#notable photographers

[esperanzapretila]

The World's Best Photographers of 2025

This roundup showcases the innovative photographers who are revolutionising the genre and making a lasting impression on society with their striking photographs. Check out our list or share your own picks!

Photo by AS Photography on Pexels.com Among the innumerable photographers around the world, some have succeeded in producing pictures that evoke strong emotional reactions in their viewers by transcending space and time. Photography’s power is found in its capacity to capture ephemeral moments of human experience, frequently narrating tales that words cannot express. In the visual age,…

[samwaverley]

The World's Best Photographers of 2025

This roundup showcases the innovative photographers who are revolutionising the genre and making a lasting impression on society with their striking photographs. Check out our list or share your own picks!

Photo by AS Photography on Pexels.com Among the innumerable photographers around the world, some have succeeded in producing pictures that evoke strong emotional reactions in their viewers by transcending space and time. Photography’s power is found in its capacity to capture ephemeral moments of human experience, frequently narrating tales that words cannot express. In the visual age,…

[sallymajors]

The World's Best Photographers of 2025

This roundup showcases the innovative photographers who are revolutionising the genre and making a lasting impression on society with their striking photographs. Check out our list or share your own picks!

Photo by AS Photography on Pexels.com Among the innumerable photographers around the world, some have succeeded in producing pictures that evoke strong emotional reactions in their viewers by transcending space and time. Photography’s power is found in its capacity to capture ephemeral moments of human experience, frequently narrating tales that words cannot express. In the visual age,…

[rachellepryce]

The World's Best Photographers of 2025

This roundup showcases the innovative photographers who are revolutionising the genre and making a lasting impression on society with their striking photographs. Check out our list or share your own picks!

Photo by AS Photography on Pexels.com Among the innumerable photographers around the world, some have succeeded in producing pictures that evoke strong emotional reactions in their viewers by transcending space and time. Photography’s power is found in its capacity to capture ephemeral moments of human experience, frequently narrating tales that words cannot express. In the visual age,…

[twbmagazine]

The World's Best Photographers of 2025

This roundup showcases the innovative photographers who are revolutionising the genre and making a lasting impression on society with their striking photographs. Check out our list or share your own picks!

Photo by AS Photography on Pexels.com Among the innumerable photographers around the world, some have succeeded in producing pictures that evoke strong emotional reactions in their viewers by transcending space and time. Photography’s power is found in its capacity to capture ephemeral moments of human experience, frequently narrating tales that words cannot express. In the visual age,…

[rabbitinthemeadow]

[A moment of respite] // Part 5

July 3, 2022

[rocketeer]

baby’s first photography final

[serenity-the-firefly]

not iwtv saying its okay to handle photographs with bare, unwashed hands 😭😭😭

[sexysecy69]

[misterradio]

FRIENDSHIP

[grison-in-space]

golly, I am being wordy today.

Via Metafilter:

Someone on MeFi tagged me in and asked me to chime in in my capacity as a rodent person, so here were my thoughts and observations:

First thought, looking at that video: that is no house mouse. Not only is the head wrong--too narrow at the back, eyes are a bit big--but that very clear countershading is not something you generally see on wild house mice. So what kind of mouse is it? If this was in the US, I would assume it was a Peromyscus (deer mouse) species, which often gleefully invade our homes, but do they have Peromyscus in Wales? In North America, this is relevant because deer mouse species often have very elaborated burrowing and pair bonding systems, and this looks like nesting behavior off the top of my head. What sort of mouse is this? The Woodland UK Trust suggests that this is probably a wood (or field) mouse: Apodemus sylvaticus. (There are glorious big photos there which can help you see what I mean.) Okay, I don't know that much about Apodemus spp. behavior, so what do we know about their nesting behavior? Well, I chased a couple of false leads, then circled back to find out what is notable about wood mice, which is that they are known to not only navigate by the use of landmarks, but to organize their environments to place small objects around their environments in order to make navigation and orienting themselves across their large territories more effectively! So this mouse is probably irritably putting things back in place as an aid to its own memory of where everything is and where it can most effectively pilfer snacks, nest locations, or other useful mouse items within its environment. That is, the mouse wants a tidy shed for exactly the same reasons a human might want a tidy shed: so it can find things it's looking for when it wants to! Wood mice, by the way, are human commensals and quite common in Europe and the British Isles, so this is in no way a refutation of the idea that this behavior might have influenced human folklore and ideas about house spirits or similar. Certainly wood mice, like any mouse, are unlikely to turn up a bowl of milk if there's one put out for it--although neither are house cats, which would certainly prey on them.

rather delighted, so I'm sharing this more widely over here.

[vetyr]

hi, i ireally love your work and i don't know if you've answered this before but, what kinds of studies do you do or how did you learn color theory? i wanna get better at rendering and anatomy but im having trouble TT TT

Hi! Long answer alert. Once a chatterbox, always a chatterbox.

When I started actively learning how to draw about 10 1/2 years ago, I exclusively did graphite studies in sketchbooks. Here's a few examples—I mostly stuck to doing line drawings to drill basic shapes/contours and proportions into my brain. The more rendered sketches helped me practice edge control & basic values, and they were REALLY good for learning the actual 3D structure behind what I was drawing.

I'd use reference images that I grabbed from fitness forums, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and some NSFW places, but you could find adequate ref material from figure drawing sites like Line of Action. LoA has refs for people (you can filter by clothed/unclothed, age, & gender), animals, expressions, hands/feet, and a few other useful things as well. Love them.

Learning how to render digitally was a similar story; it helped a lot that I had a pretty strong foundation for value/anatomy going in. I basically didn't touch color at all for ~2 years (except for a few attempts at bad digital or acrylic paint studies), which may not have been the best idea. I learned color from a lot of trial and error, honestly, and I'm pretty sure this process involved a lot of imitation—there were a number of digital/traditional painters whose styles I really wanted to emulate (notably their edge control, color choices, value distributions, and shape design), so I kiiind of did a mixture of that + my own experimentation.

For example, I really found Benjamin Björklund's style appealing, especially his softened/lost edges & vibrant pops of saturated color, so here's a study I did from some photograph that I'm *pretty* sure was painted with him in mind.

Learning how to detail was definitely a slow process, and like all the aforementioned things (anatomy/color/edge control/values/etc.) I'm still figuring it out. Focusing on edge control first (that is, deciding on where to place hard/soft edges for emphasizing/de-emphasizing certain areas of the image) is super useful, because you can honestly fool a viewer into thinking there's more detail in a piece than there actually is if you're very economical about where you place your hard edges.

The most important part, to me, is probably just doing this stuff over and over again. You're likely not going to see improvement in a few weeks or even a few months, so don't fret about not getting the exact results you want and just keep studying + making art. I like to think about learning art as a process where you *need* to fail and make crappy art/studies—there's literally no way around it—so you might as well fail right now. See, by making bad art you're actually moving forward—isn't that a fun prospect!!

It's useful to have a folder with art you admire, especially if you can dissect the pieces and understand why you like them so much. You can study those aspects (like, you can redraw or repaint that person's work) and break down whether this is art that you just like to look at, or if it's the kind of art that you want to *make.* There's a LOT of art out there that I love looking at, probably tens of thousands of styles/mediums, but there's a very narrow range that I want to make myself.

I've mentioned it in some ask reply in the past, but I really do think looking at other artist's work is such a cheat code for improving your own skills—the other artist does the work to filter reality/ideas for you, and this sort of allows you to contact the subject matter more directly. I can think of so many examples where an artist I admired exaggerated, like, the way sunlight rested on a face and created that orange fringe around its edge, or the greys/dull blues in a wheat field, or the bright indigo in a cast shadow, or the red along the outside of a person's eye, and it just clicked for me that this was a very available & observable aspect of reality, which had up until that point gone completely unnoticed! If you're really perceptive about the art you look at, it's shocking how much it can teach you about how to see the world (in this particular case I mean this literally, in that the art I looked at fully changed the way I visually processed the world, but of course it has had a strong effect on my worldviews/relationships/beliefs).

Thanks so much for sending in a question (& for reading, if you got this far)! I read every single ask I receive, including the kind words & compliments, which I genuinely always appreciate. Best of luck with learning, my friend :)

[natailiatulls07]

New wag in the paddock

Summary - Being the newest wag in the paddock can be quite daunting but with the right people around you, it's all okay

Warning - None <3

A/n - Slowly easing back into writing?? We'll see lol

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Walking into the paddock with beyond nerve racking, with photographers just inside of the entrance and fans just outside of the entrance - I had no where to hide or breathe.

Luckily walking alongside me with Rebecca Donaldson, Carlos' partner. Because of our partners friendship, we were close friends. She had become someone who'd help me and become like a sister to me in the paddock and even beyond.

This morning particularly she had come over to mine and Landos suite to help me get ready for my first paddock day just after him and Carlos had left. Helping with picking out a gorgeous dress, helping with my makeup and also my hair. Like my own fairy godmother in a way.

'Wow there's a lot of people here...' I whisper in her direction, my eyes took in the busyness of a Sunday morning race day paddock. Next to me, I feel her laugh - She's used to this.

With a soft nod and a slip of an arm round my back, Rebecca is quick to reply. 'Yep it's a race day in Miami, you'll get used to it...' I feel her gently pushing me along, prompiting me not to run back out and go back to the safety of the hotel.

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It wasn't long before she dropped me off at the McLaren hospitality. Wishing me good luck with a hug and a warm smile before I stand pathically watching her leave me to defend for myself - Almost like a child would whilst being dropped off for their first day of school. In a sense, it was exactly that; I had been dropped off and know expected to make friends until someone I knew would come and safe me.

I breathe in, turn on my heel and walk quietly into the McLaren hospitality. Inside it's modern and high tech, obviously very well thought out. There are multiple seating areas, some small groups accompanying a couple. I can smell fresh coffee as I walk over to a small sofa, sitting there anxiously.

Opening my phone, I can already see multiple notification from various social platforms. I hazard a guess that they are mostly all gossip sites tagging me in their posts.

But one notification stands out to me.

It's on instagram, informing me that I've been added to a groupchat. More specifically a groupchat for the f1 wags. My heart warms at their consideration and kindness, so this is what it feels like to be in a big friendship group of girls.

Soon a few messages start to load into the chat;

lilymhe - Heyyy Y/n! Welcome to the group, this is a safe space for you always xx

francisca.cgomes - Yeah all the girls are in this group so we all gossip, vent and help out in here! Girls support girls obv <3

carmenmmundt - Hi sweetheart!

kellypiquet - Literally if you need anything, send a quick message here and we'll help always x

alexandrasaintmleux - Babes I just saw the photos, you look STUNNING!!! <333

I don't even the big smile that forms on my lips, the feeling of acceptance heavy on my mind. Accidently I don't notice the person in front of me until I hear a soft cough. Looking up I recogise Lando trainer, Jon, stood waiting patiently with a small smile. I gasp at my oblivion. 'Oh my gosh, I'm sorry! You haven't been stood there long, gosh how oblivious can I get?' I nervously ramble.

I've only met him a hand full of times and to keep him waiting felt very rude of me. A soft chuckle escapes his lips as he shakes his head, prompting me to breathe out a sigh of relief.

'No don't worry, I came to get you cause you're boyfriend wants to see you before the race starts...' He explains, watching as I quickly gather my things - I don't want to keep him waiting any longer. 'Hey, no need to rush...' He chuckles, sensing my nerves. It'd be hard not to.

Notable I slow down, no longer rushing to collect myself. I let out a soft sigh, a smile screwing itself onto my lips. And once I have everything, I let Jon lead the way through to Landos garage.

As soon as we walk into the garage, my eyes are immediately drawn to Lando who is stood talking to a few engineers. With his classic smile on his face, something I really do adore is watching as he talks about his job - He really does love it, possible more than me.

I stand there for a few seconds, not wanting to intrude on his conversation. Around me the team work around the garage, clearly buzzing with pre race excitement, nerves and preparation - Something Jon went along with when we arrived.

Then suddenly, I feel eyes on me and I notice Lando walking towards me enthusiastically. As soon as I am in arms reach, I feel his arms slip comfortably around my waist. 'Hi...' I smile, slipping my own arms around his neck. 'How are you doing?'

Lando takes a few seconds, just staring lovingly at me before smirking. 'Good, better now that you're here. How did this morning go? You and Rebecca get here alright?' He questioned, very grateful that I had someone to join this morning.

I nod keenly, moving on to explain about my morning as my hand start to play with some of his mullet. 'Oh I was added to the wag groupchat, they're all really nice people. They said that I can talk to them about anything and ask for advice you know. I've only really met Rebecca so they don't they even know me but they still like accept me, I thought that was the sweet thing ever...' Unintentionally I go onto ramble about the other wags befriending me, only really stopping when I notice his gaze and gentle warm smile. 'Sorry I'm rambling...'

Looking around us, I can see some engineers watching curiously. A mix of his gaze on me, my realization and the engineers watching all make me blush deeply. 'No it's okay...'

His british cuts through my thoughts, reassuring me. 'I'm really happy that you got them beside you, they know what you're going through a lot more than I will ever so that's great!' One of his hands moves up to caress my cheek lovingly.

A comfortable silence falls on us for a few seconds, before I speak up once again. 'So are you ready for the race today? Is the car good?' I ask, despite not really understanding the sport I'm desperate to learn through Lando.

He turns, watching as the engineers do their final preperations and work and nodding confidently. 'Yeah all good! I've got my good luck charm with me and the car is set to do magic today!' Even the way he explains everything, there is a lot of excitement in his voice. I nod, careful to take in all the information he's telling me.

Our conversation continues for a few more minutes before he's notified that he has to make a move to get the car out onto the track. Quick Lando turns back towards me, smiling and pulling me into a tender kiss. 'I love you! Wish me luck!'

I return the same energy and excitement. 'Good luck Lan! You've got this! I love you too!'

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[innerfare]

Nudes - Part 2

Summary: Their favorite nude photo of you.

Characters: Shanks, Beckman, Mihawk, Crocodile

Genre: pure smut

CW: NSFW // nudes (obv), oral sex, light cum play

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Shanks: 

He doesn’t remember you taking it. He’s not even sure if you remember taking it. But he finds a photograph in his things one night. At first, he only notices his bare chest, but then he sees the edge of your naked thigh and realizes you’re on top of him, and from where exactly you’re positioned, you must have his cock inside you. He has other photos of you, several of you bent over, others of you squeezing your naked tits for him, but this is the one that really gets him going and makes his cock throb, the one he’d save over all the others if the ship sank and he could only take one of your many nudes. 

Beckman: 

Beckman has his own stack of playing cards the crew knows not to touch because tucked into the back is a photograph of you- the lover he’s convinced is an airtight secret. There was some talk amongst the crew after Yassop caught a glimpse of the nude, hickies littered across your breasts and your hand between your legs, one of Beckman’s only just visible in the frame (and notably much larger than yours). But in a rare show of maturity, they didn’t tease him about it, until one night, when playing poker with Beckman’s cards and Shanks attempted to enter it into the pot; to their surprise, Beckman allowed it, only to win the nude and Shanks’ best sake. 

Mihawk: 

He painted it himself. He’s as skilled with a brush as he is with a sword, the fine strokes coming naturally to him after a lifetime spent training with a blade. But it’s quite rare something interests him enough to put his skills to good use. You, though, are more than interesting enough, and he spent hours upon hours perfecting the oil painting of you laying naked in his bed. It took even longer than it should have considering he had to put his paint down every hour or so to fuck you into the mattress, his excuse being the flush of you skin having faded from the last time. 

Crocodile: 

He told himself he needed pictures of you in compromising positions should you ever betray him, but he knew damn well he would never blackmail you. The pictures were solely for his enjoyment, though they tortured him more than anything. On sleepless nights alone in his office, he has those pictures to distract him, to remind him how obsessed he is with you, and he hates himself for it. But he would sooner die than toss those pictures of you naked and sprawled across his silk sheets, his cum on your pretty stomach, in the fire. 

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Hope you enjoyed it! If you want more, you can check out my masterlist here!

[disease]

Frank Rosenblatt, often cited as the Father of Machine Learning, photographed in 1960 alongside his most-notable invention: the Mark I Perceptron machine — a hardware implementation for the perceptron algorithm, the earliest example of an artificial neural network, est. 1943.