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The ‘Self-Five Selfie’ is the Web’s Latest Photo Craze

The latest photo trend taking over your Twitter feed this week is also quickly rising to the top of the Internet's "Reasons I Shattered My Smartphone Screen" list. It's been dubbed the "hands-free..." or "self-five selfie," and it's exactly as ridiculous as it sounds.

This Texas Town Erected a Selfie Statue

Over in Sugar Land, Texas, a town of about 83,000 people, there's a strange new piece of public art that has the world talking. Sitting right outside the city hall building is a new bronze statue of two girls taking a selfie.

This is How You Shoot a DSLR Selfie in Space

In space, you don't need a tripod or selfie stick to shoot a remote self-portrait. Nikon Iran recently posted this video of an astronaut in zero gravity placing his Nikon DSLR at arms length and then using the floating camera to snap a shot.

The Inevitable Monetization of the Selfie

The selfie. Generally maligned by anyone older than 30 as a narcissistic (and sometimes dangerous) pursuit, the selfie has become enmeshed with all forms of Millenial self-expression. The younger generation isn’t content to just photograph their surroundings, they need to be present in the image or video to enhance the authenticity.

The Panasonic GF8 is Basically a Selfie-Crazy GF7

Panasonic has just unveiled the new Lumix GF8, a mirrorless camera followup to the GF7 from last year. The GF7 was a entry-level camera geared toward selfies, and the GF8 takes that to the next level with even more selfie-focused features.

Judge Rules That Monkey Can’t Own Copyright to His Famous Selfie

It seems that there's finally some resolution in the curious legal battle between PETA and a photographer over whether a monkey owns the copyright to the viral selfies he shot back in 2011.

A federal judge in San Francisco said yesterday that he's planning to dismiss the case, ruling that the monkey cannot own the copyright to photos.

PETA’s Lawsuit Over a Monkey Selfie Copyright is Now Even More Bizarre

In September, the animal rights group PETA filed a lawsuit against photographer David Slater, arguing that the monkey who took a series of viral selfies with Slater's camera in 2011 should be the rightful copyright owner.

If you thought that was strange, get this: the legal battle has now evolved into a dispute over the pictured monkey's identity and gender.

Surveillance Video Shows Dangerous Photo Incidents on Train Tracks

Network Rail published a warning this week about the dangers of taking photos on railroad tracks. The company, which operates most of the rail network in England, Scotland, and Wales, also released a surveillance video that shows multiple dangerous photo incidents at a rail crossing that happened on in one day.