Sergio Chiaramonte: This shot was taken at the end of a long visual inspection around the chemical industry north of Milan on a cold winter night.
We've collated some of our favourite photographic artists from the social network for you to enjoy. This busy freeway passes along the west side of the city, so look up when the sun sets and give yourself plenty of time to get downtown to watch the city turn gold and light up as the sun goes down. Photographing this site would require more than simply sneaking on site, snapping the picture and making a hasty retreat. As it turned out, they were Carabinieri wearing bulletproof vests, heavily armed with loaded machine guns. The winner (or winner’s parent/legal guardian if the winner is a minor) must reply to the winner notification from Space Camp within 72 hours. Kirsten is a full-time travel photographer who has snapped images in over 50 countries.
Police patrol this area regularly, for good reason.
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Could have been much worse. Winner will be notified by Space Camp via comment to their winning Instagram photo and given instructions on how to contact sponsor through email to claim prize. Life is amazing.
I was intrigued with this peculiar “monument” which was actually an ongoing test of pilings in the landfill along the Hudson River. Jordi Huisman: I’ve been shooting my Rear Window series at night for a couple of years now.
I hope I reached that goal. So, now… you know a guy. He repeatedly asked us what we were up to, and we kept saying the same thing. I had no crew and no plan, so I hid in the bushes and observed. I had asked the appropriate authorities if I might make photographs of the site. Define your niche. 464.9k Followers, 417 Following, 4,021 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Nightphotography Nature (@nightphotography_exclusive)
I brought my passport just in case. * Entries must not contain advertisements Capture a photo of the night sky and post to Instagram November 14 - 20, 2016 using the hashtag #StarsUniteSpaceCamp. Entries will be judged by representatives of Space Camp. @Danrubin: Dan Rubin is yet another photographer who doubles as a globetrotter, and his Instagram is chock full of landscapes, buildings and yes, the occasional food porn. It’s also partly my job — I’m a Los Angeles-based creative director and am often in the position of doing shoots downtown. Troy Paiva: After almost 30 years of sneaking around at night in abandoned hospitals, decommissioned military bases, and aircraft boneyards, specifically to take weird moonlit pictures, I have endless stories about close calls with venomous snakes and insects, packs of wild dogs, angry cops, tweaker metal scrappers, and wasted teens run amok, but having a gun stuck in your face is hard to top.
If you do this kind of work long enough, it’s inevitable. That was my chance.
I remember I had to keep an eye behind me to make sure I didn’t get cut off by the tide. I had no idea at the time that this shot would turn into a fifteen year project.
The village was once home to a busy, thriving Naval air-station.
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