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Your Story: Rachael B.
In our Your Story feature, we ask our members about what inspires their photography, the processes they use to make images, and the stories behind their pictures.
Q. What’s the story behind this photo?
A. I like to create art with my camera, and I particularly enjoy macro and abstract photography. I am fascinated with the macro world that is hidden from the human eyes. My goal is to reveal what is hidden.
Q. How was this image made?
A. With the majority of my water drop photography, I like to shoot them in the dark with various lights set up at different angles. Whatever I want to reflect onto the water drop, I place behind the drops upside down. For this photo, the metal spring was taped on the end of a pencil, and the pencil was then taped onto the side of a bottle to ensure it didn’t move. Then I just placed the drops onto the spring.
Q. Why do you take pictures?
A. I take pictures because I want to show the connection for the image I am creating. Sometimes it’s also an extension of my artwork. I find photography very enjoyable. One of my goals for the future is to try portrait photography.
Q. What do you want to say with your images?
A. I want to tell stories with my images – especially about the environment and climate change. If I cannot visit the location to take the photographs, then I try to use my creative photography to tell the story. For example, in the Tale of Two Wolves story, I couldn’t photograph an actual wolf, so I got creative to tell the story of my image.
See more photographs by Rachael B. on Your Shot.
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Top Shot: Storm in Kuwait City
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“Here is an image from my last trip to Kuwait City, I was lucky enough to witness and catch these lightning strikes, I have never seen such a strong thunderstorm, it was definitely a night to remember!” writes Your Shot photographer Khalid Al Hammadi. Photograph by Khalid Al Hammadi
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Top Shot: You Can Stand Under my Umbrella
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Aung Ya documented this scene of a woman painting handmade umbrellas in Mandalay, Myanmar. He writes, “when I see this girl, I feel like she is sitting middle of white butterflies.” Photograph by Aung Ya
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Top Shot: Highway to Heaven
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Borut Birsa documented this breathtaking foggy morning at the Črni Kal Viaduct above the Osp Valley near Črni Kal, Slovenia. This viaduct is the longest and highest in Slovenia. Photograph by Borut Birsa
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Your Story: Monika Kalmar
In our Your Story feature, we ask our members about what inspires their photography, the processes they use to make images, and the stories behind their pictures.
Q. What’s the story behind this photo?
A. I love to take photos of animals and I live in a beautiful countryside in the United Kingdom. It’s a perfect combination.
Q. Why do you take pictures?
A. To impress myself and create nice memories. I’m not really talkative, so it’s a good way to communicate.
Q. What was the first photo you took? Or the first photo you took that was meaningful to you?
A. I was on a family trip to southern Sweden to visit my brother when I was 13 or so. We decided to take a cruise over to Denmark for the day. I was the only child in our group and there was not much for me to do on the ship, but I had a little film camera. I decided to head out on deck, alone.
The first thing I saw, was the bright moon setting over the ocean and I was blown away. I used almost an entire roll of film shooting nothing but that.
Q. What do you like to take pictures of and why?
A. I love to go out and shoot nature and landscapes – it keeps me away from this modern life.
Q. How would you describe your photographic style?
A. I don’t know if I have a style. I photograph everything that catches my attention. I don’t limit myself for only one theme.
Q. Whose photography has influenced you the most?
A. Martin Szipal was a famous Hungarian photographer in Hollywood and I had the opportunity to discuss photography with him. He had very deep thoughts about photography and how to compose a shot.
See more photographs by Monika Kalmar on Your Shot.
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Top Shot: Ellison’s Cave
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“Deep underground in Ellison’s Cave is a 488-foot pitch dropping into the famous TAG Hall of Pigeon Mountain, Georgia,” writes Your Shot photographer Ethan Reuter. “After traversing, climbing and crawling through small passage with heavy rope and gear, we found ourselves in an 18-inch stream crawl that jets out over a seemingly bottomless chasm. Unable to rappel out of this crawl, bolts were placed across the loose edge, where this photograph was captured with an old-style Sylvania No. 3 flashbulb.” Photograph by Ethan Reuter
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Top Shot: In the Oil Lamp Light
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Tuấn Nguyễn photographed this woman as she knitted fishing nets by the light of an oil lamp in Hue, Vietnam. He writes, “Sea fishing is a long-standing traditional occupation in Vietnam. Men are seafarers, and women will sew fish nets or fix old ragged nets.” Photograph by Tuấn Nguyễn
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Top Shot: Fishing in a Dreamscape
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Your Shot photographer F. Dilek Uyar photographed this person as they fished at a picturesque lake in Ankara, Turkey. She writes, “Simerenya is the ideal world the hero dreamed of in Peyami Safa’s novel, ‘Yalnıziz’. When the flock of birds passed while I was taking photos in the Lake, I said to myself that the ideal world, my simerenya had occurred.” Photograph by F. Dilek Uyar
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İstanbul ve Trakya’nın kuzeyi boyunca uzanan dünyanın ‘eşsiz ekosistemlerinden biri‘ Kuzey Ormanları’nın, ‘Muhafaza Ormanı’ ilan edilmesi için kampanya başlatıldı.
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