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Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch

Most anyone who is new to street photography has one major hang up -- actually taking photos of strangers. Not wanting to be viewed as a creeper, or get yelled at, or invade privacy and many other reasons hold us back from really getting our stride in the street. It takes practice, and also a bit of pushing from pros we admire. Street photographer and blogger Eric Kim -- a photographer I very much admire -- is giving beginners a bit of confidence through his latest video. He attached a GoPro to the top of his Leica M9 and we get to see exactly what street shooting is like from Kim's perspective. Click through to watch.

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I've been watching Kris Krüg's photostream on Flickr for a few weeks now, as his gorgeous photos of the birds of Midway pour in -- as well as photos of one of my most favorite photographers ever, Chris Jordan. Jordan has been on the island clicking away in an effort to document the destruction plastics have wreaked on the Albatross chicks of Midway Island. Midway Island is unfortunately in the middle of a current that carries a significant amoung of plastic litter, and Albatross snatch up the bits of plastic thinking that it is food. The parents feed their chicks an average of 5 tons of plastic each year. The birds are sadly becoming an icon of marine litter and the terrible effects of plastics, and Jordan is doing some amazing work to try and bring awareness to the problem. Click through to check out a video of Jordan at work.

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This is one of the best time-lapse videos I've seen in a while. It shows night scenes of a reeeeeally cold winter in South Dakota, but sometimes these frozen landscapes are the most photogenic. The video pans over the stumps of a corn field, an abandoned playground, and shows skies that are so crystal clear you can seriously feel the crispness of the air. Check out the full video after the jump.

I get up at 5 a.m. most days to start work, and I've always been interested in shooting what my city, San Francisco, looks like at that hour. The pace, the lighting, the entire feel of the city is different from even just a few hours before or after. Five o'clock in the morning is a special time, and in fact my fascination of this in-between hour was the root of ShutterSalt's After Hours assignment. Photographer Borut Peterlin has already jumped to the task of documenting the streets just before sunrise. Read more after the jump...