Ms.Tagoе Sylvia Adorkor, known as Naa Shika Stargurl and is a rеmarkablе Photographеr with a passion for capturing thе bеauty of thе world through her lеns. With more than 8 years еxpеriеncе in the field, she has established hеrsеlf as a true artist and technical еxpеrtisе with unique artistic vision.

The young Ghanaian photographer’s is gifted with exceptional talent for capturing moments that еvokе еmotions and tеll captivating stories.

Hеr photographs are a testament to hеr kееn eye for dеtail and hеr ability to find bеauty in thе ordinary, as well as what she says is ”dеdication to hеr craft”.

Naa Shika Stargurl is a Levеl 400 student studying Public Administration & Govеrnancе at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, GIMPA.

Naa Shika Stargurl’s portfolio showcases her versatility and еxpеrtisе across various gеnrеs of photography.

Her work has been described as, ”from breathtaking landscapеs to intimate portraits and from vibrant strееt photography to еlеgant fashion shoots and she effortlessly capture thе еssеncе of her subjects and creating image that are visually stunning and еmotionally compelling”.

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The photography genius, passed away on Thursday, February 25, 2021.

He was a product of Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology (KNUST) where he earned a degree in Communication Design (2001).

He is known professionally for taking breathtaking pictures both locally and internationally with over 12 years of experience as a professional photographer.

Emmanuel Bobbie worked with celebrities and politicians such as actress Yvonne Nelson, rapper M.anifest, actor and politician John Dumelo, Menaye Donkor-Muntari, actress Jackie Appiah and actor James Gardiner.

Bob Pixel did not only work with celebrities and politicians but also did work with both local and foreign companies like UNICEF (Living with Refugees) Vodafone Ecobank, Emirates, etc.

Some family and friends shared messages of condolence to the bereaved family.

In a tweet by Voice cast, it said, “Still waiting for confirmation because this is shocking but if your death is true, RIP. You were a photography icon and you truly left an impact, Bob Pixel”.

In the words of Aberrant Maiai, I still can’t believe the news about Bob Pixel”.

Afia Akoto, Deputy Chief Executive at Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) posted this on her Facebook page. “You served your country in your own way. Some of you deserve nothing less than a state honour.”

Rest easy”

STORY BY: FREDA ANOKYE

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The protest, named ‘wɔkpɛnɛɛ’, meaning we won’t agree, started in the early hours of 7:00 a.m. at Kawukudi park at Nima, a suburb of Accra, and ended it at EC premises.

While the parties argue that there is no need for a new voters’ register, the Commission, insists the current register is not fit for purpose.

The EC believes the new voters’ register with some enhanced security features will help to better ensure a smooth exercise on December 7.

The parties, Inter-party Resistance against the New Voters’ Register, demonstrated through the streets of Accra to mount further pressure on the Electoral Commission to rescind its decision to compile a new voters’ register.

Story filed by Mario Rashid Kadiah and Oppong Essel.

The weeklong celebration themed: “The Outside Within”, commenced on Monday, December 9 and would continue till Saturday, December 14, 2019.

The event is being organised by REMEX Communications, a digital marketing agency that specializes in event management, public relations consulting, business development, among others.

Mr Derrick Nii Armah Tagoe, Co-founder and Head of Business at REMEX, said the celebration would put Ghana’s tourism in the spotlight and boost the arts and culture industry.
He thanked partners for their support in making the photo week celebration a reality and called on photographers and citizens to fully participate in the event to help raise the image of the industry.

Nana Kojo Antwi, also Co-founder and Project Head at REMEX, said the celebration would start with a two-day master class from Tuesday, December 10 to Wednesday, December 11.
The master class would feature four of the top photographers in Ghana such as Bob Pixel, Franklin Gyan, Ben Bond and Joseph Phloshop.

There would be an artist discussion on the same Wednesday at the Antique Lemonade to dialogue with photographers on the problems facing the industry and brainstorm towards possible solutions.

On Thursday, December 12, there will be a Photo Summit for all and sundry at the Impact Hub, Osu from 1000 hrs followed by a Photo Walk on Friday, December 13 from the Oxford Street to the Independence Square where the Festival of Lights will happen.

The celebration will be climaxed with a Photo Festival on Saturday, December 14 to outdoor photos taken by various Ghanaian photographers.

This will be followed by the Maiden Grand Pixels Photography Awards night to honor outstanding photographers
Mr Emmanuel Clottey, speaking on behalf Mr Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah, the Accra Mayor, said the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is delighted to be part of the Accra Photo Week.
He said the various efforts by the Mayor has shown his love and support for the Arts industry.

Mr Clottey said last year, the Mayor, inaugurated the Greening and Beautification Project to enhance the greening of the City’s triangles and open spaces.
The AMA, he said, has also supported the “Charle Wote” festival to expand the economic value of the event.

He lauded photographers for highlighting the positive aspects of the city and urged them to continue promoting the nation.

Dr Dextdee Livingstone of the Association of Ghana Professional Photographers said it is important for all photographers to come together under one umbrella to draw strength and inspiration from each other.

He said the Association provided a platform for the concerns of photographers to be addressed by the necessary stakeholders and protect them against dangers associated with the profession.

Dr Livingstone, who is a Medical Doctor and a professional photographer, said the Association has partnered with an Insurance Company to insure the working years of its members and urged all photographers to register with them.

Mr Nana Yaw Kesse, a broadcast journalist, said the photography industry is a noble one, and urged members not to give up on the profession irrespective of the difficulties they face.

“Those of you in this industry are journalists in your right. Don’t think that because you don’t write for media houses, you’re not journalists. In fact, you’re better journalists than some of us because just by the press of the button, you tell the story better than we could ever do,” he said.

It looks like it ought to be the subject of a funny caption competition but this picture taken in China’s Qilian Mountains is deadly serious.

The fox has surprised the marmot, and a fight is about to begin that will result in the rodent being killed.

Not even the intervention of the marmot’s mother can change the outcome.

“That’s nature,” says Yongqing Bao, whose striking image has earned him the top prize in the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

The shot also meant Yongqing got to share the award for the best picture in the mammal behaviour category.

Persistence pays when you are a wildlife photographer, and Yongqing had to stake out an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for several hours to be in position to catch the action.

The fox had lain very still, hoping to trap a passing marmot unawares. It worked a treat. In one of the more gruesome frames on Yongqing’s camera, the fox has the young rodent’s head in its mouth.

Roz Kidman Cox was the chair of judges. “The WPY competition has behaviour entries like no other. The world’s top photographers in the field of animal behaviour always enter, and I have to say this image is one of the best I’ve ever seen,” she told BBC News.

This year’s junior grand prize winner is Cruz Erdmann for his night-time image of a bigfin reef squid in the Lembeh Strait off North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Cruz had entered in the 11-14 years category.

Getting a clear shot of the iridescent cephalopod takes a good deal of technical prowess. “You have to be careful not to stir up the silt when you dive or you’ll get a lot of backscatter from the strobe light. I wasn’t kicking with my legs so that’s why the photo seems very clear,” he said.

WPY, as it’s often called, is one of the most prestigious competitions of its type in world photography.

Started in 1964, the competition is now organised by London’s Natural History Museum.

An exhibition of the best images opens at the South Kensington institution on Friday. Next year’s competition starts taking entries from Monday.

Scroll down for some of the other category winners.

Land of the eagle by Audun Rikardsen, Norway

Winner 2019, Behaviour: Birds. This shot took Audun three years to achieve. He’d carefully placed an old tree branch in a position where the golden eagles would come into land. A camera and flash would trigger as soon as a bird set down.

Audun recalled: “They became so used to the flash going off, it didn’t seem to bother them. I think they like having their picture taken.” Crows would do it as well, but that wasn’t quite the picture the Norwegian photographer was after.

The huddle by Stefan Christmann, Germany

Winner 2019, Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio Award. The toughest of the tough. More than 5,000 emperor penguins gather together in their classic huddle formation to beat the wind and late winter cold on the sea-ice in front of the Ekström Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. These are male birds incubating eggs at their feet. The females have gone to sea to forage.

The rat pack by Charlie Hamilton James, UK

Winner 2019, Urban Wildlife. Charlie was on an assignment for National Geographic, to photograph the rats of the world. This group he found in the Wall Street district of Manhattan, New York.

The rodents were living under a grill that surrounded the base of a tree. At night they’d run over to the rubbish bins outside a hotel to feed. Charlie set up his camera and fired the shutter with a remote trigger from a couple of metres away.

“There were probably 30 rats living under the grate. They became so used to me over three days that one of them came and stood on my foot,” Charlie said.

The architectural army by Daniel Kronauer, USA

Winner 2019, Behaviour: Invertebrates. These army ants in Costa Rica don’t build a nest in the earth or in an old tree. Instead, they construct it out of their own bodies, hanging from branches in interlocking chains. Inside, are passageways and chambers where they protect their queen and nurture their young.

“Pretty much every day they disassemble this structure; it just melts away and they carry the larvae across the rainforest, setting up a new bivouac maybe 150m away,” Daniel said. “It’s beautiful. I thought this nest looked like a crown or a cathedral.”

Snow exposure by Max Waugh, USA

Winner 2019, Black and White. No WPY is complete without a good “whiteout” image. This one of a bison was captured in Yellowstone National Park. The bison wants to get at the buried grasses and sedges and so makes a hole by brushing its face from side to side.

“I’d been in situations like this before where I’d played around with slower shutter speeds,” said Max. “I think that’s part of what makes this a good picture – the snow is blurred. I just waited until the bison lifted its head and fired off a few shots.”

Snow-plateau nomads by Shangzhen Fan, China

Winner 2019, Animals in Their Environment.

A small herd of male chiru are seen crossing a snow-covered slope in the Kumukuli Desert of China’s Altun Shan National Nature Reserve. These  antelope live at altitudes up 5,500m where temperatures can fall to -40C. “They like to get to the patches of bare sand because that’s where it is warmest,” says Shangzhen. The photographer took this image from a kilometre away. In the same sequence, he saw two bears moving across a ridge.

They are also the first handsets to use a motion-sensing radar chip that switches off some functionality when the phone is left unattended, saving battery life.

Pixel is only the ninth bestselling phone brand in the UK, despite positive reviews for its last-generation models.

Google says it is playing a long game.

“It is very early for us still,” devices and services chief Rick Osterloh told BBC News ahead of its New York launch.

“Most people in the mobile-phone space… take more than a decade to grow to any significant scale. And so, we have that long-term view.”

One reason the Pixel 3 has been more successful in the US than elsewhere is that Huawei has been effectively excluded from the American market.

And with the Chinese company’s latest models unable to pre-install Google apps because of a trade ban, one market watcher said Pixel had a chance to make significant gains this time round.

“Operators and retailers in Europe are nervous about a return to there being just two dominant players – Samsung and Apple,” said Ben Wood, from CCS Insight.

“With Huawei effectively leaving the market, clearly there’s an opportunity for Google if it is prepared to put significant marketing support behind its devices.”

The work of the Dutch photographer Dick Van Duijn is very popular, with over 180K Instagram followers from all over the world. Recently, he has been causing waves on the internet with his endearing pictures of ground squirrels smelling flowers.

He explained that he saw pictures of these cute animals from other photographers and wanted to photograph them himself. He loves flowers and animals, so he tried to combine them.

He added that he always attempts to capture nature in its most unaffected form. He never thought he would have the opportunity to capture a precious moment like this one when he went to Austria to take pictures of squirrels.

He recounted that he observed them and their behavior on the first day. The next day, he photographed them the whole day.

The 34-year old professional photographer had taken hundreds of pictures before this one. The images series showed small ground squirrels examining the field to find the best flowers to eat.

However, one picture in particular has recently caught everyone’s eye.

In the evening, just before sunset, when the light became soft and nice, one of the many ground squirrels walked towards the yellow flower. It stopped at a yellow daisy, leaned in, smelled it, and even appeared to hug it. It even closed its eyes as it inhaled the floral aroma, and moments later, Van Duijn admitted that it leaned in to take a tasty bite.

Van Duijn was very happy to witness and capture such a moment.

He said that once he saw this happening in the viewfinder of his camera, he already knew he had captured a very beautiful and intimate moment.

The photo series was posted on Instagram, with the caption “Smells like Summer.”

Flowers use their scent to attract various insects and small animals to carry around their pollen and help them reproduce. They entice any passing pollinator to stop and take a whiff by responding to their airborne sounds, and thus ensure their longevity as the more pollen they are able to disburse, the higher their chances of survival.

In this case, it is a win-win situation. The daisy got to reproduce, the squirrel got a tasty treat, Van Duijn got a fascinating photo shoot, and we got the opportunity to enjoy it!