Nat Geo Pictures of the Year Celebrates Most Powerful Photos of 2025
National Geographic has unveiled its annual Pictures of the Year, showcasing 25 incredible images that exemplify National Geographic's acclaimed storytelling.
National Geographic has unveiled its annual Pictures of the Year, showcasing 25 incredible images that exemplify National Geographic's acclaimed storytelling.
A big cat conservation group has captured footage of an extremely rare mountain cat that is native to the high Andes.
'Hot girls' of Instagram have begun a new trend which sees them using AI to add fake animals into their fashion photos.
The British Photography Awards 2025 brings together photographers from across the globe, presenting an extraordinary array of images that celebrate technical skill, creative storytelling, and a remarkable eye for beauty in all its forms. From sweeping landscapes and dynamic street photography to intimate portraits, wildlife encounters, and conceptual fine art, this year’s entries reveal the depth and diversity of contemporary photography.
Last year, when Nikon announced the Z6 III, it did not accompany it with a Z7 camera like it had the two previous times the series had been announced. At the time, I argued there wasn't really a need for it, but now a year later, I'm changing my tune.
War Toys has worked with the estate of the late, great photojournalist Dickey Chapelle to create a remarkably accurate and detailed 1:32 scale figure of the photographer. This figure, which includes Chapelle's trademark glasses, earrings, and Leica and Nikon cameras, will join a larger set of noncombatant figures for an educational board game that focuses on the people who work for peace in war and combat.
Film photography is popular for many reasons, but chief among them are color and grain: in short, the "vibe." Photographer Pablo Maraver spent the last year and a half focusing on the former, extensively using and testing 14 different 35mm film stocks to build a comprehensive guide to their color science.
A Saturday Night Live skit featuring actor Glen Powell has mercilessly mocked AI-edited photographs by playing on the inherent flaws of the technology.
Canadian photographer and talented camera hacker/builder Malcolm-Jay Wilson has combined two of his recent camera builds into a new black-and-white digital camera with a waist-level viewfinder, and it's fantastic.
A long-lost and unrecorded photograph of one of America’s most influential thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson has been discovered.
An underwater photographer is still locked in a 12-year court battle over his images of Blackbeard’s shipwreck, a case that tests a law shielding U.S. states from copyright claims.
Last week marked 107 years since the end of World War I. In the United States, the day is observed as Veterans Day, while in Britain it is known as Remembrance Day.
A wildlife photographer in South Africa captured a rare encounter between two of the most unlikely creatures: a dung beetle and a leopard.
A viral TikTok trend that has gained popularity over the last month has shocked many viewers, who call it bullying at the expense of the person being recorded.
World Press Photo is celebrating 70 iconic photographs taken over the past 70 years with a print sale: 70 Prints for 70 Years. Some of these shots have never been sold as prints before.
Paris-based photographer and filmmaker Mathieu Stern, known for his experimental photography and creative YouTube tutorials, has once again pushed the limits of lens experimentation. This time, Stern put wheels on a probe lens to create unique, super-low, moving POV footage.
Fotodiox, makers of some of the more niche adapters on the market, just announced another unusual option: an adapter that lets photographers mount a full-frame L-Mount camera to any 4x5 large-format camera with a supported Graflok back, opening new creative possibilities for landscape, architectural, and studio photography.
Satechi’s new OntheGo 7-in-1 Multiport Adapter brings seven essential ports into a compact, hockey puck-like portable hub for laptops, iPhone, tablets, and desktops.
With holiday sales starting early, photographers have a rare chance to stock up on fast, reliable memory cards from top brands, many at the lowest prices of the year.
As photographers using macOS know all too well, native macOS-level support for RAW image formats can be hit-or-miss, and new support can take months or years to arrive, sometimes never arriving at all. This means that photographers must rely on third-party software to process many RAW photos, and that support in Apple's own apps, like Photos, is spotty. However, not all is lost, as very talented engineers are working hard to overcome macOS's own RAW limitations.
The acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after being left "horrified" by a group photo taken by border patrol agents posed in front of his Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago.
Old Fast Glass (OFG), a specialty cinema camera lens maker and rental house, unveiled the OFG Customs Long Shot. It is a new optical adapter designed to enable cinematographers to use full-frame and larger cinema lenses on Super 16mm cameras, preserving not only the look of larger-format lenses but also their entire field of view.
The photographer involved in a heavily scrutinized Balenciaga campaign three years ago has filed a lawsuit against Drake, alleging that the rapper’s music video copied his work and attempted to connect his feud with Kendrick Lamar to the photographer’s role in that controversial fashion shoot.
A sports photographer had a disaster while sitting courtside at a college basketball game when a player fell into the crowd and came running back with a camera strapped to his leg.
Cosina Voigtländer released the APO-Lanthar 28mm f/2 Aspherical lens for full-frame Leica M-mount cameras in June, calling it its best wide-angle lens yet. This ambitious lens is now coming to Sony E-mount and Nikon Z-mount.
Sirui has launched Astra, a new series of 1.33x full-frame autofocus-equipped anamorphic cinema lenses. The new Sirui Astra lenses are the world's first full-frame anamorphic optics to combine autofocus with a constant, fast T1.8 aperture.
A harbor seal being pursued by a pod of killer whales managed to survive by unexpectedly jumping onto a photographer's boat.
We recently reported that the new WideluxX camera revival project has reached its prototype stage. Now, just a few weeks later, a video that the WideluxX's creators promised is available online, shedding more light on the upcoming camera.
When my colleague Jordan Drake swiped the Epson R-D1 series of digital rangefinders out from underneath me in our recent Fantasy Camera Draft, I was disappointed. But my frustration also got me thinking about why the Epson RD should return and become more than just a quirky bit of digital camera history. The Epson RD series deserves better.
It's becoming pretty normal to see Nextorage at the forefront of memory card technology, at least as it performs to guaranteed sustained performance in professional video settings. It was the first to land VPG800 certification and it has another first announced today: the only CFexpress card that is both VPG400 and VPG1600 complaint, simultaneously.
Animal photographer Tim Flach has taken hundreds of photos of cats and, through his time with them, finds himself asking questions about why they are so important to humans. He has partnered with scientists to find out exactly why they elicit the emotions they do, and how he, as a photographer, can better highlight those aspects of their form.
A 21-year-old National Geographic photographer has built an innovative amphibious camera system to capture the rapidly disappearing salt marshes in the U.S.
Reddit user Dycus built a camera using the sensor from an optical mouse. After about 65 hours of work, Dycus had a low-resolution black-and-white camera with multiple shooting modes, housed in a nifty 3D-printed body.
Sony quietly announced two new accessories, both of which are designed to offer protection in the field. The first is a soft cover for a single super-telephoto lens while the second is a rain cover that completely covers an Alpha camera and lens, protecting it from snow and rain while in use.
The Nikon ZR is an excellent video-first hybrid camera, as customers in Japan can attest. The Nikon ZR has topped Map Camera's list of best-selling new cameras in October, which is a spot very rarely held by a camera that prioritizes video nearly as much as the Nikon ZR does.
A veteran music photographer has lost his lawsuit with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame over the museum's "nearly exact" copy of his image of the band Van Halen.
A photographer was mauled to death by a pair of polar bears while taking pictures of the animals at a remote Arctic radar site in northeastern Canada.
Tamron has a long and illustrious history of making travel-zoom lenses with massive focal ranges. These lenses provide a maximum amount of convenience, but how much of a compromise needs to be sacrificed to make this all possible? The new $900 Tamron 25-200mm f/2.8-5.6 Di VXD G2 is set to make a mark on the travel-zoom industry.
The OnePlus 15 has arrived, ushering in a new era for the major Chinese smartphone company. The latest flagship phone marks the end of OnePlus' Hasselblad partnership, but instead of starting a new strategic collaboration with a different photo company, OnePlus is going it alone with a brand-new in-house mobile photography system: DetailMax Engine.
The Google app is set to receive a "new way to explore and organize images" via a brand new dedicated "Images" tab.
Aerial footage showing the aftermath of the First World War's Western Front in Flanders, Belgium, has been given new life after being remastered in HD and colorized.
While the DJI Neo 2 launched a couple of weeks ago in China, it's being officially announced today for the rest of the world. Well, most of the rest of the world, as the drone joins a long list of other DJI products that aren't officially available in the United States.
An Insta360 webcam is helping a man with ALS, a fatal degenerative condition that causes a person's muscles to atrophy, to live a better life and see his children.