Steller Stories
If you've been following me for a while, you may have seen me share my top 3 inspirational photographers. My list included landscape photographer Steve Gosling, street photographer Thomas Leuthard and of course, outstanding portrait photographer Neil Buchan-Grant.
Not so long ago Neil started sharing stories on a new platform (well, new to me at least) called Steller, and I've been captivated ever since. It's a superb way of sharing photographs that tell a story. Effectively it's setup for telling visually-led stories with short paragraphs and quotes to guide and narrate the reader through the story. Neil Buchan-Grant has - as you would expect - has put together some great stories on Steller. Including this beautiful story called 'Frida's Story' and also a number of stories about his fashion and portrait work (which, I'm sure you'll agree is out of this world!).
So, this has inspired me to give it a go as well.
It's something I've been meaning to do for the longest of times, but the way that Steller works is that all stories are created from your mobile device. This of course requires you to have the content on your phone to put into your story. One thing I'm terrible at is making good use of being an all-Apple setup at home and Syncing my portfolio's from my iMac to my iPhone. But once I sat down to do this I had all the ingredients I needed to create my first story, which i titled 'Venetian Memories'.
One of the great things about Steller is that they allow you to grab the code and embed your stories on your website too:
I was very pleased with the response and the feedback and the comments I received from the wider community, as well as Steller and so I've been spurred on to put together some more stories:
A few drafts in the works over on Steller
Are you on Steller?
If you're on Steller come and follow me and I'll be sure to follow you back. So far the quality of a majority of the stories told on Steller are very good indeed - I would love to see yours too!
Free Desktop Wallpapers from Venice, Italy
Last October, when I returned from my trip to Greece I released a small selection of the photographs for use as free desktop wallpapers. I made the high-resolution photographs available for you to download completelely for free, ready-scaled to suit your computer screen.
Well, I've just got back from Venice and I thought it would be fitting to do the same again with some more photographs of this beautiful Italian City.
All of these photographs are available as hi-res downloads in their native format and are 2560 pixels on the longest edge (suitable for most Macs and widescreen laptops and monitors). You can click each image to preview at a larger size, but to download each photograph and ensure you get the highest quality file click the 'Download Here' link beneath each photograph.
All of these photographs were made using an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Micro Four Thirds Mirrorless Camera and Olympus M.Zuiko lenses.
1. Venetian Canal from a Gondola
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2. St. Marco's Square
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3. Gondolas preparing for a days work
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4. Gondolas - A Must Do In Venice
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5. Sun Kissed, Quiet Venetian Canal
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6. Gondolas Uncovered and Heavens Opened
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Copyright Notice
Please enjoy these photographs. But be kind: Do not edit these photographs and claim them as your own. Don't sell them without my permission. Do not use commercially without contacting me @ michael@rammellphotography.com
All works are Creative Commons Licensed:
Venice 2015 Desktop Background Series by Michael Rammell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at www.michaelrammell.com.