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PHOTO: Duke commit Khaman Maluach shows off photography skills at K Academy

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PHOTO: Duke commit Khaman Maluach shows off photography skills at K Academy

Five-star center Khaman Maluach added to the impressive Duke recruiting class of 2024 when he committed to the program in April. He was part of the NBA Academy Africa and currently plays for the City Oilers in the Basketball Africa League.

The Blue Devils’ Instagram account posted a picture of Maluach settling into the campus and taking pictures with his camera during a basketball game at the K Academy.

The story was captioned as follows:

“Khaman_maluach capturing K Academy content.”

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Khaman Maluach welcomed enthusiastically by Duke

Khaman Maluach was one of the most heavily recruited prospects in the class of 2024. According to ESPN, he was rated a five-star prospect out of the NBA Academy Africa in Senegal after taking up the game full-time in 2020.

In 2023, he was the Basketball Without Borders defensive MVP putting several basketball programs on notice with his talents.

Duke coach Jon Scheyer was full of praise for Maluach when he announced his commitment to the Blue Devils. The Duke coach highlighted the aspects that made the center such a special talent.

“I am really excited to welcome Khaman Maluach to Duke. Joining us from South Sudan and NBA Academy Africa, Khaman brings an incredible perspective and unique talents to our program,” Scheyer said.

“At 7’2, Khaman can score inside and out, handle the ball, and protect the rim at a high level. His vocal leadership, the energy and enthusiasm that he plays with, and his commitment to winning above individual statistics stood out to me when watching him throughout the recruiting process.”

The Duke Blue Devils will lose core players to the NBA Draft including Jared McCain and Kyle Filipowski. Khaman Maluach will have to step up to fill the void.

Luckily for Duke, Maluach will join an elite recruiting class that includes Cooper Flagg, the No. 1 player in the country according to ESPN, Patrick Ngongba II, Darren Harris, Isaiah Evans, and Kon Knueppel.

Jon Scheyer could not hide his eagerness to get to work with the Sudanese center after the Olympics.

“We are anxious to get to work with Khaman after he competes in the Olympics this summer with (former Duke player) Luol Deng and the South Sudanese National Team,” Scheyer said.

There is always pressure on Duke to be among the contenders for the national championship and the class of 2024 has its task cut out.

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Are You Making These Composition Mistakes in Your Own Photography? |

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Are You Making These Composition Mistakes in Your Own Photography? |

Do you find yourself always leaning heavily on certain composition tricks that you learned as you were developing your photographic skills? Sure, they might make your more mediocre shots a little better, but casting off these creative crutches can be the first step towards making great photographs.

Being inspired by the work of other photographers and striving to emulate it in our own work is a natural part of the artistic development of a photographer. As it is in the other arts too, most of us learn by copying before we are able to attain some degree of artistic maturity and start to find our own voice.

In this age of social media, there is (for better or for worse) no shortage of other voices showing us how photography should be done. Photographers share their tips for creating beautiful, flattering portraits using longer focal lengths with wide apertures to create a shallow depth of field. Their subjects pop against a sea of dreamy bokeh, and we are suitably wowed. So this is how it’s done!

And we know that this is how it should be done because the people showing us the way have thousands of YouTube followers, and thousands of YouTube followers can’t be wrong. Right?

It’s not that there’s anything wrong with this advice per se. Shooting at wide apertures to better separate your subject from the background is a well-established approach to portrait photography. The problem with following this advice only starts when it becomes something that you automatically do whenever you’re shooting portraits—like this is somehow the only way to shoot portraits.

In this excellent and thoughtful video, Jamie Windsor discusses how easy it can be to find yourself relying heavily on these “established” approaches to photography, to the point that they can blind you to other, possibly more creative, possibilities. Jamie offers some great examples from the work of photographers who have bucked photographic convention in order to produce images that truly stand apart from the crowd.

The examples that Jamie shares are a masterclass in the use of deep focus in which the entire scene is pretty much in focus—the result of using narrower apertures and wider angle lenses. Rather than relying on the separation of the subject from the background to make the image work, a set of different compositional approaches are discussed including visual layering, geometry, and the use of color and shadow.

In photography, as in skinning cats, there’s always more than one way to do it. In failing to be as mindful and engaged in our endeavor as we could be when we’re composing a scene, we risk ending up with an okay image simply because we missed the chance to make a great image.

Photographer Posts Public Thank You Notes to City of San Francisco

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Photographer Posts Public Thank You Notes to City of San Francisco

People on a bus in San Francisco were surprised to find a touching message from an artist who just wants to say thank you to his adopted city.

Danny Bloom is a photographer who’s lived in the city by the Bay for the past few years. He arrived in San Francisco after a difficult period that included a painful breakup and the death of a close friend.

“Honestly, I was in a really rough point in my life. I was dealing with just a lot of loss, a lot of sadness,” he tells Inside Edition. “When I first met you (San Francisco), I was shattered. I knew I needed sunlight and a change of pace, but I’ll forever be humbled by the love, joy and peace that you brought me.”

He moved to San Francisco when it seemed many were headed in the opposite direction. The city was getting much bad publicity but he had a different experience, telling Inside Edition, “When I got here and I was like, is this the same city everyone’s talking about?”

In no time at all, Bloom found himself blossoming. His life was back on track, he’d met a whole new group of friends and he was working as a photographer. He gives all the credit to San Francisco.

“I was just blown away about the welcomeness,” he says. “Usually when I move to a new city, I think I meet that first group of friends, those that are my people, and I learned quickly that they’re not, and in this case, it was the complete opposite. I was like, wow, I just found my family so fast. I have people that support me, care about me, and they barely even know me. It was just very touching.”

Family is what’s pulling Bloom back to the East Coast. He decided to leave thank you notes on city buses with copies of photos he’d taken in the area. He had no idea how his project would be received.

One of the first reactions he got now brings him to tears.

“I received a message from someone that said, ‘Hey, I’ve actually just got diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer today, and I saw your letter on the bus and your photo, and I picked it up and it just really meant a lot to me,’” he says. “Receiving that message about someone that just had such an unimaginably hard day and for them to be able to have a better day, to have a happy moment in that darkness through my photography, and my gift to the city. That was unbelievably cool.”

Bloom says he hopes to return to San Francisco someday. He’s already cooking up his next project.

“I was really looking for a way to get people to enjoy photography that wasn’t just on their phone or on a screen,” he says.

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Slideshow: The wreckage in Rogers, as seen by a local photographer

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Slideshow: The wreckage in Rogers, as seen by a local photographer

Slideshow: The wreckage in Rogers, as seen by a local photographer – Arkansas Times

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Novo Studio, a professional photography studio in Rogers, was among the dozens of businesses damaged in the Memorial Day weekend tornadoes that killed 10 people across northern Arkansas. Here are a few of the images captured by owner Phillip Thomas in the days that followed the storm.

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Country Music Hall of Fame Opens Photography Exhibit

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Country Music Hall of Fame Opens Photography Exhibit
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The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum recently unveiled a new photography exhibition, The Bradley Barn Sessions. The exhibit features photographs by Fritz Hoffmann from the recording sessions for Country Music Hall of Fame member George Jones’ 1994 album, The Bradley Barn Sessions. The exhibit is free and will be open to the public through 2024 in the museum’s first-floor gallery.

In 1994, MCA Records plotted to return Jones to the country radio charts. Four years had passed since Jones’s last Top 10 hit, his longest dry spell since 1955. The resulting album, The Bradley Barn Sessions, featured Jones performing duets with many country and rock artists, including Mark Chesnutt, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Keith Richards, Leon Russell, Travis Tritt and Trisha Yearwood, as well as Country Music Hall of Fame members Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart and Tammy Wynette. The sessions took place at historic Bradley’s Barn, a recording studio established by producer and Country Music Hall of Fame member Owen Bradley in the rolling hills of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.

To document the landmark sessions, MCA hired accomplished photographer Fritz Hoffmann, who attended all 11 days of the sessions. Hoffmann’s photographs capture the camaraderie Jones felt with the guest artists and the relaxed, inspired atmosphere created by producer Brian Ahern. The following year, Hoffmann became the first Western photographer granted long-term residency in Shanghai since the communist revolution in 1949. Hoffmann lived in Shanghai from 1995 to 2008, becoming a contributing photographer for National Geographic and taking assignments across Asia and Europe.

Some photographs on display include:

  • George Jones and Tammy Wynette recording a new version of their 1976 hit “Golden Ring” — marking the first recording in 14 years for the former husband-and-wife duet team.
  • Jones and Keith Richards preparing to record a duet of the Dallas Frazier song “Say It’s Not You.”
  • Jones and Country Music Hall of Fame member Waylon Jennings talking before recording the gospel song “Great Judgment Morning,” which included contributions by Jessi Colter,
  • Ricky Skaggs, Connie Smith, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt. Recorded while Jones worked on The Bradley Barn Sessions, the track wasn’t released publicly until 2013, when it appeared on Amazing Grace, a compilation of Jones’ religious recordings.
  • Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs rehearsing “Where Grass Won’t Grow” before recording the song with Jones and Trisha Yearwood.
  • Jones with Leon Russell and Vince Gill as they record the song “The Love Bug.”
    Nancy Jones kissing her husband.

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World’s Largest Oyster Sculpture, world record in South Bend, Washington

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World’s Largest Oyster Sculpture, world record in South Bend, Washington
South Bend, Washington, United States–South Bend, Washington, nicknamed the “Oyster Capital of the World,” resides just outside one of the country’s most plentiful locations for oysters, Willapa Bay; a giant, concrete, halved oyster shell was erected in Robert Bush Memorial Park, by the waterfront; the sculpture sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Oyster Sculpture, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Hyperrealist sculptures take center stage at Tampere Art Museum

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Hyperrealist sculptures take center stage at Tampere Art Museum
This summer, the Tampere Art Museum is hosting an extraordinary exhibition titled “HYPER,” which offers a comprehensive overview of the history and evolution of hyperrealistic sculpture from the 1970s to the present day. The exhibition features works by 27 renowned artists from around the world, highlighting the international scope and continuous development of this art form.

Hyperrealistic sculptures meticulously replicate the human body, capturing every detail to create a startlingly lifelike illusion.

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