Chad Michael Crowell, 38, is accused of giving directives from a position of leadership to members of an “outlaw motorcycle gang” called the Ugly Man Cossacks. According to his arrest affidavit, Crowell is believed to have ordered the murder of Brandon Edwards, of Arp, a member of the rival club 1%er Cossacks, on May 2, 2020.
Published: 6:00 pm EDT April 17, 2024Published: April 17, 2024Updated: 3:02 pm EDT April 17, 2024
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Amie Potsic, a world-traveling photographer from Chester County, has been taking pictures with a focus on environmentalism.
Amie Potsic, a world-traveling photographer and mom from Chester County, has been taking pictures in different countries over the decades with a focus on environmentalism — and more specifically — deforestation, writes Matteo Iadonisi for 6ABC.
Right after finishing her degree in photojournalism, Potsic set off to India and Israel to learn about their cultures and environments. She has been to Brazil and many other countries.
Today, she has been focusing on deforestation, an issue that she has photographed around the world. Her pictures are snapped in northern California where deadly wildfires have raged and left flat, barren lands in their wake. She compared these photographs to those she had taken of her daughter in the lush forests of the northeast, showcasing a 4-year-old girl among green ferns and trees.
Currently, her work is being featured in a group exhibition called “Risky Beauty: Aesthetics and Climate Change,” curated by Cynthia Haveson Veloric.
Her art can be viewed at The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania until May 23.
Read more about Amie Potsic and her environmental photographs at 6ABC.
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Hannah Waddingham has addressed the viral video of her dressing down a photographer at the 2024 Olivier Awards.
The Ted Lasso star hosted the London theatre awards for a second time on Sunday (14 April).
While on the red carpet, a photographer appeared to shout “show me leg” in her direction. Waddingham could be heard replying, in footage captured by a bystander and shared on X/Twitter: “Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man.
“Don’t be a d***, otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say ‘show me leg.’ No.”
Waddingham was cheered and applauded as she walked away, shaking her head disapprovingly.
Appearing on The One Show on Wednesday (17 April), Waddingham revealed she’d received a written apology from the photographer.
“I called out what needed to be… absolutely necessary to call out,” she said. “And I’ve received a written apology and so now I’m so ready to move on.
“And I’m not having it overshadow what was the most… I think even more than last year, it was the most glorious, joyful, positive night. I don’t usually say this, but I was really flipping proud of that night. It did exactly what we wanted It to. The whole place erupted like a bunch of lunatics. So that’s what the takeaway should be.”
Nicole Scherzinger’s Sunset Boulevard swept the Olivier Awards with seven wins. The former Pussycat Dolls singer took home the trophy for Best Actress in a Musical, with her co-star Tom Francis winning Best Actor
Sarah Snook, the Australian star of Succession, beat out fierce competition from Sarah Jessica Parker, Sheridan Smith, and Sophie Okonedo to win Best Actress for her role in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Waddingham recently opened up about a harrowing experience on the set of Game of Thrones – she played Unella on the HBO series, one of the Septa of the Faith of the Seven who carried out the bidding of the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce).
The star revealed she was “waterboarded for 10 hours” while filming a torture scene with Lana Headey’s Cersei Lannister.
“There I was strapped to a wooden table with proper big straps for ten hours,” said Waddingham. “And definitely, other than childbirth, it was the worst day of my life. Because Lena was uncomfortable pouring liquid in my face for that long, and I was beside myself.”
In photography, one learns to develop a thick skin really quickly. At least, one should. Because nothing anyone can throw at us will be as bad as the critique we give ourselves. We become our own worst critics.
That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though. This process can allow us to learn from those mistakes we feel we made and improve. And that’s the topic discussed in this video from photographer Ari Jaaksi, otherwise known as Shoot On Film.
Looking at our own work is always an interesting experience. It’s always going to feel different looking at one’s own creations. We’re looking at those images from a unique perspective that nobody else can ever understand.
Ari looks through some of his own “bad photos” and walks us through why he doesn’t like them. At the time, he thought some of them were great, but now, more detached from the image by the ravages of time, he can look at it more objectively.
I’m going through this myself at the moment. I’m looking over older shoots at the moment to try to find some specific images. These shoots are from around 2008-2015, and I haven’t thought about most of them in years.
Seeing them now through fresh eyes, I’m seeing a lot of images I’d overlooked the first time around. And looking at others brings back memories of days from long ago. And looking at some of those I’d picked in the past, I now think to myself, “wtf was I thinking?”
Even if you don’t think you’ve made a mistake when you create the image, you might believe you have at some point later in time. As our experience and style grow, we look back at our older images in a very different way.
It can also be a good way to really see how far you’ve come, too.
There’s a common belief out there that if your photos aren’t good enough, you just need to spend more money on a better camera or lens. This is nonsense. People have been creating amazing photography for decades on cameras that don’t even come close to today’s entry-level mirrorless cameras.
If you’re not happy with the images, the problem is, more than likely, your doing. Learning from our mistakes is how we improve and ultimately produce better images. Embrace your mistakes, learn to love them, and figure out what you’d do in order to correct them next time so they don’t come up in the first place.
Finding out what you don’t like and what not to do is just as important as knowing what you do like and what you should keep doing. Knowing how your camera works and what everything means is also very important.
Plan a trip that celebrates Earth’s beauty and wild spaces. Make sure to take lots of pictures with your Canon Camera while you’re there!
Street-style documentarian Johnny Cirillo has built a fanbase under the pseudonym @watchingnewyork by cataloging the ensembles of the city’s most stylish dwellers in their natural habitat. These aren’t posed shots outside a fashion show with clothes so fresh you can smell the store on them (or the PR lending house). No, these are real people with real style. All of these culminate in his opus, Watching New York: Street Style A to Z, released on April 16th.
In compiling his first book, Cirillo turned back the clock to 2016, sifting through eight years of documentation. “We had all these different ideas, and we landed on an A-through-Z guide, [which] basically [describes] street fashion in New York.” He narrowed his collection down to roughly 600 photos, plus various musings from the featured authors and subjects. “It’s more than just a picture book,” he summarizes.
The selection process served as an exercise in self-reflection. “I’ve been doing this long enough where you can look back now and see what was happening right before COVID, what was happening right after the election, all these things that are just in our zeitgeist like the Barbie movie, all of a sudden the city explodes in pink.” As much as we Brooklynites would like to claim style longevity, change is the only common factor. “Every season, the old goes out, and new stuff comes in. That old stuff gets forgotten for a while until it comes back.” He cites bell bottoms and skinny jeans as one of the many victims of fashion’s pendulum swing. Zoomed out, we behave as predicted; Cirillo reiterates that the classics really do persist. “That’s why they call them the classics. Cardigans, overalls, leather jackets, berets—they’ll never go away.”
With the first warm days of spring underway, the energy of his subjects is buzzing. In celebration of the book launch, we asked the photojournalist to predict the trends he’s already seeing this season.
“I think chainmail is going to be big this year, spring and summer,” he says of another cyclical trend. A staple of the Rabanne house codes, chainmail manifests in the form of barely-there tops (worn over blouses or nothing at all), pouchettes, and other accessories.
Thank Grace Wales Bonner and Emily Adams Bode for this one; the clash of sporty motifs and preppy aesthetics is in. Born out of two inherently practical fashion fads, this one is unlikely to fizzle anytime soon. “I think there’s going to be a lot of big collared polo shirts,” Cirillo says, characterizing the explosion, “kind of preppy athleisure, Adidas-sporty-prep.”
“There were the pops of red that came in, and I think that’s evolving into burgundy,” he notes. “Tone down the red; bring a little purple into the mix.”
“I feel like there’s been an explosion of light blues,” he says. Interestingly, both this and the burgundy trend mimic the overwhelming favorite colors of the Fall 2024 fashion weeks. Coincidence? I think not.
“I think that there’s going to be a lot of tattered clothes, holes in clothes, very, very distressed,” he says. Think: shredded denim, beat-up leather, and worn-in T-shirts.
Ready for another fun photography challenge to shake up your skills and creative juices? Now on the 16th week of their 52-week Photo Challenge, the focus is on creating breathtaking Panorama photos. In this challenge, your task is to use the unique perspective to showcase an expansive view of a scene. Think sweeping landscapes, cityscapes and architecture — as always, you’re only limited by your creativity!
Stunning panorama photos will require the right gear and skills, and plenty of practice. So if you’ve been waiting for the right opportunity to get into shooting panoramas, this challenge is the perfect activity for you!
Need some tips and tricks to help you ace this week’s challenge? We suggest starting with our five tips for photographing cityscape panoramas and quick guide to stitching panoramic photos. Nikon, Skylum and Digital Photography School also have some useful guides that you can learn from.
In case you’re just joining, we also encourage you to check out the full info on the 52-week Challenge.
Once you submit your photos, you can review them here: https://52weekchallenge.slickpic.com
As always, you can ask your friends to join the challenge as well by clicking on the Share button for the album and inviting them to join in. Of course, you can also encourage them to Like and Comment on your submissions!
“When I started working, I would leave work during lunch, take pictures and return to work, and that was how I started photography. I wasn’t really fulfilled doing my job, but photography made me really happy. I knew in my heart that this is what I wanted to do [for] a living. That led me to open my first studio at 24,” says Akokhia, born in the UK but whose parents are Nigerian.
She’s the owner of Green Studio and now has over a decade of experience in the industry. Through education and the consistent drive for representation, she hopes to use her photography platform, Amanda Akokhia Photography, to bring about much-needed change.
Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the back of a NASA aircraft is exhilarating, especially for photographers capturing NASA’s story. Jim Ross, photo lead at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was awarded first place for an image he took while flying upside down in a two-seat T-34C research aircraft.
In the photo, which was announced as the NASA Photo of the Year 2023 in the People category on April 15, 2024. Ross captures NASA research pilot Nils Larson in full flight gear, while the aircraft is doing aerobatic maneuvers. Most of us would struggle to keep our bearings, let alone operate a camera and frame a perfectly balanced image. NASA Armstrong photographers do this every flight day.
“When we fly proficiency flights, my mind is always thinking about what kind of photo I can take that will share what I am experiencing in the aircraft,” Ross said. “This photo was one that I feel is able to tell that story.” It’s telling the story that makes Ross’s work so important to NASA. Much of what NASA works on can only be witnessed by researchers and scientists, but having it capture in photo and video allows us to share the images with the world.
Ross began his aviation photography career in 1989 when he joined the photography staff at NASA’s Armstrong (then Dryden) Flight Research Center, now known as NASA Armstrong. He became the photo lead in 1997, a title he retains. In his 30 years of flying, he has flown on more than 900 missions and has about 1,100 flight hours in aircraft including T-33, T-34, T-38, F-15, F-16, F-18, KC-10, KC-135, C-12, C-20A, Boeing 747SP, and helicopters.
NASA previously recognized Ross for his work with the agency’s Public Service Medal and the Exceptional Public Achievement Medal. NASA also made a photo book of his work titled, “NASA Photo One,” which highlights 100 photos of his career. He also won the Best of the Best award from the Aviation Week & Space Technology photo contest in 2001. His work has appeared in many publications, including Aviation Week & Space Technology, National Geographic, and Air & Space Smithsonian.
