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Best story: $500 Best photographs: 1st prize: Paul’s Photo credit of $300. 2nd Prize: Paul’s Photo credit of $250. 3rd prize: Paul’s’s Photo credit of $250 Best video: 1st Prize: Paul’s Photo credit of $300 Deadline: Monday, August 4, 2025 Story guidelines: Submissions must be on disk or emailed. Stories may be real, imaginary or […]
A group of ten photographers got together this year to showcase the annual Manhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks for a video unlike previous editions. What if each of them showed the display from a different point of view throughout the city? (Watch the results above.) And that’s exactly what they did. Evelyn Schmitt, who lives on […]
by Jefferson Graham Life begins at 80? Who is that lady with the white hair, red jacket, Nikon around her neck and a big tripod that always seems to be under the Manhattan Beach Pier? Not just any senior out for a morning or afternoon jaunt, but the woman many have called “The Queen of […]
Santa Fe, New Mexico, is one of the great, and most unique cities of the world, an adobe paradise with an abundance of art and some of the best, rich light for photography. From all the adobe architecture to some stunning sunsets, every corner of this city is an invitation to snap a picture—which […]
One thing you’re unlikely to ever do in the South Bay Bubble is fly over the area on a hot air balloon. For that, you’ll need to leave here, and visit Palm Springs, the Napa Valley or Temecula locally. Recently I spent two days in Temecula, a small town of 100,000 people about halfway between […]
Under the waterline “Ming H2 Wu: Immersion” opens Saturday at the Palos Verdes Art Center by Bondo Wyszpolski They’re graceful and sensual, these young women, as they seemingly glide or drift in their gowns or among strands of tissue-thin fabric. They’re also several feet underwater. “Immersion” is a set of 39 images photographed by Ming […]
The Heber Valley of Utah is a tourist and photographer’s paradise, offering a mix of historical charm and natural beauty that has to be seen to be believed. Park City, also in the northern section of the state, and Zion National Park, in the south, get the most attention, but the Heber Valley is worth checking […]
As much as we love the Bubble, we do occasionally leave, and have been exploring the great non-L.A. California beach towns on recent episodes of PhotowalksTV, in search of great photo spots. This week, we’re in Carlsbad, the San Diego town known for the Flower Fields, a European style village, Legoland and the great beach. […]
On April 8, the great solar eclipse will take place in the United States, from the San Antonio area to the Maine/Canada border. Yes, you can photograph it with your phone. I’ve received so many questions about it, let me answer a few of the best ones here. What makes witnessing a total solar eclipse […]
Dave Weldon usually photographs objects in space. In December he focused on El Porto surfers. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”2870″ display=”masonry” ngg_triggers_display=”always”]