Mike Poggioli came to see photography as a serious creative outlet when he moved to Chicago in 2015 and became enamored by the beauty of the city’s architecture. He was particularly drawn to the L trains, experiencing every ride through The Loop, Chicago’s downtown center, as a complimentary architecture tour.
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The Candid Frame #564 - Albert Watson
Albert Watson OBE (born 1942) is a Scottish fashion, celebrity, and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada, Chanel, and Levis.
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The Candid Frame #485 - Karen Hutton
Karen Hutton is an International Landscape and Travel Photographer, Artist, Speaker, Author, Educator, Voice; as well as a Professional Fujifilm X-Photographer. She has been photographing for over 40 years and, in addition to her large social media following, her voice has been heard around the world in commercials, apps, tutorials and television.
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The Candid Frame #435 - Brian Matiash
Brian Matiash is a professional photographer, published author, and podcaster based in Portland, OR. He specializes in fusing landscape & travel photography with experiential storytelling and practical instructing to help others grow creatively. He’s spent the better part of a decade educating, empowering and inspiring photographers all around the world with his tutorials, videos, and stories.
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The Candid Frame #432 - Matt Payne
Matt Payne is a landscape photographer who grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado and was lucky to have parents that instilled him with a healthy appreciation for the outdoors. He grew up quite poor, which was actually quite a blessing in disguise, as his family vacations involved going camping in the Colorado mountains almost every weekend during the summer. His father took him along on his pursuit to climb Colorado's highest 100 mountains back in the 1980's and helped him climb my first 14,000 ft. mountain at the age of 6.
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Photo: Jacqueline Walters
The Candid Frame #429 - Jacqueline Walters
Born in Cambridge, England, Jacqueline Walters is a fine art photographer based in San Francisco. Through a passion for expatriate literature from Paris of the 20s and 30s, she discovered the world of photography. One passion turned into another as her world of words became a world of images. Thus, began her journey from the textual to the visual, from one form of storytelling to another. In the process, she discovered that photography is about finding the story she had to tell. Above all, it is about seeing, being patient, and being forever humbled.
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Photo: Kevin Raber
The Candid Frame #416 - Kevin Raber
Kevin Raber is CEO and publisher of the Luminous-Landscape website. He brings over 40 years of experience in the photo industry including stints as a photographer, studio owner, photo software developer and Vice President of PODAS events for Phase One.
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Photo: Anton Bosman
The Candid Frame #389 - Anton Bosman
Anton Bosman is a South African photographer based in Johannesburg who specializes in both natural and urban landscapes. However, it is images of Downtown Johannesburg that demonstrate his passion for the city. Through his photographs he reveals the urban center’s beauty and history, while countering the often negative perception of the district.
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Photo: Matt Kloskowski
The Candid Frame #373 - Matt Kloskowski
Matt Kloskowski is mentor/coach for everything photography related (Lightroom, Photoshop and Photography). He's a bestselling author of over 20 books and teaches photography, Lightroom and Photoshop at seminars and conferences around the world.
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photo: Art Wolfe
The Candid Frame #328 - Art Wolfe
Over the course of his 40-year career, photographer Art Wolfe has worked on every continent and in hundreds of locations. Wolfe’s photographs are recognized throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition and perspective. Wolfe's photographic mission is multi-faceted: art, wildlife advocacy, education, and journalism inform his work.
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photo: Thomas Heaton
The Candid Frame #310 - Thomas Heaton
Thomas Heaton is a UK based photographer who when he isn’t making a living as a commercial photographer in Whitley Bay, England is exploring the natural world with a camera. He creates beautiful landscape images not only in his homeland, but also during his many travels.
photo: Wasim Mukllashy
The Candid Frame #302 - Wasim Muklashy
Wasim Muklashy is a media professional involved in everything from print publications to video production. He began his career writing for various Primedia and Conde Nast publications before founding a national newsstand print publication featuring everyone from Hunter S Thompson’s renown artist Ralph Steadman to influential political and philanthropic personalities including Congressman Henry Waxman and The Sierra Club’s founder Carl Pope.
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photo: Wyman Meiner
The Candid Frame #295 - Wyman Meinzer
Wyman Meinzer is the only official State Photographer of Texas, named so in 1997 by the Texas State Legislature and then Gov. George W. Bush, an honor he still holds today. He was raised on the League Ranch, a 27,000-acre ranch in the rolling plains of Texas. Since then, he has traveled to every corner of this great state and all points in between in search of the first and last rays of sunlight in its magnificent sweep across the Texas landscape.
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The Candid Frame #288 - Gary Wagner
The beauty of the landscape is experienced in a unique and beautiful way when it is captured as a black and white photograph. Without the presence of color, the natural world is revealed using a very personal point of view, that of the photographer.. Shades of gray reveal the subtle nuances that are not immediately obvious when we see the world in full color.
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photo: Gary Radler
Revealing a Place: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, we explore how to make an interesting photograph of a place that moves beyond simply making a snapshot. We discuss how to use lighting, color, pattern and composition to make a photograph than can arrest a viewer's attention.
In this video, we talk about how to make an interesting photograph of a place. We touch on how to move beyond the snapshot of a place and using elements of lighting, composition and more to produce a photograph that arrests a viewer's attention.
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photo: Nancy Lehrer
The Candid Frame #262 - Nancy Lehrer
Nancy Lehrer sets out to capture daily life and interactions. These life events are sometimes celebratory but more often commonplace. They are made up of simple conversations and actions – calling out from a balcony, telling a secret, praying, or just engaging with the neighbors on a warm afternoon. She is an observer, seeking to find and record a bit of culture and community.
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