Photographer’s Sun Photo Gets Photobombed by a Plane
Photographer Andrew McCarthy was shooting the Sun recently when an airliner unexpectedly flew right into his shot. The result was this picture-perfect image of "A Civilian Transit."
This Once-in-a-Lifetime Meteor Photo Was Captured by Accident
There are some types of photography that can be planned down to the tiniest detail. Capturing shooting stars? Not so much. This picture-perfect photo of a meteor is one of photographer Prasenjeet Yadav's most popular shots, but it's also perhaps his luckiest: it was captured accidentally while he was asleep.
This Photo Seems to Show the World’s Tallest Trolley
Now here's a photo that may make you look twice. Street photographer Teemu Jarvinen was shooting on the sidewalks of Hong Kong when he managed to capture this shot of the tallest trolley in the city.
Thermal Camera at Museum Spots Woman’s Breast Cancer
A thermal camera at a tourist attraction in Edinburgh, Scotland may have helped save a 41-year-old woman's life recently by spotting her breast cancer before it had been diagnosed.
An Airplane Flyby of a Crescent Moonrise
On July 27th, I was out taking photos and filming the moonrise behind a tower called Arctura here in Östersund, Sweden.
How this Epic Volcano Photo Was Shot
While some may think that award-winning photos are simply snapshots created at the right place and right time, there's often a huge amount of time, effort, and dedication that goes into the process. For Mexican photographer Sergio Tapiro, it was over 15 years and over 300,000 photos.
Photographer Snaps Whale Breaching Feet Away from Boat
Photographer J P Goodridge was whale watching near Sydney, Australia, yesterday when he captured this photo of a lifetime showing a humpback whale explode out of the water right next to another little whale watching boat.
Learn to Be Lucky: On the Merits of Instinct and Serendipity in Photography
The video above, featuring renowned Dancers Among Us photographer Jordan Matter, is only a minute and a half long, but he shares a very interesting perspective in it. Many photographers are all about planning every shot, and to be sure, this approach can yield spectacular results. As they say, luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.
But Matter seems to take a different approach. He prefers to "make his own luck," ala Titanic antagonist Cal Hockley... minus the big diamond and evil tendencies.
How an Exploding Meteor Turned a Great Shot Into a Once-in-a-Lifetime Photograph
I’ve been shooting photos for 20 years. I’ve made my living in the profession for the last 15. I can count on one hand the number of times that everything lined up perfectly and a truly rare image was created.
A Lucky Picture-Perfect Snap of a Fireball Zipping Across the Night Sky
Walkthroughs of photographs that aren't easily reproducible (or are impossible to reproduce) might not be very useful to many, but it's still interesting to learn how rare shots come about. An example would be the photograph above, captured by photographer Bryan Hanna last week. Hanna was aiming to capture a long-exposure nighttime photograph of a landscape in the foreground and the night sky in the background, but he accidentally snagged something even better: a fireball zipping across the sky in just the right area in the frame!
Teen Finds Photo of His Long-Dead Uncle in a $1 Garage Sale Camera
Last Thursday, 13-year-old Addison Logan of Wichita, Kansas found something really cool at a garage sale: an old Polaroid camera for only $1 (score!). But when Addison got it home and started looking up how to use it on the internet, what he found in the cartridge was even cooler, or maybe creepier. Inside the Polaroid camera, bought from a family they don't even know, was a picture of his uncle Scott who died some 23 years ago in a car accident:
Camera Attached to Weather Balloon Captures Footage of Airliner Flying By
Photographer Edouard Janssens recently sent a weather balloon equipped with a Sony NEX-5 …