SACRAMENTO, CA — The beauty of a large metropolitan area such as Sacramento is that you can find a community that shares your interests. This Aussie Rules Football game was being played at North Natomas Park recently.
Meanwhile, in Barandas Park, a spirited game of basketball was played this week.
While the baseball field was also occupied.
Thank you for sharing your photos, Claus Weisemann.
If you have an awesome photo of nature, breath-taking scenery, kids caught being kids, a pet doing something funny, or something unusual you happen to catch with your camera, we’d love to feature it on Patch.
We’re looking for high-resolution images that reflect the beauty and fun that is Northern California, and that show off your unique talents.
Her portrait of Queen Consort Camilla is officially an award-winning snapshot.
Not all royal news has to involve brothers bickering or house swapping. Today, the U.K.’s Professional Publishers’ Association announced that Kate Middleton’s portrait of now-Queen Consort Camilla earned its Cover of the Year Award. Last summer, Kate’s photograph of Camilla was featured on the cover of Country Life magazine, and Camilla guest-edited the issue before she ascended to the throne alongside her husband, King Charles III this year.
The Professional Publishers’ Association (PPA for short), shared the news with a celebratory Instagram post, which explained that the prize was chosen via popular vote and wasn’t just something the group thought would be nice to give to Kate. People notes that Camilla’s issue was the fastest-selling issue in Country Life history.
“We’re thrilled to announce that Country Life has won the Cover of the Year title at the PPA Awards, the ‘Oscars’ of the magazine world. The winning cover was this one from the 13 July 2022 issue, which was guest-edited by Her Majesty The Queen while she was Duchess of Cornwall,” the PPA Awards team wrote alongside an image of the cover. “We owe a huge debt of gratitude to all who voted — it’s the only award voted for directly by readers — and also, of course, to HRH Catherine, Princess of Wales, who took the photograph!”
Related: Kate Middleton and Oprah Are Both Fans of the Breezy Summer Staple I Wore Non-Stop on My Italian Getaway
“Not only did the cover help sell more magazines, boost engagement on social media and clicks to the website, it’s a perfect snapshot of what was in fact a compelling and gritty issue,” a statement from the PPA read.
Country Life invited Camilla to guest-edit the special edition as a way to commemorate her 75th birthday on July 17. It was later revealed that she asked Kate to take her photo. Kate, who is no stranger to being on both sides of the camera, is a patron of the Royal Photographic Society and often shoots the royal portraits of her children that are shared on their birthdays every year.
Country Life editor Mark Hedges explained the process of choosing Kate to lens the cover, which came as a shock to him since he wasn’t quite sure at first which “Catherine” Camilla was suggesting.
“She immediately replied, ‘Oh, I’d quite like Catherine to do it,'” Hedges said, according to People. “I spent the next three or four minutes desperately racking my brains trying to think of a professional photographer called Catherine. Then, suddenly, I grasped what she meant — one of the most amazing things that could happen. I found it one of the easier things to nod my head at.”
For more InStyle news, make sure to sign up for our newsletter!
With little or no astronomical darkness at the start of July in northern latitudes, some astrophotographers might think this month is a write-off for creating night sky images. Not so! July is one of the best few months of the year to get the Milky Way high in the sky as seen from the northern hemisphere – and, crucially, its bright center – while July’s full ‘Super Buck Moon’ is one of the brightest yet lowest-hanging of the year.
Add plenty of conjunctions between the planets and the moon, the year’s first so-called supermoon, the peak of the Delta Aquariids meteor shower and 2023’s second ‘Manhattanhenge’ for New Yorkers and there’s plenty more to get excited about for astrophotographers in July 2023.
Read: The beginner’s guide to photographing the night sky
July 2-3: a full ‘Super Buck Moon’
Everyone knows that the sun reaches its highest in the sky as late June’s solstice, but have you ever thought about the moon? Since a full moon is opposite the sun with respect to Earth it follows that the ‘Buck Moon’ will be the lowest full moon of the year. It will also be the first of four supermoons, though detecting a slightly larger (because it’s closer) full moon with your eye is almost impossible. Perhaps more importantly it will rise at its most southeasterly point of the year as seen from the northern hemisphere, which may bring some novel opportunities to catch that all-important moment as it appears on the horizon next to an interesting foreground object. Check your local moonrise time and the PhotoPills app and line up the appearance of the ‘Buck Moon’ with something interesting – a building, a mountain or a monument – for an unforgettable image. Note that although it technically turns full on July 3, it will rise closest to sunset on July 2.
Read: How to photograph the full moon
July 12 and 13: ‘Manhattanhenge #2
‘Manhattanhenge’ occurs on four evenings per year in May and July. (Image credit: Getty Images)
For two sunsets in a row a few weeks on either side of the summer solstice the sun sets in between skyscrapers on was-west streets in Manhattan, New York City. It’s possible because the city streets on the grid are aligned with the cardinal points – and June 21’s solstice saw the sunset at its most northwesterly point before reversing. Dr. Jackie Faherty at the American Museum of Natural History calculates that on these times you can see the phenomenon, though it’s subtly different on each night:
Read: Night photography techniques, tips and tricks
Sunday, July 9: Venus shines brightest
You’ll need a telescope to capture the phases of Venus (Image credit: Jamie Cooper/Getty Images)
Venus has been hanging about in the post-sunset twilight for all of 2023, but that’s about to end. It’s ironic that it looks its brightest as it retreats to a slim crescent (it’s just 25%-lit this week) – which is due to its reflective cloudy atmosphere. Catch it before it sinks into the sun’s glare later this month, preferably using a high frame rate camera on a telescope to capture it as a crescent.
Read: The best cameras for astrophotography
July 10: July’s dark sky window opens
Today it’s Last Quarter (or Third Quarter) Moon, which sees our satellite half-lit from our point of view and rising after midnight. That leaves the night skies free of moonlight, which is perfect for close-up astrophotography. It’s an ideal time to get out and photograph the Milky Way, though some crescent moonlight can be helpful in slightly illuminating foregrounds. Check a moon phase calculator when planning any landscape astrophotography trip – this next week will have a waning crescent moon in the southeastern sky shortly before dawn.
Read: The best lenses for astrophotography
July 17: New Moon & Perseids
As well as being the date of the New Moon – the darkest night of the month – it’s also the start of the annual (and prolific) Perseid meteor shower. The peak night isn’t until August, but you may start seeing sporadic ‘shooting stars’ while out at night.
Read: How to photograph the stunning Perseid meteor shower
July 19-21: Planets and a crescent moon
With Mars and Venus sinking out of view and Mercury rising this week brings one last good chance to capture the gorgeous sight of bright planets around a slim crescent moon right after sunset. On Wednesday the crescent moon will be just 5% illuminated and close to Venus while by Friday it will be 15% illuminated and aligned with all three planets.
Read: When to photograph the moon
July 29 and 30: Delta Aquariids meteor shower peak
About 25 meteors per hour may be possible around midnight tonight as this relatively minor meteor shower peaks, but since the moon will be very bright it’s not going to be easy. Still, it can’t hurt to leave a camera in the backyard to take a few hours’ worth of long exposures – you might just catch a ‘shooting star’.
Read: How to photograph a meteor shower
Wide-angle shot of the month: The Milky Way’s galactic core
Avoid using light painting to illuminate foregrounds in Dark Sky Parks. (Image credit: Getty Images)
The Milky Way’s bright core around the constellation Sagittarius is only visible at certain times of the year, but you also need darkness. So head out somewhere really dark – using a light pollution map or choosing a Dark Sky Park or a Dark Sky Discovery Site – bearing in mind that some major National Parks that are also Dark Sky Parks now ban the use of light painting to illuminate foregrounds and rock formations at night. Once you’re in place use PhotoPills, which has a useful Night AR feature that overlays the Milky Way onto what you can see – and also shows how it will move during the night.
Read: How to photograph the Milky Way
Settings will depend on your lens and camera, but with a full-frame camera on a tripod wearing a wide-angle lens (14mm or so) you’ll want to begin experimenting in manual mode with about ISO800-3200 and a shutter speed of about 25 seconds. If you want to go any longer than that to get more details and color from the core of our galaxy you’ll need to enter the world of star tracker camera mounts.
Read more:
Astrophotography: How-to guides, tips and videos
Astrophotography tools: the best camera, lenses and gear
An exquisite destination boasting a vibrant blend of historical narratives, rich culture, and breathtaking scenery, the Middle East truly emerges as a haven for photographers and travelers.
Home to ancient civilizations and significant historical sites like Egypt’s pyramids and Jordan’s ancient city of Petra, the Middle East offers unparalleled photography opportunities while granting a glimpse into the region’s rich cultural heritage.
Renowned for its extraordinary architectural wonders, which include iconic structures like the Grand Mosque or Masjid-al-Haram in Mecca and the Dome of the Rock, as well as contemporary marvels like Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the Middle East provides photographers with a unique opportunity to capture the splendor and magnificence of these architectural masterpieces.
While public photography is generally permitted in most parts of the Middle East, it is crucial to acquaint yourself with the laws and regulations regarding photography in the specific country you intend to visit. For instance, in the UAE, capturing images of government or semi-government buildings is strictly prohibited. Furthermore, it is important to show respect for the privacy of the public, particularly women, when engaging in photography. It is advisable to seek permission before photographing individuals.
With the availability of numerous cheap flights to various Middle Eastern countries from around the globe, a visit to the Middle East is an absolute must for those seeking a remarkable and unforgettable experience
Captivating destinations in the Middle East:
Valley of the Kings, Egypt
Petra, Jordan
Tower of David, Israel
Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE
Sharqiya Sands, Oman
The Volcanic Cave Cut Village of Kandovan, Iran
Sheik Zayed Mosque, UAE
Jerash Ruins, Jordan
Grand Mosque or Masjid-al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Queer love has been around forever, but it can be hard to picture what it looked like even a century ago. Now, thanks to a new exhibition at the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) in Geneva, Switzerland, visitors can see firsthand via a collection of 400 photographs of men in love, dating from between 1850 and 1950.
The collection is the product of couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell. 20 years ago, the duo stumbled upon a photograph of two men embracing at an antique store in Dallas, Texas. They couldn’t help but see themselves in the photo, and they decided to take it home.
“When we found the first, we had no expectation there would ever be a second,” Nini told The Art Newspaper.
But there was a second. And a third, and a fourth, and so on, until their collection reached its now massive scope of more than 4,000 historical photographs of men in love, originating from 36 different countries.
“We felt [it] was our obligation to keep these photographs. To keep them safe,” Treadwell said. “Our goal is to continue to have museum exhibitions wherever we can that will propel us into telling this story and sharing the history that love is love. Love has been around forever.”
In 2020, Nini and Treadwell turned their collection into a popular photography book, Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850-1950, that featured more than 300 of the photographs they’d found over the past two decades. They also released a short documentary telling the story of their collection.
Now, their collection has been adapted to an exhibition, also titled Loving, which features nearly all the photographs from the book, along with 80 never-before-seen pictures that Nini and Treadwell have collected since the book was released.
“In these pictures it’s fantastic the number of different stories it could activate,” said MAH director Marc-Olivier Wahler. He gave a 1951 photograph of two soldiers sitting close together on a bench as an example.
“You wonder, they’re in the army and are they really together? Then suddenly you see the entangled feet. And all these possible stories — what happened to them, what happened to this photograph? Where was it found? It’s endless.”
WWE’s Money In The Bank is right around the corner, and speculation on the internet about the upcoming matches is at an all-time high. (Speaking of: check out CinemaBlend’s MITB predictions.) There’s a big rumor that the WWE is planning for something big at its London Premium Live Event, potentially via an upset, a surprise appearance, or both. Many fans thought evidence of a spoilery nature was discovered when a viral photo making the rounds seemed to reveal a wrestler deliberately being scrubbed from a photo taken on the plane to London, but let’s pump the brakes a bit because all is not as it seems.
There’s a photo circulating the internet right now that shows wrestlers Ricochet, Otis, Damian Priest, Matt Riddle, Gunther, Ludwig Kaiser, and Giovanni Vinci all smiling and seated at a bar on the plane ride. It seemed like an innocent enough photo, minus the blatant disregard of kayfabe and not keeping up the act that Riddle and Imperium hate each other until a Twitter user noticed an intentionally sloppy Photoshop job potentially obscuring another person in the photo, which can be seen right here.
There are a number of WWE superstars who could return before Summerslam, and three come to mind as possible of making a surprise appearance at Money In The Bank. Randy Orton, whose dad said he’s close to returning, would be a great ally to Matt Riddle during his match with Gunther. Drew McIntyre returning to the WWE in Europe would be a massive moment, and everyone wants to see Bray Wyatt again. Could any one of those three men have been who this photo is hiding?
As it turns out, the answer is no. While Twitter was up in arms debating who could be in hiding behind this poor Photoshop job, people on Reddit already knew there wasn’t a wrestler being edited out at all. This picture originally was shared on r/SquaredCircle by SnakePitWN, who added the following caption explaining how he doctored the photo to edit his friend out of the picture:
Got a pic from my friend who works at Virgin Atlantic of the boys flying over today for the show in Liverpool before MITB. Obviously used magic eraser to remove them but thought it was worth sharing
In another comment, the poster explained he edited out three airline workers for privacy reasons, which is why there’s a gap between Gunther and Giovanni Vinci. Unfortunately, that floating ear doesn’t belong to The Viper or any other wrestler, but rather an airline worker. Perhaps one who has excellent wrestling skills themselves, but we’ll probably never know.
I’m a bit disappointed the wrestling fandom didn’t all collectively catch some secret conspiracy, but also impressed three people can fill a space that a WWE wrestler could realistically take up as well. Now I just want every wrestler in the roster measured by how many average-size people it would take to occupy the same space they take up.
The picture ended up being nothing, but the rumors are still out there that there are big things in store for the upcoming WWE event. That’s not hard to believe, given the company doesn’t frequent the UK as often as the states, and it’s even less frequent that London gets a pay-per-view. Just because a botched Photoshop job didn’t end up being a wrestler doesn’t mean that there isn’t a wrestler on that flight that we don’t know about. We won’t know for sure until the actual event, which should be exciting even without massive surprises.
Catch Money In The Bank with a Peacock Premium subscription on Saturday, July 1st, at a special start time of 3:00 p.m. ET. I can’t wait to learn who will win the big contracts, and eager to see if CinemaBlend was spot on with their picks for the event.
There’s a peculiar satisfaction in recognizing and appreciating the creative genius behind remarkable advertisements. It serves as a testament to someone’s profound understanding of both their product and their target audience—a perfect fusion of art and strategy, meticulously presented to the world.
In fact, some of these extraordinary campaigns have garnered such acclaim that they’ve been featured on two dedicated subreddits, created solely to celebrate and applaud such magnificent feats of marketing. Delve below to witness a collection of the most clever, high-quality ads and thoughtfully devised marketing gimmicks that we stumbled upon within these threads.
Prepare to be captivated by the sheer ingenuity and imaginative execution of these campaigns, as they seamlessly blend artistry with consumer psychology. From witty slogans to visually stunning imagery, each advertisement is a testament to the power of creativity and its ability to leave a lasting impression.
Join us on this journey of discovery as we unveil the brilliance and artistry behind these exceptional marketing endeavors. It’s time to celebrate the masterminds who have truly mastered the art of captivating hearts and minds through the medium of advertising.
Scroll down and enjoy yourself. 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.
#1 Forensic Science Ad
Image source: jvilanova99
#2 “What If We Cared About Those Living In Poverty As Much As We Care About Celebrities?”
Image source: SpottieOttieDopa
#3 Please Don’t Text And Drive
Image source: elr3y
#4 Nikon Facedetect
Image source: bonjourmartin
#5 Fill In Carefully: An Ingenious Ad For A Tattoo Parlour
Image source: coram_morte
#6 The Police Throwing Paper Airplanes Threw Open Windows To Warn People About Burglars
Image source: whats8
#7 One Child Is Holding Something That’s Been Banned In America To Protect Them
Image source: denvit
#8 Choose Who Will Drive You Home // Reykjavík Metropolitan Police
Image source: tailbalance
#9 Jorge Gamboa, “The Tip Of The Iceberg” (Environmental Advert)
Image source: digdilem
#10 One Click Can Change Your Future
Image source: adamlm
#11 Idm Ad-Smart Ideas For Smarter Cities
Image source: moparornocar
#12 This Ad By Eskom
Image source: Aequitas19
#13 An Advertisement For Keloptic.com – A French Website That Sells Glasses
Image source: Gaget
#14 Highlight The Remarkable – Remarkable Women And Their Stories By Stabilo Boss
Image source: Spanholz
#15 Ford’s Advertising After Women In Saudi Arabia Are Allowed To Drive
Image source: B3yondL
#16 Burger King Tells People To Order From Mcd’s
Image source: adamfcb
#17 A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words; No Tag Line Necessary
Image source: stalwart_rabbit
#18 Durex Roasts Facebook Data Leak
Image source: alenathomasfc
#19 About Autism
Image source: AdWorldMasters
#20 The Beetles
Image source: Devuluh
#21 Bold Campaign By Unicef
Image source: just2curiousBF
#22 A Pixel For Every Remaining Animal Of That Species
Image source: snapmyfingersand
#23 Hot Shingles In Your Area
Image source: ZachPaj
#24 1963 Bronx Zoo, NYC “The Most Dangerous Animal In The World”
Image source: kevirtual
#25 Donation Ad And Drop Off For USB Sticks To Send To North Korea
Image source: noahjameslove
#26 City Of Los Angeles Facebook Job Posting
Image source: milwaukeeminnesota
#27 An Idea So Stupid
Image source: Yare_Daze
#28 Barilla Noodles Ad For New Year!
Image source: AntonLechner
#29 I Guess The Most Simple Yet Powerful Promotional Message
From designer Matt Newell comes a game about exploring nature, discovering its secrets, and immortalizing them with a fully featured camera.
We’ve seen some gimmicky photography games in the past or been presented with photo modes as a side thought, but Annapurna Interactive and developer Matt Newell are bringing a game that puts the artistry and skill of photography at its core. Lushfoil Photography Sim was revealed today, inviting players to travel to lush and diverse environments inspired by locations around the world and capture the beauty of these places with a fully-featured in-game camera.
Lushfoil Photography Sim was unveiled during the Annapurna Interactive Showcase on June 29, 2023. Built in Unreal Engine 5, Lushfoil invites players to interesting locations and sets them loose to try to capture the perfect shots of nature and the worlds around them. Aiming to be a true natural photography experience, Lushfoil includes camera gameplay that aims to simulate the functions of a professional camera perfectly, will features and settings including Auto/Manual Focus, Flash, Exposure, Contrast, White Balance, Aperture, Burst Shot, and other effects. You might even be able to use the environment to your advantage, working around weather effects that include rain, snow, and fog, as well as manipulating the environment to create the best light angles for your shots.
Lushfoil Photography Sim is something quite out of the ordinary for a game in a time where players often love to play with Photo Modes. It’s one of the few games that makes the process of nature photography the very core of its gameplay. Sure, we’ve had games like Pokemon Snap, and those are fun too. However, Lushfoil also doesn’t look arcade-y where you’re scoring points on a level for the best shots. Traveling, positioning yourself, finding the right camera settings, and even being patient for the perfect shot sound much more involved in the creative and professional aspects of the art.
Lushfoil Photography Sim doesn’t have a release date yet, but is expected to come to PC and consoles. Stay tuned for more details and be sure to check out more coverage from the full 2023 Annapurna Interactive Showcase.
TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at [email protected] and also find him on Twitter @JohnnyChugs.
In May, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum opened the much-anticipated second phase of its Photography Centre. Set to be the UK’s largest permanent photography display, it will survey the medium’s past, present and future. With plans to rotate displays across seven galleries, it reflects the V&A’s renewed commitment to photography.
The centre has the feel of a museum within a museum and is clearly designed to cultivate debate, as it also houses a dedicated reading and research room that aims to examine the relationship between photography and the book as a form of publishing. The centre’s archive has been opened to researchers and the public alike.
The centre will provide not just a new home for the V&A’s extensive photography collection (which dates back to the 19th century), it will also go some way to cementing the status of photography as a leading form of expression within contemporary visual culture.
Longing for Love from the series A Myth of Two Souls by Vasantha Yogananthan. V&A
The V&A’s new addition will, like London’s long-established Photographers’ Gallery, contribute to our understanding of the pivotal role that photography has played in reflecting on and shaping our world.
A quick tour
Sidestepping the pitfalls of categorisation by genre, the opening rooms, Photography 1840s – Now, present a more idiosyncratic curation of images. Visitors are presented with juxtaposing images under a programme of changing themes, starting with Energies: Sparks from the Collection.
The theme prompts visitors to meditate on the way the medium captures the energy of a subject in an image. It also asks them to consider the way images are manipulated through photo-chemical processes.
Untitled from Hoda Afshar’s Speak the Wind series. V&A
It will be interesting to see to what extent this approach will produce new perspectives on the diversity of images held in the V&A’s collection. Navigating darkened galleries with backlit displays, it becomes clear that these unique commissions and new acquisitions will become the site for developing knowledge of the medium – expanding notions of photographic practice by making links between historical and future techniques and processes.
The works selected for another theme, Photography Now, set a political agenda and echo pressing themes for our times: climate change, socio-political conflict, gender and identity and the legacy of colonial histories.
Self Portrait as Walking Woman with Bag by Tarrah Krajnak. V&A
A foray into decolonising the canon is exemplified in the work of Sammy Baloji. In his mirror prints, fragmented images of raw copper ore float over archive photographs of the Congo’s colonial past.
Also compelling are the evocative images from Speak the Wind, Hoda Afshar’s combination of poetic landscapes and human subjects that attempt to make visible the invisible force of a mythical malevolent wind known as “Zar”. These works expose the physical and cultural traces of the Arab slave trade from Africa to the Persian Gulf.
Elsewhere there is an emphasis on the fascination many contemporary photographers have with the medium itself. A number of the showcased artists create a dialogue with the past by adapting some of the earliest techniques in novel ways.
Notable are the performance self portraits by Tarrah Krajnak, who combines projected images with the cyanotype process. This is an early form of photographic printing using coated paper and light, later widely known as blueprinting. Krajnak uses it to explore personal identity in relation to Peru’s traumatic political past.
Collotypes (a 19th-century photographic-based printmaking technique) by Antony Cairns constitute a “translation” between old and new, taking images of urban spaces which are frozen on defunct e-reader(kindle?) screens and then reproducing them on paper.
It is positive to see a significant number of female photographers represented in the Photography Centre.
Radio Telescope, Effelsberg XV September 12, 2013 by Vera Lutter. V&A
Vera Lutter’s unique monochrome negative of a radio telescope – inscribed directly onto light-sensitive paper through an extended period of exposure using a large pinhole camera – is a reminder that photography is inextricably linked to time through the actual processes employed (exposure times, developing, printing and so on).
Concluding these rooms is the monumental sculptural photo installation, Giant Phoenix VI, by Noémie Goudal. Her complex process explores the deep time of paleoclimatology, which reconstructs the climates of ancient history. Goudal photographs trees and then inserts scale photographs back into the real world and photographs them again.
The resulting images are then layered as fragments onto towering metal panels that, when viewed from different positions, simultaneously break up and reform the picture plane, alluding to the fragility of the image and the subject it depicts.
A huge undertaking
The photograph is deeply entangled in our contemporary experience, playing a crucial role in recording and informing our understanding of the world. Which means photography has a number of overlapping histories: as a technology of seeing, a social document and an aesthetic practice.
Riot Girl by Vinca Petersen. V&A
So how do we begin to unpick and present these interwoven histories in a way that does not leave one overshadowed by another? And how best do we present each photograph to stimulate thought and action beyond the confines of the gallery? It will be interesting to observe how the V&A’s new Photography Centre navigates these challenges now that the gallery is open to the public.
Polish artist Lukasz Biel creates incredible drawings with color and graphite pencils. The activities depicted here are everyday or regular occurrences that many of us engage in. They include going out for a drink with friends, engaging in a friendly game of chess, immersing ourselves in a book to alleviate the boredom of daily commutes, dancing with a partner, and, of course, scenes of people reading books. These activities are relatable to people from all walks of life.
Scenes, in comparison to portraits, may not be as popular among most artists. However, for me, they possess a unique advantage over the latter, as they tell a more expansive story. Even a quick glance at a scene can reveal much more, allowing you to observe the environment and embellish it with additional thoughts and conjectures. It opens up a world of possibilities beyond what meets the eye. You can check Lukasz’s more amazing work on Behance and Instagram.
You can find Lukasz Biel on the web:
#1
#2
Graphite pencil art, also known as pencil drawing, is a versatile and popular medium within the realm of visual arts. Artists use graphite pencils of varying hardness to create monochromatic drawings with a wide range of tones, textures, and levels of detail.
Graphite pencil art allows artists to achieve a remarkable level of precision and control over their drawings. It offers the ability to create intricate lines, delicate shading, and subtle gradations of light and shadow. From realistic portraits and landscapes to abstract designs, graphite pencil art can be employed to capture a wide array of subjects and artistic styles.
#3
#4
#5
Artists often choose graphite pencils because they provide excellent control over line thickness and darkness, making them ideal for achieving various effects. Pencil drawings can be created on different types of paper, with smooth or textured surfaces, further adding to the versatility of the medium.
#6
#7
#8
Graphite pencil art has a timeless quality that has captivated artists and art enthusiasts for centuries. It continues to be appreciated for its ability to convey depth, form, and emotion through the skilled manipulation of a simple pencil. Whether used for intricate details or bold, expressive strokes, graphite pencil art remains a cherished and celebrated form of artistic expression.
