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National Photography Day is celebrated on August 19, The day is an unofficial holiday that allows people to honor the art of photography and the photographer who works to create images across the world.

When I saw Doug DeMuro’s YouTube video entitled The Bentley Arnage Is the Ultimate $30,000 Luxury Car and realized this is it! This is the car for me. But I also quickly realized I couldn’t afford even an “affordable” Bentley, let alone an oil change for one. Yet it seems like the perfect car for me at this time of my life. A boy can dream can’t he?

Inspired by Canadian photographer Don Komarechka I decided to try some macro photography and if you are not already familiar with photography’s Mr. Wizard, plrase check out his website.

I was recently censored, banned, given the ban hammer by Instagram and one of the offending photographs is show below left. What I found most interesting about this images that just a week or so before being banned, I received an email from them telling me that this very images was “Your Post with the most accounts engaged.”

Elephants are running out of space and time. We have to work together to prevent senseless poaching and the trafficking of ivory, and establish protected natural sanctuaries in which elephants and other wildlife can thrive — before it’s too late and they’re all gone.

There are lots of ways to add color to your infrared photographs starting with two approaches: You can add color to your IR images at the time of capture or later in the digital darkroom.