The art of photography requires not only talent, but also active and constant practice and patience. These two key components would help you to become a truly good photographer. Due to the connectivity of the Internet you can easily get to know lots of tricks and techniques from professional photographers that generously share their experience on photography websites.

Today I’d like to showcase a huge collection of photography websites that will teach you the art of photography from the beginning to the end.

Here you’ll find a healthy mix of 40 useful photoblogs and 40 amazing portfolios of famous photographers from all over the world. I hope this serves as a source of inspiration to help you hunt down and snap beautiful photographs of your own. If you have other portfolios that you would like to direct attention to, feel free to name them in the comments section. You have thanks in advance.

Recommended Reading: 8 Places To Build And Showcase Your Portfolio

Photoblogs

I’d like to start with interesting photoblogs with lots of tips and tricks that are ranged from professianal travel photography to amauter iPhone shooting.

1. Photo Tuts

2. Pop Photo

3. Photodoto

4. 121 Clicks

5. Expert Photography

6. Jasmine Star Blog

7. Photography Blogger

8. The Photo Argus

9. Elizabet Halford

10. Photo Mint Blog

11. The Beginner’s Lens

12. Pixiq

13. Plain Joe Photoblog

14. Arnica Spring’s Blog

15. 500px Blog

16. Exposure Guide

17. Photography Awesomesauce

18. Hereandnow

19. Chase Jarvis Blog

20. Thomas Hawk

21. Joe McNally

22. Jeremy Cowart

23. Scott Kelby’s Blog

24. David duChemin’s Blog

25. Zackarias

26. Fro Knows Photo

27. Outdoor Photographer

28. National Geographic

29. British Journal of Photography

30. Cambridge in Colour

31. FStoppers

32. Rock the Shot

33. Lomography

34. Andrew S Gibson Blog

35. Katharine Landmeier

36. Teryn Robinson Photography

37. Momentary Awe Photoblog

38. Drew B Photography

39. Digital Camera World

40. Photography Concentrate

Photography Portfolios

Nothing could motivate and inspire better than works of of world’s famous photographers. Take a look at these photography portfolios and you’ll see that there photographers succeeded not only in photography, but also in designing of their own websites.

41. Alberto Oviedo

42. Mitchell Kanashkevich

43. Evaan Kheraj

44. Mareen Fischinger

45. Dimitris Theocharis

46. Marc Labrie

47. Lena Sanz

48. Mariana Onate

49. Thomas Brun

50. Joon Brandt

51. Koen Demuynck

52. Fredrik Clement

53. Corey Fishes

54. Lara Jade

55. Eric Ryan Anderson

56. Dave Hill

57. Paolo Boccardi

58. Gavin Gough

59. Jonathan Glynn-Smith

60. Lisa Bettany

61. Daniel Kennedy

62. Emmanuel Rouzic

63. Tim Flash

64. Zach Gold

65. David Vasiljevic

66. Erik Almas

67. Martin Klimas

68. Michael Muller

69. Brook Pifer

70. Zena Holloway

71. ZEITAUTOMATIK Photography

72. Tobias Zeising

73. Holger Pooten

74. Bentrovato

75. Feaverish

76. Vitor Shalom

77. Michael David Adams

78. Yuri Yasuda

79. Andrew G. Hobbs

80. Aaron Ruell

Apart from introducing new elements, the people behind web standard, W3C, also introduced a set of JavaScript APIs that allow developers to communicate with the device system including retrieving battery status.

Many people today are on the move with their mobile device, phone and tablet, everywhere. Battery power is still a force of nature to contend with, but we will discuss that on another day.

This API may come in handy when, let’s say, you build an App that at some point will run a function that will take some power out of the battery. If we can retrieve the battery information and then display a notification if the amount of power is not up to the app’s requirement, this will advise the user to manage their resources accordingly.

Recommended Reading: 10 Tips To Conserve Your Smartphone Battery

How to Use Battery Status API

In this example, however, I’m not going to build an app. Rather we are going to simply retrieve the battery status and display it on the browser. Sadly, the support for this API is not great. At the time of the writing, it only works in Firefox 10+ (with prefix).

The battery is defined with navigator.battery, and to get the battery level, we use navigator.battery.level. The battery level output is in decimal format, so we multiply it by 100 to remove the decimal numbers, like so.

 var battery = navigator.battery, level = battery.level * 100, levelBar = $('.level'); 

The API also provides charging property, which we can use to identify whether the battery is in a charging state.

In the following code snippet we set add HTML class to our HTML markup based on battery status, so that we are able to add specific style rules later in the CSS.

 if (battery.charging) { levelBar.addClass('charging'); } else if (level > 65) { levelBar.addClass('high'); } else if (level >= 35 ) { levelBar.addClass('med'); } else { levelBar.addClass('low'); }; 

In the above, if the battery is being charged we add a class named charging, then add respectively high, med, and low class upon the specified range of battery level. Then, we also need to specify the bar width that should follow the battery level.

 if (!battery.charging) { levelBar.css('width', level + '%'); }; 

In CSS, we set the battery styles and colors, as follows;

 .battery .level { height: 100%; width: 2%; } .battery .level.high { background-color: #27AE60; } .battery .level.med { background-color: #E67E22; } .battery .level.low { background-color: #E74C3C; } .battery .level.charging { background-color: #27AE60; width: 100%; text-align: center; } .battery .level.charging:before { content: '\e800'; display: block; height: 100%; width: 100%; color: #fff; line-height: 40px; font-family: 'Battery'; font-size: 25px; } 

That’s all, head over to the demo page to see it in action. Just make sure that you are on portable device like a laptop and open the demo in the latest Firefox for the demo to work.

• View Demo
• Download Source

Further Reference

• Battery Status API — W3C
• Battery Status API — MDN

Editor’s Note: The quotes in the wallpapers below are extracted from Startup Quote (Check out their website for more inspirational quotes). We have turned them into the various wallpaper sizes for your convenience.

Here in hongkiat.com we are all about Inspiration (and design and tech) but the point is… we love getting up in the morning and thinking this is the day we conquer the Web. It never happens, but still, it’s that insane idea of working towards a seemingly unattainable goal that really pushes us to be better and stronger and one of our favorite never-ending sources is the inspirational quote.

Since we are also about sharing, here are 24 inspirational quotes by famous authors and inspiring leaders conveniently made available in wallpaper format. Because when you feel like giving up or letting go, nothing pushes you forward than the pearls of wisdom of people who have been there, done that and nailed it. Have fun doing what you love!

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