If you're always on the hunt for limited edition photobooks and have ultra-deep pockets and bookshelves, here's one for your collection: the The Sistine Chapel. It's a giant $22,000 trilogy that contains views of the Sistine Chapel's art captured in gigapixel glory through 270,000 individual photos.
Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom paid a visit to the Pope at the Vatican yesterday. The photo sharing tycoon and the leader of the Roman Catholic Church chatted about the power of photography.
Having already racked up more than 3 million followers on Twitter, Pope Francis is ready to spread some photographic love soon with a full-on Instagram presence, according to Vatican sources.
Benedict XVI officially resigned yesterday after eight years as the Pope of the Catholic Church. The Vatican decided to commemorate his papacy by publishing a digital photo album to its website. It's a serious set of photos that marks a serious occasion, but it's attracting attention for the wrong reason: most sites that are reporting on it seem to be focusing on the font selections rather than the images themselves.
The text in the album is Comic Sans and the watermarks on the photos are Papyrus.