Photos by @TimLaman // Yesterday morning at Walden Pond. It’s that time of the fall when it starts getting cool at night, and at sunrise there is beautiful mist on the pond because the water is so much warmer than the air. When I’m not traveling the world on assignment, Walden Pond is one of my local nature outlets here in Massachusetts. Follow @TimLaman to see more from my #WaldenPondCollection. #WaldenPond #Fallcolors #HDT #HenryDavidThoreau #Concord #Massachusetts #NewEngland #Nature

Photo by @thomas.nicolon // Crossing paths with an elephant in the thick tropical rainforest is both a thrilling and terrifying experience. Forest elephants are quick to charge when feeling threatened. To be in their presence is an unparalleled wildlife encounter. Shot for @wcs_congo in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo. // Follow me @thomas.nicolon for more images from central Africa.

More images to celebrate the incredible career of our friend James Lee Stanfield who passed away earlier this month. A legendary member of National Geographic’s photographic staff, Stanfield was the first recipient of the @ThePhotoSociety’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. Jim lives on through his photographs which continue to inspire. To view more of his work visit the link in our bio.

The Photo Society Remembers James Lee Stanfield A veteran National Geographic photographer James “Jim” Stanfield, 86, passed away on Friday, October 13, following a yearlong battle with lung cancer and kidney disease. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 21, 1937, he was the son of the late Harold W. Stanfield and Amanda Hoffmann Stanfield. Born into a family of newspaper photographers in Wisconsin, Jim acquired the photography bug naturally, becoming one of the most celebrated and honored of National Geographic’s legendary photographic staff. Having covered epic stories in more than 120 countries, he was the first Geographic photographer to have a retrospective book on his career, Eye of the Beholder. The Geographic also published Inside the Vatican, a groundbreaking book about the Vatican and Pope John Paul ll, which was the Geographic’s biggest selling book of all time. Jim graduated from Custer High School in Milwaukee and then studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and art at the Layton School of Art and Design. After a stint in the Army during the Berlin Crisis and five productive and award-winning years at the Milwaukee Journal, he joined the Geographic photography staff in 1967. Having covered everything from rats around the world to Pope John Paul II, Genghis Khan, Windsor Castle, chocolate, and both the Greek and Roman empires and more, Jim was named Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association four times and Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in 1985. In July 1999, the NPPA honored him with the prestigious Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement. And in 2018, he was given the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from The Photo Society. Jim is survived by his devoted partner of 24 years, Deborah Ryerson of Carlisle, PA; his sister-in-law, Betty Stanfield of West Bend, WI; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by his beloved brothers, Harold W. Stanfield and Robert J. Stanfield. Jim’s memory lives on through the images he created. Tap the link in our bio to view more of this iconic body of work.

Photo by @thomas.nicolon // A park ranger releases a dwarf crocodile after it was seized from poachers in Lake Télé Community Reserve, Republic of Congo. Crocodile meat is extremely popular in central Africa, and hunting has a big impact on crocodile populations. However many hunters see this activity as the only way to make ends meet. Shot for @wcs_congo // Follow me @thomas.nicolon for more images from central Africa

Images by Tomas van Houtryve @tomasvh // Photography does not automatically lend itself to narrative. Building a story arc with individual pictures requires a sense of time, place, character, and causality. This is a photo essay that I did in 2005 for the New York Times Magazine about a road being built in impoverished rural Nepal by Maoist guerrillas using conscripted labour. In this case, I used black-and-white film and a classic linear story arc. The images attempt to distill a complex series of events during a long-running conflict into a tight narrative. I will be discussing the relationship between photography and narrative at my upcoming workshop at @domainecazenac in #Dordogne, France in mid-November. For more information or to reserve a spot, click the link in @tomasvh ‘ s bio or visit: https://tinyurl.com/ynapccby 🗓️ From 15 to 19 November 2023 in Dordogne, France 📷 Workshop participants will be able to try out Leica cameras in the field For the context and backstory on these images, read the 2005 article “Where Maoists Still Matter” by Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta in The New York Times Magazine @nytmag : https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/where-maoists-still-matter.html #🔴📷 #domainecazenac #Nepal #PhotographicNarratives #LeicaCameraFrance #blackandwhite #LeicaM6 #photoworkshop

Photo by @mattmoyerphoto // In this deeply troubled time let's remember the children caught up in war. May their wellbeing be the priority for all who are making life and death decisions. From my Archive: Young Afghan children look on as a private security contractor rides in an SUV while providing security for a convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Photo by @paoloverzone |: ESTEC, the European Space Research and Technology Centre, part of the @europeanspaceagency, in Noordwijk, Netherlands, where 2,500 staff are involved in pioneering work. With its "Mars yard," the Planetary Robotics Lab engineers robots to roam the moon’s and Mars’s surface, where a rocky landscape requires specialized locomotion and navigation. Follow @paoloverzone for more images and stories.

Photos by @ScottGoldsmithPhoto // When the crisp autumn wind starts rustling the trees, I always pause to look back over the summer through my photographs. My favorite part of this summer was attending the first day of Heart Camp about an hour north of my home in Pennsylvania. Heart Camp is a summer camp for children with severe heart defects. The camp has been directed by Keith McIntire for 25 years. Keith was a camper in his youth and has lived with a pig valve and a metal valve. All of the counselors have heart conditions and were campers at one time. They can speak from their hospitalizations, tests, surgeries and illnesses; and are proof that children with heart disease can become normal functioning adults. Thank you, Keith and all the wonderful campers, counselors and doctors for heart felt memories over the years. A special thanks to Keith for your enduring friendship over decades. (Keith is in #4 and #5). #heartcamp #summercamp #heartcare #leanonme #newfriendships #oldfriends #healing #love #laboroflove #healinghearts #brokenhearts

Photo by @TimLaman | A female Costa’s Hummingbird feeds at a hesperaloe flower in California’s Coachella Valley. To capture a shot like this, I took advantage of the hummingbirds trapline behavior. They routinely travel around their territory visiting all the flowers producing nectar at intervals, allowing the plant to refill them in between. Once I had spotted these flowers and seen a hummingbird going there once, I positioned myself to take advantage of the nice backlighting, set my exposure, and then just waited for the hummingbird to come back. In less than an hour, it did, and my efforts were rewarded. Follow me @timlaman to learn more about how I have captured my favorite bird photos. #hummingbird #birds #birdphotography #coachellavalley #california.

Photos by @ivankphoto // On August 20th, 2023, Ecuadorians voted against drilling for oil in the Yasuní National Park. The park, one of the most biodiverse places in the world, is home to the Waorani and the Kichwa, as well as two indigenous communities living in voluntary isolation, the Tagaeri and Taromenane. These photos were made in and on the border of the Yasuní National Park in 2012 for National Geographic Magazine with Karla Gachet (@kchete77). -The Baihua and Tega families meet up in the river after the Tega family had hunted a monkey, a Peccary and a deer near the Waorani community of Bameno. -Waorani drink beer in a bar at the Pompeya Market on the Napo River. -A Supervisor points at a Repsol refinery on the Maxus Road near the Waorani community of Yarentaro. A Kichwa family prepares to cross the Napo River from the beginning of the Maxus Road. - Minihua Huani and I stand in the jungle near the Waorani community of Boamano.

Link in Bio - Join us for @ThePhotoSociety Presents @AmyToensing on October 3, 2023 at 12:00PM ET. This event is free and open to the public. This event is made possible with the support of our friends at @EpsonAmerica. Please feel free to share the link https://tinyurl.com/tpsamyt Amy Toensing is a visual journalist committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth and has been a regular contributor to @NatGeo magazine for over twenty years. She has photographed communities around the globe including the last cave dwelling tribe of Papua New Guinea and remote Aboriginal Australia. She has also covered environmental topics around climate change, land conservation and food insecurity. Toensing has co-directed short documentary films about urban refugee children in Nairobi and the marginalization of widows in Uganda. Her work has been exhibited throughout the world and recognized with numerous awards, including two solo exhibits at Visa Pour L’image in Perpignan, France. Toensing is currently a National Geographic Explorer, BenQ Ambassador and FUJIFILM Creator. She lives in Central New York with her husband @MattMoyerPhoto (also a visual journalist and filmmaker) and their daughter Elsa Rose. Amy will give a brief overview of her career and then discuss how her work as a “people photographer” has recently become more focused on the human connection to the environment through her last three stories for National Geographic magazine; A rewilding conservation project in Montana, a land and waterway preservation project in the Northeast United States and a program to bring back the American Chestnut Tree with genetic engineering. The talk will be followed with a Question-and-Answer session moderated by TPS Communications Director @AlexSnyderPhoto. One lucky participant will win a signed print from Amy made with #Epson technology. This event is free and open to the public. Please share the link https://tinyurl.com/tpsamyt