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2016 Audubon Photography Contest Winners

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http://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2016/the-2016-audubon-photography-awards-winners
Bald Eagle and Great Blue Herons.
Photo: Bonnie Block/Audubon 2016 Photography Awards
Grand Prize winner
The Audubon Society just announced the winners of this year's photography contest this morning. The winning photo is testament to what it takes to get a beautifully clear and focused photo of birds on the move: skill, good equipment, patience, and some good luck. This stunning photo of a bald eagle swooping over the Hood Canal in Washington state deserved its award in my opinion.

Check out all the winners at this link to the 2016 Audubon Photography Awards.







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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm More photographs from the same Pasifika Festival day can be found in my new post, Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival .
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Before and After: Two Joshua Tree Photographs, Two Painterly Reworkings

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I want to try something a little different in this post — a working walk-through of how two of my Joshua Tree photographs from April of 2011 became two of my newest painterly artworks on Redbubble. Same compositions, same landscape, same afternoon in the Mojave. Very different final pieces. The Raw Photographs Both photographs were taken on a single afternoon trip to Joshua Tree National Park, shot in Canon raw (.CR2) format on my Canon EOS. Raw files are, as any photographer knows, deliberately flat — they carry the maximum amount of information the sensor recorded, without any of the punchy contrast, saturation, or sharpening that a JPEG would apply automatically in-camera. That flatness is a feature: it gives the photographer the widest possible latitude to make choices in post-processing. But it also means a raw file, straight out of the camera, doesn't look like the scene the eye remembers. It looks like the scene the sensor saw, drained of atmosphere. Here are the two r...
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