Photography News

Velella velellas, also known as by-the-wind-sailors, have returned to Monterey Bay of late.

Dave Tomkins's grandfather was an avid photographer. Whenever he traveled, he'd bring along a Voigtlander Bessamatic, and put together a slideshow of his travels.

When: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday through Aug. 31. The yearly siren call from Laguna Beach is impossible to ignore, with three separate art festivals taking place within a short walk of one another and a nighttime pageant in which people dress up as figures in famous works of art.

In a recent episode on her show "Finding Carter" one of the characters, 'Bird', made her the subject of a portrait but as some entertainment reporters have noted, in The English actress during an interview with MTV News revealed that she like to take pictures of passersby on film but one of the difficulties is having her subjects stay sincere.

Director Michael Apted is no stranger to documentaries as his Up series has chronicled people over the span of 56 years now.

Photographer Rachel Hulin's wistful motherhood photography captures precious, intimate moments between her and her daughter Rose.

Pinhole cameras might already be the domain of photography mavens and earnest summer vacation school projects, but does it look like this? The Viddy is a charming 35mm and medium format pinhole camera that has a glue-free construction and even promises to take less than half an hour to make.

Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1mVgd1n The best camera, as they say, is the one you have with you.

LION KING: One of the big five, photographed by Vincentia's Corrinne le Gall on her recent trip to South Africa.

Photography honours student at the University of Tasmania, Juliet Meredith Webster, has transformed a room into the inside of a large camera, otherwise known as a camera obscura.

The x-ray object photography of Brendan Fitzpatrick offers a different perspective of common creatures, flowers and mundane items.

Robert Agnew begins each presentation of his photo story by airing the “Pains of Photography,” which includes a list of common inconveniences for photographers.

Based out of the UK, psychotherapist and photographer Sian Davey is working on an ongoing photographic project to document her daughter's life with down syndrome.

The photographer Christopher Williams, who has flown under the radar despite having been called "his generation's leading Conceptualist," is known for images that carefully blur the line between a commercial aesthetic and fine-art photography.

Editor's note: LZ Granderson is a CNN contributor, a senior writer for ESPN and a lecturer at Northwestern University.

You can find art all over town -- not just on gallery walls. In this series, we'll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town.

A kindhearted mother whose daughter died at just six months has set up a charity which provides parents with free photos of their premature babies in hospital.

His "Focus on St. Louis" photo won the American Frame and Gallery Award from the Gateway East Artists Guild on July 20 at the "Gateway To Art Exhibition & Art Sale."

If you've enjoyed one of the area's hundreds of community events and wondered who that person is taking all the photographs, it's pretty likely you were seeing a member of our Spotted team in action.

I just finished my first week in the Bay Area and I couldn't be more thrilled with my new locale.