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Ah, the Instagram #yoga hashtag. As of this writing, there are over 20 million posts hashtagged #yoga on Instagram, and this creative spoof describes/pokes fun of a good 50% of them.

Here’s a humorous video that’s making the rounds online: a guy named Mikey …

Timelapse title credits for television shows are getting to be pretty common, but this one definitely stands out. One creative YouTuber recreated the Game of Thrones intro credits using some really stunning macro mold time-lapses.

What's your deepest... darkest photography secret? Do you occasionally give in and shoot *shudder* Auto? Is your most popular photo taken with *shudder* an iPhone? This silly DRTV video is all about these kinds of "shocking" photographer confessions.

The folks at AwesomenessTV are paying homage to "Instagram Bros" and their quest for the perfect coffee cup photo. You know the one: a crisp white cup sitting on a reclaimed wood table next to your passport, a copy of Kinfolk magazine, and some sort of Apple device.

Photographer Garry Cornes of Glasgow, Scotland, attended the demolition of a 24-story building this past Sunday. After joining the crowd there and setting up his camera on the other side of the street, Cornes had his view ruined at the worst possible time when a bus rolled in to photobomb his shot.

Despite rumors that Sony might release "the first mirrorless medium format camera," there is actually a medium format mirrorless camera already in existence. But you may not want to pick up the 100MP Phase One ALPA; it turns out it's a royal pain to actually... you know... use.

The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (AKA C.A.T.S.) just launched a funny, ridiculous Kickstarter campaign that seeks to do something awesome: they want to replace every single ad in a London Tube station with pictures of cats.

Get to know people, forget the rules, don't read books on composition, embrace imperfection, print your photos, and more... Here are 43 amateurish tips for capturing better images.

Like many photographers, Matias Posti of Posti Photography sends out a mailer to clients and prospective each year. This year, his creative "No More Selfies" ads caught our eye.

When your photo sharing app is used by hundreds of millions of users around the world, there are a lot of sad and angry people when your service goes down. Instagram crashed for about 15 minutes yesterday -- coincidentally April Fools' Day -- and people freaked out.

Here's a short and humorous sketch that pokes fun at how hard it can be to satisfy the wishes of clients as a portrait photographer.

Many of the short documentary films about artisan makers these days follow the same recipe -- things like slow, dramatic music, close-up shots with a super shallow depth of field, and more. Photographer Patrick Kehoe decided to parody that style.

Want to teach your dog a new trick? Try training it to do studio photography. That's what a few dogs over in Japan were taught to do recently. You can see the results in the 3.5-minute video above, titled "PhoDOGrapher."

"Normal" stock photos often feature scenes and situations that would be incredibly strange if you ever saw them actually happening in real life. DigitalRev made this humorous 3-minute video that reveals what's actually happening in those generic stock shots of business people, doctors, and scientists.

There are often stories of huge (and often hilarious) Photoshop fails in the advertising industry, in which models are seen with extra limbs or ridiculous body proportions.

Snickers just released a clever advertisement that pokes fun at these Photoshop fails.

If you use Facebook (or Instagram), you may have seen people share photos of themselves that they “accidentally” snapped… …

There are good Photoshop tutorials and there are bad Photoshop tutorials. Tom Trager and Or Paz of the sketch …

Nikon Singapore became the butt of many jokes last week after selecting a clearly Photoshopped photo as the winner of a small photo contest. After the story went viral and appeared in headlines around the world, Nikon and the photographer both apologized and took down the winning photo(shop job).

Seeing an opportunity, Canon Canada decided this week to poke some fun at Nikon's expense, and its tongue-in-cheek Facebook thread has since gone viral as well.

The YouTube musical channel AVbyte created this short video titled “Selfie: The Musical.” …

Nikon Singapore posted an announcement on its Facebook page yesterday, congratulating a photographer named Chay Yu Wei for capturing a perfect shot of an airplane framed by a ladder in Chinatown.

Photographers quickly pointed out that the photo is clearly the result of editing, and sarcastic comments soon flooded the post.

Here's a quirky fact about photography and life: the lids of certain Häagen-Dazs ice cream containers make for perfect lens caps for 72mm lenses.

"Bubbleissimo" is a quirky new photo project by New York-based photographer Mindo Cikanavicius. It features serious portraits of men wearing serious expressions... and beards and mustaches made of soap bubbles.

There are special agonies that are reserved for the "official photographers" of families and friends. One of them is when you sprint into the scene after setting your camera's self timer, only to have the camera snap the photo before you're ready. It was even worse in the days of film, when sometimes you might not even see the blooper until after the photos are processed.

Above is a family portrait that captures this pain perfectly. It was shared with us by a woman named Molly, who says it's her favorite photo of her father, Geof -- he's the one that set the timer.

The Los Angeles-based sketch comedy group Mommy created this humorous 6.5-minute “behind-the-scenes video” …

Fujifilm has a sense of humor. At its major press event today, company Vice President Toru Takahashi made an unusual argument for the benefits of its professional mirrorless cameras over traditional DSLRs: he pointed out that DSLRs weigh 2 cans of beer more than Fujifilm flagship camera.

Manny is a gray tabby cat that's attracting attention for his special camera skills. More specifically, Manny is quite skilled at shooting selfies of himself, and now tens of thousands of people are following his photos on Instagram.

Here's a curious case of someone who wasn't happy with a portrait taken of himself. A fugitive recently sent a selfie to police because he hated the "terrible" mugshot the department published.

Be careful when mounting cameras to the insides of cars — a badly-placed mount could be hazardous to your …

French photographer Serge Ramelli made this short film titled “Size Matters.” It’s the …

Here's a humorous video by DigitalRev that pokes fun at some common struggles that photographers go through in their lives and in their minds. Sometimes it's not easy being obsessed with photography.