Nature Photographers Network

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureConnecting with Light Light is everything when it comes to my photography; so much so that I coined the phrase "Be a master of consistency and a student of light." And I believe my obsession with light has come from being…

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureFrom Painting to Photography At fourteen, I fell in love with hyperrealistic drawing, and for about eight years I lived within that obsessive and meticulous discipline.

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureSeeing the Unseen: How Tiny Creatures Changed the Way I Look at Nature Many people see a photograph and think it was made in a fraction of a second. While the exposure may last only an instant, the journey to that moment can take days.

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureWhere the Image Begins: Notes on Artistic Nature Photography Artistic photography allows me to reinterpret what I observe — drawing from the environment and the subject — to recreate a scene and tell my own story.

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureThe Beauty of the Ordinary My approach to photography is very simple, as I try to finalize my image in the field to avoid lengthy processing once the session is over.

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureLet Yourself Be Inspired by Nature For me, landscapes are never just postcards. Every image tells a story and conveys an atmosphere, playing with light, colors, and depth in a coherent way, always striving to pay close attention to…

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureWhere Silence Is Enough I don’t remember when it began. There was no moment of decision, no conscious choice to photograph this way. I had only just started — learning my camera, learning how to look.

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureInteractive Triad in Nature Photography How do you take a good photo? People often answer by pointing to the finished image: strong composition, clean technique, pleasing color. Those are real qualities, and they matter.

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureThe Art of Seabird Photography There is a moment, just before you press the shutter, when the world seems to hold its breath. The wind still moves, of course. The sea continues its restless rhythm.

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Nature Photographers NetworkCultureCreative Macro in Monochrome In macro photography, monochrome allows me to explore minimalism by reducing clutter, complexity, and distraction, focusing instead on simple compositions.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo