Winter is a tough time to be an outdoor photographer, summer can be just as hard.. I don’t mind telling you that it can be a struggle to get out and shoot, even more so to shoot at the best times of day. I do most of my photography at four times the two golden […] The post Get Going – How to Motivate Yourself To Shoot At The Best Times appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking community update! Not so long ago, I came across the social phenomenon related to feeling sole or lonely amidst the crowd. Authors prior Marx to contemporary folks like Jaeggi and Rosa, might posit the biggest blame to alienation as the cause of this symptom. However, a handful of those […] The post Solitude in Crowds, Pareidolia with Crocs and Variations! appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

For June we were lucky enough to convince master photographer, Giancarlo Pawelec to be our judge! We try to mix up the judging for our monthly contest so that our community gets a wide range of expert views about their work. Giancarlo is a Toronto-based photographer with a background in the arts ranging from painting […] The post June Contest Winners: Nature’s Clock appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

Tersha's latest photog challenge, made me reckon what might be my most memorable encounter with the concept of “elements”. Surprisingly not, it was through television; more specifically, cartoons! The year was nineteen ninety-something, and cable TV was as popular as it is nowadays… Local transmissions were the thing for both visuals and radio and in […] The post Light Stalking This Week: Dueling Elements, Optimal Exposure and Tractors! appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

Street photography provides all of us photography tragics with a regular opportunity to pull out the camera (or phone) and grab a shot that takes our fancy. It's good to remember though how many great opportunities are all around us when out in the city. This collection of street photography shots is meant as a […] The post 17 Street Photos for Inspiration appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

The proposition implying peace amidst chaos, sounds like quite a juxtaposition. By virtue of the Greeks, we can access a singular key for wrapping this contradiction; being ataraxy this definitive word. The first time I understood what this concept, was when Paula built her personal graduation project. Basically, the meaning of this ancient term refers […] The post High-waves, Peace Amidst Chaos and Beautiful Loons! appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

If you follow photography groups on social media or peruse the vast aisles of photography videos on YouTube, you might notice that there is a lot of noise around “fast lenses.: Reviews, photo shoot vlogs, articles, and more all seem to be telling you why you need a fast lens. But do you? If you […] The post Do You Really Need A Fast Lens? appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

Resilience, and violent counter attacks came to my mind after reading the theme of this week's challenge… Climate change strikes harder each year, and I believe some of the efforts made around it will have a positive effect. Hopefully, nature might congratulate the spirit behind each effort; and just maybe we could get some slack. […] The post Encroaching Cities, Visual Torque and Spirals on the Wild! appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

Recently, my wife and I went to Edinburgh. It was a short trip but one that I had been looking forward to both as a photographer and purely as a holiday. I had a plan to shoot a YouTube video based on only taking one camera and one lens on a trip. I had been […] The post Don’t Push Your Photography Too Hard appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more

The resurgence of film is a topic we’ve covered off and on for a couple of years. It’s one of those things that’s always “happening” but doesn’t seem to have really happened. One thing is certain: Retro products have cooled off a bit which was a huge part of the renewal. But it looks like […] The post Fuji Making Color Film for Chinese Domestic Market Due to Growing Demand appeared first on Light Stalking ..read more