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APA New York Photo Contest

CALL FOR ENTRIES APA|NY 2010 PHOTO CONTEST   FINAL DEADLINE + FRIDAY, JUNE 4

APA|NY is pleased to announce its Third Annual Photo Contest!

As an organization dedicated to creating a dialog within the photographic community, APA|NY is opening up this year’s annual photo contest with one simple task in mind: show us your best work. [...]

APA San Diego Presents: Plastic Fantastic Call for Entries

Photography Book Now 2010

Photography Book Now 2010

International Juried Competition

www.photographybooknow.com

Photography Book Now is a celebration of the most creative and innovative photography books, and the people behind them. Now in its third year, this international juried book competition is an opportunity for photographers of all stripes to showcase their work to a world-renowned panel of [...]

APA LA member Jim McHugh Exhibit

Let’s Get Lost Los Angeles – The Photography of Jim McHugh

Timothy Yarger Fine Art

May 22 – June 30, 2010

Excerpt from the Artist Statement

This series of photographs of Los Angeles began in the early 1990s. Like Weegee’s pictures, the photographs in ‘Lets Get Lost’ are made with a large format, hand held  4×5 camera, a Speed [...]

Thinking Outside of the Box

Stretched Car, © Mickey McGuire

Bending Automobiles the Fun House Way.

by Gary McGuire

Mickey McGuire’s classic trick to stretching cars and profits.

Some decades ago,  when I was but a schoolboy,  and before the Truth in Advertising Law came into existence,  my dad,  Mickey McGuire,  renowned automobile photographer (and a founding father of APA) transformed a trip [...]

Got Good Insurance ?

The call came in from the owner of the Chicago loft and it was not good. The cost to repair the floor was going to be in the ten’s of thousands. The photographer, Christopher M. Lynch of instilled images and I grasped our wallets and then realized, we were covered.

Weather or Not

One of the most unpredictable elements of shooting on location is the weather. With the many online resources available to monitor the constantly changing patterns, my clients often approach me with a worried expression asking something like “Is it going to be OK?”. Of course, I’m supposed to have the answer, but it’s not always [...]

Fire in the Trenches

No shit, there I was and I knew life had gone from exciting to potentially scary. From 1987-90 and again in 1992 I was working for the National Park Service (NPS) as a photographer at Grand Canyon National Park. My secondary duty was as a wildland firefighter (commonly called a forest fire firefighter).

In the early [...]

They all Escaped

Martin Trailer, President APA. ©Paul Bowers

By Martin Trailer

In the days of film, the 1990’s;

I was shooting an ad for a pesticide company that makes a bio friendly pesticide to kill off cotton weevils as I recall.

The shots were a progression of what the little critters would do to a crop by zeroing in [...]