One of the best things about working in photography life is around a group of people who are really emotional about their photography! And although it takes more time than photography to maintain gear, review, and just a small website, I thought I would look back in my 2025 articles and choose some of my favorite photos that I found especially inspiring from some other members of our team!
Descendant
You have probably seen some beautiful pictures of Masimo in animals and scenario. So, which shots of Masimo I chose? The first is a svalbard landscape:
Some things were standing for me about this cold Vista. First, the ice patterns feel very careful. I also get the opposite between the sky and the snow, as well as soft touch in the editing of the sky, with a great reflection on the smooth slab of thin ice in the center of water.
Then, there are also quite interesting sub-elements that sink after first watching, such as black water at the bottom and how it is opposite with more tempering water in the middle left edge. And there are some very good and different sharp flows of snow on the bottom right that match some flow on a far away slab of ice. And I love the farther and barely visible bearg that gives a flowing continuity!
The other one of Massimo’s photos is one of the ebes:
When I look at this picture, I feel a strong feeling of consistency. This actually makes me look like a classic artist’s IBEX drawing, in photo form. The color scheme is quite pleasing, and everything is its place. I also like how the formation of dark rock on the left ground is strong, but does not dominate the IBEX, and subtle patterns in the fog indicate a hill landscape. And then it is just a little green that breaks the continuous brown color and emphasizes the right amount to the ebex.
Libor vesenbacker
I think Libor does not need any introduction, as you have seen many of your creative bird photos, which are about different types of species from Humingbirds to Antitas. And what a coincidence, the first shot I chose from Libor, is of huge antipita (Grillaria gigantia,
Apart from this picture, one of a very calm species is, it simply has a lot of “bird essence”, pronounced by unusual wide-angle perspective. This perspective also gives a good view of the bird’s atmosphere, which looks very South American. This picture also has a specific treatment of Greens’ Libor, which is the most difficult color to handle in bird photography in my opinion.
In addition, I like the overall sense of antipita curiosity – leading in camera by bird of bird and amplified by very dynamic posture of birds. If tropical birds require an image to represent them, it would be a strong contender.
Another picture of Labor that caught my eye was this condor:
Sometimes, birds can occur in their natural environment, but the environment does not always feel home like a bird. On the other hand, this waterfall seems to be what Condor will call the house. The choice of the composition’s Labor completely balances the condor and rock face, and the water is to give a little extra isolation to the subject.
Bird pose is also brilliantly captured, in which the condor’s feet and feet complement the wings and body angles, adding more mobility to the shot, to give a strong sense of a twist in the flight. I also feel that it can be chosen very carefully, to add an additional sense of movement with enough space for the right wing near the top edge.
Spencer Cox
In the end, I am sure everyone knows the Spencer and its diverse landsape photography, as he has been running a photography life for a very long time. And the first picture I chose was one of Chile’s recent visit to Chile:
The normal theme so far in the pictures is a sense of harmony, and it actually gives an integrated meaning. The first word to meditate with this picture is prehistoric, which represents an ideal of life before humanity. Although there is a glacier in these mountains, there is a different warm feeling that goes well with overall peace in the scene.
The mountains also give me a sense of travel ahead, this small area has a cool place to rest, and the overall Vista feels almost short. Tones are well powered, but feel completely natural, almost as it was a window in the area rather than a photo. And there are small elements that are fun to notice, such as different colors of trees and special shapes of peaks, but who are not distracted or out of place.
Finally, another landscape of the Spencer that is stuck in my mind is one of the aspen trees:
The regular fine pattern of tree tights is very strong, almost like a bird’s wings, and yet unusual. And there is a second layer within that pattern, a sleeping snake -like curved trees, the feeling of inactivity of life that is calm and yet full of energy.
Then there are also different trees on the top left, which I thought it was good because they break the pattern, which is enough to pull the eye to give the photo an unusual feeling, as without them, the top leftover area will look a bit smooth, I think. Then after finding a while, I see that there is an interesting harmony in four corners: there are bright splatter of trees on the top of the bottom-left, while the bottom-left is a transition between random-rarying dark deep trees and a cool lineage of “snake heads”.
conclusion
I hope you have enjoyed visiting some of my favorite photos, which have appeared on photography life from some of my colleagues this year. I think I can speak for all of us and say that because of which we publish these articles and interact with our audience, because fundamentally, what we go on, is that the chance to go out in the wild and press that shutter button.
Editor Note: Pictures of Jason Plawl
Spencer here – I felt that this article would be incomplete without sharing a pair of pictures of Jason who inspired me this year! Even though Jason usually takes pictures of birds, but the first picture to me is a unique picture of the moon that he recently captured:
We all have seen, and perhaps many pictures of the moon have been taken. Even though it is an interesting theme, it is also very difficult to catch in a unique way. I think Jason only managed to do so in this picture. Instead of a direct picture of the moon against the sky, or a more complex picture with the moon as part of a broader landscape, he added two ideas and captured the moon with a benign shield of out-focus grass!
I had never seen a picture of a moon before, but it is also a very “Jason” photo that has given careful attention to soft color, soft opposite, and out-of-focus areas. It is almost like seeing a picture of a bird of the moon.
Here is another picture of Jason that stood for me this year:
I think this picture continues to capture something in a unique way. Here, the theme is a southern lapwing, a bird that has different hair-like wings behind its head. And it looks very different from most birds you seen.
The strength of this picture comes from breaking so many conferences. For example – looking away from the bird viewer, most of the frame is empty, and the subject is placed near the image very low. The unusual composition exposes the unique wings of the bird and also states that Jason’s words “the idea of” goodbye because it was getting closer to the time where I was leaving Brazil. “
Photography is largely about storytelling, and I think this picture is with me because of the story mentioned to me.
