Want to get featured on our blog? Every Monday a theme is announced and you have until Sunday to submit your entry. You may already have a photo that suits or you can see it as a weekly photo challenge. For announced theme, deadline and how to enter continue reading.

Alphabet Soup

Last week we announced “Alphabet Soup” theme, asking you to interpret this theme to your imagination and wit. It was great to see that many entries were photographed especially for this contest. We’ve selected twelve photos to share with you today, these are thumbnails so make sure to click on each for a full size photograph. Take a look at all the contestants & pick your favourite.

New theme: Paparazzi

1. Select photo that fits this theme. Upload image to your 500px profile or pick an existing photo.
2. Add a tag "Paparazzi500px".
3. You are done. To track all entries click here.

Theme is open to your interpretation and creativity, so get snapping and tagging. Deadline is April 21st at 12pm (EST). To make your efforts worthwhile there’s a random draw giveaway for all who enter for a chance to win 2 months of Awesome membership. This week’s draw winner is Stanislav Novak.

Big thanks to everyone who participated!

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We are very excited to announce that 500px will soon be launching completely new Portfolios. We’ve redesigned the whole system from the ground up to offer you the best experience in creating professional-grade online portfolios for your photos.

You can edit and customize everything about your Portfolio, or pick from professionally designed layouts.

If you’ve tried 500px Portfolios before, you know they are a great way to expand your presence online, to supercharge your photos by displaying them in beautiful layouts with rich options, and for other users to interact with you and your photos.

Think of Portfolios as your personal website with robust backup system, zero-maintenance, professional designers and marketers (we take care of that for you), and one simple low fee, instead of expensive unpredictable bills for hosting, bandwidth, and SEO.

Beautiful, Unique & Easy to Use

We’ve redesigned portfolios around 3 principles: Beautiful, Unique and Easy to Use. Soon you’ll be able to setup your personal portfolio in just a few minutes, seamlessly update your photo collection as it grows and, at the same time, have full control over the look and feel of your own website.

You can preview and install each theme, and see how other photographers are using the theme.

With New Portfolios you will gain even more features — full CSS customization (for the brave), Store integration with your Portfolio (so that your visitors can buy your photos straight from your website), and Blog integration, allowing you to stay in touch with your readers, visitors and customers.

What’s more, your Portfolio will continue to evolve — not just with your photos, but also with more themes and more customization in each theme.

Availability & Pricing

The launch of the new 500px Portfolios will happen by early May. As we near the release date, we’ll provide weekly updates on the new features, tutorials and more.

As part of the new release, we will be adjusting the pricing of our Plus and Awesome memberships. Starting May 1st, the Plus account will be just $25/year, and Awesome account $75/year.

We value all our current members! If you are a current member or just planning to upgrade, we are offering you the opportunity to lock in the old pricing for as many years ahead as you'd like. Simply prepay by purchasing or extending your Plus or Awesome membership at the current price now and before May 1st. All upgrades or renewals after May 1st will have the new pricing.

As another great update, we are increasing upload limits to all accounts. Free accounts will increase to 20 photos per week, while Plus and Awesome, will stay unlimited. All accounts will now accept larger size photos, up to 100Mb per file.

We are currently developing and will be launching many new and exciting features to Plus and Awesome accounts later this year, as we’re always committed to make your 500px experience the best it can be.

Early Preview

PS: Want to be the 1st to preview the new Portfolios? Let us know, we’ll select the lucky few to give you a taste of Awesomeness before the launch and feature you on our Blog. Just leave a comment below.

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Hey there! We loved photos uploaded to 500px.com last week so much that we wanted to share more with you. Please enjoy this week’s roundup, click on each photo to visit photographers’ page and upload your photos, we love to see all the creativity and talent that you bring to our community. For Part 1 click here.

Noah

Gunther Frans

Chilling

Elaine Forsmark

Noah II

Gunther Frans

Flower Skirt

Bramley .

still life

Stancho Enev

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Jane Simonova

Monika

Anna Mika

Lp. Emerald Clashmore

Martynas Milkevicius

Untitled

Claudio Ceriali

sota les voltes

antoni targarona

Northern Reindeer

Ohad Redlich

Journey into the sunset

Rob Arnold

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Meet Dina Ali, a self-taught photographer from Baku, Azerbaijan. Dina creates magical still-life arrangements with everyday objects and beautiful daylight. Experience the four seasons transitioning from summer to spring with Dina’s photos.

For Dina’s full portfolio visit her 500px page, there you can add her to friends, follow her future work, and say hello.

Our blog is a place to promote 500px photographers and their brilliant photos. Every week we publish a brief photographer profile introducing you to a photographer from 500px community and his/her body of work. This could be you, email us blog@500px.com and let us know about yourself and your work.

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Want to get featured on our blog? Every Monday a theme is announced and you have until Sunday to submit your entry. You may already have a photo that suits or you can see it as a weekly photo challenge. For announced theme, deadline and how to enter continue reading.

Wanderlust

Last week we announced “Wanderlust” theme and got many creative & unique entries. We’ve selected twelve to share with you today, these are only thumbnails so make sure to click on each for a full size photograph. Take a look at all the contestants to pick your favourite.

New theme: Alphabet Soup

1. Select photo that fits this theme. Upload image to your 500px profile or pick an existing photo.
2. Add a tag "Soup500px".
3. You are done. To track all entries click here.

Theme is open to your interpretation and creativity, so get snapping and tagging. Deadline is April 14 at 12pm (EST). To make your efforts worthwhile there’s a random draw giveaway for all who enter for a chance to win 2 months of Awesome membership. This week’s draw winner is Alexandra Bochkareva.

Big thanks to everyone who participated!

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