Update: right on, this project is now on kickstater, get your wallets ready! Losing equipment is one of a photographer’s biggest fears. But, it happens. You’re out on location, having a good time, you pack away your stuff and think you’ve got everything. Then you get home and realise you have to walk 90 minutes in the pitch black to go back to the location you just left to go and find a microphone (yup, happened to me last week)....

Gimbals can be a wonderful filmmaking tool. They’ve become quite popular over the last year or two, very popular in fact. But are they becoming overused? That’s the argument put forth by Jakob Ownes from TheBuffNerds. He feels that gimbals are overused and take away from not only the story being told, but the storytelling power of gimbals themselves. The video was made in response to being asked why he didn’t use a gimbal to shoot a recent short film....

Golf Team Crash In West Texas Golf Team Crash In West Texas The victims’ identities have not yet been released, but it is feared that the death toll could increase. Nine people died and several were injured after a crash between two New Mexico university’s golf teams. The accident took place at around noon on Tuesday, about 130 miles southwest of Dallas. A fatal crash involving nine people in West Texas is believed to have involved members of the New Mexico State University golf team, officials said....

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This year’s overall winner is the photo titled Woman from Evia, shot by Greek photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis. But other than the overall winner, the contest shares winners and runner-ups across its 11 categories, so there are plenty of stunning photos and videos to admire. The winning image captures the desperation of Kritsiopi Panayiota, an 81-year-old woman, as the flames are approaching her home during the serious forest fires that hit Greece in the summer of 2021 and caused extensive environmental damage....