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Lonely Leap films tagged along with Surfer magazine Staff photographer Chris Burkard to give us all a glimpse at what inspires Chris to capture images most people can only dream of.

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Filmmaker Xander Robin commemorated the Kodachrome’s 75th and final year with this mini documentary about the film and the last shop that could develop it. For those of you who didn’t know, Kodachrome was the first commercial color film on the market beginning in 1936 and ending production in 2009. The last Kodachrome development lab, Dwayne’s Photo, in Kansas stopped processing the film in 2010 due to the shortage of chemicals available.

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The Grand Rapids, Michigan based Ryan Pavlovich is a life-long music lover and recently fell in love with motorcycle culture.

“I think everyone should experience a great rock concert, and a ride on a motorcycle at least once in their lives, those things can change your thinking sometimes.”

He uses a variety of cameras like the 5DmkII, but is loving the new Fuji X-100 and has it with him at all times.

“I can’t say I have a favorite camera per say, but if I had to pick only one to have it would be my Canon FTB 35mm with a 50mm … that camera is a tank.”

Ryan loves environmental portraits and capturing people and the true life around them. He aims to keep the equipment simple to not overwhelm his subjects. His ongoing artist portrait series began with artist/designer Drew Melton (thepraseologyproject.com) and continues now as he meets new and inspiring artists like designer Chuck Anderson and a host musicians in his local community.

When he’s not traveling Ryan also likes to give back to his community by volunteering with organizations and events like Help-Portrait.

“You can’t really describe how it feels to take part in such a great event, but getting to help out families, hear their stories, and meet new people is a really cool thing. My hats off to Jeremy Cowart and all the people who originally created the event. So much goes into making something like that happen, so its awesome to see so many people involved each year.”

Ryan turns 30 this year and wants to challenge himself and others stay inspired, travel, take lots of pictures and Keep Living. Enjoy a selection of some of our favorite images from his portfolio.

Visit:

Ryan’s Portfolio
Ryan’s Blog
Follow Ryan on Twitter
Ryan on Facebook
Ryan on Flickr
Keep Living on Tumblr

Be sure to Contact Ryan for your next portrait, lifestyle or music shoot.

All Images © 2012 Ryan Pavlovich. Used by permission.

Ansel is a legend, and I realized after watching this documentary that I didn’t really know as much about him as I thought. PBS has done a great job and made this a part of their history series called The American Experience.

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Peruvian-born, Cecilia Paredes creates these incredible self-portraits using her background as a painter to blend herself seamlessly into the environment.

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This simple lighting tutorial hosted by Eve Hazelton (DOP of The Underwater Realm) walks you through some simple lighting techniques to interviews or other close up shots with your DSLR shots better.

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Feeling a void out there with photographers not getting the credit they deserve for their images, photographer Tim Mantoani set out on his own personal 5-year long project now titled Behind Photographs. He has now photographed over 150 of the most iconic living photographers with the images that made them famous. One unique aspect of the project is that Tim used the mammoth 20″ x 24″ Polaroid Camera to capture the images and allowed the photographers to write a short story about their iconic shots at the bottom of the huge prints.

The final result is a beautiful 220 page, 11″x14″ book, Behind Photographs in 3 versions—Standard, slip-case and special edition (150 cloth bound book blind embossing and case.) If you buy 3 of the standard books ($60) from his site he’ll even upgrade one of them to the slipcase edition ($99).

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I’m constantly amazed at the young photographic talent we come across from around the globe. Small-town farm girl Kelly Steffey, 23, from just outside Birmingham, Alabama is no exception. She’s a girl of many passions, but her love for nature, sustainability and living off the land really inspires and energizes her work. She combines breath-taking surroundings, vintage/recycled wardrobes, and beautiful models to create some fantastic and moving images. Her subjects seem confident in their own skin and aren’t afraid to get dirty or explore what the world has out there.

A fact that may surprise you is that she’s not formally trained and only recently started shooting, just two summers ago in mid-2010. She’s now living and breathing the art-form with hopes to make a career for herself in the fashion world, linking arms with eco-focused fashion magazines, green companies and designer labels that use recycled or sustainably grown materials and fair labor practices.

Visit:

Kelly’s Portfolio
Kelly Steffey Photography on Facebook
Kelly on Twitter
Kelly on Tumblr
Kelly’s first magazine A Child of the West

Be sure to Contact Kelly for your next editorial or fashion shoot. She’s definitely not afraid to travel, as she frequents LA and Denver often.

All Images © Kelly Steffey. Used by permission.

Photographer and author Michelle Bates first discovered the Holga camera back in 1991 and has been playing with them ever since. She’s an advocate for analog toy cameras and claims they are:

“the Antidote to the tyranny of Technology.”

This clip from TEDx explores her work and some of her toy camera contemporaries who are using Holgas to capture amazing images from around the world.

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This video, Sh** Photographers say by wedding photographer Jason Groupp had us cracking up today because these are the saying you may hear often around you if you’re in the design or photography world. Enjoy!

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