Andrew played with photography a couple times over the years but for the last 2 years he’s been taking it seriously. Never taking any classes, he is a 100% self taught thanks to the internet.

His style has always been rooted in the streets, quoting him “It’s what I know, what I love”.
Combining candid street photography with cinematic tones is what describes a lot of Andrew’s work.
He says that there is something enjoyable about taking an average scene and making it interesting with a cinematic look. Andrew is also experimenting with b&w and portraits lately.

In Andrew’s own work, here is what best sums up his passion for photography:
” Photography keeps me grounded, it’s something that I have to do. To be involved in the creative process of producing pictures is important to me. If a couple days pass and I have not spent any time working on images in some way I get restless. ”

I leave you to enjoy 10 of his selected pictures, for his full work check out his photo-stream.

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1. Photographer of the week : Thomas Leuthard
2. Photographer of the week : Vitaly Geyman
3. Photographer of the week : Joanna filer-cooper
4. Photographer of the week: Verne Varona

I am sure this is what most photographers would call an excellent lifestyle!
I leave you to enjoy 10 of Younes’ best pictures, you can always visit his website for his full works.

Related posts:

1. Photographer of the Week : Michael Perlov
2. Photographer of the week : Larry Stone

February’s Picture is baseball by Jennifer Kerr

The calendar is available in 2 themes: Classic and Retro for both US and UK formats. You can download it now at full size.

ADIDAP Calendar – February 2012 – US Format

Download links : Classic , Retro

ADIDAP Calendar – February 2012 – UK Format

Download links: Classic , Retro

Enjoy it and make sure to participate in our Flickr Round votes if you want your favorite photos to end up on our annual calendar!

Related posts:

1. Download your Free ADIDAP 2012 photography Calendar today (US and UK format)
2. Download ADIDAP Calendar March 2011 now
3. Download ADIDAP Calendar April 2011 now
4. ADIDAP Flickr Round February 2012

Photography was his first true passion as a teenager, very early he installed a dark room in his house and learned by reading and practicing. He then left serious photography for studies and history/law.

In 2004 he bought his first digital camera and got back in the game. He now works exclusively with Leica M8 simply because it was the closest to his young photographer’s experience and gives control over every aspect of his photographs.

Gerald’s work is foremost on the street and his pet subjects are people and social issues. Here is a powerful and inspiring quote from Gerald to best explain his passion for photography : “I strongly believe that photography still is a powerful medium to describe and help to understand our world, and as such it should constantly cross the artificial borders between, art, document and journalism.”

After such a beautiful trip into Gerald’s personal life and point of views, I leave you to enjoy 10 of his selected pictures.
You can also check out his site, portfolio or get in touch with him on google plus.

Related posts:

1. Photographer of the Week : Michael Perlov
2. Photographer of the week: Stephen Cosh
3. Photographer of the week: Lars van de Goor
4. Photographer of the week: Verne Varona

You can check out his full work on his Flickr stream or follow him on twitter on @StephenCosh

I leave you to enjoy 10 only of his selected works

Related posts:

1. Photographer of the Week: Laura Ferreira
2. Photographer of the week: Scott Leggo
3. Photographer of the week: David Butali
4. Photographer of the week : Dan Ballard

Our calendar is compiled from the most beautiful pictures of Adidap flickr group submitted in 2011 & 2010 as voted by you in our Flickr rounds. You can download a  “classic” or a “vintage” theme to best suit your artistic taste.

But first here is a round up of the winning 12 photographers who kindly agreed on making their art available to you as a free calendar download :

• Abdulalrahman AlZe3bi – Zico
• Aurelie (shmilebliK) – Lounge
• Chad Rames – Untitled
• Dave Lord – Web
• Gunay Kazimli – I’ll save your tears
• Jennifer Walker – Baseball
• Jonathan Payne – Old man Elliot
• Jordan Parks Photography – The escape
• Lefty Rodriguez – City Center Tram Tracks
• Lisa Sullivan – Regal Beagle
• Neal Eiserman – Natural History Museum 020
• Viktoria Kuti – Untitled

Sadly, there is only one spot on the calendar for each month, the poll results are really close and it is hard to choose a single winner – so, many thanks go as well to all the photographers submitting their photos to our Flickr group, you can still check out everyone’s outstanding pics for inspiration and during this year, make sure to always vote the pic you would like to see on our annual calendar.

Finally here are your links for the download – Make sure to click on “all sizes” to access the high res version and let us know what you think!

• US Calendar Format
  • Classic theme
  • Vintage theme
• UK Calendar Format
  • Classic theme
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March	April
May	June
July	August
September	October
November	December

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May	June
July	August
September	October
November	December

ADIDAP Classic UK Calendar Format

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January	February
March	April
May	June
July	August
September	October
November	December

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March	April
May	June
July	August
September	October
November	December

Related posts:

1. Download ADIDAP Calendar February 2012 now
2. Download ADIDAP Calendar April 2011 now
3. Download ADIDAP Calendar March 2011 now

In a previous post we asked our readers who fancy a Smugmug Pro account to send us their top bokeh picture to enter this poll.  Now is your turn to choose the winner by voting up your favorite picture.

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1. ADIDAP December Giveaway: Smugmug Pro Account

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Related posts:

1. ADIDAP Flickr Round August 2012
2. ADIDAP Flickr Round April 2012
3. ADIDAP Flickr Round September 2012
4. ADIDAP Flickr Round October 2012

After getting back in touch with Verne again, he confirmed that indeed all photos are done in camera – and he kindly agreed on sharing with you how he managed to take those photos.
I leave you to enjoy a great tutorial by Verne and don’t hesitate to share your results in case you experimented with this technique.
For more details you can check out his website or get in touch by email on vv [at] vernevarona [dot] com

Artist Background

I have very limited knowledge of Photoshop. I came to digital, holding on to my last roles of Kodachrome and Velvia, stubbornly.
In 2006, I got an assignment to direct a film and shoot the photography as well. It was a quick learning curve and since I rely on Mac, I purchased their newly released Aperture program and learned it quickly. All of my adjustments are made on Aperture. I will often crop, use contrast to darken or highlight and image, or sharpen when necessary, and try to carefully minimize saturation, as most photographs I see seem to be over-the-top with “saturation-itis,” as I call it.

After a while you become numb to such exaggerated coloring, so, I think, in most cases, less is better. I set my internal camera controls (5D & 7D) to a tad toward saturation, but just slightly for much of my color shooting. Overall, I make minor adjustments and prefer to do most of my work in camera. Sometimes, I will accent an image with a slight horizontal, or vertical shake.

1. Trees In Water – Connecticut
ISO: 100 – f.5 @ 1/60 – Canon 5D / 24-70 L Lens
This was from a small pond in a rural Connecticut park. There was a log, half-in and half-out of the water, which I stood on and gently jumped up and down to create ripples. Then, I waited until they were almost gone and began shooting.

I took over 200 images of this in a two-week period to finally find one that I was satisfied with using. Did a slight blue tint and slight green saturation, with sharpening and a touch of contrast. The image is also turned upside down as you view it.

2. Solo Swim – Northern Greece
ISO – 400 – f16 @ 1/320 – Rebel TSi – 55 mm Lens
Had lost my battery for my 5D and was on an island, so I borrowed a Rebel TSi, with a standard 55 mm lens and took a walk seeking a photo op–not hard to find in Greece! This was a small bay on a remote island and I was standing on the edge of a sea wall. I waited for the lady (wearing sneakers to protect herself from sea urchins) to swim toward the middle of my frame and into the light blue waters, then grabbed my image. I was surprised, and pleased, at the Rebel’s quality.

Did slight saturation and some sharpening. This image is one of my most popular and sells very well at several East Coast galleries.

3. Shore Grace – Delray Beach, Florida
ISO – 100 – f22 @ 1/20 – Canon 7D – 28-135mm Lens (shot at 28mm)
This is one of my favorite. I had the model leap over 20 times to get this shot so that itwas not too high, not too low. Her movement, combined with a 1/20 second TV and a very colorful lose wrap skirt conspired for some nice blur.

I cloned some of the sand to get some of her footprints out toward the bottom, otherwise, a tinge of added blue saturation, a touch of yellow, very light sharpening and straightening.

My mother was a painter, but I have two left hands with brushes, so I’ve tried to create a painterly effect with my camera, with its speeds and my subjects movement. With a bit of dance background myself, I told her I wanted elevated poise with straight arms and face toward the heavens. She nailed it.

4. Solo Tree – Boca Raton Canal
ISO – 100 – f5@ 1/60 – Canon 7D – 28-135mm Lens (shot at 28mm)
You are looking at a tree that is really reversed in position as it is a water reflection that I turned upside down in Aperture to create a painterly effect.

One of my secrets is to carry very small rocks in my pocket and strategically toss them into the middle of my focus and wait for the effect I want. Bigger rocks will give you more abstract images. Added light saturation of green and blue with slight sharpening and cropping.

5. Early Canadian Fall – Northern Ontario
ISO – 400 – f9@ 1/80 – Canon 7D – 28-135mm Lens (shot at 100mm)
This was taken toward the beginning of fall this year. You are looking at a lake reflection that is turned upside down to appear as if they are upright trees. The wind did the water movement for me, so that was a stroke of luck. I was looking to take another picture, but as it usually works out, I realized that my real picture was opposite that direction.

This was it. In addition to this, I did a very subtle horizontal movement with my camera, almost too subtle to notice. Sharpening, slight saturation (the leaves were really purple!) and a bit of contrast, as the setting sun offered a fading glare.

6. Canadian Bush – Northern Ontario
ISO – 100 – f6.3@ 1/4 – Canon 7D – 28-135mm Lens (shot at 100mm)
This was a simple bush along the road side of a remote mountain road. My focus was aided by a slight intentional camera shake, sharpening, a bit of red, green and purple saturation with slight contrast. A London photo critic called this image, “Monet Lives” – it was the nicest compliment I ever got photographically.

7. 42nd Street At Midnight – NYC
ISO – 250- f22@ 1/6 – Canon 7D – 28-135mm Lens (shot at 105mm)
One of my favorite sites for light abstracts if, of course, 42md street. I watched these lights constantly change and patiently waited until I understood their pattern. Ideally, you want to photograph as little white as possible–other colors just offer more visual appeal than stark white.

This image was done with slight vertical camera shake, very slight, and in a straight vertical line. In Aperture processing, the most important tool for me here was the darkening tool. That allowed all miscellaneous squiggly lines to disappear. I removed with black cloning some of the upper squiggly ones just to get a clean image and sharpened slightly. A touch of saturation, and black cloning on the bottom.

Related posts:

1. Photographer of the week: Verne Varona

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His work is mostly inspired by music, movies and people… we will be showcasing 10 of his selected photos as well as one of his videos.
To stay updated on his work you can check his facebook page or follow him on twitter

Video

At last, enjoy this tribute video for the song ” Normal ” by Porcupine Tree directed by Youssef Nassar.

Related posts:

1. Photographer of the Week: Laura Ferreira
2. Photographer of the week: Scott Leggo
3. Photographer of the Week : Elena Kalis
4. Photographer of the week : Larry Stone

In the coming week, you will get the chance to win nothing less than a 1 year free Smugmug Pro account with a value of 150 usd.
Smugmug has been our generous sponsor for the 4th year in a row and we would like to thank them for supporting our photography community with their lovely giveaways.

What do I win

As already stated the giveaway is a one year free Smugmug Pro account, the benefits of having a Smugmug Pro are too many to list here but here are a few to get you started !

• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited Storage
• Your own domain name
• Ability to sell your pictures
• And much more, read here for more info…

The rules

The rules are pretty simple, here is what to do :

Send us your best bokeh image to our email address : contact [at] adidap.com. Your image should be at least 500px on the widest side.

In a 2 weeks time, we will create a poll with all the different photos we get  and ADIDAP readers get to vote for their favorite image aka the winner.

This is a great opportunity for you to show off your favorite bokeh shot or this can be the motivation you have been waiting for to learn this technique, we are sure it will come in handy in the upcoming holidays.

All featured images will be used only one time in the poll and will have full credits to their respective owners and a link back to their original page.

Best of luck for everyone and may the best picture win !

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1. Smugmug Pro Account winner vote
2. Apple-core giveaway
3. ADIDAP Flickr Round December 2011

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He took up photography in the late 70s and bought his first digital in 2005. He loves colorful, painterly scenes and has been developing a style that he calls “Aqua-Impressionism.”

Images that evoke emotion seize his full attention. He tries to capture images that convey the gamut of emotion and  loves the abstract photo’s that suggest.

Verne was a top finalist in Canon’s Project Imagination from over 100,000 entries last September. I leave you to enjoy 10 pictures of his curious and unique style. You can always check out his website for more.

Related posts:

1. Verne Varona on creating “in camera” artistic “aqua-impressionism” photos
2. Photographer of the week: Scott Leggo
3. Photographer of the week : Joanna filer-cooper
4. Photographer of the Week : Claudio Coppari

Scott travels extensively, driven by an unending determination to capture stunning images of the world you live and to bring the beauty that he sees into homes and offices the world over.
With a strong spirit of adventure and a love of the outdoors, Scott is always looking to go the extra mile to capture the shot he is after. His photographs are often the result of his patient pursuit to capture unique scenes and moments that sustain his love of wilderness.
Some of Scott’s best personal work is represented in his international, multi award winning limited edition print collection. His premium quality limited edition photographic prints grace the walls of homes and offices the world over, transforming the feeling of many a public and private space.
Scott’s professionalism as well as his attention to detail also see him sought after for Australian and international corporate and private commissions. In a short period of time he has rapidly grown his photography business and reputation amongst his clients, having emerged as one of Australia’s leading landscape photographers.

I leave you to enjoy 10 of his selected work. You can always check the website for a full collection and follow Scott on twitter or facebook.

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1. Photographer of the week : Katarina Stefanović
2. Photographer of the Week : Elena Kalis
3. Photographer of the week : Vitaly Geyman
4. Photographer of the week : Roland Shainidze