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• Challenges: You can still submit, vote and see results on Celine’s blog.
• Kickstarted: If you have an Iphone and love Lensbaby, I suggest you have a look at this page that should put you over the moon.
• Abandoned: This article from PetaPixel reminded me of my expedition with Celine and Christine to the Long Island Farm Colony
• Phlearn: Not really a made up word, it’s one of my new source of inspiration. I loved the interview they did with Alexander Khokhlov. Felt really inspired.
• Crazy: FStoppers published an article about “Sharpening with Blur” to get realistic results. I just added it to the Tutorials page.
• Listed: 500px released recently the 31 sexy cars that will electrify your evening, 36 photos of precious puffins that will melt your heart  and 21 photos of cute baby giraffes that will make your day better. I’m pretty sure you will find at least one picture that will make your day!

Spring is finally here!

By Sebastien Grobelny

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• Challenges: You can still submit, vote and see results on Celine’s blog.
• I finally created a page with tutorials I find useful. Don’t hesitate to propose your addition in the comments section. Last addition are “How to fix color banding” from FStoppers and “How to Enhance Detail and Texture with Intelligent High Pass Sharpening” from Vibranshot
• Vivian Maier: Thanks to Donald at 50’lux, I heard about Vivan Maier and I find the trailer and the story fascinating.
• The Clone Wars: It is no secret I’m a big Star Wars fan and I love to mix toys and “real” subjects, so imagine my joy when 500px did a blog post about Stormtroopers doing Awesome things
• Wild Portraits: Petapixel had a beautiful post on Intimate black and white portraits of exotic animals in captivity that I recommend for the beautiful pictures.

Kiss me

By Sebastien Grobelny

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• Challenges: You can still submit, vote and see results on Celine’s blog.
• Cast: Saw this tutorial on FStoppers from Vibrantshot on how to remove a color cast.
• Cute: 500px just posted on their blog 40 baby animals in the wild
• Timelapse: I love Yosemite and I love timelapses so I do love this video.
• Kickstarted: Petapixel showed how Kickstarter was used to maintain and transform 2 old buses in mobile photobooth in this article.
• Ethical question: FStoppers ran this article about a woman suing a 3rd party for the use of her mugshot. The comments and article are interesting.

 

By Sebastien Grobelny

Happy Thanksgiving!

I know it’s not a Turkey but that’s the closest I have. Happy thanksgiving!

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By Sebastien Grobelny

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• Challenges: You can still submit for Best of 44 (10/21 – 10/27), Theme 44 : Subjects of Phobias, Technique 22: People in B&W and Monthly Project 10: Fall on Photoblogchallenges. You can still vote until Sunday too!
• If you like light painting, you should check out this video about “Pixelstick“. If you want to help it they have a kickstarter campaign.
• Speaking of light painting you should check at this.
• I apparently missed on some Lord of the Ring maintenance in the NYC subway
• WTF Animals?!
• Another beautiful time lapse under the stars.
• Courtesy of Celine and Gizmodo these creepy micro photos
• Beautiful wildlife photographies.
• Had a stressful week? Can stress kill you?
• The Simpsons in the Shire!
• Happy Halloween!

By Sebastien Grobelny

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• Challenges: You can still submit for Best of 42 (10/07 – 10/13), Theme 42 : Skylines, Technique 21: Free Lensing and Monthly Project 10: Fall on Photoblogchallenges. You can still vote until Sunday too!
• Happy Birthday Celine!
• Platypus can be cute too!
• Great article by Scott Kelby on his selection process during his latest NFL game
• For the Portal fanatics here is a fan film about GladOS
• Discover Barcelona through this timelapse
• Walking Dead was back on AMC and Honest trailers summed up our feelings once more

By Sebastien Grobelny

In a glance : September

These are all the pictures I posted this month. To see more you can go to my other site.
All the pictures are for sale. You can also contact me if you think they might help you with a project you have.

09/28 : Giraffe at the Bronx Zoo

09/25 : Over the Miracle Shops

09/25 : Peaks at Bryce Canyon National Park

09/23 : Bryce Canyon National Park

09/21 : Plants in Monument Valley

09/18 : Vases in Santa Fe Market

09/16 : Dolphins at the Secret Garden

09/14 : Bryce Canyon National Park – 2013

09/10 : Cactus in Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden – 2013

09/08 : Ezequiel Lavezzi – PSG – 2012

09/04 : Reeds in Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden – 2013

09/02 : Sunset Point at Bryce Canyon National Park – 2013

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• Challenges: You can still submit for Best of, Theme, Technique and Monthly Project on Photoblogchallenges. You can still vote until Sunday too!
• Cute : Red Pandas are among my favorite animals.
• Music : If you like Phoenix and never visited Versailles have a look at their latest video.
• The League is back on FXX. Can’t wait for the season to start.

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• Challenges: You can still submit for Best of, Theme, Technique and Monthly Project on Photoblogchallenges until Sunday 09/01. You can still vote until Sunday too!
• Inked : This is this weeks challenge at Gizmodo
• Sad : Gus the Central Park Bear is dead .
• “Snow cute” : I’m a ferocious kitty!
• Colorful : If you have not done it yet, give Orange is the New Black on Netflix a go.
• Zen : Meteors under Joshua Tree’s sky
• Love : Good memories with Celine at Le Bernardin