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A new photo-sharing app closely linked to Bluesky has been launched in beta with thousands of users signing up immediately.
Matt Growcoot spent ten years as a news photographer in the UK, carrying out assignments for the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, and many others. Aside from shooting breaking news and Premier League soccer, he began to write as well, getting bylines as well as photo credits. Matt has since produced photography-focused books for Penguin Random House and dabbled with video too, with his story-led camera work seen on the BBC, ABC, and NHK.
A new photo-sharing app closely linked to Bluesky has been launched in beta with thousands of users signing up immediately.
Elon Musk says he has not put in a bid for TikTok, the popular social media platform that is facing a divest-or-ban law because of national security concerns in the United States.
The winners of Close-Up Photographer of the Year have been announced with an image of two stag beetles battling for dominance on an oak tree taking home the £2,500 ($3,100) cash prize and title of Close-Up Photographer of the Year 2024.
Meeting my friend in the corner of a traditional English pub, he slides the goods over to me on top of the table. "Here you go mate, I don't know if it will work. But good luck."
DJI has shed more light on its decision to get rid of "No-Fly Zones" saying it believes removing geofencing is vital for emergency services who rely on drones for their work.
Comet G3 (ATLAS) recently appeared in the skies above Earth: a rare celestial visitor that is thought to appear just once every 600,000 years. It lit up the skies of the southern hemisphere and has been dubbed the "Great Comet of 2025."
The Blue Ghost spacecraft that is soon to land on the Moon continues to capture jaw-dropping imagery from its position orbiting Earth, this time in the form of a spell-binding video.
Digital camera sales reached a nadir a few years ago but recent trends have proven there's still life in the old dog yet.
Scientists have discovered and photographed cave-dwelling "zombie" spiders that have been infected by parasitic fungi.
Disney and Marvel have denied using artificial intelligence on their movie poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps despite evidence to the contrary.
Watch the short talking head video below. Granted, it is in French, and close inspection of it may raise suspicions but perhaps caught unaware it could well fool people into believing it is a real video and not AI-generated.
British singer Ed Sheeran says he has ditched his iPad and swapped it for a compact camera “like it’s 1997."
A serendipitous photograph of a badger looking up at a graffiti of a gun-toting badger has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2024.
The Photo Brussels festival has embraced AI images by showcasing artists who use the controversial medium to tell stories in much the same way real photographers do.
Donald Trump has created a U.S. sovereign wealth fund via an executive order and suggested it could be used to purchase TikTok.
A new photography award established by iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz and philanthropist Lisa Saltzman has a hefty total prize fund of $20,000.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, says the company was slow in recognizing TikTok's massive growth because it wasn't seen as a true social media platform.
The co-founder of an influential video game company has pled guilty to flying his drone into a firefighting aircraft operating above the Los Angeles wildfires last month.
A Ring doorbell camera captured the moment a medical airplane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Philadelphia on Friday night.
The winners of the DPG Masters Underwater Imaging Competition, organized by DivePhotoGuide, have been revealed. Canadian videographer Eiko Jones has been named the overall winner for his film The Journey.
A tiger has had his eyes removed and eyelids sown shut with the drastic operation being blamed on excessive camera flashes while he was held in captivity.
New York magazine is under fire from some quarters for cropping out Black people from the photograph of a cover story about young President Trump supporters.
When an underwater videographer attached his Insta360 X4 camera to a fishing line to capture interesting footage he didn't reckon on it falling into the ocean.
Major League Baseball offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of a photo shoot for the upcoming video game MLB The Show, where cover star Paul Skenes fired 100-mile-per-hour pitches toward a photographer.
An optical illusion has been making its rounds on the internet -- tripping people out when they are told that there is no human in the picture.
The United States Copyright Office has issued a new report clarifying its stance on AI-generated artwork. Creatives using AI tools will now enjoy greater flexibility when seeking to register their works.
OpenAI says that the viral Chinese AI app DeepSeek may have siphoned off massive amounts of data to build its models.
Thousands of mounds and hills scattered across the Martian landscape offer yet more evidence of the planet’s wetter past, according to recent research.
Haggis is as Scottish as tartan and ginger hair. But many foreigners are clueless as to what haggis actually is and Scots are using AI images to fill in the blanks.
A satellite captured a remarkable image showing the summit of Mount Vesuvius peeking through a cloud blanket.
Microsoft is reportedly in talks with TikTok to buy the app, at least that's according to President Trump who also says he would like to see a bidding war.
A bride who attempted to shame two photographers for bad photos of her wedding received serious blowback from the internet after it was revealed she wasn't being totally honest.
A Reddit user discovered that the new Chinese LLM chatbot DeepSeek refuses to answer questions about the famous Tank Man photograph taken in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
The Chinese AI company DeepSeek -- which has sent shockwaves through the U.S. stock market this week -- has unveiled a new AI image generator that it claims can outperform OpenAI's DALL-E 3.
A grisly photo of hyenas eating a hippo in the Masai Mara has won the 2024 Photographer of the Year Award organized by The Society of Photographers.
A private spacecraft heading to the Moon has snapped an awesome photo of Earth -- showing the planet as a "blue marble" glowing against the vast emptiness of space.
The Australian Open tennis tournament finished up last night, and viewers of 2025's first Grand Slam tournament may have noticed something strange on the tournament's YouTube channel: the players were represented as Nintendo Wii-like characters.
A documentary that asserts Nick Ut did not take The Terror of War, better known as Napalm Girl, aired last night and named Vietnamese stringer, Thanh Nghe, as the photographer instead.
The Concorde was the fastest commercial airliner in history with an astonishing cruising speed of roughly 1,354 miles per hour otherwise known as Mach 2.04.
With "once-in-a-lifetime" snow falling in unusual places like Louisiana and Florida, what better time to get out a selection of historic snowman photos for PetaPixel's semi-regular feature: historical Fridays.
Trump's latest official portrait sparked plenty of discussion in the photo community. But exactly who is Daniel Torok? The new Chief White House photographer.
Instagram users may have noticed their profile grid is now displaying their photos in rectangle format rather than square. For some photographers, the change has wreaked havoc with their carefully curated profile.
Graphic designers have been complaining that the influx of AI-generated images on stock photo websites is "slowly ruining" them.
An elderly camera store owner in Florida fought back against two robbers who made off with over $6,000 worth of camera gear.
Dramatic before and after photos taken from a fixed-wing aircraft show the terrible damage wrought by the LA wildfires.
"When I saw Blue Velvet for the first time, it changed my life," wrote photographer Gregory Crewdson last week as he reacted to the news that famed director David Lynch had died at age 78.
OK Go, an American rock band known for making innovative music videos, have released yet another mind-bending video for their latest single A Stone Only Rolls Downhill involving 64 videos shot on 64 iPhones.
Astronaut Don Pettit has captured yet another fascinating picture from space showing a long exposure of a rocket launch hidden among the stars.
A rare shrew that has never been photographed before has finally been caught on camera thanks to the efforts of three young researchers.
The Brutalist is coming under criticism for employing artificial intelligence to fill in language gaps and generate a series of architectural blueprints.