By Isaac Lopez. Photos courtesy of Lindsay Adler –   Lindsay Adler  Let’s face it, guys: social media controls our lives. Whereas a few years ago people would spend their free time reading a book, going out for a leisurely stroll, or catching a movie with some friends, nowadays a lot of us watch cat videos on YouTube, desperately try to win that ongoing poke war on Facebook that’s been raging for three months, or read tweets about what your friends ate for lunch (because these things are really important as we know). Having said that though, while it may be easy to dismiss social media in general as a huge waste of time (and it...

Words By Jeff Zuschlag – Resource Magazine recently launched its Photographer Of The Day series on its Facebook page. Each day we pick a photographer to feature on our Facebook page and give that photographer 24 hours to collect as many “LIKES” as possible on that post. Photographers are invited to share the post on their own pages, share it in groups or use other social networks to get people back to the post in order to “LIKE” it. At the end of the week, whichever photographer got the most “LIKE” will be interviewed and featured on the Resource website the following week. It’s no secret that...

Print Is Not Dead – Episode 3 – Scanning and printing polaroids with Robert Whitman from RETV from Resource Magazine on Vimeo. Sex, drugs and rock and roll….. and polaroids? Photographer Robert Whitman survived the 80's and he's got the photos to prove it. A commercial photographer living in Minneapolis, before starting a 20+ year successful photo career in NYC, Robert used to have his friends over after the bar and bust out the polaroid camera. With no cellphones or digital cameras, this was how they shared their…um…party photos. Join Peter and Ryan of Gotham Imaging as they team up with Robert and...

By Resource Editors – The Rebirth of Gaea was originally printed in the Spring 2012 Edition of Resource Magazine.  See the full issue...

By Christina Fong – Ideas can spring up in the most unlikely of places—wildlife photographer Andy Biggs thought of Gura Gear’s lightweight camera bags while on an African safari. From there, his ideas have traveled from the back of a napkin to a company officially launched in 2008 and a highly successful product line. Since joining Gura Gear in 2011 as the company’s new president, Greg Schern has helped transform one person’s need for a better bag into a business the photography industry has welcomed with open arms.   Did Gura Gear really begin in the back of a napkin? That’s actually one of those rare, true stories....

Resource Magazine’s Photographer of the Day is back! This time it’s bigger and better! From Monday through Friday, we will select one photographer who submitted their online portfolio to info@resourcemagonline.com and feature them on our Facebook page. The photographer that gets the most “Likes” for that week will be featured in an article on resourcemagonline.com the following week. If you would like to be Resource Magazine’s Photographer of the Day and have your work featured in an online article, email us at: info@resourcemagonline.com. Some of the photographers we’ve  featured recently: Christian Conti...

By Lucie Foundation   © Stephen Wirtz Gallery   Doug Rickard will discuss his most recent series, A New American Picture, which consists of color photographs of American street scenes, located using the internet tool Google Street View.  Over a period of two years, Rickard took advantage of the technology platform’s comprehensive image archive to virtually drive the unseen and overlooked roads of America, bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated and abandoned.  Collectively, these images present a startling photographic portrait of the socially disenfranchised, providing deeply affecting evidence of the...

NEW YORK, April 17, 2012 – Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], today announced its program for the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards, featuring conversations with industry leaders; educational workshops for beginners, enthusiasts, and professionals; and a wide range of video screenings. Vimeo also released the complete list of Awards judges and opened up shortlist voting to the public. “There has never been a better time to be creator,” said Jeremy Boxer, Director of the Vimeo Festival + Awards. “The Internet has created a leveled playing field, so that now everyone can fundraise, shoot, edit, and distribute their...

By Isaac Lopez   Photographer Jay Dickman gives us 3 Tips on Landing a National Geographic Gig Shooting for National Geographic  is the job of a lifetime for many photographers. It’s like getting drafted to the big leagues from the minors, if you’re a baseball player. It’s like getting that big record deal, if you’re a musician. It’s like getting on Saturday Night Live, if you’re a comedian—well, maybe if the show was still funny. Having the opportunity to travel all around the world via private jet, live in a Stone Age village, or go on a nuclear attack sub underneath the ice in Antarctica … it certainly sounds like a...

By Christina Fong   © Karn Lenz Photography ABOUT JOE Meet Joe, a photographer who is as well traveled as the acclaim that surrounds him and his work. With a career that includes National Geographic and spans 30+ years and has taken him to over 50 countries, he actually went to school wanting to be a writer or journalist. But with one simple photography class, he fell in love with image making and changed his plans. Keeping himself out of the confines of an office, he worked as a stringer for newspapers and wire services and later as a stock photographer in New York. He eventually got restless and moved on to freelancing in 1980....

By Christina Fong   It’s live, ladies and gentlemen. Today, photographers have cause to rejoice as SmugMug unveils the much-welcomed addition of U.K.-based print lab Loxley Colour to their list of available prolabs for SmugMug Pro members. Sounds of joy can be heard from across the pond as many users have been asking for a European lab for years. The photo sharing site has been working on this integration for a year now and the time has finally arrived. Chris MacAskill, co-founder and president of Smugmug said, “Most photographers want to focus on their creativity. They are mainly time-poor and have little interest in the...