American pride or tongue in cheek, not sure which pool this plays in but for it’s simple beauty in color and composition I am sold. Olivia Bee photographs the youth of the nation finding all their pride on their painted steeds. Enjoy more work from the beautiful and talented Olivia Bee below.
Darkroom
Summer Nostalgia – Lara Bacchiega
It’s a gray day in LA today and this feature couldn’t have come across at a better time. This is how I see it, imagine that summer has already passed and the gray days of fall are upon us. The aqua, becomes metallic, the golden glows become gray haze. Lara Bacchiega captures these moments and nostalgia seeps from the edges of the photographs.
But wait, summer hasn’t even started yet! We have months of sun, friends, parties, late bbq evenings, watching sunrises, poolside make-outs, under-the-stars dancing ahead of us. Don’t let summer pass you by without taking full advantage of it, and Lara Bacchiega reminds us of this in a simple beautiful way.
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ROG WALKER
A visual excerpt from the works of Rog Walker -

“I’ve always been the socially awkward kid with poor communication skills, so visual communication has been a means to speak where words fall short. I’m all about translating ideas into visual elements and telling vast cultural stories via my lens. This isn’t a hobby. There’s a quote from the beginning of the Eame’s Documentary that says, “For them, the name’s like ‘painter’ and ‘architect’ — they weren’t job descriptions. They were ways of looking at the world.” This is the way I look at the world.”
— Rog Walker
All images courtesy of Rog Walker’s Website & Tumblr.
Rony Alwin
Rony Alwin is a young Los Angeles based photographer that seems to be in all the right places. An accomplished fashion and celebrity photographer, Rony also excels in his seemingly simple candid journalistic approaches as well. His subjects are top notch and his photo treatments round out the full package. Check out all his different styles of his photo empire here: RonyAlwin.com, Rony’sPhotoBooth.Com, and BadKitty’s,
The Ultimate Festival Packing Guide

With festival season well under way and a few of us heading out for Sasquatch this weekend – it seemed only fitting to put together a little something to aid in the packing frenzy. Presenting Witness This ~ Ultimate Festival Packing Guide – print it, scan it, share it or do what you will, we just hope it will help alleviate some of that last minute drunken late night pack stress and enable you to get a few more crucial hours of shut-eye before heading out.
Download it here: Witness This ~ Ultimate Festival Packing Guide

Top image courtesy of http://waltphoto.com/
Joel Sossa-Part 2
Joel Sossa shows us once more that it’s not about just taking a picture, it’s about capturing the right moment with just the right people. He makes it look so easy, but for any of you whom have shot a lookbook or editorial attempting to stage scenes like this, you know it’s not that simple.
