Congratulations to Nicky Lynn Richards for submitting the winning image for the May 2023 50/50 Challenge with Guest Judge Dave Brosha. You may recognize TSR veteran Nicky Lynn as the Runner Up from Season Two of The Shooting Range: A Photography Challenge , and we are thrilled that she's still proving her chops as a force to be reckoned with, even when she's making beautiful mistakes! Here's the story behind Nicky Lynn's winning image: About 80 miles deep into a 222 mile helicopter excursion through the steep rugged peaks of a mountain range, thick fog sank heavily down on us, kissing the ground and giving us no visibility to move forward. The pilot had no choice but to land - we'd have to wait it out.  As soon as my feet hit the ground, the loud sound of crashing water was calling to me. "Damn! I should have brought my tripod!" was my thought as I eagerly walked toward the rushing water to get some cool slow shutter speed images of the creek. I didn't...

Rare Earth is overjoyed to have Mag Hood join us for the June 2023 50/50. Mag Hood is a lighting obsessed wedding and portrait photographer who has recently become an avid film enthusiast. She was also one of our Challengers' favourite Panel Judges from Season Two of T he Shooting Range: A Photography Challenge. This is no doubt because of the warm, open, accepting, loving, honest, genuine human being she is, and  We encourage you to get to know Mag better by visiting her website, checking out her Instagram, seeing what she's been up to with her film cameras, and maybe even joining the Offbeat community... Website  |  Instagram  | Film What's the best (or worst) advice you've ever gotten? Best advice I have ever gotten was from my Ph.D supervisor. I was in grad school when I fell in love with photography and was attempting (unsuccessfully) to manage doing both full time. I decided to quit school and pursue my photography, so I went to talk to my supervisor to tell h...

  "Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure."   ~ Amos Bronson Alcott “Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.”   ~Ben Okri “We don’t make mistakes, we have happy accidents .” ~Bob Ross MATCH BRIEF - May 2023 The Extreme Perfection of Happy Accidents Certain photographers go to extremes - extreme heights, extreme depths, extreme weather, extreme distances - in pursuit of the perfect photo, but things don’t always go according to plan. Canada’s own Dave Brosha, our Guest Judge for the May 2023 Match Brief, has literally written the book on this subject. In his own words, “A misadventure, at its heart, is what happens when you set out, confidently, in one direction and life says, ‘No way, hold up, not so fast.’” If you’re the type to get easily embarrassed, the worst that happens is a bruised ego, but even when things go so sideways there’s lost or damaged equipment, personal injury, and an investment of time and ca...