A photographer almost lost it at the sight of Tems‘ curvaceous figure.

On the red carpet of the awards show Billboard Women in Music on Wednesday night, Tems, who was honored as the publication’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year, stunned in a figure-hugging and skin-teasing black Alaïa FW22 dress. The “Free Mind” artist stopped for pictures, but a photographer could barely handle the sight of her beauty.

“Holy smokes!” the person shouted when Tems turned and flaunted her backside. The singer might’ve heard the remark as she quickly turned and repeated the pose towards the other end of the carpet.

Adam Alonzo has been taking photos every day for 20 years, and every day he shares five new photos on his website.

Alonzo spoke with WYSO’s Jason Reynolds while taking pictures downtown on his lunch break.

JASON REYNOLDS: You’ve been shooting downtown for 20 years. How do you keep it fresh?

ADAM ALONZO: That’s the challenge. I try to always keep an eye on details. It’s just a matter of what’s different today or what’s happening that isn’t going to be here for very long. Like this tree right here is about to bloom. That’s something that I look forward to: the seasonal changes. I kind of consider myself to be a nature photographer in the city. In fact, we’re heading down to Riverscape right now just to get a look at what might be going on at the river with birds, people on bikes, and that type of thing.

REYNOLDS: But before we can make it down to the river, Alonzo spots a couple small yellow flowers.

ALONZO: Okay, so here we go. The first daffodils of the season. It’s not going to be a calendar photo, but it’s my first daffodil, literally, of this year. So, I’m going to just stop and get a couple of shots of this. I’ll come by again next week and there’ll be a whole lot more. It’s just a little bit of the seasonal process that I always try to look for.

There’s a falcon that lives in one of these tall buildings. Even in the middle of the street noise, I can hear the falcon screeching way above, and I can get good pictures of it wheeling around among the tall buildings. As far as the bird is concerned, it’s living on the side of a cliff, but to me, it’s a building.

REYNOLDS: When we get through those buildings and down to the river, there are seagulls on the edge of the water, and kayakers out on the water, paddling against the tide.

ALONZO: If I can get close without spooking these gulls, I can get paddleboarders in the background and gulls in the foreground.

REYNOLDS: It’s a great place to shoot.

ALONZO: Yeah, I come here very often. Even in the middle of winter when there’s nobody here but me, there’s something going on, even if it’s ice kind of cracking along the side of the river. Or tracks in the snow, animal tracks.

I’ll come down here a lot of times in the fall, and I can stand here and just watch monarch butterflies as they’re heading south towards Mexico for the winter.

So, it’s just a reminder to me that I’m part of a bigger system. Nature is still functioning even here in the middle of the city. It’s a nice reminder of my place in the world.

REYNOLDS: How many photos have you taken by now do you think?

ALONZO: Well, the photos that I have displayed on my website, I have five per day. And so that works out to like 36,000 right now. But in terms of the photos that I’ve taken and I’ve not displayed, I can’t even imagine. If I’m shooting pictures of an event, I could take thousands of photos in one day.

I love interaction between people, genuine responses on people’s faces. For instance, there was recently a high school alumni event that I photographed. It wasn’t even my high school. I was just there to take pictures. And one student, Steve Bognar, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, came to that event because his teacher was being honored. And he walked up to the teacher before the event even started. He gave the teacher a box, and there’s a tiny Oscar statuette. And Steve Bogner told the teacher, “I am a filmmaker because of you.”

And to get that interaction—to be there with my camera and to record—that was priceless. That’s what I love.

Originally published on Hypeart.com

The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. has announced the acquisition of 141 photographs by 20 Chinese contemporary artists that were gifted by collector and No More Rulers founder, Larry Warsh. The lot of images previously featured in an exhibition entitled “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China,” that recently concluded at the institution on January 7.

Based in New York, Warsh is noted for owning an extensive collection of pop artworks from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, as well as for his publishing arm, which has released books on Ai Weiwei, Daniel Arsham, Judy Chicago and more. While Warsh has always shown an interest in collecting work from Chinese artists, he began to understand more about the nuances and traditions of daily Chinese life upon a visit to the world’s second most populous country in 2004. “It gave me a better understanding of artists and how they live and how they work,” Warsh previously noted of the trip, adding that it also gave him a “sense of China in terms of its stage, where it was, because it was changing.”

Per Barrons, the newly acquired photos include works by Cui Xiuwen, Rong Rong, Song Dong and Zhang Huan — each of whom “employed photography to instantly record their responses to new ideas of identity, sexuality, and consumerism against the rapidly changing social, cultural, and urban Chinese landscape for audiences in and outside the country.” In particular, Warsh’s collection spotlights the response by China’s artistic community following the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989, which began to reflect a freedom of expression that was scarce during the rule of Mao Zedong.

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The March 21 meeting of the Land of Waterfalls Camera Club will feature Noel Casaje, an award-winning landscape photographer, who will lead a presentation entitled “What Makes an Image Compelling?”

Casaje described himself as an “avid student of light and its interaction with the natural world.”

He is passionate about creating images which evoke emotional responses in viewers. Often working in low light, he explores the subtle nuances it creates, particularly in transforming scenes from the real to the surreal.

Casaje’s photographs have gained him recognition in multiple media outlets.

The Forbes website has listed him as one of its Top 5 Travel Photographers to Watch Out For.

Through his company, Wide Horizon Visuals, Casaje organizes photography tours to some of the world’s most visually dramatic destinations, including Patagonia, the Lofoten Islands in Norway, the Canadian Rockies, Costa Rica, the Italian Dolomites and American National Parks.

Following the presentation, LOWCC members will participate in a show and tell interactive program displaying photographs they have taken in recent months.

The presentation of each photograph will be followed by discussion during which club members are encouraged to provide constructive comments on the strengths of the image and how it might be improved.

A major goal is for participants to learn different approaches for improving the quality of their images in the future.

The March 15 meeting will be held in the conference room of the United Community Bank in Straus Park.

There will be an option to join via Zoom.

LOWCC meetings are open to the public. Non-member guests are encouraged to email info@lowccnc.com to obtain information for attending the meeting. The club welcomes participation from photographers at all skill levels. Memberships costs $35 per year.

To offer more focused forums for small group learning and discussion, the club features two Special Interest Groups.

The Capture SIG reviews the use cameras, lighting and other photographic equipment to initially capture the digital image.

This SIG meets on the third Monday of each month starting at 7 p.m. in the Community Room of the United Community Bank.

On the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. the Post Processing SIG meets online using Zoom.

This SIG focuses on the use of computer-based processing to improve and enhance digital images.

Instruction is provided on use of photographic software such as Adobe Lightroom and Topaz products as well as updates of these products.

Further information about the Land of Waterfalls Camera Club, including membership information and past and future programs, can be found at its website at www.lowccnc.com.

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Step back in time at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin where the pioneering work of two Scottish visual artists from the 1840s will be showcased. The center’s new exhibition, titled “Hill & Adamson: The Clarkson Stanfield Album,” presents the remarkable photographs of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, a duo who played a significant role in cementing photography’s place as a serious art form. The public will get an up-close look at one of the early masterpieces of photography that still rivets viewers with its sheer historicity and aesthetic impact, as reported by the University of Texas.

Unveiled to a world just getting its head around the ‘miraculous’ medium of photography, Hill and Adamson’s collaboration began in Edinburgh in 1843, just four years after the medium’s public debut. Their album represents a significant era in the visual arts, having documented everything from intricate portraits to architectonic and landscape scenes. With more than 100 salted paper prints, the exhibition gives visitors a chance to admire these historical snapshots. As put by the Ransom Center’s Director Stephen Enniss, “The beauty of this work is its most enduring feature.” The album serves as a testament not only to the villagers and neighbors portrayed but also to the creative brilliance of its makers.

Showcasing a body of work that extends beyond historical significance, the collection comprises images that fuse Hill’s artistic sensibilities with Adamson’s technical skill, resulting in a trove that has attracted scholars worldwide. The Clarkson Stanfield Album – the exhibition’s centerpiece and named after the English marine painter who purchased it – remains a steadfast piece of photographic history, according to Jessica S. McDonald, Nancy Inman, and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography at the Ransom Center. “Scholars have visited from around the world to study this unique album, and I am thrilled to share it with more audiences,” McDonald shared with enthusiasm in a statement obtained by the University of Texas, according to the University of Texas.

Preserving these prints has been a challenge of both time and technique. Remarkably preserved, the prints have benefitted from the album’s protection for over a century and a half, necessitating skilled conservators to undergo structural repairs to the album. When treating the album, these professionals have taken the opportunity to display several sections of the album at once. The Ransom Center’s conservators and preparators are to credit for the exhibition’s current form and the album’s ongoing preservation, pointedly underscoring the institution’s dedication to heritage and art. The exhibition will be on view to the public through June 2, offering an immersive journey into one of the earliest sustained explorations of photography as an art form.

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Leica has once again pushed the boundaries of camera technology with the release of the SL3. This third-generation SL camera is not just an upgrade; it’s a redefinition of what professional photographers and enthusiasts can expect from a high-end digital camera. The SL3 emerges as a beacon of innovation, boasting a larger 60MP sensor packed into a body that’s lighter and more compact than its predecessor.

The heart of the Leica SL3 is its formidable 60MP full-frame sensor, which introduces Triple Resolution Technology. This groundbreaking feature allows photographers to switch between 60MP, 36MP, and 18MP resolutions for images in both DNG and JPG formats, ensuring flexibility and precision in various shooting conditions. The sensor’s dynamic range stretches up to 15 stops, coupled with a 14-bit color depth, enabling the SL3 to capture images with unparalleled clarity, color fidelity, and detail.

Photographers can push creative boundaries with an ISO sensitivity range from 50 to 100,000 and benefit from the 5-axis image stabilization system designed to mitigate camera shake. Whether shooting in low light or capturing fast-moving subjects, the SL3 ensures your images remain sharp and detailed.

Underpinning the SL3’s performance is the Maestro IV Processor, the powerhouse responsible for the camera’s blazing-fast performance. This processor is not only behind the SL3’s exceptional color reproduction, a hallmark of Leica’s cameras, but also enhances the camera’s efficiency with CFexpress Type B cards and enables 8K video recording across various codecs.

The SL3 doesn’t stop at internal excellence; its design is equally impressive. A tiltable 3.2″ touchscreen display and a 5.76 million-dot EyeRes OLED viewfinder offer unprecedented control and visibility, while an 8GB buffer allows for seamless shooting. Moreover, the camera supports quick image transfers wirelessly via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, in addition to wired transfers through USB-C, ensuring that your workflow remains uninterrupted.

Leica has made the SL3 available for pre-orders, with shipments starting on March 14th. With a price tag of $6,995, available at adorama.com, the SL3 is a premium investment for those who refuse to compromise on quality, performance, and compactness. Whether you’re a professional photographer or a passionate enthusiast, the Leica SL3 promises to elevate your photography to new heights, capturing the world in stunning detail like never before.

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