‘Heroic Beauty’ Portrays Historic Female Role Models in Contemporary Fashion

Photographer Stephanie Sunderland’s portrait work is often influenced by fashion. Her Heroic Beauty project, however, was inspired by her disappointment in the way women are typically portrayed in popular fashion magazines today. “Women are made out to be sex symbols, unintelligent, worthless and not in control of their lives,” she writes in the preface to … Read more

Service Trip to Nepal Orphanage Changes Photographer’s Perspective

Rebecca Eby of Studio Noveau Photography in Wisconsin, recently returned from a life altering service photography assignment at the Lotus Children’s Home Orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal. Sounds like a pretty interesting adventure, right? After viewing the photos from her trip, a few things came to mind. Like, “How does a portrait photographer from Wisconsin end … Read more

Mauna Kea Heavens – Space Lasers and the Milky Way – A Timelapse by Sean Goebel

Introduction Our good friend Sean Goebel is currently a grad student studying astronomy at the University of Hawaii.  Atop Mauna Kea, a 14,000 ft peak on Hawaii’s biggest Island, (known mostly as “The Big Island”) lie an array of telescopes that make up one of the foremost sites for astronomy in the world.  Most of … Read more