Photographers know the incredible feeling of nailing a shot that they perhaps only imagined possible -- a photo they have been striving for for a long time. So, lensmen and lenswomen will be able to relate to these researchers' reactions to capturing an ultra-rare pigeon.
In a funny on-air moment, a meteorologist got a huge fright after a pigeon flew directly at a live outdoor weather camera.
A company has been told to pay a photographer $1.2 million after it used his photo of a pigeon for over a decade without compensating him for it.
Pidgeon, formerly Lensii, is a photo-sharing app designed to take on Instagram. Its founder says it will run on a freemium model and will never play host to the annoying onslaught of ads that plagues the app it's meant to replace.
Here's a photo-related job you've probably never heard of before: professional "pigeon spooker." Pay a visit to certain areas of Thailand, and you may come across people who now make a living by helping tourists capture the perfect travel photo by scaring pigeons.
Photographer and photo editors sometimes need to bend over backwards to meet deadlines. Back in 1987, one newspaper photo editor came up with a clever way to rush some news photos from location to press: he used a homing pigeon.
We've featured a couple of projects involving cameras strapped to birds recently (see here and here), but photographing with birds is anything but a new idea. It was actually invented a little over a century ago, in 1907, by a German photography pioneer named Julius Neubronner.