While there are still six weeks left to submit entries, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has published the front-runners for its 2021 competition that includes a pouting boxfish from Curaçao and a laughing lion from Tanzania.
Picking the wrong camera lens can lead to unintended consequences in your resulting photos. Case in point: this new photo of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden meeting with former president Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
After taking a break last year -- April 2020 was no laughing matter -- we're back again today with a roundup of the best April Fools' Day jokes from around the world of photography.
A newly discovered vulnerability in the 4.x Bluetooth wireless standard has been shown to affect cameras that implement full remote control functionality. Demonstrated as viable in proof-of-concept laboratory testing, researchers believe that the exploit has the potential to either physically damage cameras or render them inoperable.
Non-fungible tokens in cryptocurrency have made a splash in the art world in recent days. If you're out of the loop and don't have time to read an in-depth explainer on what NFTs are, check out this humorous 3.5-minute Eminem rap parody by Saturday Night Live that will bring you up to speed (maybe).
Khloé Kardashian is taking to social media to defend her fashion label's latest ad campaign, explaining to critics that the photos weren't a "Photoshop fail" -- they were simply shot with a wide-angle lens.
You missed out on that big first wave of Instagram stardom, you jumped on YouTube too late and now your Facebook page’s dwindling audience lives exclusively in Murmansk.
New Zealand has released a humorous new tourism commercial that pokes fun at the tired old Instagram clichés that tourists on the island nation flood social media with. The 2.5-minute ad above is titled "Travelling Under the Social Influence."
One of the most widely published photos shot during the inauguration of Joe Biden this week doesn't feature Biden at all, but rather Senator Bernie Sanders sitting in isolation while wearing a big coat and homemade mittens. In case you somehow missed it, the photo has taken on a life of its own as a viral Internet meme.
After rioters stormed the US Capitol last week, one of the surreal photos that emerged showed a smiling man walking off with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern in the Rotunda. Then things got even more bizarre: people began calling for "Via Getty" to be arrested for his actions.
Neil Kramer has spent close to a year quarantining with his ex-wife and mother in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom Queens, New York City rent-controlled compact apartment. This has produced a sitcom of chaotically humorous photographs that are actually based on real-life situations that have occurred while they are holed up.
Adobe Photoshop's social marketing team has a witty sense of humor. Twitter today asked users to summarize 2020 in one word. @Photoshop's reply: "Masking."
If you ever find yourself getting low to the ground to try and get the perfect shot of a horned animal, be sure to protect what's valuable to you. A BBC cameraman found out what can happen if you don't, as you can see in this short viral clip above.
AI cameras have come a long way when it comes to object recognition and tracking, but sometimes the "intelligence" can fail in humorous ways. At a recent professional soccer match in Scotland, the AI broadcast camera tasked with tracking the soccer ball kept getting distracted by the sideline referee's bald head.
It's photography awards season, but no matter how spectacular the Nature, Astrophotography, Wildlife, and Macro award winners are each year, we tend to look forward to one competition above and beyond the rest: The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. And this year, they absolutely deliver the goods.
If you need a bit of comic relief on Monday evening, this short parody by YouTuber MasterChiefin1 has you covered. It's an ode to "the high school photographer," that one person who "thought they were put on this Earth to take photos and think deeply." Given our audience, there's a good chance a few of us were this person.
Around the time I was applying to college in 1980, Time magazine ran a short piece about the college application process (coincidentally, at Brown); in it, they described an applicant who had soaked her application in water, then let it dry completely, so it got warped.
Harry Potter fans waited for hours on Monday at a train station in Scotland to see and photograph the iconic Hogwarts Express steam train as it passed through. Just as it was rumbling by, however, a commuter train decided to block the view. The "devastating" (yet hilarious) photobomb was captured in this 1-minute video.
A surprise proposal on the Brooklyn Bridge went viral this past weekend, but not for the reasons you might think. The photographer on hand to capture the special moment kind of upstaged the couple when he got run over by a cyclist just as the bride-to-be was about to say "yes."
It's that time of year again. Our favorite time of year. The time of year when we get to share the finalists (and eventually the winners) of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. A chance to remind ourselves that wildlife isn't always so majestic... sometimes it's downright silly.
Retoucher Pratik Naik and his co-workers at Infinite Tools have released a fun (and free) little side-project that you might want to get in on. It's called the "Infinite Jokes Panel" and it's a Photoshop add-on that will read you jokes, puns, and condescending statements about your photo editing abilities while you work.
Conservation photographer and wildlife tracker Jeff Wirth was reviewing the photos on a camera trap he had set up when he was surprised with this unexpected shot: an unknown man who had spotted the camera and decided to strike a pose.
*Checks calendar* ... Nope, it's not April 1st. There really is a "Potato Photographer of the Year 2020" contest, judged by the likes of Martin Parr, and they really did just reveal the winners of the contest earlier this week.
A nursing home in England has come up with a fun and clever way to lift its residents' spirits during the COVID-19 pandemic. They've been taking turns recreating the photos found on iconic album covers.
Professional photographer and YouTube Jessica Kobeissi recently decided to take on some of the viral "DIY photography hacks" that she's seen online, and see if they work as expected... or at all. As you might imagine, for the most part, the answer is "not really." But it makes fur a fun video actually investigating these hacks.
What if the gangsters in crime movies battled it out with cameras instead of guns? That's the premise of this new 5.5-minute parody short film titled "Camera Wars."
There's a beautiful million-dollar house for sale in the forested town of Felton, California, that's attracting a huge amount of attention for an unusual reason: its real estate photography features bigfoot.
During our COVID-19 shelter in place lockdown, I took portraits of my son's outfits that he would put together for homeschool.
The comic (or is it sadistic...) minds over at DPReview TV have put together a lens cleaning guide that somehow manages to be three things at once: informative, comical, and extremely painful to watch.
A wedding photographer is being roundly praised on social media after digitally dying the dress worn by the bride's new mother-in-law. Apparently the groom's mother wore a white gown, and the bride was having none of it.