Passport Photos of Apes in Cameroon
James Mollison's project James & Other Apes features an interesting series of ape portraits shot in Cameroon.
Blizzard Short Shot with Canon 7D Deserves to Win Oscar, Says Ebert
"Man in a Blizzard" is a short film shot by Jamie Stuart during the recent NYC blizzard that film critic Roger Ebert believes to be deserving of an Oscar.
Photo-opoly: A Custom Monolopy Board Game Using Your Own Photos
Photo-opoly is a Monopoly clone in which you use 22 of your own photographs for "property". An fun idea might be to print out your friend's photographs, customize the game with them, and give it to them as an awesome photo gift. You can pick one up for $27 over on Amazon.
Shoot Time Lapse Photos with Any Camera Using a Motorized Finger
Time-lapses are usually created using intervalometers -- devices that electronically trigger the shutter on a camera at set intervals for long periods of time -- but what if you don't have a camera that can use one? If you're good with your hands, you can create a mechanical "intervalometer" that uses a motorized finger to trigger your shutter instead. Instructables member Constructer wrote up a pretty neat tutorial showing how you can build one yourself.
Voltron Star Shooter Masquerades as an Ordinary SLR Camera
If you're looking to get your kid hooked on photography from an early age, giving them this Voltron Star Shooter toy might be a good place to start. Made in 1985, it starts out as an innocent looking SLR camera but transforms into a beastly Voltron action figure. The best part of it is that it's actually a working 110 camera, even though the big SLR lens on the front is fake (the real lens is above it). This brings new and awesome meaning to the term "toy camera".
The Incredible Story of Vivian Maier
In 2007, 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof purchased a box filled with 30,000 negatives from an estate sale for $400. After being stunned by the quality of the street photographs, Maloof began digging and discovered that they were created by a nanny and street photographer named Vivian Maier.
State of the Blog: A Look Back at 2010
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.