Brainerd Area Photographers

03/09/2021

one take, one drone. a shot like this would have won an Oscar 20 years ago. now any shlub can do it, but the difference is the care put into this.

07/16/2020

technology is nothing if you miss your shot, like this guy did. situational awareness is everything, and if the operator of this drone had flown it just a few meters to the east he could have captured the impact. always keep your eyes open- be aware of the space you and your subject are occupying.

On July 13 2020 the Presque Isle freighter fully loaded with iron ore went off center and scraped the pier.

01/20/2020

Tara Wray's book Too Tired for Sunshine is a collection of images she made while struggling with depression. The work struck a chord with others, who are now sharing their images in an online project.

11/17/2019

“O’Neill realised that youth culture was a breaking news story on a global scale and began chronicling the emerging faces of film, fashion and music who would go on to define the swinging 60s. By 1965 he was being commissioned by the biggest magazines and newspapers in the world.”

O’Neill helped capture an era of cultural and social revolution in Britain. He was one of the first people to shoot the Beatles, and would go on to work with the Rolling Stones, Brigitte Bardot and Sean Connery. O’Neill said of the Beatles: “I was only 20, and the youngest photographer on Fleet Street. It was obvious that John was the one with the personality, so I put him in the front”.

Man known for his pictures of Beatles, Stones, Bardot and Sean Connery had prostate cancer

10/05/2019

Famous for her engaging portraits, Soames’ work is held in collections around the world

09/10/2019

Frank’s seminal book The Americans, with an introduction by Jack Kerouac, helped to change the direction of photography

08/24/2019

08/14/2019

Wow, Craig Blacklock, that's a name I haven't heard for a good long while!

Since these pro photographers must have been using the drone that captured the event, it's clear as a bell, unlike Russian dashcam and other amateur photographers.

The moral of the story is to never leave home without your drone!

Video of kayakers narrowly escaping a Lake Superior cliff collapse in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is getting international attention. The video was shot by Minnesota-based nature photographers Jon Smithers and Craig Blacklock.

06/29/2019

Since "forced bussing" is in the news again, you ought to know at least one great picture came out of it, too.

Always be ready to take that shot.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken during the busing desegregation protests captured a nation. The photographer and subject of "The Soiling of Old Glory" talk about its significance 40 years on.

06/19/2019

"So I pulled up my long lens and saw someone who I realized was the shooter. And I think, 'Oh my God.' I squeezed off a few frames as he picked something up — a clip, I think — and then I turned and ran."

Fox was at the Earle Cabell Federal Building for a routine assignment: get a photo of a defendant in a charter school fraud case."

Veteran Dallas Morning News photojournalist Tom Fox on Monday said he thought he “was gone” when he hid in an alcove from a heavily armed...