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Saurabh Chauhan
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Shoot the Frame
Black Light Photography
Portraits from the Streets
Discernible In Bizarre
Photography and Winners Volume 1 | Issue 5 | Oct 2018
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REFLECTION IN WATER Photography Contest Meet the Winner
Mayank Singh In Association with Photographers of India 4
EDITORIAL
Fotomgz India is on an alleyway of its ongoing gallivant in the realm of photography which is going to be a long way forth. Enduring the wizard of photography from the eventual and formidable photographers which, Fotomgz India has to divulge in its foregoing issues. The creative facsimile and photographs have accentuated the status of Fotomgz India and bought it to a succeeding level. As an editor of this magazine, I believe that how sublime is being a photographer, capturing those amazing souls walking around the cranny of this beautiful world. With every issue of Fotomgz India, it is anticipated that the creativity of the photographer
along with the beauty of the photograph would be the main lighted page. The most and crest purpose of this magazine is to bring out the supreme from the photographers and showcase their untold stories. This issue highlights the passion behind capturing the different forms and styles in photography on streets and in a studio. All the colors of life and the story behind framing the charm and beauty in frames could be seen which are framed in every single page of this magazine. Gaurav Lal Editor www.fotomgzindia.com (editor@fotomgzindia.org)
Cover Feature - Bianca Bella (Cosplay Artist) pg
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Bianca Bella is a cosplay artist from Melbourne Australia. She has performed a lot of photoshoots as super hero character of Spider Gwen. Photographer - Ian, Australia 5
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They Made It Possible
Ian Australia
Vinay Dutt Purohit India
Saurabh Chauhan India
Yogesh Gupta India
Joanna Mrรณwka Poland
Harshal Bisare India
Heather Belts USA
Malcolm Gamble Australia
Barry Mayes United Kingdom
Alessandra Manzotti USA
Danny Lee Australia
Sander Grefte Netherland
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Ian
Cosplay Photographer
Vinay Dutt Purohit Black Light Photography
Photograph by - Heather Belts @heathuhh_photo
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Saurabh Chauhan Portraits From Street
Yogesh Gupta
Blend in Fashion Photography
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Joanna Mrowka
Boulevard Photography
Harshal Bisare Futuristic Fashion Photographer
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Heather Belts
Discernible In Bizarre
Nikhil Chourawar Frames in Low Light
Malcolm Gamble Shoot the Land
Barry Mayes Shoot the Face
Sander Grefte Shoot the Land
Alessandra Manzotti Shoot the Face
Danny Lee
Shoot the Wild
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A COSPLAY PHOTOGRAPHER
Super Flash and Super Heroes Ian, @snaphappyian Melbourne, Australia
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an, a famous photographer, well known amongst the Australian cosplay community, was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. Photographing cosplay means he concentrates on gaming, movie, and comic characters. Photography is just a hobby for Ian, for which he bought his first Nikon DSLR in 2008. Whilst he has not deviated from the brand he has had many cameras since.
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Star Wars - By 501st Legion 14
"I don't aim for collaboration with known and famous faces; instead I am always happy to be approached by imaginative people and I just love capturing their awesome poses." - Ian 15
Batman and Wonder woman - By Phoenixrail and artist from Melbourne City 16
Inspiration in photography plays a foremost role in revamping and fetching out the best in photography. Ian is inspired by the photography of Lizzy Barrow, who works with Ian for cosplay photography. She is quite resolute for bringing out the matchless photographs from the natural source of lights. Ian says each of his triumph photographs is a merger of endeavor from both, the model and as well from Ian. The main part which turns his photographs into the best is communication between the model and him. They both works on defining the poses, lighting, and positions for the particular
Aquaman - By Raquel Sparrow
cosplay character. For most his cosplay photography, Ian chooses the outdoor sites to give the crude touch, which fabricates the actual notion For a photographer, the best thing is meeting amazing folks, getting entitlement to work with them and knowing their talent and eagerness of becoming the 'Face in Frame'.
Lara Croft - By Phoenixrail
"I am a Nikon shooter but I think that people get too focused on the latest camera technology rather than the basic skills of shooting well. You don't have to have the best equipment to shoot well, a lot of the photograph is an end result of basic things such as lighting, posing, composition, and timing. I think most about trying to get good lighting so less post-processing is needed."- Ian Out of many appreciations on cosplay photography, one of Ian’s photograph got published in the book '20 Years of Tomb Raider: Digging up the Past, Defining the Future' 17
"I don't think that a photographer ever reaches their pinnacle, there is always something new to learn. Always keep learning from other photographers. I enjoy the photography I do because I'm a self confessed geek and I've found my passion, I think that's been the key, just following my passion." - Ian
Spider Gwen - By Bianca Bella 18
Borderlands - By Kirlecos and Dodo Jnr. 19
THE BLACK LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
NO FLASH JUST COLORS Vinay Dutt Purohit @vinkiphotography India Team Artis: Ipsita Patra, Ashreeya Vaibhav Modeling : Sadhna ,Ashreeya Vaibhav Vision Partners: Harsh Nigam , Gaurav
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inay, son of priest Vijay Dutt Purohit hails from a regarded traditional Brahmin family from a small town of Jodhpur,
Rajasthan. His childhood passed away with the sounds of divine chants and shlokas. Living with such in the holy milieu, Vinay just never thought of moving to photography. But with the ongoing changes in his interest, he started liking the world of photography. He started experiencing the magic of photography during his LAW exams and took a long while to take a firm
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step of his career for moving into the photography. From many of the themes, Vinay love to do Street Photography, Black Light Photography, Travel, and Food. Vinay has influenced himself from the photography of Vong Wong and Lee Jeffries Communication is a golden rule to clutch the shot which a photographer wants to seize. Its very important to relish the photoshoot while capturing the different moods, because, for the perfect shot, the photographer may have to capture different variations with various angles.
"I would like to collaborate with Vong Wong. His truly insane photography has changed my vision." - Vinay
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Vinay defines the preferred location of the photoshoots depending upon the type of photoshoot to be done. He says the studio photo shoot is also preferable for any kind of fashion photoshoots where the magic of light is under control. But outdoor shoot has there own effects. These shots not only grab the beautiful background but also brings the natural light effects during any kind of photoshoots.
Vinay has kept no boundaries to his photoshoots, whenever and wherever he feels it right, he does it. And that is what the best thing he says about being the photographer is. Vinay is hard-worker and always wanted his work to be appreciated by the viewers. There is nothing more important in the world, but getting applauded for the dedication and work which a photographer tries to showcase at the end of the day.
Currently, he is working on Architecture Documentary in Rajasthan and later he would be continuing his black light photography with some new tries and types. He concluded, "Just Do what you Love, And Do it every day. And be dedicated to whatever you are doing. You will get your place not sooner but for sure."
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Malcolm Gamble AUSTRALIA WINNER - SHOOT THE LAND
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Malcolm believes the pursuit of landscape photography allows a slower, more contemplative pace, and this reflective approach can bring a deeper level of connection to our surroundings. Taking the time to immerse ourselves in a location allows the photographer to feel and respond to the landscape, and hopefully convey something of that emotional interaction.
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alcolm Gamble is an Irish-born Australian who lives in Melbourne. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast
and environmentalist with a passion for wilderness and remote locations. Although Malcolm was raised in Australia, his work seeks to trace cultural identity and geographical roots.
Glencoe Sunshower is an image that expresses the emotion and drama of a fleeting moment in the Scottish Highlands. The image explores the notion of the transience of light. Raw, powerful and bleak; yet the majesty and sheer beauty of this landscape give the viewer an indication as to why it has captured the hearts and souls of so many artists and poets throughout history. This is not a pretty landscape in the usual postcard since - it is rugged and uncompromising, and symbolizes the hardship of the lives of the inhabitants who have graced these mountains over countless generations. Malcolm’s landscape work often centres around the theme of grand scale and nature’s capacity to express its own narrative.
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PORTRAITS FROM THE STREETS
STORIES IN FRAME
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aurabh Chauhan, a street and portrait photographer, was pursuing CA until he decided to move his feet for photography.
Not by his own, but with the help of his family members, he could able to make a decision and come up with the idea of capturing the wonderful world. Out of many themes, he loves to shoot wildlife, street, and fashion and with every shoot, he keeps on exploring the new magic of photography. A lot of famed photographers has influenced this world and for Saurabh, Sir Raghu Rai, Vicky Roy, and Shaaz Jung are the inspiration.
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I would love to capture wildlife along with Shaaz Jung. He has an amazing flair of seizing magical moments in the wild. - Saurabh
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Communication is a fundamental part of a photo shoot. Saurabh believes that it helps in bringing out the emotions of the model so that the pictures reflect the story that any photographer wants to showcase through the captured photographs. In his practice, hilarity is the foremost icebreaker and comforter. It illuminates the environment at the shoot and assists in raising a cadence required to get what a photographer is set out to achieve. 34
I often choose outdoor locations because it gives me an inordinate pliability to experiment during the shoot by giving me more varied space and a wider scope to execute on the spot generated ideas. - Saurabh
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Being a photographer gives a potential to understand and capture multiple perspectives of life. A photographer carries a skill to showcase a story in a single frame. If someone is fervent about photography then all needed is a camera to lash with the world and tune into its frequency while capturing it in all its diversity. During his visit to Pushkar Fair last year, Saurabh captured a shot of a camel with the Ferris Wheel as background giving it a vibrant hue. This wonderful photograph leads to the essence of Pushkar Faircamels and colors. Saurabh believes that a photographer should consistently focus on the tale in the frame. One can improve the photography ability with practice, getting better and improved outcomes, however, it is the story in the frame which completes it and gives it an identity of its own.
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BLEND IN FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
PORTRAITS IN FRAMES
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hotography is not the real story for every photographer at least not for Yogesh, who was into his family business and for which his life was so involved in traveling. The curiosity of capturing
the moments arose in those journeys. Started with travel and landscape, Yogesh started his journey to the world of photography. Many of his captured photographs were recognized in the exhibitions. With his journey as a photographer, Yogesh has chosen to walk with Fashion photography and in which at some corner, he has a point of satisfaction. With minimum gear and utilizing more of natural magic which
happens outdoor is one of the key features which has made Yogesh choose outdoor photography instead of Studio with controlled lights. Jassi Oberai and Dani Diamond are the names, he admires a lot and considers their work as his inspiration.
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He prefers shooting outdoors due the natural effects appear with the natural light. With plenty of options, Yogesh always decides the location of the photoshoot accordingly.
Yogesh always discusses the poses and location with his models before proceeding for any photoshoots, which he feels an important part of the photography. The photograph always shows up with the good output if the communication with the model and photographer has already taken part in the best possible way.
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Yogesh has gone through many faces and captured them beautifully. Those frames have always bought a freshness and that's what he wanted from his photography to create a difference when it floats to the crowd.
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"My gears are Canon 5D Mark III and Canon 7D Mark II with a variety of lenses for portraits and landscapes photography." _ Yogesh 45
Exploring our own creativity in our own work is the best thing I like about being a photographer. I explored many places when I was a travel photographer and I explore amazing people with my portrait photography. - Yogesh 46
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Boulevard Photography Joanna Mrรณwka @mrowka_joanna Poland
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Winner - National Geographic Competition Poland - Category "People" 2015, 2016, 2017 Prize winner in Lens Culture Street Award 2015 Grand Press Photo 2016 BZ WBK Press Foto 2016, 2017 (Picture of the Year)
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Everyday life of one of the large families. Despite the harsh conditions, its members support each other in their daily duties. They help each other at work and play together. When the father returned home for holidays from work abroad, longing younger children do not leave his side. A Photograph from BZ WBK Press Foto 2016 - Joanna Mrowka 50
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oanna Mrรณwka, a polish photographer, is an assistant professor by profession.
Being into a different profession, she manages herself to get behind her childhood hobby. Photography has shown her many ways to present life into various forms. Apart from those wonderful forms, she does travel, street, documentary and photojournalism photography. All these years, her photography has an astounding contribution to the world of photography. She mentioned the name of those faces whose photography was an ingenuity to her and they are Tomasz Tomaszewski, Alex Webb, Ernesto Bazan. Joanna says that her photography is not just about her, but it speaks a lot about the people and places. With her Nikon, her goal is to witness birth miracles and garden allotment with a lot of new faces all around the corners of the world.
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Camera is like a passport. It opens many doors. A photographer can see, understand and experience a lot. -- Joanna Mrowka 52
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Futuristic Fashion Photographer
Harshal Bisare @harshalbisare India
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arshal Bisare, a fascinated fashion photographer, found his skills in photography when he realized the magic and various concepts in
Out of many of those worldfamous photographers, Greg Swalles and Arjun Mars are the two photographers whose photography has given a new vision to him. Among many key elements of best practices, Harshal explains that communication is the main practice which a photographer must do while doing any photo shoot with any model. By this means, a photographer expresses what is surprisingly required from the piece of work. Location is always a matter for a better photography and for which Harshal chooses the outdoor or studio location as per the photo shoot to be done.
fashion photography. Mainly Harshal focuses on portraits and fashion photography and which he has made his main themes in photography.
My photography is my inventiveness says Harshal and that's what he desires viewers to glimpse from his photography which will surprisingly explain the perception of what he thinks about fashion photography. The best thing being a photographer is the interaction with new people which always brings ideas in the various themes of photography.
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Futurism started in Italy as a cutting-edge theory among early 20th century when painters and sculptors, evolved into a cultural movement that swept through the other art forms, including fashion design. Futurism challenged artists to develop new styles that expressed the ideas and sensations of the modern world. - Harshal 56
Technology is shaping today's vision of the future, and the latest generation of futurist fashion designers have embraced engineering. Some designers are using high-tech and highperformance fabric blends with new textures and metallic surfaces to construct more versatile shapes. Patterns that reflect machine components and circuitry have emerged as a trend. - Harshal 57
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WINNER SHOOT THE FACE
Barry Mayes United Kingdom @Barry_Mayes
From the past 13 years, Barry is clicking photographs mainly through his phone and for which he is addicted quite a little bit. His main interest in photography is to perpetrate travel and reportage. Describing the photograph, Barry says that, he clicked this very best moment when his 92-year-old father visited a nursing home to see his 94-year-old mother and these moments happens several times a week which is the quintessential example of the boundless love of husband and his wife.
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TRAVEL AND STREET PHOTOGRAPHER
Discernible In Bizarre
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eather Belts, from Washington, is a photography enthusiast from the age of 13, but her small camera never realized the projection. Later she
started experimenting with her father's camera by which somewhere she managed to meet her expectation until she bought her own first camera. Heather, in her photographs, tries to bring some existence in offbeat. In other terms, she always reflects her feelings through each photograph she clicks which are often topsy-turvy.
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Talking about the mastery, she says Lissy Elle which is a sort of ingenuity for her photography. Not going so far, Heather has collaborated with her own friends to bring out a new shape of photography and to transform herself into a better photographer.
My dream collaboration would be with Calob Castellon, who gives a spark in photography. Every photographer must see his work at least once. - Heather Belts
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An open mind is too important along with the good communication, she says. It's always a good idea to convey the model what exactly the requirement is from the photo shoot instead of just clicking the pictures because most of the moment models are unaware of the actually required conclusion from that particular photo shoot. Heather, as she believes, a good communication is important, always sketches a rough picture before every photo shoot and explains it to each of her model which somehow resolves the problem of a bit hesitation and confusion. What Heather loves is the challenge which she never gets if she does the photo shoot in studios or in the controlled environment. With most of her photoshoots, she loves the daylight and creates the moment on dissimilar marvelous locations. Through her photography, she wants people to see her grow, struggle, and the edge of a tale underneath the photograph. A tale, which one can relate to the real existing experience. Every photograph must have a meaning, does not matter where it is captured. A meaning could be a concept or feeling which can take a captured photograph from middle-of-the-road to astounding. For Heather, a photograph is a good photograph if a story or meaning is reflecting from it. 64
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The best thing about being a photographer is not having any boundaries. As an artist, I can make anything happen, reality doesn’t apply. It’s an imagination playground. If I want to fly, I can fly. If I want a galaxy in my room or house, I can make it happen. Reality has to obey the laws of nature and physics. In Photoshop, there are no limitations outside of skill and imagination. - Heather Belt
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WINNER SHOOT THE LAND
Sander Grefte Netherlands @sandergreftephotos
Sander is a professor by profession and carries photography as a hobby. With a lovely family and a happy life, sander also does hiking due to his interest in landscapes. From the year 2014, Sander started his journey to photography and found landscapes as his main themes where he explored the beautiful places around the town. Narrating the photograph, Sander says that, the photograph was taken in Elgol village, during the jaunt to Isle of Skye (Scotland). The waves hitting those rocks and later turns to blue.
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TRAVEL AND STREET PHOTOGRAPHER
Frames In Low Light
NikhiL chourawar @nikhil_chourawar_photography India
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Rather doing a photoshoot in natural light, Nikhil prefers to shoot in Cafes and studios. Reason for choosing such locations he expresses that, it's always difficult to adjust the photograph as per the precondition. Nikhil Says, being a photographer with good skills and instinct is not an easy deal which may cost a lot of hard work and patience. But being a photographer gets some opportunity to understand the world with the disparate method. Like other professional photographers, Nikhil too concentrates more on communication with the model, to come up with some good and expected results.
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WINNER SHOOT THE FACE
Alessandra Manzotti United States Of America @Amanzottifoto
Alessandra Manzotti, born and raised in Milan, is a self-taught photographer and is more interested in portrait photography. Marrow of her childhood, challenges as a mother, extensive travels and a huge curiosity are the most influential factors of her life. About the photograph, she describes one of the coldest areas where Kazakhs of western Mongolia are thriving a Nomad life from past many generations. This photograph represents the pride, strength, and resilience of these courageous nomads.
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In association with Photographers of India
Mayank Singh
WINNER - REFLECTION IN WATER PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
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ayank is a budding architecture student, who sees this world and life into a different perspective and angles. He mentions that the world is the greatest theater with so many plays filled with emotions and reality. With so many different characters putting some beautiful colors to the frames and he wanted to be one of those characters. According to his vista, photography is some another thesis which he sees with different panorama. He loves the motif outside the box, so he just doesn’t capture the moments but what he imagines from that moment becomes a part of his photography. The main themes in his photography are Perspective Photography, Visual Arts, Black and White Photography and Nature's Photography.
Orating about the photograph he continues, throughout the monsoon, along with his two teammates, he was up for an expedition on “MALANA”, in Himachal Pradesh, which is a tribal village established with some set of rural regulations. After spending 3 days into the same tent, they explored the nature’s beauty hovering over the village during the thunderstorm, waves of clouds, twinkling stars and finally, the light appeared during the later monsoon.
All they could see was the beautiful nature and atmosphere and decided to make themselves a magical part of this magnificent moment. Out of many shots, one shot appeared to be a great one which they took on the Talking about the photograph he continues, roof of the tribal school. during monsoon, along with his two Nature always gives us a real scene teammates, he was up for a trek “MALANA”, in Himachal Pradesh, which is which makes our photographs beautiful. It's not our magic, but “Its a tribal village with some set of rural the world, which is beautiful”. regulations. 81
Photograph by - Ayush Devpura (2nd Winner) Location - Pushkar, Rajasthan Reflection In Water Photography Contest 82
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Photographers Of India An Instagram Comunity
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Ali (@thetechnocrat) and Akbar (@akbar_raza_taqvi)
hotographers Of India stands as a platform to showcase grace in every form in life whether subjective or from a
view from the lens through a photographer’s eye. POI goes a way ahead in showcasing and appreciating the piece via some very engaging and interesting assemblage. POI also stands as experience to showcase every culture, tradition, religion, colors, and vibrancy of India. The inspiration of POI was started when Akbar and Ali started a general photography page with Mumbai vs Delhi which was greatly applauded by the beginners and enthusiastic photographers and it was decided to revamp the page with all the new and talent stories from all over India as one platform. As one of the highest growing photography page of India, Ali and Akbar always had an idea to see the world via lenses, the literal way for
abstract arts. This page savors the charm of photographs and makes the photographers to feel the same bridge about the moment’s magic. With so much love and bequest, POI will be moving up for collaboration for the photography contest, shoutouts, stories etc which will again an astounding effort from POI.
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WINNER SHOOT THE WILD
Danny Lee Tasmania, Australia. @submerged_images
Danny is a fervent Scuba diver with some avidity to envision the existence underwater. He started uncovering the surprising creatures and later photography joined his diving voyage. Underwater photography became his passion and he started bringing some good troupe of under water creatures into his frames. Describing the photograph, he says, Black-Browed Albatross are some remarkable bird with great size. It really required great struggle and patience to get that to capture these beautiful birds which Danny did. The beauty of the bird with half in air and half in water was an authentic capture by Danny.
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