The Power of Flowers

Flowers are a natural subject for photography; full of color, texture, patterns, and personality. With The Power of Flowers Challenge, we wanted to see a bunch of flower photos that stood out amongst the rest!

Guru’s Top Pick Winner
Nicolai Wrigg
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Top Photographer Winner
Fabiano Santos
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Top Photo Winner
Nataša G. Marušić
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Viktoria Farkas
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Ophira Eschinasi
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The Power of Flowers
more at Digital Camera World

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Repetition and Order in Nature

In exploring the natural world, one finds order and repetition in many places, and on vastly different scales. From the elaborate structures of snowflakes, or delicately patterned insects, to the geological order of features like the Giant’s Causeway, or waves of huge crescent dunes marching across the desert.

Green fern sprouts by Nicola Micheletti
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Rollin by Gary Geiger
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Up to a point by Susan Moss
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Dandelion by José Alpedrinha
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Opening Time by Doug Richardson
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Repetition and Order in Nature
more at photocrowd

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Close-ups

Fit a macro lens to your camera and you open up a whole new world of photographic possibilities and ways of seeing. Tiny insects suddenly become frame-filling creatures, every detail revealed, while flowers and plant life become studies in shape, shadow and form.

And you don’t even need a macro lens – close-up photography is just as possible with a standard lens, particularly if looking for more abstract compositions.

by Adam Neuba
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by Julie Tennant
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by Nguyen Tan Tuan
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by Fabio Sartori
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by Henrik Spranz
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Close-ups
more at Amateur Photographer

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Tips for Taking Great Photos of Butterflies

There’s no steadfast rule on how to photograph a butterfly. It’s up to you. Photograph them with their wings open or closed or anywhere in between. Photograph them head on or in profile. Taking pictures of butterflies with their wings wide open or in profile allows you to capture their beautiful colors and intricate patterns, making them easier to identify. Or maybe you want to capture them in flight or drinking nectar from a flower.

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Top 10 Tips for Taking Great Photos of Butterflies
Featuring Diane Berkenfeld & Nikon Ambassador Ron Magill
more at Nikon

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E Y E S

Complex eyes can distinguish shapes and colours. The visual fields of many organisms, especially predators, involve large areas of binocular vision to improve depth perception. In other organisms, eyes are located so as to maximise the field of view, such as in rabbits and horses, which have monocular vision.

The human eye is a sense organ that reacts to light and allows vision. Rod and cone cells in the retina are photoreceptive cells which are able to detect visible light and convey this information to the brain. Eyes signal information which is used by the brain to elicit the perception of color, shape, depth, movement, and other features. The eye is part of the sensory nervous system.
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E Y E S
more at 35photo

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