Archive for May, 2010

Posted in
on May 18th, 2010 by Adrian

On Thursday, May 27th, 2010 Toronto’s Hope House Fundraiser aims to raise $50,000 for Hope House, a school in Calcutta being built by the Kids With Cameras Foundation, a charity born from the Academy Award Winning documentary ‘Born into Brothels’.

Each photo canvas featured at this special fundraiser represents a personal story of self-discovery and empowerment through the photographic works of the children (a skill taught to them by Co-Director and on screen presence Zana Briski)… Read More about the Hope House Fundraiser.

Kids With Cameras Video by Media Ball.

Posted in
on May 11th, 2010 by Adrian

Sure, Flickr is an amazing site full of great images and user submitted content but we wanted to see what else was out there.

1X.com features amazing images submitted by talented photographers from all over the world. It’s a great site that will inspire and entertian you for hours. The collection although user-submited is screened and curated which ensures that all the images have a certain wow factor. Here’s how they describe themselves:

cool photo ideas

1x is a photo community with a difference. Take the work of the most talented photobloggers, various famous photographers, and many serious amateurs, select their best work and collect it all in one place – that is 1x. Everyone is welcome to contribute, but every photo is screened, which means it has to be approved by an editor (screener) before being published. 1x is a photo gallery with a constantly evolving exhibition. We publish dozens of new images every day.

A great place to get cool photo canvas ideas for your next CanvasPop project.

Visit www.1x.com and get inspired!

What’s your favorite photo site? We might feature it in our next blog post.

Posted in
on May 5th, 2010 by Adrian
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A contrast in realism! You see elements of Heine's caricature in this Pencil vs. Camera

Fitting? Yes…Creative? Absolutely!!… I just had share the artistic works of Ben Heine
a Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer from Brussels.

This particular image is part of his “Pencil vs. Camera” series that combines photos with
pencil drawings by superimposing the sketch onto the photo.  Ben will take his own photos
and consider the image as a battle between the drawing and the photograph.

“The great thing is that the photo and drawing are 2 different ways of expression but they go
well together and they definitely have the same purpose: share an idea, an emotion, a
concept or a message
.” Ben Heine

For the full Pencil vs. Camera Series visit Ben on Flickr.

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Photo Credit (Ben Heine/Pencil Vs Camera -12)