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.

Polka Dots

Last week we announced “Polka Dots” theme and received a great number of fun and creative entries. We have 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 here & pick your favourite.

New theme: Sunshine

1. Select photo that fits this theme. Upload image to your 500px profile or pick an existing photo.
2. Add a tag "sun500px".
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 May 19th 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. Lucky draw winner is Martina Johansson.

Good luck this week!

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Fall in love with inspiring photography! We’ve been watching photos uploaded to 500px.com and have chosen some of our favourite images to share with you today. Since we missed a feature this post includes photos from both weeks. Enjoy and remember to upload your photos this week, we love to see all the creativity and talent that you bring to our community :)

Thanks!

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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.

Liquid

Last week we announced “Liquid” theme and received 960 creative entries. We have 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. Thank you for your talent and ideas!

New theme: Polka Dots

1. Select photo that fits this theme. Upload image to your 500px profile or pick an existing photo.
2. Add a tag "dots500px".
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 May 12th 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. Lucky draw winner is Loyd Towe.

Good luck this week!

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Inspired by the Follow Friday hashtag movement on twitter we started a new feature on our blog. With Follow Friday posts you can discover new, popular and up-and-coming photographers from 500px to follow and add to friends. Today we are focusing on Automotive photographers.

Tim Wallace

Tim is internally recognized photographer and a pro in his field. Often he incorporates magnificent landscapes and staple architectural structures that reinforce the beauty of his main subjects — cars. If you were never a fan of this genre we guarantee that Tim Wallace’s fine art images will leave you excited & wanting to see more.

Dan Volkens

Dan is an interactive designer from Cincinnati, Ohio & photography is his hobby. The images that he posts on 500px are of cars only and we love them. It’s hard to believe that most of the images were shot at crowded car shows and we applaud his clever tight crops.

Ivan Barinov

Ivan is a 23 year old automotive photographer from Moscow, Russia. His photos are absolutely breath-taking. Take a look at his work and be amazed...

David Bouchat

Like vintage cars, good sense of humor and have a bit of fancy for bulldogs? Then you’ll love David Bouchat’s photos.

Steve Hall

For Steve automotive photography was an obvious career choice. For us getting a crush on Steve’s photos with speed blur was an obvious choice, too. His photos are oozing with crisp colours and love for speed. Let us know which one is your favourite :)

Jeremy Cliff

Jeremy Cliff marries strobe lights with cars and gets alluring automotive portraits. When browsing through his portfolio it’s hard to resists the urge to take one of the cars for a ride, or two.

Nigel Harniman

If you’ve been drained and needed new ideas on how to shoot cars Nigel’s work is a great source of inspiration. Nigel is a talented UK-based photographer and his portfolio has a great range of automotive, commercial photos and landscapes. So don’t waste any more time and get inspired now.

Ivan Nava

Washington-Born, Caracas-Raised, and Miami-Based advertising, commercial and portrait photographer sure knows how to shoot cars! Visit Ivan’s portfolio and go a journey touring US and France, while viewing automobiles.

Neil Banich

Moody, dark and powerful photos of Neil Banich transport the viewer to another reality. Where the life is dark and movie-esque and the rides are hot. Pick your own character, be it villain or hero and a car to match.

We hope you enjoyed this roundup! This is our first Follow Friday post in this genre and we can’t wait to share more features with you. Come back another Friday for more incredible photographers to follow and get inspired by. Visit last post Follow Friday: Roof Topper Photographers and discover great talents.

Who is your favourite automotive photographer at 500px? Let us know in the comments below, feel free to nominate yourself.

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Hi! For you to get to know us better, to find out who are the folks behind 500px and what it is that we actually do, we started a new ongoing feature on the blog titled “Meet the team”. Last time we shared our favorite tunes of 2012. Now you are about to meet one of the team members — me, Diana Tula.

What’s your 500px story?

It was luck, chance and my desire to help out that got me working for 500px. In short...

What do you do at 500px?

I blog and do a few more things. I look at 1,000s of photos daily, promote photographers and photos on our social pages (twitter, G+ and Facebook), suggest photos for Editors’ Choice, report NSF photos, write-up new stories, plan and schedule posts for weeks and months to come, check email, when asked I test for bugs, provide feedback and co-chair some interviews. What I no longer do is order lunches for the office and for that I am eternally grateful.

Do you photograph?

I do! I have a Nikon D90, D70, an old Kiev film camera and iPhone 3Gs. All are second hand cameras and all I love. My favorite lens is a Nikon 50mm 1.8. It is awesome and I use it 90% of the time. Lately I’ve been eyeing a wide angle and a macro lens for my iPhone.

Tell us 5 random things about you.

Thanks for reading :) If you'd like to add Diana to friends visit her 500px page, for Instagram and other social media her handle is @detula.

If there is a question you'd like to ask our team or an idea for "Meet the team" feature please leave a comment below. We'd love to hear your feedback and answer your questions.

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