NASA has released another Blue Marble photograph of Earth. It calls this one the "most amazing, highest resolution image of Earth ever". The image is a composite created from a number of photos of Earth's surface captured on January 4, 2012, and weighs in at a massive 64-megapixels (8000x8000). You can download the full-res version here. Be warned though -- it might crash your browser.
Yesterday we wrote that Steve Jobs had been interested in Lytro's novel camera technology during the final years of his life.
Photographer Martin Schoeller traveled to the annual "Twins Days Festival" in Twinsburg, Ohio to photograph pairs of identical twins in his trademark close-up style.
Last week we featured an amazing video by a girl named Madeline who documented 2011 by recording 1 second of footage from each day. The video above by Sam Morrison is similar: Morrison's father bet him $100 that he couldn't do a backflip every day of 2011, so he made it his New Year's resolution to do so. After successfully completing the project, Morrison created the video above showing his favorite flips. The 365 individual videos can be viewed on this Tumblr page dedicated to the project.
If you're a photographer in the UK, you might want to think twice about shooting and selling a photograph that has a similar composition to an existing photo. Souvenir company Temple Island Collection has won a copyright infringement case against tea company New English Teas after a photo of a red London bus was used on tea packaging. Photo copyright expert and lawyer Charles Swan states, …
Creating tiny planets by projecting panoramic photographs onto a sphere is something you've probably seen before, but Dutch photographer Wouter van Buuren creates his planets a bit differently. rather than shoot panoramas from the ground, van Buuren climbs to the top of towers, cranes, skyscrapers, and bridges and points his camera in every direction below. He then takes the resulting photographs and arranges them into compact worlds.
