Photography

Austro-Norwegian Andreas Doppelmayr elaborates on the necessity of tripods in the bush and his choice of pets.

There were plenty of worthy entries in the second round of our contest, but only one gets the big prize. Read on to find out who, and thanks to everyone who participated!

In the last leg of the Crestock Photo Contest 2007 we received some truly amazing pictures among the well over 600 submissions. With emotions ranging from pure adrenaline, blinding speed and motion blur to more subtle interpretations of this round's theme, the photographers have certainly put some serious effort into this. Perhaps no wonder when the first prize was the awesome Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II?

Graphic designer and photographer James Thew, aka Solarseven on the love of art, dinosaurs and the hard choice of where to go for an exotic holiday.

New Zealand based Les Cunliffe talks to us about artistic persistence and the legendary photographer Ansel Adams.

We were overwhelmed by the amazing response to round 1 of our photo contest and would like to thank everyone who participated.

The person behind the enigmatic pseudonym elaborates on photography, inspiration and high performance speed monsters.

'Feeling Sexy', the theme for round two of the Crestock Photo Contest 2007, resulted in the whole gammut of interpretations, ranging from the hilarious and self-deprecating through to the unquestionably sexy, with some fantastically unexpected and individual interpretations inbetween.

With a portfolio stuffed full of brilliantly lit and gorgeous looking models, we really felt an urge to have a chat with Genova based Carlo.

Despite being one of the very first photographers to embrace colour photography fully, the second photographer to appear in our 'Icon of the Week' series is relatively little known. A hundred years ago, between 1907 and 1915, Prokudin-Gorsky undertook an ambitious photographic survey of the Russian empire, recording thousands of amazing colour photographs on his travels.