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Photography Fortnightly: Edition Forty Nine
Photography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase"
- Percy W. Harris
The other week, a piece of my writing was selected for a Daily Literature Deviation. If you're curious you can see the article here. I was humbled by that, but my reason for mentioning it in Photography Bi-weekly is that *0hgravity then highlighted a website to me that I found absolutely fascinating. It's soul purpose is to highlight Endangered Languages through Photography. 3170 lens are capturing the people who hold the key to the worlds most secret languages. Once again something like this highlights the complete and utter importance of Photography and reminds us of how far we've come, and how much we can do from mobile ph

Photography Weekly: Edition Forty FourPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Creativity, like human life itself - begins in Darkness "
-Julia Cameron."
I read a very interesting article this week debating Photography Vs Literature and which one of the two tells us more. Of course there is always the element that a picture could be accompanied by words but neither aspect is enough to tell a whole story. But as the article says, Photography has become a universal constant in the world today and is accessible to nearly everybody. Yet many still believe that only pure narration can truly tell a story. What are your thoughts? As Photographers we can choose to limit what we tell or show with a photograph, we can even mislead. Can we convey more with words? Or more with an image? You could describe a person with words but never truly give an accurate picture of who they are visually without a photograph...

Community Relations News
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Did You Know? - Llama Trading, dA on Twitter

Did You Know? - My Groups Page, COPPA

Celebrating Diversity #21

To [even attempt to represent a physical subject, such as a house or a dog] would be a failure in the eyes of the abstract artist.
Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?

Colour is a means of exerting direct influence on the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky, 1912/13

I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour.
Barbara Hepworth

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.
Paul Klee, mid-1920s

dA Related CR Update: December 2012Welcome to the last deviantART Related CR Update of the year!

News
News posted between the last CR Update and now:
Winners of the devID Spooky Make-up ContestCSS Did You Know? - November 20, 2012, November 28th, 2012, and December 4th, 2012Did You Know? - Username Changing, Llama Locking and

Seasonal Portraiture Contest: The Results!The Seasonal Portraiture contest that launched as part of the group launch of ~PeopleAndPortraits had some FANTASTIC entries. The judges have finished selecting their choices and we've colloborated them all together to determine the final winners. But huge congratulations to everybody who entered, your entries were fabulous. You can read about the contest here and browse the entries here. Without further ado - here are the winners!
The Results
1st Place

*Swamptiki
2nd Place

=del-rae
3rd Place

=Miguel-Santos
Honourable Mentions

~KeepOnSingingMySong
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More Like YOU Mondays: #003More Like ThisBeta is a deviantART feature that allows you to browse artwork like never before. This feature is currently in Beta Testing (:faq531

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I will select three deviants and choose a certain deviation from them, from there, I will click the More Like This button on that deviation, to find similar artwork by other artists!
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ABCs of Deviants: KovoWolfWelcome to ABCs of Deviants! Where I interview deviants from A to Z!

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^KovoWolf
Amber is the Community Volunteer Mentor for Anthro within the #communityrelations team. She is not only a pillar for the Anthro community, but for the whole deviantART community too.
Now, on with the questions!

Guardian Of Light by ^KovoWolf
Hi Amber! Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I'm an enthusiastic, multitasking, motivational, always try to inspire kind of person! I was born and raised in Southern California, I'm an identical twin, and I've been an artist all my life (or at least since I could remember).
How did you discover deviantART?
A friend of mine back on IRC had mentioned something to me about an art website that I might be interested in. Curious and excited I came

Interview with Marc Brunet - BluefleyIn celebration of Digital Art Month, here is the second in a series of interviews done to the authors of some of the site's most popular digital deviations of all time.
In this occasion I bring you *Bluefley, creator of Impossible LOV3 ver. 3

Impossible LOV3 ver.3

-Touch of Wind-
My name is Marc Brunet and I'm a Senior Character Artist working for Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, California. I'm originally from Montreal in cold Canada and I worked in the game industry there for 2 years as both a Concept Artist and 3D Character Artist before moving to the US.
What got you interested in the graphic arts in the first place, and what motivated you to pursue it as a career?
It's hard to

Odyssey, Clive and PETAFor those just tuning in, I have the privilege of working very closely with the Odyssey II Project with Clive Barker and I couldn't be more excited. The following is my personal opinion on the project, Clive and PETA, so I encourage you to direct any conversation regarding what you read here, to the comments below, so I can respond

First, I'm a huge fan of Clive Barker's work. His artwork and his stories have entranced me for years but beyond that, he's truly a deviant. *CliveBarker has become an active member of the community, submitting his artwork and commenting on others. He's a perfect fit in my opinion, but that's not entirely why I'm writing today.
Clive's initial choice for a cause to donate the proceeds of this project to, is PETA and if you've been watching the #ODYSSEYPROJECT unfold, you've certainly seen several opinions in regards to the organization.
If you know me at all,

People and Portraits Exposed #7
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Weddings...

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Spontaneous...

Volunteer Picks - February 2013"Volunteer Picks" is a monthly feature curated by volunteers of the Community Relations team which showcases deviations relating to three themes. This month's themes are Flight, Escape and Time.
Flight

Jump 21 by *DaeStock
Selected by ^PirateLotus-Stock

- Flight of Fancy - by ~zefni
Selected by ^KovoWolf

da Vinci's Dream of Flight by ~Bonkerz99

Introducing...CRPhotography

This weekend #CRPhotography has launched! ^3wyl and myself have been working on the group the past week or so, getting it ready and tweaking bits here and there. But membership is finally open, just in time for you to head over, join and get settled for the big contest which will be launching in a few days time.

Head over now, start submitting your work and getting critique e.t.c and enjoy!
To help you get started with the group, please check out our Important Information box to find out how we can help you, including submitting your photographs into the group, receiving constructive feedback, promoting your photography contests and more!
Here's a taste of what you can participate in already...

Countdown to our next chat event

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Friday Feature: Issue 001

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Recent Discoveries

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©2012-2013 ^arctoa

^{Friday Feature: #001
A Collection of Recent Discoveries in Abstract and Surreal Art

Join me as we continue to venture backwards in time!

This first week's feature contains work I came across in the week leading up to my hat being flipped. To see similar work, please take a look at my Favourites.}

=Jack-Nobre Dec 8, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

beautiful feature, thanks for including my work

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^arctoa Dec 8, 2012 Student Photographer

^{No worries; thank-you for taking the time to look.}

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=Jack-Nobre Dec 8, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

my pleasure, thanks again

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*crh Dec 7, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

beautiful feature with great abstracts!

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^arctoa Dec 7, 2012 Student Photographer

^{Thank-you kindly. :]}

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*MaddLouise Dec 6, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

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^arctoa Dec 7, 2012 Student Photographer

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~vbagiatis Dec 6, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you so much!

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^arctoa Dec 7, 2012 Student Photographer

^{You're most welcome.}

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~edredon Dec 6, 2012

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