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MAGAZINE

ISSUE 3

COVER

MOTION, MANIPULATION, AND FOCUS:

CAPTURING THE MANY MANIFESTATIONS OF

BEAUTIFUL BLUR
MAY 2010

Contents:
06 THEME: BEAUTIFUL BLUR
Embracing the movement and the haze

14 CONTEST WINNERS
The top three photos as
voted on by you and selected by us

24 FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER
Claire Jean talks about inspiration and
her favorite ways to use blur

45 UPCOMING THEME
Get ready to submit for our next issue!

THIS I S S U E B E A U T I F U L B L U R

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

21 Paul Phillips

02 Leanne Staples

22 Kelly Kellogg

04 Sawyer Pangborn

24 Claire Jean

06 Kaylin Idora

30 James L. McCluskey

10 Akhilesh Sharma

32 Emily Chaplain King

11 Diego Albino Rodriguez Contereras

33 Marzia Frank

12 Igor Petrovic

36 Pekka Nikrus

13 Daniel Israelyan

38 Larry A. Henry

14 Chris Driscoll

40 Florian Cervenka

16 Pavithra Meera Ramashubramanian

42 Anubhav Jain

17 Jayme Rutherford

44 Keith Sanders

19 Tom George

47 Joey Colombo

On the cover: The Joust by L. Toshio Kishiyama I Previous page: E V 6 by Leanne Staples I This page: Bokeh Blur by Sawyer Pangborn

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EDITORS NOTE

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he theme of Snapixel Magazines

third issue is Beautiful Blur, sponsored
by Lensbaby.com.

The photographs we have chosen for this issue

cover a variety of subjects and styles, but all in
one way or another feature blur. Whether it is
created by playing with focus by using aperture,
movement by shutter speed, or manipulation
by camera or computer, all of these photos depict the world not through a simple sharp image, but through an artistic expression of what
our cameras can be capable of. They capture
so much more than just one image at one moment in time.
We are all about community! All of the photographs included in this issue were submitted
by users of Snapixel.com, so if you want to get
involved, head to page 44 to find out what our
next issue is about and then visit Snapixel.com
to contribute.
Cheers,
The Snapixel Team

Snapixel assumes that all work

published here is original.
Images published in Snapixel
Magazine are the sole property
of the contributing photographers and are copyrighted
material. No image may be
reproduced without the express written permission of its
owner.
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KAYLIN IDORA THE WAREHOUSE An abandoned factory on the shores of the Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana

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LEANNE STAPLES EXPRESS

Metro North train
[50mm, 1/3 sec. at f/5.6]

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AKHILESH SHARMA AFTER 9.00

There are many beautiful ways to spend an evening. Here is mine...

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DIEGO ALBINO RODRIGUEZ CONTERERAS THE NIGHT COMES TO A CLOSE - LAST CALL
Im not much of a drinker. Still, when last call comes around, a hazy romance hangs in the air. And thats when the room starts spinning,...
and you wonder how youre getting home that night.
[18mm, 1/20 sec. at f/3.5]

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IGOR PETROVIC MAHA MANTRA

The street of smiling orange colored people

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DANIEL ISRAELYAN MARKET

La Boqueria Market in Barcelona, Spain. Although the shop was in
a dark corner of the market, the lighting was ample as the fish were
illuminated for the countless tourists.
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KJERSTI JORGENSEN ROLLING STONES
Winter landscape from a Norwegian fjord [11mm, at f/22]
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CONTEST WINNERS
1. CHRIS DRISCOLL

HONG KONG FROM SEA

Long exposure of Hong Kongs skyline at night. Shot from on board USS Chafee DDG-90 during western-pacific deployment 2009.

2. JAYME RUTHERFORD

WINTERS DREAM

Dandelion seeds covered in early morning dew

3. PAVITHRA MEERA RAMASUBRAMANIAN

TRACTOR WITH FLOWERS

This shot was taken at a 590 acre flower field this spring in California. I waited for the moment when the tractor lined up at the horizon
while the flowers formed a vanishing point. I wanted to blur it to give the photo movement.
[50mm, 1/3200 sec. at f/1.4]

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THOM GEORGE TUBBS HILL

Tubbs hill is one of the most photographed locations in Coeur dAlene, Idaho, yet most images are sunny and bright. I wanted
a darker, more mysterious image.

PAUL PHILLIPS ROMANCE

Red tulips lit from behind and filtered through textured glass
[22mm, 1/160 sec. at f/13]

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KELLY KELLOGG

AUTUMN TIMBER IMPRESSIONS

This image was created by panning the camera downward during the exposure to give and impressionistic feel to
the autumn forest scene.

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EXPLORING
LIFES POETRY
WITH THIS MONTHS
SNAPIXEL FEATURED
PHOTOGRAPHER

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CLAIRE JEAN
I am french and have spent half of my life in Brazil. I took
photography as a means of therapy ten years ago and it quickly
became a passion. The spirit of the amateur lives inside me and
I am always driven by my enthusiasm for photography.
A native of France
residing in Brazil, our
featured photographer of the month
brings a multicultural
world view to a series of topics ranging
from portraits to still
life to abstractions.
Her strongest photos,
and
self-professed
favorites, depict the
naked form in black
and white. If you visit
her website (www.
clairejean.daportfolio.com) you can see
an entire collections
dedicated to this
subject, one of the
strongest and most
unique galleries features models covered in sea life - thats
right, people scantily clad in octopi and
conch shells. In this
article we place the
focus on her photographs that employ
blur, but the rest of
her photos are definitely worth a look.

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I use my camera as a tool to explore the poetry of life and satisfy my need for creative expression. As a poetry, a picture has to contain a mood, an idea, a story, a feeling. The Lensbaby, one of
my favorite lenses, allows me to distort reality in a magical way-giving me more flexibility with the
composition. Beauty is everywhere and I am interested in all subjects, although nature is one of my
principal inspirations. My goal is to work with bodies integrated with nature in a perfect symbiosis.

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JAMES L. McCLUSKEY SOLAR HAZE

I took this picture early one morning after
work. I passed by this everyday and could
not help but notice how beautiful it is to
look out over the meadow with the sun
illuminating the fog. It is a real shame
because some construction company came
along and destroyed the scene by building a cement producer right where I took
the shot. At least I captured the moment
about a year before it was torn up for progress. Thats an irony, is it not?
[86mm, 1/1000 sec. at f/8]

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EMILY CHAPLIN KING VENICE AT SUNSET

Gondolas parked for the evening near Venices Piazza San Marco

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MARZIA FRANK UNTITLED

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PAVITHRA MEERA RAMASUBRAMANIAN DANDELION DREAMS

Taken in my backyard where this dandelion against the sun formed beautiful colors with the background
[100mm, 1/100 sec. at f/2.8]

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MARZIA FRANK UNTITLED

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PEKKA NIKRUS MULTIPLE NATURE 95

These apples in Helsinki were my 95th published attempt to make identifiable nature abstractions by multiple exposure. Its one of the
many endless dances I do with randomness. [85mm, 1/60 sec. at f/5.6]
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LARRY A. HENRY MOVING ALONG

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East Entrance to South Rim Grand Canyon at 60 MPH (trying to beat the sunset)
[50mm, 1/30 sec. at f/4.5]

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FLORIAN CERVENKA CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

[75mm, 1/2000 sec. at f/2.8]
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ANUBHUAV JAIN BIRDS 5

[28mm, 1/30 sec. at f/5.6]

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KEITH SANDERS SUN THIRST The desert sun sips from the worlds fourth largest fountain (Fountain Hills, Arizona)

42 ANUBHAV JAIN
/anubhav
24 CLAIRE JEAN
/claire747
22 KELLY KELLOGG
/specialk
01 L. TOSHIO KISHIYAMA
/toshio
30 JAMES L. MCCLUSKY
/jimmymac
36 PEKKA NIKRUS
/pni
12 IGOR PETROVIC
/IgorPetrovic
21 PAUL PHILLIPS
/iOpeners
16 PAVITHRA MEERA
RAMASUBRAMANIAN
/Meera
11 DIEGO ALBINO RODRIGUEZ
CONTERERAS
/Darc
17 JAYME RUTHERFORD
/jrphotography

40 FLORIAN CERVENKA
/Flo

33 MARZIA FRANCHINI
/Marziafrank

44 KEITH SANDERS
/sanders0906

32 EMILY CHAPLIN KRUG

/wideopenroad

18 THOM GEORGE
/thomg57

10 AKHILESH SHARMA
/akhilesh

47 JOEY COLOMBO
/jdotcolombo

38 LARRY A. HENRY
/Larry

04 SAWYER PANGBORN
/spangborn

14 CHRIS DRISCOLL
/comosaydice

13 KAYLIN IDORA
/kaylin

02 LEANNE STAPLES
/ifotog

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13 DANIEL ISRAELYAN
/BigPisces

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