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Happy New Year to all our of our awesome readers! As we move into this new year of photo blogging, we'll take a moment to look back at how this blog has grown over the past year.

There are well over 100 million users on Instagram (assuming a quarter of them didn't just up and leave), and even though the typical Instagram photo stream consists of food and the family pet, there are certain places that show up more often than others. Times Square, The Eiffel Tower, Disneyland, the Bangkok Airport... wait... that last one seems out of place doesn't it?

As it turns out, no. Not only is Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport the number one most Instagrammed location of 2012, but Bangkok's massive shopping mall, Siam Paragon, took second. Only then does the list become populated by the locations you might expect to see.

Ever wonder what the average age of professional photographers is?

Did you know that more photos are created every two minutes than in the entire 1800s? HighTable created this infographic that gives a quick overview of the state of the photography industry and the rise of mobile photography.

Earlier today Google gave a sort of “state of Google Maps” address to many of the biggest names in …

Facebook officially filed to become a publicly traded company today and, in doing …

Hope you guys had a good holiday season. Welcome to 2012! As is our tradition, here's our annual "state of the blog" post, in which we'll briefly share on how this blog grew in the past year and where it is now.

Smartphones are taking huge bites out of the compact camera market. A recent study by market research company …

Welcome to PetaPixel in 2011! The past year went by extremely quickly, and quite a bit has happened on this blog since our last "state of the blog" address post. In this post we're going to share some statistics about this blog for those of you who are curious or interested in this kinda thing.

The Washington Post just published an interesting article called “ …

Welcome to 2010! I can’t believe it’s been 8 months already since we …

Nikon recently conducted a survey called "Picture Yourself", and released some interesting findings today, a lot of which reveals things about the way people view themselves. The survey was conducted using random telephone dialing, and sampled 1000 Americans 18 and older.

In a post published on their blog yesterday, Tumblr revealed some interesting data on cameras and Canon lenses uploaded to the blogging service, presumably harvested from the EXIF data of each photo.