Charlotte-based photographer Peter Taylor started a project shooting southern food purveyors.

In an effort to explore where our food comes from and who supplies it, where it goes, and what it looks like when you get it,  I started looking for suppliers in my region . I was looking for Southern suppliers and suppliers who are doing it on the smaller scale. Terms like organic, free range, quality of life, local, family are what I was seeking out. I started this project last year by shooting a SC shrimper ( view it here ).

I am not sure where this project is going or even what to call it ( suggestions are welcome! ), but I am going to continue to shoot a few more of these stories and see where it takes me.

Continue reading and see more photos on Peter’s blog.

NYC-based freelance photographer Charles Ludeke likes to dabble on street photography.

I can’t get enough of making photos on the streets. New York is a dream.

See more photos on Charles’s blog.

Brooklyn-based photographer Tristan Wheelock shares some photos from Coney Island.

I took these photos last Sunday. It’s just starting to get warm enough in NYC to make coastal ventures. I love the nostalgic feel that Coney Island has. It’s iconic American kitsch and luckily for me the day I went it was all wrapped up in golden sunlight and topped with perfectly blue skies…

See more photos on Tristan’s blog.

LA-based photographer Eric Thayer keeps a visual diary of all his iPhone photos through Tumblr.

I started the blog in December of 2010 as a sort of visual diary.
Sometimes it all starts to blur together, being on the road. I remember seeing blogs from people who used their phones and filter apps and came up with some really nice images. I didn’t really tell anyone about the blog, and just sort of kept it for myself, to try to remember these random moments in time and space, things that I knew my memory would never hold onto. I figured I could break the passing of time into fragments of consciousness. I never really looked back to the beginning, but in doing so, it made me realize that I have been to so many places. But I have also been back in some of the same places, almost in a migratory journalist sort of way. It’s really made me realize the patterns in my own life, but also, how extraordinarily lucky I have been to be able to see and experience as much as I have.

Keep up with Eric’s travels on Tumblr.

Honolulu-based photographer Elyse Butler worked on a personal project shooting life underwater on Oahu for M-Le magazine du Monde.

I was honored being asked by M-Le magazine du Monde to work on my personal project photographing life underwater on Oahu for one day, to be showcased as visual commentary in the world for that week.

See more photos on Elyse’s blog.

Seattle-based photographer Daniel Berman shot portraits of costumed attendees at Emerald City Comicon.

I went down to check out Emerald City Comic Con on Saturday for a fun and exciting self-assignment. It was the chance to explore on my own time and make some different kinds of portraits of the great costumed attendees. Initially, I set up a small studio in the corner of the main lobby of the exhibition area, but decided to try something new. For a few hours, I roamed around with an Alien Bee, Vagabond Mini Lithium battery pack and 46″ Photek Softlighter II on a light stand with the legs folded up. Despite negotiating the large setup through a crowded environment, my biggest challenge was just making natural pictures. Everyone, understandably, wanted to give me their best pose — something usually that they have just done for ten other people — and that couldn’t be farther from what I sought to shoot.

See many more photos from the Emerald City Comicon on Daniel’s blog.

Photographer Theron Humphrey is working on a photo project called “This Wild Idea” and traveling across the US with his dog Maddie, who is the star of his side project “Maddie the Coonhound: A Super Serious Project About Dogs and Physics”.

The Maddie project is just something fun I do on the side as I’m traveling across all 50 of our states in 1 year, meeting folks everyday. You can check that project out here: www.thiswildidea.com.

See more photos of Maddie the Coonhound on MaddieonThings.com.

Miami-based photographer and graphic designer Alex Beker has put together a photo book of quirky images called Things I Saw Today.

Things I Saw Today started one day when I stopped at a red light and saw a powerful geyser-like gush of water spurting out of the sidewalk while a pedestrian walked right past it ignoring it or failing to notice it. I had my camera with me and captured that moment. Since then, I take my camera with me everyday and everywhere. The purpose of Things I Saw Today is to make you look at what you may see, or to make you see everyday things differently.

Learn more about the book on ThingsISawToday.com. You can buy the print or ebook version on Blurb.com.

Seth Lowe is a portrait and editorial photographer living in San Luis Obispo, California, and has been photographing his breakfast every day for the past two months.

The Breakfast Project started this last winter just from taking some time to make a nice breakfast with real dishes and sitting down to eat it, rather than running around the house with a bowl of cereal.  The light that shines through my apartment in the morning is beautiful, and I decided to document my meal and post it on my tumblr blog.  It was really therapeutic to just be shooting something really simple; no lights, worrying about pleasing a client, or even trying to fit it into the guidelines of a personal project.  Just stretching my own creativity over a simple piece.  After a few mornings I really began to enjoy the process and felt that it really got the creative ‘juices’ flowing in the morning, and decided to keep it up.  My goal as of now is a year of breakfast through photos, but who knows… it could definitely go longer.  I’ve really had to think a lot about the color and contrast of the food I’m making and the dishes I’m serving it in, which has been really fun, and really taught me a lot .  It’s also pushed me to make some good and healthy food for breakfast (There are a lot of ways to eat a bowl of Kashi).

See more photos of the Breakfast Project on Seth’s blog.

My photographs, at least the ones that I show to people, almost always include people. Pictures of most “things”, even lovely landscapes or seascapes, I find overwhelmingly boring. Rarely are these pictures of anything that I haven’t seen before.People pictures, on the other hand, are never the same. Things will always be, but people come and go, smile and frown, laugh and cry, love and hate, live and die. Things collect dust (I know, I have plenty) but people are life.

I watch people living their lives, doing mundane things that they, more often then not, are consciously unaware of. If I am on my game and have my camera ready then that otherwise lost moment is captured.

By now tens of thousands of such moments fill my negative archives and hard disks along with the occasional pictures of “things” that caught the fancy of my shutter finger. A very select few escape the archive and appear on my website or become a candidate for some other public viewing.

In late 2010, with the encouragement of Magnum Photos legend Eli Reed who is based in my home town of Austin, I decided it was time to leave my mark on the 21st century with a book of my street photography. Reed made sure I knew that my work was book-worthy and a candidate for exhibitions in galleries such as the notable Leica Gallery in NYC.

I am a ersatz Fair Witness to our times. Download the book proposal here.