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Get to Know Vanguard Professional Juno Kim
We are proud to introduce Vanguard Professional Juno Kim! Juno Kim is an award-winning storyteller, writer, and photographer at Runaway Juno Media (RunawayJuno.com). Originally hailing from Seoul, South Korea, Juno set off for the wider world to pursue her passion for international travel and storytelling. Since leaving her engineering job, she has been living out of...
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Behind the Scenes with Vanguard Pro Kindra Nikole: Capturing Her “Advent of Plenitude” Dreamscape
Vanguard Professional Kindra Nikole is a Seattle-based conceptual photographer whose work draws on natural settings to create surreal, otherworldly images. Citing Brian Froud, Jim Henson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Hayao Miyazaki, and Kirsty Mitchell as key influences, Kindra manifests fantastical realities in her images, oftentimes with a hint of dark allure. To get this shot, Kindra used her...
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"What's In My Bag" by Josh Bender
"What's In My Bag" by Vanguard Professional Josh Bender As I travel around the world I often get asked what kind of camera gear I use. My kit has evolved since we started nomadic travel in May 2012. I simply started with a small compact camera to take family photos. When I occasionally look back...
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Get to Know Vanguard Professional Uros Podlogar
We are proud to announce that lifestyle photographer Uros Podlogar has joined the Vanguard Professional team. Uros is a young freelance photographer based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Extreme locations, machinery and people are the driving force behind his work, which combines his two biggest passions: photography and adventure. Always looking for a different angle, versatile sports skills...
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Get to Know Travel Photographer Pete Heck
Pete Heck is the main photographer behind Hecktic Travels. He and his wife have been traveling the globe since 2009 and in 2014 the couple was named one of The National Geographic Travelers of the Year. Completely self-taught in photography, the world has been Pete’s classroom and canvas. After traveling to over 40 countries he much prefers...
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Get to Know Vanguard Professional Liz Carlson
We are proud to announce the latest addition to the Vanguard Professional team... travel photographer & blogger Liz Carlson! Liz Carlson's blog Young Adventuress is about experiential travel and storytelling. She loves to share photos and narratives, funny anecdotes, and things she's learned while living abroad and traveling the world. For her, travel is dynamic; it’s...
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Behind the Scenes with Vanguard Professional Yves Krier
Yves Krier is a freelance photographer based in Munich, Germany. He takes portraits of musicians, models, and actors and travels all over the world to document events. After learning analog photography from his father, Yves quickly became addicted: "I love the fact not knowing which kind of person, which location and how much time you’ll get to shoot. It’s...
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Get to Know Vanguard Professional Kirsten Alana
We are happy to announce that Kirsten Alana has joined the Vanguard Professionals team! Kirsten Alana is a full-time travel photographer, "Aviators and a Camera" blogger, content creator, "influencer" and conference speaker. A penchant for experimentation with all kinds of digital technology has led to instructing at offices such as the AOL headquarters, the Apple Store UWS...
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How to Make Magic with a Flash and Rear Sync with Levi Sim
...words and images by Vanguard Professional Levi Sim The most powerful flash setting you have is the one that controls when your flash fires. This setting works for your pop-up flash, for a speed light on your camera, and for any off-camera light, you’re controlling. It’s called Rear Sync, or 2nd Curtain. What you need:...
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