Artists have long used the golden ratio as a guide for creating aesthetically pleasing art, as it's believed that the human brain is hardwired to find the proportions inherently beautiful. Take a look at the work of legendary photographer Ansel Adams, and you may find the golden ratio tracing out many of their notable features.
Since 2015, the global photo sharing service EyeEm has allowed photographers in its community to offer their photos for sale through EyeEm Market and its partnership with Getty Images. Of all the photos that sold this year, here's a look at the most purchased.
The bedroom is one of the most personal spaces in a house, hotel, or any other kind of building. It’s a place where my imagination can go wild. When I stand in an abandoned bedroom I’d like to think, "What happened here?."
In addition to being one of the world's best-selling living musicians, Elton John is also a passionate collector of modernism photography. The 4.5-minute video above is a tour of John's impressive home gallery.
Cabramatta is not your typical Australian suburb. If you took a stroll through the streets of this south western Sydney hub you may feel like you are in southeast Asia. However, the suburb of Cabramatta is emblematic of modern Australia -- urban, busy and brimming with multicultural activity.
The prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest announced its winners today at the Natural History Museum in London. American photographer Tim Laman was named Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 for his photo titled "Entwined Lives" (shown above), showing the critically endangered Bornean orangutan above the Indonesian rainforest.
Google has announced a new update for Google Photos that brings four new features for finding, animating, and rotating your precious memories.
The children of wealthy people often flaunt their opulence through Instagram photos, spawning a popular blog called Rich Kids of Instagram. Now those Instagram users have an exclusive photo sharing app designed for them as well. It's aptly named Rich Kids, and it costs a whopping $1,000 per month to share photos through the service.
Google announced its new in-house Pixel smartphone this week, boasting that it has "the best smartphone camera ever." DxOMark agreed, giving the phone's camera a record-breaking score of 89. If you'd like a taste of the camera's quality, there are now sample photos showing how it performs in the real world.
Canon's recent patents suggested that the company is planning to add a digital display to its lenses, and today the first leaked photo of the actual display has emerged.
How many famous modern and historical photos are you able to recognize simply by hearing the nickname? Go ahead, read each nickname then try to picture the image in your head.
The Canon 5D Mark IV is about a week away from its expected announcement ... cue massive photo and specs leak.
The Kennel Club, the official kennel club of the UK and the oldest kennel club in the world, has just announced the winning photos for the Dog Photographer of the Year 2015 contest, the largest dog photography competition in the world.
Whoa. We got our hands on a sneak peek of Hasselblad's major announcement one day early. Thanks to a source, we now know that the camera will be the Hasselblad X1D, the world's first medium format mirrorless camera.
Apple just unveiled iOS 10 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Among the new features is a smarter Photos app for making, storing, sharing, and revisiting your memories.
The convergence of motion and stills in advertising productions has been on my radar for a while now. More and more, I’m being asked to create video content alongside stills productions for clients and, while this comes with many additional challenges that most clients aren’t aware of, I really enjoy shooting motion as much as stills and have tried to find ways to create both types of content that has a consistent look and feel that brands require for ad work.
Everybody seems to know what the next big camera from Fuji will be. Now that the X-Pro2 is out and performing admirably, we're waiting on the X-T2. And while we don't know exactly when it will arrive, a set of leaked photos are giving us our first real life peek at what the camera will look like.
For us sighted folk, it's difficult to imagine an image-less Facebook News Feed, where a screen reader tells you that your friend uploaded a photo... and nothing more. But thanks to Facebook's new "automatic alternate text" tool and the power of artificial intelligence, that reality is no more.
Editors like to say, "There are great pictures to be made right in your own backyard!"
Come to think of it, there really is a lot going on in my backyard, or at least in my Baltimore back alley. Fugitives from justice have fled down my alley, pursued by police helicopters. I once found a trail of blood that stretched for hundreds of yards. I followed it the whole way, and at the end found a guy with a badly cut hand sitting on a curb.
Dear Chris Hughes, thanks for sharing your beautiful photos and your experiences during a clash in the West Bank. The Israel-Palestine conflict is very controversial and often ends in simplified debates wherein the actions of the Palestinians are condemned and the Israelis defended, or vice versa.
For his project "Counterflow," photographer and visual artist Mauro Martins of Brasília, Brazil, created a series of composite photos showing people going against the flow in life by making their own path instead of following the masses.
In 1918, photographer Dorothea Lange left New York on a trip to travel the world. That ambitious trip was cut short by a robbery, and Lange ended up settling in the San Francisco Bay Area and opening a studio there. During the Great Depression, Langue took her camera out of the studio and onto the streets to document the country for the Farm Security Administration.
Los Angeles-based photographer David Zaitz created a series of humorous concept photos that can be described as "visual jokes."
"Once Upon a Dane" is an ongoing photo project that documents the "life and tales" of a Great Dane named Apollo.
Taiwanese model Heidi Yeh was 2 years into her career when she signed on for an advertising photo shoot for a plastic surgery clinic. What she didn't know at the time was that the resulting photo would damage her life and ruin her career.
The 2-minute BBC segment above tells the story of how Yeh's photo became a viral Internet meme and a story that went out of control.
Beachgoers in Argentina sparked outrage around the world last week after purportedly killing an at-risk baby dolphin by passing it around for photos. Now a similar video has emerged from Palm Beach, Florida, and this one is sparking new debate.
The 1.5-minute video above shows a man pulling a shark from the water and posing for photos with it before setting it free.
Zacharie Turgeon is a photographer based in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. While he normally shoots with a digital camera, Turgeon decided at the last minute to take his Canon 35mm film SLR on a recent trip to Asia. It turned out to be the best decision he made.
After his adventure, Turgeon turned the film photos and digital footage he shot and turned them into the wonderful 2.5-minute-long travel video above. It's titled "Analog Asia," and has been selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
A baby dolphin was killed in Argentina last week after beachgoers scooped it out of the water and passed it around for selfies. The incident has sparked outrage from animal rights activists and warnings from a wildlife foundation.
Founded in Manhattan in 1853, Steinway & Sons is widely considered to be one of the greatest piano makers in the world. Its grand pianos grace the world's grandest stages and are played by the best pianists.
Architectural photographer Chris Payne visited the company's factory at One Steinway Place in Astoria, New York, and created beautiful photos that document how raw materials are turned into some of the world's finest musical instruments. His project is titled "Making Steinway: An American Workplace."
If you're closely following the 2016 US presidential race, here's a blast from the past that may be interesting to you: these are photos of the major candidates from their teen years.
Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania is extremely high in soda and salt content. After animals die in the lake, their carcasses are preserved through calcification as they dry, resulting in petrified "mummies" of birds and bats.
Photographer Nick Brandt visited the lake and captured a series of photos that features these petrified animals. The series is aptly titled Petrified.
Official product photos of the soon-to-be-announced Canon 1D X Mark II have leaked onto the Web, giving us a glimpse of what Canon has up its sleeve for the next iteration of its flagship DSLR.
Peter Jamus is a traveling photographer whose portfolio is loaded with striking black-and-white portraits. Often surreal, the images explore light and shadows, lines and shapes, and the form of the human body.
There's a 22-year-old college student who's shaking up the world of political photography. His name is Gage Skidmore, and you've likely seen many of his photos without knowing it. He has captured and published tens of thousands of photos of virtually every major presidential candidate over the past few years, and his Creative Commons licensed photos are being used by the media and by politicians themselves.
Bogdan Gîrbovan is a photographer who lives and works in Bucharest, Romania, a city in which 70% of the housing consists of convenient cookie-cutter apartment blocks.
For his project 10/1, Gîrbovan selected one apartment building and shot portraits of the 10 different lives being lived in 10 identical apartments.
The children are always the most vulnerable but at the same time, the most resilient. Their young age makes them easy prey for sickness, abduction and trafficking and they often do not even understand why they have to leave their home. Nonetheless, these little human beings show impressive courage as they always are the first ones to regain their smiles.
Photographer Éric Lafforgue has spent years traveling the world to shoot documentary photos for well-known publications. He was even given rare access to North Korea, where he shot thousands of photos showing citizens and government officials going about their daily lives.
After his 6th trip to the country in September 2012, however, Lafforgue was banned by the government for the photos he was sharing online.
This week, the New York Public Library announced that it has released 187,000+ high-resolution digital images of public domain items in its collection.
Fujifilm helped popularize the retro camera aesthetic with its X-series line of cameras, and the next generation will continue that trend. The company is set to announce a set of new models later this month, and now photos and specs of one of them, the X70, have leaked ahead of the unveiling.
Germany is known to have some of the strictest privacy laws in Europe, and sometimes the policies trump photography rights and copyright. The country's highest court just ruled that a photographer must delete "intimate" photos of his ex-lover -- pictures that were consented to when they were created and which the man had no intention of sharing.