Photography

Best Travel Pictures of 2011 Named (By Daily News of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)   Commended, "Natural Elements" Photograph courtesy Philip Lee Harvey, www.tpoty.com     Morning fog obscures Venezuela's Angel Falls—the world's highest single drop waterfall—in this photograph taken by Philip Lee Harvey, who was commended in the "Natural Elements" category.   "I think this is gorgeous. I'd put it on my wall," Rossow said.   "Fog always makes a more interesting photograph. I also love the way the dark forest in the foreground anchors it ... It's just...


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Pictures: Best Environmental Photos of 2011 Named (By Daily News of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)   Overall Winner: "Homeless" Photograph by Chan Kwok Hung, EPOTY.org/Fame/Barcroft Children comfort each other in a scrapyard in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a 2011 image by photographer Chan Kwok Hung of  Hong Kong. The picture, an entry in the "Quality of Life" category, won top honors in the 2011 Environmental Photographer of the Year awards, whose winners were announced last week.   The children live with their grandmother and search the scrapyard for things to sell, using the money to buy food,...


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Craig Royal has been legally blind since birth. He picked up a camera four years ago and has been using photography as a creative outlet ever since. Relying on the camera’s ability to auto focus, he creates works of art.   Born with optic atrophy, Royal's current corrected vision is 20/400 and his central vision of both eyes is obscured with a white blind spot. He was also recently diagnosed with cataracts.   In his series “Reflection Abstracts,” he uses “the water as a canvas, reflections as pigment and wind as a brush.” All of the images are shot at the same location,...


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