, Helen Levitt, Farm Security Administration photographer Arthur Rothstein, Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Richard Avedon, Weegee, Robert Frank, Harold Feinstein, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Minor White.
Longtime fans of Christie Brinkley know that the bombshell model is a total nature-lover, and loves nothing more than being out at the beach near her Bridgehampton home, and is known for her “Rainbow diet.”
The star frequently shares her best tips and tricks for how she fuels herself with all of nature’s colorful fruits and vibrant veg, and she couldn’t let Earth Day go by without honoring Mother Earth.
Christie took to Instagram Saturday in honor of the special day, and shared a photo of herself at the beach.
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The shot captures her walking along the sandy water’s edge on a beautiful, bright blue day, and she is waving her hands towards the incoming clouds above.
Capturing her from behind, she is wearing nothing but an oversized, striped green button-down shirt, making way for her ultra-tanned legs to be on full display.
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“Here’s to you Mother Earth,” she wrote, adding: “Thank you for giving us everything we could ever want or need to sustain us.”
She continued: “From sustenance to extraordinary beauty and wonders!” noting: “You are the most generous planet in the whole universe.”
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Christie then reminded fans: “I can only hope Earthlings learn to treat you as well as you treat us!” adding an Earth, recycling, and green heart emoji before the hashtags “Earth day,” “Earth month,” and: “Everyday.”
Christie promoting anti rhino and elephant poaching action at the Entabeni Rhino Orphanage in September 2013
Fans not only gushed over the photo but also reiterated her statement, with one fan aptly noting: “The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth. Respect it so.”
Others also said: “Mother Earth and all Her Earthlings are always eternally grateful to you @christiebrinkley for caring & making it a much more beautiful place,” and: “And here’s to you, Goddess Christie, for beautifying Earth in so many ways – such as your environmental activism, and your own divine beauty!” as well as: “You make everyday Earth Day!!” plus another fan added: “Wise words and a beautiful photo lovely lady.”
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Memory card failure is one of those things you hope will never happen. If it does, the result can be devastating; a ruined shoot and the cost of your valuable time, money and, of course, the wrath of your client. That’s why OWC has introduced Innergize, a handy app designed for their Atlas range of flash memory cards. The app’s core purpose is to keep your OWC Atlas memory cards running at their peak performance and reliability, and if there is a problem, then the software will pick it up before there’s a disaster.
OWC’s Innergize is a custom-designed app that features a complete health suite for your Atlas memory cards and does everything from checking performance, enabling you to upgrade firmware, and ensuring that the cards perform at the same level they did when they were new.
Using the deep dive integration offered by the app will highlight problems with the cards before they become your problem. Quite often, a card will appear to be functioning fine when shooting under normal conditions and resolutions; however, as you push the resolutions or film for longer than normal or open up to high-speed shooting, your card will come under stress and that is when the underlying problems will become apparent. With Innergize, you can maintain your cards and help reduce the likely hood that you’ll ever experience dropped frames, miss a picture, or experience your camera automatically stopping recording at a critical moment.
The Innergize software verifies and reports the percentage of useful life remaining. This feedback about your card’s health will help you work confidently. Your OWC flash memory card will deliver the reliability you can trust. The app, available for Mac or PC, also cleans and restores the flash memory performance of OWC memory cards to ensure the best possible performance.
When new cameras or firmware updates to existing cameras are introduced, they may not work properly with flash memory cards and drives. Innergize allows OWC memory card users to quickly upgrade the card’s firmware to ensure maximum camera compatibility.
Innergize functions like a creative pro’s “pre-flight” checklist. The app ensures your OWC memory cards, card readers, connectivity docks, and storage solutions with reader slots communicate through special OWC firmware.
If you’re a professional photographer or videographer using OWC Atlas memory cards, Innergize is a must-have app to ensure your memory cards run at their peak performance and reliability. You can download Innergize for free from the OWC website.
Since its inception in 2016, the City Nature Challenge has grown from a two-city endeavor based in California to a massive event with more than 400 cities participating worldwide.
The Land of Enchantment jumped on board in 2019, with people from Bernalillo, Sandoval and Valencia counties joining in on the fun. The gist of the challenge is simple: For a four-day period – in this case from April 28 through May 1 – participants from those areas log all of their nature observations into the iNaturalist app – whether they be plants, insects, animals or even evidence of life.
“I know that the impetus for it and the interest on all of our parts is just to get people outside and get people looking at nature, animals and plants around Albuquerque – trying to get people more excited and paying closer attention to what’s around them,” said Fiana Shapiro, one of the local organizers for the event.
“What’s really cool about the Nature Challenge in general is that it is like a snapshot of what wildlife is around and is being found over that four-day period across the entire world … It’s just such a cool idea and knowing that hundreds of cities and so many countries and people around the world are doing the same thing at the same time where they live is just a really exciting thing that brings people together. It also allows, from a scientific perspective, a better look at what wildlife is active during the time that we’re looking.”
It’s recommended that participants in the City Nature Challenge upload their photos to the iNaturalist app on their phones, but they can also use the website if necessary.
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People are encouraged to take clear photos, use multiple angles and crop effectively. No further qualifications or skills are needed to take part. One only needs a sense of curiosity and a willingness to observe their surroundings.
“We stress that anyone and everyone can participate in this,” Shapiro said. “You don’t have to know anything about identification. If you just want to get outside and walk around your neighborhood and take photos of things and have no idea what they are, that’s totally fine.”
Once submitted, the app will suggest possible identifications based on the location and content of the photos. That alone isn’t foolproof, of course, but once a photo is categorized in say, “birds,” those with expertise in that area can provide more specific identifications of the sightings.
A significant portion of the identification happens after the four-day observation period, Shapiro says.
Participation has been rising with each successive challenge. Last year featured over 400 observers and more than 600 identifiers, and Shapiro expects to have more than 500 people uploading photos in the Albuquerque area this time around.
“I think using iNaturalist in general, and especially during the City Nature Challenge, is a great way to get yourself to focus in and really look closer and pay attention to little bugs in your yard and tracks of animals and things that you might not normally look for at all,’ Shapiro said. “I think people tend to be surprised at how many different species they can find in a very urban area or right outside their home, their workplace or wherever they are. They don’t have to go far to find a lot of wildlife. It’s just a great activity for any age.”
Adding to the challenge element is the leaderboard, which tracks the most total observations as well as the most different species found.
Those with an ambitious bent can reach the hundreds in these categories. Really, though, there is no way to “win” the challenge.
“It’s not being marketed as a competition,” Shapiro said. “It’s more seen as a collaboration between countries and cities and tons of people to just take part in this great endeavor to document wildlife and help scientists, too.”
Animals have their own priorities and are not too concerned about their surroundings, which often leads them to be found in unexpected places. Eating, playing, and sleeping are all they need to be happy!
The Facebook group “Animals in Random Places” features a collection of amusing images that capture our furry friends in the most unusual locations. These snapshots showcase the unexpected encounters with animals that will leave you laughing and shaking your head in disbelief. Take a look at some of the most adorable and entertaining moments shared by the group in the gallery below.
Here in this gallery, you can find 30 funny photos from the Instagram account. All photos are linked and lead to the sources from which they were taken. Please feel free to explore further works of these photographers on their collections or their personal sites.
Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 685 posts, we featured an art festival,cartoon gallery.world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair,climate change expo,wildlife conference,startup festival,Diwali rangoli, and jazz festival.
The creative journey for artists often involves a combination of interaction, connection to social movements, and deep introspection. A willingness to experiment is key, as well as embracing the twists and turns in life’s journey.
“At times, art is a solitary activity, but it is also one that connects people to society and to nature,” Japanese artist Yohei Imamura explains, in a chat with YourStory.
“The act of placing oneself in the midst of grand nature and aiming for the top of the mountain is very similar to my creative process,” he says, describing his approach to art.
Such activities draw on body movements repeated thousands of times, expressions created throughout the years, and even subtle misalignments. This also involves mistakes and even failures.
“There are times when I go into the mountains alone to overcome my mistakes and failures. When you go deep into nature, your worries seem insignificant and you can empty your mind,” Yohei describes.
“New thoughts sprout in the refreshed mind. Those sprouts will then move forward,’ he affirms.
Depending on the size and number of layers, Yohei’s artworks range in price from $10,000 to $50,000. His works are displayed at festivals around the world.
“I am interested in the Sculpture Projects Münster in Germany,” he says. His works were also on display at the fifth edition of the recent Kochi-Muziris Biennale, from where we share a range of art exhibits in this photo essay.
The artistic journey for Jean-François Boclé from Martinique includes residencies in France as well. “Since January, I have been in a writing residency. I am working on my first book, Les Chroniques de Mamoudzou,” he says.
He also has an upcoming exhibition in May with the artists Barthélémy Toguo, William Kentridge, and Kara Walker in Nantes. He even has a solo exhibition on the question of cooking.
“At the end of June, I will be in a performance on the works of Frantz Fanon, with my nephew Julien Boclé, who is a dancer and choreographer,” Jean-François says.
See also our earlier six-part photo essay series on the fourth edition of the Biennale here, as well as coverage of the Aichi Triennale (Japan) and Bangkok Biennale (Thailand).
“I look back now and am in some way grateful that I did not go to art or design school so I could explore various creative spaces. That way, I could see if I enjoyed them without feeling compelled to stick to one lane,” recalls artist-designer Annah Chakola.
“At one chapter in my life, I spent a lot of time living a nomadic existence on the road. I participated in festivals across North America selling my jewellery,” she adds.
“One of the biggest highlights in my creative journey though was moving back to India after 25 years of being away, and starting all over again,” Annah enthuses.
She was able to get more grassroots work across India. “I now have a vast network across many paths and can create a contemporary voice with the traditional craft that has a reach all over the world,” she describes.
This also set the platform for her to be invited to create the first official shop for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Her future projects involve the lifestyle space, more than just fashion.
“I think inspiration lies in all the small details. I love helping people find special pieces that inspire them to be the most creative version of themselves,” Annah says.
Art today spans the physical and digital worlds, in unexpected and delightful ways – though not without its challenges as well. Digital spaces reach across narrow geographical, theological and political concerns, according to Biennale curator Shubigi Rao.
Many artists have chosen to address the growth of digital media as expressive platforms, as shown in this photo essay. Others have addressed the role of rituals as forms of expression, outdoor murals as expressive spaces, and the human impacts of conflict.
“Solidarity crosses over, solidarity in the shared ideal, whether it be free speech, free press, individual liberty, defining the true spirit of the law and jurisprudence, and the emancipation of people,” Shubigi signs off.
Now, what have you done today to pause in your busy schedule and find new avenues to apply your creativity?
(All photographs were taken by Madanmohan Rao on location at the Biennale.)
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Photographs from youth in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation are set to be on display this weekend.
CBC’s Library Partnership Project, CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, Melville Public Library and Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries are holding a community Labrador In Focus photography exhibit on Saturday.
The Labrador In Focus exhibit will be held at the Lawrence O’Brien Arts Centre from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. AT. Food and drinks will be provided at the free event.
The Labrador In Focus program is meant to give Labrador youth the tools they need to capture their unique world. The photograph subject is completely up to the young photographers.
The photographers, aged 13 to 23, chose to depict everything from life celebrations to being out on the land.
“I loved it so much,” 15-year-old Mary Saunders said of the program.
“I love this experience and I feel like people should join and try to experience something new.”
Saunders said she learned how to set her white balance and edit images. Saunders’ favourite photograph she took is one of her sister. It was one of the first pictures she took and sparked a love of portrait photography, she said.
Other photographers took pictures of things that are important to them. Elliot Pike, 20, created his own long exposure photographs showing movements of northern lights with flashlights and lightsabers.
“I always wanted to learn about photography,” Pike said. “I think I’m really proud to see the exhibit on Saturday.”
The Labrador In Focus program is funded by the CBC Library Partnerships Program. The program is to explore partnership opportunities with public libraries to further community engagement.
Have thoughts about community programming like the Labrador In Focus photography program? Reach out to the program creator here.
In a rare glimpse of her son and niece, Princess Eugenie shared some adorable photos of the royal children celebrating Earth Day.
Princess Eugenie posted the picture carousel on Instagram on Saturday, April 22, featuring August and Princess Beatrice’s daughter Sierra in awe of the planet.
“It’s World Earth Day and today is all about celebrating our planet and people doing amazing things that help protect it,” she wrote.
In the first photo, August and Sienna are pressed up against the glass admiring penguins at the London Zoo. The little ones appear to be wearing jeans, fuzzy jackets and boots in the brisk spring air in the United Kingdom.
The group then took a trip to the BBC Earth Experience, where August and Sienna appeared to marvel at the massive visual presentations showing the globe and the ocean.
“Their vision is to inspire visitors to protect the planet through this immersive experience,” Princess Eugenie wrote of the activity.
The princess then shared a couple of pictures from her trip last week cleaning oysters with the Solent Seascape Project, which she said is making an effort to restore coastal marine life.
In the final photo, a man and a young child — which could likely be her husband Jack Brooksbank and son August — are seen walking through a tree filled with pink flowers with a dog.
“Because I love them and they love nature,” Princess Eugenie said of the shot.
The princess celebrated August’s 2nd birthday in February, sharing a sweet video on Instagram and writing, “You are our world’s greatest joy. Keep dancing and smiling, my angel. Xx.”
Just weeks before, Buckingham Palace announced some big news – Princess Eugenie is expecting her second child with Brooksbank this summer.
“We’re so excited to share that there will be a new addition to our family this summer,” she wrote on social media, accompanied by a picture of August kissing her belly.
This article was originally published on TODAY.com
