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Top 5 Tips for Overcoming Depression through the creative process of photography

  As a young girl around the age of 9, Oprah Omeka would often walk through the Great Rift Valley in Kenya on her way back home from school, the area that is situated between her county and Nairobi was filled with zebras, lions and wilderness. However, when she entered high school (around the age of 13) she noticed that development had taken place in that beautiful area which soon clouded the river water, and created a dirty and unorganized environment. This development prompted her to want to make changes and not allow disorganization to destroy the beauty of the land she knew as a young child, which is why a few years later she took up studies in architecture.  Getting...

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Create Epic Travel Boards and Start Planning for After COVID

Create your Travel Vision Board!    With photographers posting every niche of photography, from landscape to architecture, to gourmandize, to cultural events all coming from their home countries you will be able to create boards and boards of travel-inspired content. This year international travel was postponed for mostly everyone around the world due to COVID, but we feel that brighter days are ahead and want to let you know that dreaming never has to be postponed. That is why we have created Saved Boards where photographers from over 150 different countries have submitted photos of the world around them so that you can navigate the world through images and visualise your future travel plans.  The best way to do this is...

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States of Mind: How Double Exposure in Photography Expresses Our Most Inner Feelings

Every Collection Has a State of Mind Double Exposure tells a deeper story and more abstracted story - perhaps it is telling the story of the mind.  Part of working with more authentic and diverse photography means that you come across images that are not typically seen in an online photo marketplace. Since the photographers that are featured at Scopio are less restricted in their creative genius and how they express themselves, they will often produce images that we are not accustomed to seeing in everyday life.    Typical stock photography prohibits the photographer from truly expressing their creativeness as they are bound by regulations. What we do not realize is that by restricting the photographer's creative limits we are actually restricting...

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