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We’re in luv with San Francisco illustrator Lisa Congdon‘s work. Especially her Photography-inspired journal that was recently released by Compendium for a cool $6.95. It’s a charming little 5″x8″ journal with 128 hand-lined pages interspersed with cool hand-drawn photography quotes from the masters and Lisa’s cool vintage camera paintings and line drawings.

Here’s a sampling of some of the interior images that are available to preview online:

We’ve gotta have it so get yours today too!

Visit:

Lisa Congdon Portfolio
Lisa’s Blog
Lisa Feature on The Great Discontent
Purchase The Photography Journal on Compendium
Short film about Lisa and her work
Lisa on Twitter
Lisa on Facebook
Lisa on Etsy

All these beautiful drawings and paintings © 2013 Lisa Congdon

Via photojojo

You have 2 days left to pre-order the Camera tee from the folks at Pixelivery & United Pixel Workers. The camera is printed in dark brown on a soft Coffee colored American Apparel Tri-Blend track tee. They’re set to ship around March 8, so order yours today!

As a fashion and wedding photographer, Jessica Castro splits her time between Atlanta and Florida and is soon to make the big move to L.A.

What we love about her is that she’s not afraid to pic up a variety of digital and analog cameras to make the shot. Her fashion portfolio and personal projects like polaroids grabbed us and wouldn’t let go. We spent entirely too much time laying out our favorite images below and thought of all the great magazines, lookbooks and brands that would benefit from her beautiful work.

Contact her for your next fashion, editorial, music or advertising shoot. Her ability to capture subjects in natural light as well as the studio would make her a great to asset to your next project.

Visit:

Jessica Castro’s Portfolio
Jessica’s Blog
@JessCastroPhoto on Twitter
Jessica Castro Photography on Facebook

All images © 2013 Jessica Castro Photography

Duck Duck is a Talented collection of Brooklyn, NY-based photographers and videographers who are masters of capturing cool moments in beautiful light. They’re ever-growing client list includes Levi’s, Microsoft, Coors,Bulleit Bourbon, Motorola, Discover Card and more. We’ve been in love with collectives photography for awhile now and even featured one of it’s members Foster Addington a few years ago when he was in Orlando.

Be sure to hire the Collective for your next job, they’re not afraid to travel … they’re even willing to do a free job for a all-expenses paid trip to Iceland. Be sure to check out our selection of work from their portfolio and be sure to check out their site for fun GIFs, travel photos and a robust instagram feed.

Visit:

Duck Duck Collective’s Portfolio
Duck Duck Blog
@duckducktweets on Twitter
Duck Duck on Facebook

All images © 2012 Duck Duck Collective

San Francisco-based Photographer Ryan Tatar (one of our favorite features) has made quite a name for himself with his beautiful cross-processed lo-fi surf photography. His analog approach helps him feel miles away from his busy day job and let’s him focus on just making great images.

On this episode of D-I-Why Not? for Korduroy.tv, he breaks down the basics of shooting film.

Visit:

Ryantatar.com
Shakas and Single fins
Korduroy.tv
Ryan’s Feature on Cameraluv

Credits:

Host:
Ryan Tatar

Camera:
James Campbell
Cyrus Sutton

Edit:
James Campbell

Music:
“Nothings Gonna”
The Blank Tapes

Via korduroy.tv

New to our Must-have list is the recently released Belair X 6-12 from Lomography. It’s a modern vintage throwback camera that you can’t ignore.

It comes in 3 models available for pre-order now, the Globe-trotter, the Jetsetter and the all black City Slicker. Each camera boasts auto-exposure capabilities, two inter-changeable lenses (90mm & 58mm), & bellows for easy folding.

One of the coolest things about this vintagy 120 film shooter is that it can shoot three aspect ratios— a square 6×6, a standard 6×9, and the 6-12 panorama. Other notables include zone focusing, support ISO film from 50 to 1600, a standard hot-shoe mount, and the Bulb mode and double exposure shooting modes you’d expect from Lomography.

Here a few sample images from the cameras:

The cameras are currently in short supply so order soon (globe-trotter already sold out), they’re guaranteeing delivery by December 19th for most countries.

Nikki Devereux grew up as an artist, sketching and painting from an early age, but the passion for photography came after college when a friend let her borrow an old Nikon film camera. Once the prints came back, she was hooked, and hasn’t put down the camera since. Today she still uses her Mamiya 645 Super as well as her go-to-camera the Canon 7D for shoots of all kinds. Her main love though, is the fashion shoots where collaboration is key.

“One of the things I love most about fashion photography is the bond of the team. I love to collaborate with my team to create the images. It’s never just about my vision… each person plays a role in the creation of the final set, and I love what happens when everyone contributes their own vision and everything just falls into place. The model, the hair/makeup artist, the stylist – they are all artists and they each bring their individuality to the shoot. It’s such a wonderful feeling to step back and see the team having fun making art and getting excited about the final product. I live for that feeling.” -Nikki Devereux

While Nikki has a variety of images in the sections on her site, not surprisingly we respond most to that work she’s most passionate about, to her fashion work. Enjoy a selection of her work below and be sure to contact her for your next fashion or editorial project. She’s available on either coast as she travels regularly from Florida to New York and the West Coast for shoots.

Visit:

Nikki’s Portfolio
Nikki on Vimeo
Nikki’s Blog
Nikki on Flickr

All images © 2012 Nikki Devereux

Last week the city of Los Angeles welcomed Space Shuttle Endeavor to it’s new home, the California Science Center. The four-day journey through the streets of LA to the Science Center was captured beautifully in time-lapse in so many great angles by Matthew Givot and his small army of collaborators which included Joe Capra, Chris Pritchard, Brian Hawkins, Andrew Walker & Ryan Killackey and more.

This has been an amazing experience that I will never forget. My hope is that this film will show you the amount of dedicated people and teamwork that it took to get the Endeavour to its new home.—Matt Givot

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The team of Photographers:
Matthew Givot
Joe Capra
Chris Pritchard
Brian Hawkins
Andrew Walker
Ryan Killackey

Music Credits:
Bradford Nyght Pantheon 2

Gear:
Kessler Crane
Dynamic Perception
emotimo.com

Via @petapixel

Sydney-based photographer and filmmaker Keith Loutit is a tilt-shift master. The Lion City centers around Singapore and Keith’s tilt-shift timelapse focusing technique doubles to communicate the constant heat and humidity that hits you whenever you leave the comfort of air conditioning in Singapore. Be sure to see more of Keith amazing work below.

Visit:

Keith’s Portfolio
Keith on Facebook
Keith on Twitter
Sound Design of Sepia Productions

The talented Ed Templeton lets us in on a little of his story and why he always carries his Leica.

Via APhotoEditor & Leica