When it comes to quality about articles, we do strive hard to put forth the word perfection and had set a benchmark with ourselves regarding the content we do publish with 121clicks. This year has been a tremendous learning curve for our editors panel by associating ourselves and pushing the limit upfront more towards perfection.
Having said that, We present you the most inspiring and highly appreciated articles in 2013. Since we don’t lean our concentration or dominate ourselves by producing content related to any particular genre, we tend to enjoy the luxury of art fans and non biased people (i.e You) who would appreciate any good photograph. We do have a desire to make this list a never ending one in the upcoming years.
We sincerely thank your outstanding support which is responsible for us to extend the boundaries of Arts & Photography much wider.
100 Wildlife Photographers You Should Follow
Wildlife Photography doesn’t need much of an introduction. What makes us go in awe is the amount of patience with time and dedication most of the grand masters of usually put in to get a good shot. A grand list of photographers who have dedicated their life and has got some intense passion towards the wildlife and exotic nature. How gracious would it be if we brought you these marvelous photographer altogether, yes we intended to surprise you with this article.
© Andy Rouse
100+ Landscape Photographers You Should Follow
A Zen Proverb says, Mountains keep flowing while the river remains passive and stands tall midst the chaos around time and conscience. Landscape Photography is the most challenging and difficult genre of photography in my opinion. To travel endlessly to continents, is no weekend business here, a salute for all those passionate, silent and humble landscape photographers.
© Evgeni Dinev
15 Most Inspiring TED Talks On Photography
TED is a wonderful platform, a non-profit devoted organisation to spread some amazing ideas all over. Concerning mainly on three platforms Technology, Entertainment and design, it does push some splendid amount of inspiration for listeners, most of these talks are from legends from various fields.
Henri Cartier-Bresson – Inspiration From Masters Of Photography
Its hard not to think about Henri Cartier-Bresson when it comes to street photography and photojournalism. He was a french photographer who is strongly believed to be the father of modern photojournalism and life reportage styles.
25 Free Ebooks To Improve Your Photography
We’ve put together a collection of 25 Free E-Books to Improve Your Photography. Please click on the image to download the PDF document. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.
10 Hot Lenses Worth The Money For Your DSLR
There is this never ending love, you can even call it as lust when it comes to lenses and photographers. The Prime lenses, Telephoto Zoom lenses, and the Ultra wide fish eye lenses or the super power macro lenses, they have plenty to ponder on and to dream upon.
Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – A Portrait Of Nature
It has taken more than a decade of hard work, some phenomenal amount of passion and good will behind this book Genesis by Sebastião Salgado, an amazing photographer and wonderful human being who doesn’t need much of an introduction. In this short post of ours, we wanted to underline what makes it so special and why is Genesis a lifetime project for our Master Photographer.
Breathtaking Documentary Movies Ever Made On Photographers – Part 1
This time around, we are bringing you some most inspirational documentary movies ever made on the lives of some great master photographers around the world. This era has produced some amazing Photojournalists and War Photographers over the period of time.
Most Influential Documentary Photography Stories
Documentary photography shows us exactly what our world looks like at any given moment in time. Whether the pictures are bleak, playful, angering or astounding, they all serve a historically significant purpose.
© Amritharaj Stephen
Steve McCurry – Inspiration From Masters Of Photography
One Photographer who is famous all over the globe arguably for one picture he shot in his life time named as the afghan girl. Steve McCurry doesn’t need much of an introduction amongst the photographers as well as the ordinary people knowing not much on photography, his name has been a constant ring and more than an iconic voice in respect to the contemporary street, travel and documentary photojournalism of today.
101 Inspiring Photography Quotes
Quotes We mean inspiring words, which would pronounce every letter of elegance and the noble way of doing photography. So many words with extreme clarity and intense synonym all making you march towards the undying passion for photography and what not.
© Raghu Rai / Magnum Photos
10 High-End Compact Cameras For Street Photography
Why would an already professional photographer or be an aspiring photographer need a compact camera rather than a DSLR. This is of course the most sorted question when you want to go for a compact camera, the boredom of always traveling around with 3-4 lenses, a huge camera bag and the lame luxury of losing some precious time in changing lenses..
15 Great Interviews From Masters – A Roundup
Unknown will always be an ocean when it comes to the field of art. And Photography is no where different not to fall in this criteria. Here learning from the masters is one of easiest way to attain perfection. There are some legends in this field to pave way and show directions for the beginners to follow. And we should understand the fact that art has no boundaries or directions.
© Alex Webb / Magnum Photos
The Best Street Photographer Portfolios For Inspiration – Part4
Street Photography has always been paving down the years to treat every lover of photography. The brilliant part of street photography is that you don’t need the artist to explain the medium of it, easily relating to every layman looking at the picture, it is a mere translation of what one witnesses on a daily routine on the streets.
© Donato Buccella
The Best Street Photographer Portfolios For Inspiration – Part5
Street Photography has always been paving down the years to treat every lover of photography. The brilliant part of street photography is that you don’t need the artist to explain the medium of it, easily relating to every layman looking at the picture, it is a mere translation of what one witnesses on a daily routine on the streets.
© Artur
The Best Street Photographer Portfolios For Inspiration – Part6
Street Photography has always been paving down the years to treat every lover of photography. Street Photography is an art of documenting People at their very surrounding or environment where they belong. There has always been those classic tales from our Masters of street Photography using film cameras, and still handling it exceptionally well.
© Ksenia Tsykunova
Michael Kenna – Inspiration From Masters Of Photography
One Photographer who is famous all over the globe arguably for one picture he shot in his life time named as the afghan girl. Steve McCurry doesn’t need much of an introduction amongst the photographers as well as the ordinary people knowing not much on photography, his name has been a constant ring and more than an iconic voice in respect to the contemporary street, travel and documentary photojournalism of today.
Super Creative Ads Resembling Street Photography
Doing an advertisement is arguably more challenging than directing a feature film. Crispy and clever ideas which reaches the consumer instantly and makes him go awe for the product or somehow get the name of the product registered somewhere in his subconscious mind is all about advertisement.
Creative Ad by: Sharad Haskar
Classical Paintings By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a great french academic painter and a traditionalist. He is widely popular event today for his mythological themes in portraits, some modern interpretations of classical subjects. He had always loved to emphasis on the female human body.
© William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Most Intense & Painful Photo Stories On Child Labor
Child Labor still prevails in most of the developing countries and could well be called as a sin to keep those innocent children away from education, depriving of their childhood. There will be numerous laws and legislations across the globe trying its hand in prohibiting and on the process of eradicating this but in vain.
© Lewis W.Hine
Portrait Of A Stranger – Winner And Honorable Mentions
Its time we reveal the winner and honorable mentions for our Photo Contest – Portrait of a Stranger. Close to 700 entries this time and it was a sweet burden for us to finalize through a heap of noteworthy entries.
Photo By: Ronald Cooley
15 Latest Popular Free Photography E-Books
Not every time we get something free which is definitely worthy. Here we have collected you some 15 trending e-books around the web. And also we had made sure all these books are versatile, meaning it helps each and every photographer no matter what genre he shoots.
Fine Art Portrait Photographer Portfolios For Inspiration – Part1
Fine art portrait photographers are pure artists who play an important role in bridging the gap between art and photography. There cant be any better way to close this gap other than to choose portrait photography.
Photo By: Adrian Blachut
Fine Art Portrait Photographer Portfolios For Inspiration – Part2
Fine art portrait photographers are pure artists who play an important role in bridging the gap between art and photography. There cant be any better way to close this gap other than to choose portrait photography.
Photo By: Aleksandr Munaev
Top Reasons For You To Grab A Canon 70D
Are we on the brink of a whole new photographic revolution, looks like a positive sign with the launch of Canon’s 70D Camera. A crop sensor body released as the predecessor of its kin 60D. So far in its crop sensor category Canon has been doing the modest with regular releases of cameras doing justice to their price and market expectations.
Free Street Photography EBooks To Download
Some enchanting ideas and never told advices, straight from the vision of your favorite street photographers around the globe. This is very tempting since all these books share an constant flow of energy and ecstasy towards the never ending quest for street photography, towards perfection and much more than that an immense satisfaction for you the photographer.
15 Photography Interviews From Masters – A Roundup
Hearing it from the Masters through the interviews is always feasty for any photographer. The Questions which you would have always wanted to ask your godly photographer and the answers which were until now unknown for a fan like you.
© Saul Leiter
10 Fantastic Photo Stories In Denver Post
A complete photo story is something which makes one understand the main objective for what it needs to be done, to bring a change to the masses, to show them light. Documenting people and the stories beyond the ordinary is one of the fascinating and daunting task in terms of Photojournalism.
© AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File
My 100 Favorite Movies You Will Love
Movies have always been my fascination since childhood, having born in India made this urge and passion for movies even higher. I am Venkat Prakash, a designer by profession and an artist by heart. Photography and Cinema has taken me close to what I believe and has tuned my vision much better to what I am.
Vivian Maier – Inspiration From Masters Of Photography
Vivian Dorothea Maier, was an interesting street photographer born in New york city. Earlier she did grow up in France but later returned to United states. During this period she worked as a Nanny in Chicago and it was during these days she shot almost more than 100,000 photographs.
35 Useful Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Presets To Improve Your Post Processing
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is one of the most popular programs for photo editing, and with good reason. Not only is Lightroom excellent for helping you to manage and organize your photos, it’s also extremely powerful for post processing. Lightroom is great for processing RAW files from your camera, and it also works well with JPG files.
Photography Books From The Masters – Part 4
It is always grand to hear it from the Masters of Photography. The Forms of photography drifting between art and various cultures doesn’t need any introduction. One need to feel the pictures in book (printed media), rather than starring it on our computer screens, the amount of emotions and truth these books and pictures convey are sensational.
Classical Street Paintings By Petrus Van Schendel
Petrus Van Schendel is a dutch painter lived during 1806-1870. Few of the grand aspects of his paintings are the candle light and brilliant characters around to add more drama to the scene. On another context visualizing this from a photographer point of view, every painting of Petrus is more than scintillating for the depth of lighting and composition he has achieved.
Beautiful Documentary Photo-Stories Showing Us Life Is All About Love & Faith
Story of mankind, those intolerable diseases, rather painful moments and contagious discomfort. Against all these odds, there remains some strong hold for love, faith and a concrete reason to prolong life as we call it. That specific reason to raise your head against the high tides and tsunamic struggles life keeps challenging you with.
© Andy Richter
My All Time 10 Favorite TED Talks On Creativity
Here in this post of ours, we wanted to highlight some of the 10 most inspiring TED talks about creativity. There can be numerous reasons why we should debate about creativity watching these wonderful videos, at times we tend to do the same stuff again and again, in photography we tend to produce the same qualities and search for the same verb more than often, this is very much the symptom of having the artistic block due to lack of creativity.
25 Fresh Inspiring Photography Posts Handpicked From All Over The Web
Photography as form of art needs some source of inspiration from time to time, especially when you feel you’re out of ideas. There are tons of ways to break out of a creative rut. For example, you can try a new photography genre.
15 Amazing Photo Series About India In Boston Big Picture
India will remain the land of festivities, colors, action and of course lots of stories for its varied social classes and political scenarios. Boston being one of the legends in creating impact with mass journalism has had their prominent say when it comes to covering a photo-story against global issues.
© Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
Story Behind My Photographs By Mohammad Moniruzzaman
This is a fresh start to our new series, which we believe to enact well with some great photographers around the world. My photographs and most importantly the story behind the pictures will open up more awareness and exposure towards the medium of photography and necessitate the pretty reason behind every individual to pursue photography.
© Mohammad Moniruzzaman
My Views On World Press Photography Awards 2012
It must have been an experience of grace and wonders for the Winners of World Press Photo Award 2012. And we take this time to congratulate all the winners of this year.
© Paul Hansen – World Press Photo of the Year 2012/Gaza Burial
10 Most Powerful Photo Essays About Nuclear Power Plants
World would have been a much better place to live without Nuclear power and this clause becomes very much an unidentified dream as we go through some of the photo-stories here. Why does that happen in first place, the need for erecting a nuclear power plant at the cost of some lives doesn’t make sense, and why do politicians strive their forces hard in establishing such a project in first place.
© Ed Ou
Understanding Camera RAW – A Free EBook
Shooting in RAW has become a prime objective and the basic step to create some breathtaking images. Ok that doesn’t take anything away from shooting in JPEG, but still taking into consideration about the depth of impact, wide range of options in post processing, shooting in RAW seems to be a fantastic option.
We Are 2 Years And A Photo-Contest To Celebrate
One of the most influential and inspirational photography site, 121clicks.com was started on the same day two good years back. The constant thirst and extreme passion for photography has driven us through these wonderful times. We take this opportunity to thank every individual who has contributed in every way towards the success of 121clicks.
Martin Parr – Inspiration From Masters Of Photography
Martin Parr is a British Photographer. Known extensively for most of his photographic projects which were some pictorial representations of various critical aspects of modern life mostly cornering on the suburban life of England. Right from his teenage, Martin always wanted to be a photographer, hugely gaining inspiration from his grandfather who was an amateur photographer at that time.
35 Inspiring Fashion & Beauty Photographers In Behance
Numerous ideas on the axes of art and fashion, excellent photographers who has been blessed with a wonderful vision and fresh creative ideas to produce such photographs. Yes this time around, we wanted to bring you some of the greatest fashion photographers portfolio in Behance to your conscience and let us celebrate and cherish the exquisite and spree of fashion with beautiful colors.
Powerful Portfolio Websites Of Documentary Photographers
A Wonderful collection for all aspiring documentary photographers and photojournalists out there. Yet again we bring you this collection of Photo journalists and documentary photographers. As usual great effort was put in by us in bringing this portfolio collection.
© Francesco Zizola
An Amazing Collection Of Toy Cameras
Cameras which doesn’t look like cameras, the joy of shooting is doubled when we are in love with what we shoot. Colorful Cameras, interesting designs with some excellent inbuilt options makes it fun to shoot with these toy cameras.
Saul Leiter – Inspiration From Masters Of Photography
Born in pittsburgh in 1923, our master photographer Saul Leiter started getting into art in his late teens. Initially he pursued to do some painting, later his new friendship with fellow master photographer W.Eugene Smith and Richard Pousette-Dart pulled him into the art of photography.
