Canon has partnered with an Australian university to bundle 10 Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS II lenses together into what they call the Huntsman Telescope to scout the skies from the Southern Hemisphere.
This is the terrifying moment a monster wave wipes out two people trying to take a selfie together at a scenic ocean spot in Sydney, Australia.
NanoAvionics sent a satellite into space with a selfie stick attached to a GoPro, which then transmitted back the world's first spacecraft selfie in 4K.
Australian photographer Ben Neale built an inflatable boat-plane to capture incredible aerial photos of remote areas of the Solomon Islands and the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
19-year-old Jodi Weisz has been named the overall winner of Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer 2022 for his documentary portfolio of contemporary youth culture.
While most people go out of their way to avoid snakes, we’re the opposite. We’re crazy about snakes. As wildlife photographers, we’ve spent months in the Australian bush and in overseas jungles tracking down beautiful snakes.
A Melbourne-based landscape photographer has revealed Australia's unique and often-unseen side by capturing aerial shots of the brief winter season that brings snow and ski enthusiasts together in a country rarely associated with winter scenes.
Amateur drone pilot and photographer Matt Woods was sitting on his balcony in Bondi Beach, Australia and decided to send out his Mavic 2 Zoom to perhaps capture an ocean vista, but instead found a spearfisherman grappling with what appeared to be an aggressive mako shark.
Advertised as a world's first, an Australian auction house has announced the sale of "Australia's most significant photographic collection," which will be accompanied by NFTs that will provide proof of ownership alongside the physical negatives.
News Corp Australia has reportedly laid off the last of its staff photographers and converted fully to using freelancers according to a new report. The last eight photographers were informed last week that their positions were being made redundant.
A Melbourne-based photographer is being called out online after a photo of his model consent form was shared on social media. The form includes several unsavory clauses, including a "sexual arousal" clause and an agreement to "participate in sexual activity" if the model feels "comfortable."
As part of a new "shark mitigation program," the organization Surf Life Saving NSW has begun operating special safety drones in 34 locations across New South Whales. Recently, one of these drones captured an extremely close encounter between pro surfer Matt Wilkinson and a nearby shark, warning him from above just as a shark was closing in from below.
As a weekend photographer and keen explorer of our natural spaces, I recently(ish) set myself a photo project of capturing every land-based national park in my home state of Victoria, located in the south-east corner of Australia. Visiting all 45 of them took two years of regular trips, outside work and other travels.
Here's a little comic relief for your Friday. In a recent video, the folks at Top End Safari Camp in Australia showed how they use one of their crocodiles to scare the daylights out of tourists while they pose for a group photo.
A couple of days ago, Canon Australia announced that it would be shutting down its online store, essentially ceasing direct sales on the continent. Why? According to Canon, they want to "support local retail partners" by sending customers their way.
In an attempt to make the best of a difficult year, the Australian Institute Of Professional Photography (AIPP) put on a unique photo contest. Called the "Silver Lining Awards," the competition didn't just highlight some of the best photography in Australia, it gave contestants a chance to improve their work before submitting final images.
Did you know there's such a thing as a "reverse waterfall"? Perhaps more appropriately called a water rise, the phenomenon is caused when extremely high winds batter a cliff face, and it happened over the weekend at Royal National Park just outside Sydney, Australia.
Over the past several days, more than 100 women have shared stories of harassment and assault at the hands on an "unnamed photographer." As the number of allegations grew, Australian music photographer Jack Stafford eventually went online and confessed to being the unnamed "abuser," apologizing for his actions and saying that he would be "cancelling" himself.
Australian accessory maker Lucky Straps seems intent on taking on Peak Design with their newly announced Quick Release System: a new buckle design that lets you quickly add or remove the company's camera straps without having to leave any kind of "dongle" attached to your camera.
US drone maker Draganfly—one of DJI's major competitors in the commercial camera drone space—is working with the Australian Department of Defense and University of South Australia to deploy special "pandemic drones" that can detect coughing, sneezing, respiratory rate, and even fever from a distance.
A researcher on Christmas Island—an Australian Territory in the Indian Ocean—is losing thousands of dollars worth of camera gear to theft and vandalism. But it's not humans that are to blame, her gear is being stolen and destroyed by the aptly named 'Robber Crab,' the world's largest arthropod.
The Australian Associated Press (AAP) has announced that it will be closing down in June, marking the end of the 85-year-old news agency and leaving many award-winning photojournalists out of a job as the Australian editorial landscape adjusts to the loss.
A teenager in New South Wales, Australia recently captured some drone footage that's somehow both benign and unsettling. While flying his DJI Spark over the beach, he spotted what appears to be a Great White Shark moseying by a pair of unsuspecting swimmers.
A wedding photographer in Australia is suing a wedding venue and styling company for over $500,000 after she slipped on a piece of fabric and shattered her knee—an incident she says could have been avoided and has cost her hundreds of thousands in lost work.
As bushfires consume nearly 20 million acres in Australia, killing 24 people and an estimated one billion animals, it seems somewhat trivial to contemplate which image will end up defining and representing this apocalyptic event – especially considering the dry season will continue for a few more months. The scope of the fires has been difficult to comprehend, and indeed, the world largely ignored the first two months of the conflagration.
An Australian wedding videographer landed on the national news this week after it was discovered that he was just a high school kid who severely misrepresented his experience level, charging clients $1,300 for shaky, sub-par footage that was nowhere near the quality level on display on his website.
A top portrait photo contest in Australia has sparked an outcry this week after awarding its $20,000 top prize to a "photo" of scratches and spit.
Fashion magazine Elle Australia has joined the ranks of Billboard and Conde Nast’s Traveller by becoming the first magazine in its genre to shoot a cover using a cell phone camera.
The Fujifilm GFX 50S's ISO invariance makes it so easy to shoot the Milky Way that it's not even funny. I was able to take an "impossible" shot, capturing the Milky Way in the middle of Sydney, during a light festival, without bracketing on the Milky Way. The sensor captured so much info on the highlights that this was possible.
Australian photographer Murray Fredericks has spent years visiting and photographing the salt flats at Lake Eyre, the lowest point in Australia. For his latest project, titled Vanity, Fredericks brought a giant mirror and created gorgeous, abstract landscape photos at dawn, dusk, and night.