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How has Hollywood's idea of female beauty changed over the past century? Here's a collection of averaged portraits that tries to answer that question.

Photographer Paul Richardson of Manchester, UK, just released a time-lapse short film that's garnering high praise on the Web. It's titled "Patience," and is a 4K journey around Europe that took a great deal of patience to create.

GoPro broke one of its big rules to share this short documentary. It is one of the only GoPro videos you'll ever see that isn't shot entirely on the company's own cameras, but once you watch it you'll understand why.

Castello di Sammezzano (Non Plus Ultra) has to be the most beautiful castle in Italy. Often called abandoned, it's not actually so; every once in a while it is opened to the public for a guided tour and volunteers take care of the place. At the moment it is being auctioned to the highest bidder.

It's safe to say natural history photographer Clay Bolt is obsessed with North American bees. What began with a few photos in his backyard in South Carolina back in 2014 has turned into a full blown project aimed at helping document the staggering diversity of North American bees.

The Rochester Institute of Technology is about to send you on a journey through Light, Movement, Emotion, and Connection, as captured over the course of one year by the university's 70 photojournalism students.

The Audubon Society has officially announced the winners of their 7th annual Photography Awards, and even though it might help, you absolutely don't have to be a bird photography lover to appreciate this stunning imagery.

We've seen people do some cool things using NASA's beautiful images of Earth captured from the International Space Station (ISS). But Armand Dijcks' 4K space cinemagraphs might just take the zen-like cake.

Sigh. There's nothing like a photo straight from the great Hubble Space Telescope to put our megapixel squabbling and ultra-fast frame rate comparisons in perspective. For the telescope's 26th birthday on April 24th, the Hubble engineers have released a spectacular photo of "an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star."

Artist and photographer Fabian Oefner is constantly working out new and interesting ways to create his art—whether it's splattering paint using a spinning drill bit or 'disintegrating' a car piece by piece. For his latest series 'Corona,' he turned his attention to petrol and achieved unexpectedly beautiful results.

Amateur photographer Carola Becker spent last Autumn photographing hundreds of leaves as they turned from green, to gold, to red, to brown. The resulting macro images, placed side by side, show "the beauty of diversity and imperfection."

Inside the bowels of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC you'll find something amazing. Classified, labelled, and impeccably organized, you'll find 90% of the Smithsonian's collections tucked neatly away in drawers and cabinets. Well... usually they're tucked away.

We wouldn't be surprised if you've never heard of The Drakensberg before. It almost sounds like a region in Game of Thrones, but it's not: it's a mountain escarpment in South Africa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the subject of the timelapse above, and probably the newest addition to your bucket list.

NASA just gave satellite imagery nerds a very big present: along with a bunch of other scientific data, the space agency just made 2.95 million images of Earth changing surface available to the public at no cost.

Swiss freeskier and filmmaker Nicolas Vuignier captured the worlds imagination back in February with his iPhone-swinging bullet-time idea. Now he's back again with another creative effort: turning the sky into a giant canvas by covering extreme skiers with black pigment.

For a short time every February, when conditions are just right, Horsetail Falls in Yosemite gets transformed by a phenomenon known as "firefall." When the sunlight hits the water just right, the waterfall looks like molten lava flowing down the side of El Capitan.

Photographer Sangeeta Dey was there to see and capture the firefall this year, and her above photo has been going viral.

Back in March 2015, photographer Ryan Deboodt captured the world's attention by bringing his drone into Hang Son Doong, the single largest cave in the world.

Now he's back again with another incredible project. For the 3-minute video above, Deboodt took his drone into Khoun Xe Cave in Laos, which is known as one of the largest river caves on Earth.

As a blizzard ripped into New York City this past weekend, street photographer …

Here’s some amazing nature footage captured with GoPro cameras by filmmakers Cristian Dimitrius …

In cold enough temperatures, hot water tossed into the air instantly turns into ice. That's what's captured in this beautiful photo by photographer Michael Davies -- it shows his friend Markus Siivola tossing hot tea from a thermos into the -40°C air.

Jason Ching is a research scientist with the University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon …

Canada amateur photographer Don Gutoski has been crowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 for the remarkable photo above, titled "A Tale of Two Foxes." It shows a red fox standing with the carcass of a white fox in its mouth.

Want to shoot some abstract, eye-popping aerial footage? Just bring a camera drone to one of China's busiest roadways when there's a major traffic jam.

The video above shows drone footage and photos during an insane traffic jam outside Beijing, China, this past week.

Renowned French astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured one of the most remarkable images of the supermoon lunar eclipse yesterday. He managed to shoot the world's first photo of the International Space Station passing in front of the moon during the eclipse.

Hyperlapse artist Vadim Tereshchenko spent the past two years working on an ambitious project that showcases the beauty of Los Angeles. The fruit of his labor is the 2-minute video above, an eye-popping journey through the City of Angels.

Photographer Meagan Abell from Richmond, Virginia, was browsing a thrift shop a few weeks ago when she stumbled across 4 sets of medium format negatives, sitting in plastic sleeves among other vintage photos. After purchasing and scanning them, she was amazed at the beautiful photos that emerged.

NASA's New Horizons probe dazzled the world with a detailed photo of Pluto today, but another probe has been beaming back stunning shots of space for over a decade already. The Cassini space probe has captured its fair share of eye-popping photos since launching in 1997 and arriving in Saturn's orbit in 2004.

Since late 2014, Japan's Himawari 8 weather satellite has been in stationary orbit above New Guinea, 22,000 miles out (Earth's average diameter is 7,918 miles). It shoots one photo of Earth every 10 minutes, capturing 144 pictures of our planet over the course of a day.

When combined, the photos form a gorgeous time-lapse video showing the passing of a day on Earth. In the 20-second video above, the Sun's reflection can be seen in the daylight that moves across the surface of the globe.

Patience can lead to great things in photography. For photographer Johan Georget, it's what allowed him to capture this shot-of-a-lifetime of a rhinoceros in Africa.

The short film above, titled "Denali," is photographer Ben Moon's beautiful and touching tribute to his dog Denali, who passed away last year at the age of 14. It's a story of love and friendship, creatively told from Denali's perspective.

African wildlife photographer Greg du Toit captured this photo last year of a leopard out on night patrol. It's a shot for which everything seemed to come together for Du Toit for a beautiful composition.

Want an incredible dose of photographic inspiration? Check out this newly-released 2-minute trailer for the new TV series Tales by Light, a new TV series that follows 5 top photographers as they take their cameras to the ends of the Earth -- photographers who have an unquenchable desire to capture and share the wonders of this world with the rest of us.

After photographing a number of US cities at night through the open door of a helicopter, photographer Vincent Laforet has taken his Air project across the pond to shoot aerial shots of European cities. His first stop: London.