Friday Shout-Outs, Warm Fuzzies, and Sung Praises

This week we start with a tasty treat, and end with an eerie tale. In between we’ve got plenty of good stuff to help you get a good start to a gr...

This week we start with a tasty treat, and end with an eerie tale. In between we’ve got plenty of good stuff to help you get a good start to a great weekend.

For those who don’t already know, we come up with a new list of Shout-Outs every Friday. People who send us suggestions often find that we actually mention them, so if you spot something that’s perfect for a Friday Shout, let us know!

A DAY FOR DOUGHNUTS
There is a day for everything, and today is National Doughnut Day in the United States. In honor of a day that celebrates the expansion of waistlines through sweet guilty pleasure, I searched through all of the tasty doughnut photos in PhotoShelter and determined that Richard Eskite‘s image (below) makes my mouth water the most.

Richard Eskite is a very talented food photographer. I suggest you only look at his work if you are prepared to get suddenly very hungry.

EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES

APA|NY Third Annual Photo Contest
DEADLINE – TODAY, Friday, June 4, @ midnight EST.
This year’s annual photo contest with one simple task in mind: show us your best work. The contest aims to showcase the amazing work being done amidst these uncertain economic times, proving new possibilities for creative experimentation are born each day. This display of work will provoke conversations that highlight the talents of photographers in the New York region, putting them on the map for excellence across all genres of work. In return for your submissions, APA|NY promises to reward winners with not only exciting prizes, but also a full year of exposure and promotion to celebrate your work.

Capturing the Dramatic Moment with Tyler Stableford
June 8, 2010, Waltham, MA
ASMP New England
Award-winning adventure photographer Tyler Stableford presents a multimedia show of captivating imagery on Tuesday, June 8. Tyler takes the audience behind the scenes of his assignments, from exploring rare ice caves to documenting the dangerous lives of underground coal miners. A teacher at heart, Tyler reveals his secrets to capturing the elusive “dramatic moment,” and to earning a living in the freelance world of editorial, commercial and stock photography. He will also share stories from his latest assignment, flying with F-16 fighter pilots.

Los Angeles Photo Professional Expo
Saturday, June 26th @ 10AM-4PM
Attendees will have the opportunity to take part in hands on demonstrations and workshops. Featured speaker, attorney, Greg Victoroff, will be speaking on Copyright issues. The Stylist Hub will connect producers, photographers with Hair and Makeup Artists, Food, Prop and Set Stylists. The intimate setting will create unique networking opportunities.

GETTING POETIC
Quinn Ryan Mattingly, a documentary photographer, included a poem for the youth of Vietnam, titled “Lullaby For The Youth Of Viet Nam“, which was adapted from a Vietnamese folk poem, inside a gallery of images within his PhotoShelter website.

Lullaby For The Youth Of Viet Nam (APF 2010) – Images by Quinn Ryan Mattingly

Really cool use of a customized PhotoShelter gallery!

SUPER SOCCER FANS
Zute & Demelza Lightfoot have a whole series of images of soccer fans in Africa and their wild costumes.

With World Cup Soccer action coming to South Africa, I can only imagine how much fun it must be to be shooting pictures in the middle of it all.

THAT’S COLD
We were checking out the website of Jeremy Nicholl, a corporate and editorial photographer in Moscow, Russia, and came across a really cool photo of a winter swimmer that deserves to be shared.

“St Petersburg, Russia, January 2003. Petersburgers make the most of the city’s famous parks and waterways at any time of the year – a winter swimmer, known as a walrus, by the Peter Paul Fortress in -25 C,” his caption reads.

CUSTOM TWEAKS
Jerome Lorieau, an Edinburgh-based freelance photographer, specializes in travel, documentaries and event photography. His images a really nice, and he recently tweaked his PhotoShelter website to his liking by adding several more navigation tabs at the top of the site.

Nice job!

DEVIL’S BRIDGE
Florida-based freelance photographer Gary Bogdon had one of his images published full page in the May 2010 issue of Caribbean Travel & Life magazine. His image, of ‘Devil’s Bridge’ (a natural limestone arch) on the island of Antigua, was shot at night, and he used flashlights to ‘paint’ it with light along with a long exposure.

“As the story goes,” Bogdon said, “slaves would leap to their deaths from this spot rather than submit to slavery. A very surreal look at an infamous spot.”