Unleashed Education Blog
Side light can be difficult to get to grips with, but there are ways to use this direction of light to create images with huge impact.
There is impac...
The negative space in an image can help to emphasise and balance the main subject, giving the subject room to breathe and preventing the image from fe...
Growing up I dabbled in photography, with my father, also a photographer. As I was nearing retirement, after a 30-plus year in law e
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Embark is back for 2026, and we are off to a fantastic start with a high standard of submissions from our challengers from the start!
The first chall...
This week we're diving into the very first challenge in our intermediate Unleashed Challenges course Emerge – Framed!
Framing is a powerful and unmis...
Empower is back for 2026! The third and final course in the Unleashed Challenges series. We're kicking things off with a composition-based challenge, ...
I'm a part-time professional pet photographer and full-time biostatistician (and hardcore nerd) who feels most at home outside with
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Last year we ran the Four on the Floor challenge as a little warm up for people interested in the Unleashed Challenge courses. This year, our fifth ru...
I’m Iris, a pet photographer based in the northeast of the Netherlands, specialising in dogs and Icelandic horses. I try to photogra
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I’m Courtney, a professional dog and equine photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. I specialize in creating albums and wall art tha...
Hey everyone - I’m Kim, a Vancouver Island photographer specializing in pet and people portraits through Kim Yanick Portraits. My wo
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By Charlotte Reeves
Photos of dogs running directly towards the camera are often hilarious and always incredibly popular, but as you may have discove...
It probably comes as no surprise that 2025Â was yet another huge year, both personally and professionally, with plenty of travel, teaching, judging, an...
My name is Yvonne. I live in the Netherlands. I am 62 years old, wife of Willem and mother of Joyce. I started photography at 15, I ...
And just like that, there goes another year.
It’s certainly been a challenging one for me personally, with ongoing health issues meaning I haven’t do...
I am a wife and a dog mom. Been into Boxers for over 25 years, showing and just enjoying the breed. I started photography as a hobby...
Prepare yourself for a serious visual feast! We’ve just celebrated the Embark Awards, which means we can finally reveal all the well-deserved winners....
Prepare yourself for a serious visual feast! We’ve just celebrated the Emerge Awards, which means we can finally reveal all the well-deserved winners....
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My photography name is BlissfulTails because every rescued animal has a Tail (tale) to tell. 

In the end, I thought I rescued my...
It's time to party! Our fun-loving furry friends spend so much of their time engaging in play. Most dogs are always up for a game and capturing these ...
Lighting Animals in the Studio: A Whole New World of Possibilities
By Richard Wood – Portrait, Commercial and Creative Photographer
When Worlds Coll...
We've made it to the final challenge of Emerge, Shake!
Shaking off water is a distinctly animal thing to do, and also a behaviour that can look super...
We've reached the penultimate challenge of Embark 2025 and this one is called Splash!
There's just something about playing in the water that screams ...
How we love a background brimming with colourful, sparkly bokeh! These bubbles of light create a beautiful effect and add interest and life to a soft,...
