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Thanks to Tiger making his return, this year's Masters has a higher profile than ever before. But, things are business as usual for Rusty Jarrett, who has seen the tournament through the glass of his lenses for decades now. He was kind enough to talk to us as he prepared to capture more images of the course he has loved since he was a kid.How many Masters tournaments have you photographed?I have done the masters every year since 1983. I started working at Augusts when I was 11 on the scoreboards, way before I had an interest in photography.

A news junkie, pro photographer Brian Kuhlmann is often angered by headlines on preventable catastrophes. But he had never been so riled by an event, he says, that he felt the need to address it creatively—until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. “It got under my skin and bothered me for months” before he decided to put the energy to use in a photo shoot, he says.

Palíndromo Mészáros used beauty to convey the Hungarian industrial accident in 2011. Photo: Palíndromo Mészáros

The proliferation of laser cutters has meant that crafty makers have been able to rapidly disseminate and assemble all sorts of bizarre and interesting pieces of gear. Take, for instance, the Laser Cut Kite Photo Rig, currently available to download on Thingiverse. It's a laser cut design for a tilt and pan rig, that could be used to control a camera attached to a kite.