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Meet Kiliii Yüyan, National Geographic Explorer and 2023 Eliza Scidmore Award Recipient – National Geographic Society Newsroom

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Kiliii Yüyan is an award-winning photographer whose work has taken us to some of the world’s harshest environments, contributed to the discussion around stewardship, uplifted Indigenous perspectives, and illuminated the importance of human connection to the land and sea. To recognize this incredible portfolio of work, Kiliii Yüyan has received the National Geographic Society’s 2023 Eliza Scidmore Award for Outstanding Storytelling.

This award––named for the writer and photographer Eliza Scidmore, the first woman elected to the Society’s Board of Trustees in 1892––recognizes individuals who use immersive storytelling to make complex ideas, issues, and information relevant and accessible.

Raised by parents who sought refuge in the U.S., and informed by his ancestry that is both Nanai/Hèzhé (East Asian Indigenous) and Chinese-American, Yüyan’s work explores the human relationship to the natural world from different cultural perspectives. He said: “Trying to understand my ancestry led me on a lifelong dive into Indigenous perspectives and ultimately guided me into storytelling.”

Whether he’s camping on arctic sea ice with polar bears, sharing a meal of piranhas with the Cofan in the Amazon rainforest, or participating in cultural burns with the Yurok community in California, one thing is sure: Yüyan demonstrates what it takes to create a truly immersive storytelling experience.

“We are thrilled to announce Kiliii as the recipient of the 2023 Eliza Scidmore Award for his outstanding accomplishments and contributions to storytelling,” said Jill Tiefenthaler, CEO of the National Geographic Society. “Kiliii’s dedication to illuminating the important stories of the Arctic and Indigenous communities epitomizes the power of storytelling by bringing new perspectives about humanity’s relationship with nature to audiences around the world.”

In 2022, he received a grant from the Society and The Climate Pledge to conduct a project focused on Indigenous conservation. Specifically, he is photographing five communities from the Greenland coastline to the coral reefs of Palau to show successful Indigenous conservation efforts.

His outstanding contributions to National Geographic magazine include his 2018 documentation of the millennia-old Inupiaq subsistence whale hunt and its key importance to their collectivist culture, and his photographs for the July 2022 cover story that helped more people understand the sovereignty of Native nations across North America. Beyond National Geographic, Yüyan’s work has been exhibited worldwide and featured in top publications. Yüyan is and will continue to be one of the most pivotal contributors to photography.

Yüyan’s explorations past and present portray resilience, empathy, authenticity, and change. Through his impactful work, Yüyan will be honored as the 2023 Eliza Scidmore Award recipient during the annual National Geographic Society Storytellers Summit. Past recipients include Lynsey Addario, Erika Larsen, David Quammen, and Lynn Johnson.

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Quincy Astronomy Club presents ‘Intro into Astrophotography’ on Thursday – Muddy River News

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| Photos courtesy of Doug Foote

QUINCY — Recently released photos from the new James Webb Space Telescope show stunning images of the universe.

Interested in learning how to produce images with your own equipment? The Quincy Astronomy Club is presenting a class at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in Room A021 at John Wood Community College. Guest lecturer Doug Foote will instruct the club on his techniques for imaging the heavens. Foote will show examples and describe the ways to produce beautiful photos with your own cameras and telescopes.

The Astronomy Club, formed by local amateur astronomers, seeks to teach, explore and expand minds about space and the universe. Lectures are held monthly, usually on the last Thursday of the month. The club also holds monthly evening observing sessions as weather and observing conditions permit. Local amateurs with their telescopes guide the observing sessions.

To find JWCC Room A021, drive to the southeast corner of JWCC and enter at the SE doors.

For more information, contact Robert Weirather at 217-242-7366 or [email protected].

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Charlevoix man offers guilty plea in 2019 photography incident

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GAYLORD — A Charlevoix man has been sentenced to six months in jail and has been placed on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry after pleading guilty to surveilling an unclothed person.

The Michigan State Police Gaylord Post was contacted in 2019 by a woman who was shopping at a store in Gaylord. She said a man took photos up her skirt while she was shopping for shoes.

The victim told police a man was standing uncomfortably close to her in a local store while she was shopping for shoes. The man bent over, and she observed he had his phone in his hand while his camera app was open. She immediately confronted the man and asked if he was taking photographs. He denied the allegation and then showed her photos on his phone.

The victim video recorded her confrontation with the man. She posted the video of the confrontation on Facebookand asked if anyone recognized him. Someone replied and said the man was Tim Bruce of Charlevoix.

Troopers interviewed Timothy Mark Bruce at his residence in Charlevoix. Bruce stated he was at the store in Gaylord shopping and said he remembered the confrontation with a woman, but denied taking any photographs. His phone was seized and sent to the Michigan State Police Computer Crimes Unit in Traverse City for analysis.

The evidence was returned, and a report sent to the Otsego County Prosecutor for review. A warrant was authorized, and Bruce was arrested for one count surveilling unclothed person, a two-year felony.

He was arraigned in 2019 in the 87-A Court in Otsego County. The case was bound over to the 46th Circuit Court in Otsego County. Last June, Bruce plead guilty to surveilling unclothed person and was sentenced recently to six months in the Otsego County Jail and his name will be added to the Michigan Sex Offender Registry.

This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: Charlevoix man offers guilty plea in 2019 photography incident

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Discover the amazing winners of SkyPixel’s Aerial Photo Contest

Orchid, taken on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro in Xinjiang, China. 1/240sec at f/6, ISO 100. Image: Zhu Jianxin/Skypixel

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March 23, 2022

SkyPixel, one of the world’s most popular aerial photography communities, has announced the winners of the Skypixel 7th Anniversary Aerial Photo & Video Contest.

Co-organised with drone maker DJI, this year’s contest attracted nearly 30,000 submissions from professional photographers, videographers, aerial enthusiasts and content creators from 124 different countries and regions.

Grand Prize Photo

The Grand Prize winner in the Photo Category was shot by Zhu Jianxin on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro.

The image, titled Orchid, shows an otherworldly sight of a frozen lake after a heavy snow fell in the Taklamakan Desert, China. With a simple change in perspective, several cracks on a frozen lake magically came together to form something akin to a portrait of an elegant orchid.

Orchid, taken on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro in Xinjiang, China. 1/240sec at f/6, ISO 100. Image: Zhu Jianxin/Skypixel

Jianxin explained, ‘Photography as an art form always comes from life. It is born from nature. I am amazed by how a drone changes my perspective and helps me capture the beauty of our world.’

All submissions to the contest were assessed by a judging panel that included Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Alex Mellis, Pieter de Vries, Stefan Foster, Karim Iliya and Yunshan Yu.

Judge Stefan Foster commented on the work, ‘The real art in photography is to capture a photograph people have to analyse longer than a few seconds to see what the picture really shows.’

DJI Mavic 3 Limited Award

The DJI Mavic 3 Limited Award (only open to users of the DJI Mavic 3 drone) went to an image called China Animation Museum in the Mist by a Chinese photographer who goes by the name Tension Vision. The building is in Zhejiang, China.

You can read our DJI Mavic 3 review.

China Animation Museum in the Mist shot on a DJI Mavic 3 in Zhejiang, China. 1/600sec at f/3, ISO 100. Image: Tension Vision/Skypixel

Other Photo First Prizes

The other first prizes in the photography awards went to Scream by Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), Perfect Chaos by Sara Zanini (location unknown), Collecting Bang Grass by binhd7 (Vietnam) and Shadow Basketball II by Ekaterina Polischuk (Ukraine).

Scream, shot on a DJI Mavic Pro. 1/1000sec at f/2.3, ISO 100. Image: Nizhny Novgorod/Skypixel

Perfect Chaos, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. Image: Sara Zanini/Skypixel

Collecting Bang Grass, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. 1/40sec at f/5.3, ISO 100. Image: binhd7/Skypixel

Shadow Basketball II, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. 1/1000sec at f/3, ISO 100. Image: Ekaterina Polischuk/Skypixel

Photography – Second Prizes

The second prizes in the photography awards went to The Source of Landscape by Mark’s Horizon (Tibet), Age of Stone by I don’t want to take this name (Qintai Art Museum, China), Ice and Fire by Walker (Shenyang, China) and Alien Planet Vacations by Flamboyant Little Strong.

The Source of Landscape, shot on a DJI Air 2S. 1/2500sec at f/3, ISO 100. Image: Mark’s Horizon/Skypixel

Age of Stone, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. 1/200sec at f/5.7, ISO 100. Image: Age of Stone/Skypixel

Age of Stone, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. 1/200sec at f/5.7, ISO 100. Image: I don’t want to take this name/Skypixel

Ice and Fire, shot on a DJI Air 2S. 1/640sec at f/3, ISO 100. Image: Walker/Skypixel

Alien Planet Vacations, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. 1/200sec at f/5.3, ISO 100. Image: Flamboyant Little Strong/Skypixel

Photography – Third Prizes

The third prizes in the photography awards went to Mars by Lou (location unknown), Jin Ruyi lying on the East Lake by Goericgo (Hubei, China), Compete for the Top by AndyAndy (Shanghai, China) and Tillage by Empty Mountain Bird (Guizhou, China).

Mars, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. 1/60sec at f/4, ISO 100. Image: Lou/Skypixel

Jin Ruyi lying on the East Lake, shot on a DJI Mavic Air 2. 1/320sec at f/3, ISO 100. Image: Goericgo/Skypixel

Compete for the Top, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Zoom. 1/1000sec at f/3.9, ISO 100. Image: AndyAndy/Skypixel

Tillage, shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. 1/120sec at f/6.3, ISO 100. Image: Empty Mountain Bird/Skypixel

View all the winners

To view all of the winning and shortlisted submissions in the Photo and Video categories just go to Skypixel Contest Winners 2021.

About SkyPixel

Since 2014, the SkyPixel online community has attracted over 37 million aerial photographers, videographers, and content creators from more than 140 countries.

Now in its seventh year, SkyPixel keeps evolving and connecting photographic communities across the world.

From aerial photography to everyday vlogs, SkyPixel now holds a vast collection of extraordinary footage spanning the themes of nature, culture, architecture, and other aerial masterpieces.

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Popular Astronomy Club holds annual banquet

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Paul Levesque
Popular Astronomy Club

The Popular Astronomy Club held its annual banquet Oct. 22 at the Riverside Grille in Rock Island.

About 30 PAC members and their guests attended the event, which is held annually in October to mark the club’s anniversary.

Carl H. Gamble, a manager at John Deere, led the establishment of the Popular Astronomy Club in October 1936. Five years later, PAC became one of 12 amateur astronomy clubs to form the Astronomical League and today remains one of the original members of the league.

The Saturday night banquet featured a buffet dinner, door prizes, awards and a feature presentation by Dr. Dennis Roscoe on the topic “Next Generation Telescopes.”

Roscoe holds a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Arizona and has been a professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin College of Medicine; he also founded two medical device companies.

After developing an interest in astronomy, Roscoe changed his career path and currently teaches courses in astronomy and astrophotography at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. He was also recently named as a NASA Solar System Ambassador, and he built an observatory outside of Waukesha that he can operate via remote control.

Roscoe’s presentation focused on three telescopes: The James Webb Space Telescope, which was launched earlier this year; the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is under construction and located in Chile’s Atacama Desert; and the Giant Magellan Telescope, also under construction in the perpetually dry and cloudless Atacama.

Roscoe showed a number of the images captured by the Webb Telescope and noted that its ultimate goal is to find the first galaxies formed in the universe. He said the Webb Telescope’s field of view ws very narrow, measuring about two arc-minutes square — about the same as a small coin held at arm’s length.

Even within this limited view, the Webb Telescope has taken images containing as many as 2,000 galaxies. Data from the telescope, Roscoe said, is indicating that galaxies may have been formed earlier in the universe than previously thought.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is named in honor of an American female astronomer whose work on the rotation rates of galaxies helped prove the existence of dark matter. It should be ready to receive “first light” by sometime next year.

In contrast to the Webb Telescope, Roscoe said, the telescopes at the Rubin Observatory have a wide field of view and will survey the entire night sky over a period of just a few days. The large amount of data generated by these surveys will be sent to a center in Champaign, Ill., for analysis. The goals of the observatory, he said, will include studying dark matter, mapping the Milky Way and searching for asteroids and other near-Earth objects.

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be the largest ground-based telescope in the world when it is completed. Roscoe said the projected completion date was recently moved back to 2031.

Roscoe cited another Illinois connection to these advanced telescopes, as the mounts are being built at Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford.

The Giant Magellan Telescope will have a somewhat limited field of view, Roscoe said, adding that its goals will include capturing images of and data from exoplanets that will expand our understanding of these objects and possibly verify the existence of life outside Earth.

Following the presentation, awards were presented to two PAC members: Al Sheidler, who received both the Master Outreach Award from the Astronomical League and the PAC Member of the Year Award, and Anne Bauer, who received the Carl H. Gamble Memorial Award, named for PAC’s founder.

The Master Outreach Award is presented by the Astronomical League to recognize those who can document extensive efforts in sharing their knowledge of astronomy with the general public.

From April 2010 through August 2022, Sheidler participated in 158 events covering more than 412 hours, with 12,217 individual contacts made with the public. When the COVID pandemic hit, he adjusted by adding video screens that made it possible for visitors to see images from the telescope without using the eyepiece.

Sheidler was named as PAC Member of the Year for 2022 based on his high level of participation in club activities.

The Carl H. Gamble Memorial Award is presented to club members who make outstanding contributions to amateur astronomy and who advance its popularity. Bauer was cited for her efforts in establishing the Carl Gamble Observatory on land owned by the Nordick family outside of Milan.

Bauer was also honored for the many presentations she has made, often in costume while using humorous props, and for her warm, friendly attitude that makes new PAC members and visitors to club events feel welcome.

Membership in the Popular Astronomy Club is open to anyone with an interest in the night sky — no telescope required. The club holds regular meetings at 7 p.m. on the second Monday of the month at the Butterworth Center in Moline.

PAC’s last public observing session of the year at Niabi Zoo is scheduled for Nov. 18 beginning at sunset. The observing sessions at the zoo will resume next year on the third Saturday of the month.

To learn more about the Popular Astronomy Club, go to PAC’s website at https://www.popularastronomyclub.org; you can also search for the club’s page on Facebook.

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Photographer Alper Yesiltas Uses AI To See How Historical Icons Would Look Like Today

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Istanbul-based photographer Alper Yesiltas uses Artificial Intelligence to see what historical icons would look like today. Alper created the hyper-realistic portraits for a project titled Thisness. Behind this project lies the question “What would some iconic people look like if they lived in our time instead of living in theirs?”

Yesiltas used the original photos of these individuals to create modern-day portraits. With the help of AI, he reconstructs their outfits and the composition of the photo before editing the image to transform these historical legends into modernized icons.

Alper Yesiltas is a lawyer and photographer living in Istanbul, Turkey. He has been imagining scenes and capturing memories for about 19 years now.

Scroll down and inspire yourself. Please check Yesiltas’s more amazing work on his Instagram.