National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has spent decades diving around the globe, telling the stories of the world's oceans. For his latest projects, years in the making, he has been much closer to home, documenting the unprecedented -- and deadly -- changes happening in the Gulf of Maine, the waters Skerry grew up visiting as a child on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
What makes a great wildlife camera? Excellent image quality, lots of megapixels, strong autofocus performance, fast shooting speeds, robust build quality, and access to great telephoto lenses. The new Canon EOS R5 Mark II checks all these boxes, and then some.
It's been a while since my last entry into the ongoing "Wildlife on a Maine Pond" series, but it's not for lack of exciting wildlife activity. This entry will feature the debut of the animal I crossed my fingers for: baby loons.
The California Academy of Sciences has revealed the winners of its BigPicture Photography Competition which celebrates Earth's biodiversity and highlights the threats it faces.
When Outdoor Photographer shut down, it devastated landscape, nature, and wildlife photography enthusiasts. However, its spiritual successor, Wild Eye, has been unveiled and will publish its first issue in September.
A photographer from Wales has been fined $2,000 (£1,600) after he was found guilty of disturbing one of the U.K.'s rarest birds.
Canadian photographer Chris Whitty captured a rare white loon after spending years searching for it.
Nikon has done a great job providing a robust full-frame lens lineup for the Z-mount. There are so many choices that we thought it necessary to help narrow the field for you to this list of our favorite options across different focal lengths.
With just a month left before the annual Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards entry period ends, competition organizers have unveiled some of the best submissions so far. Like every year, these early favorites are a potent blend of hilarious animals and excellent photography skills.
"Medium Format cameras can’t shoot sports, action, and wildlife," they said. Well, maybe now they can.
May is a time of significant change across much of the northeast. There are newborn baby animals, unusual visitors, and much growth.
For me, the most enjoyable part of wildlife photography is not the photos themselves; it's being in nature. However, it is essential to do so safely, especially regarding the safety of wildlife.
Camera traps are instrumental for wildlife biologists and conservationists to monitor the health of animal populations. In some cases, camera traps even spot species that are seldom seen by people. In Java, Indonesia, a camera trap spied an adult Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) and her newborn calf -- a remarkably rare sighting of the critically endangered species.
41-year-old musician and school band director Michael Sanchez bought his first camera just a month ago. Last week, while trying to get nice sunrise landscape shots at Hug Point along the Oregon coast, Sanchez took photos of a small, dark-looking bird in the dim dawn light. While not initially realizing it, Sanchez had captured some of the only photos ever of a blue rock thrush (Monticola solitarius) in North American history.
For nearly as long as I've been taking pictures, I've loved photographing loons. They have offered countless hours of joy behind the lens, taught me lessons about photography and ecology, and helped me find weaknesses in the cameras I've spent my career evaluating.
Canadian nature photographer Liron Gertsman captured one of the best total solar eclipse photos PetaPixel has ever seen. Gertsman's remarkable wildlife photo, The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring, was years in the making and the culmination of research, hard work, practice, scouting, and a pinch of luck. After all, while you can control a lot, you can't control the weather.
Even though the historic flood plains of the once mighty Rio Grande have long been tamed by human dams and irrigation canals, birds keep returning annually to spend winter in the relatively mild climate of New Mexico.
Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the United States, having been established on March 1st, 1872. While Yellowstone is home to incredible landscapes and countless geothermal features such as Old Faithful Geyser and Grand Prismatic Spring, it is also a wildlife photographer’s paradise. This winter, OM SYSTEM Ambassadors Tiffany Taxis and Arthur Lefo visited Yellowstone in search of capturing incredible moments to add to their wildlife portfolio.
During a short visit to the beautiful redwood forests of northern California, I spent a morning photographing a Pacific Wren. My goal with this outing was to capture this tiny bird in its massive habitat and try my best with a few photos to show the scale of the huge forest.
A fish doorbell camera in Utrecht, the Netherlands has been captivating viewers all around the world who are looking out for any fish that need to pass through a boat lock in a Dutch canal.
The World Nature Photography Awards announced the winners of its 2024 contest, celebrating the best in nature and wildlife photography. British photographer Tracey Lund won the top prize for her stunning portrait of a pair of gannets swimming off the coast of the Shetland Islands.
A set of painterly trail cam photos capturing an epic fight between two golden eagles and a coyote over a deer carcass have gone viral.
Humans might have sheltered in place, but animals were on the move during the pandemic's lockdown days.
The National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme of the United Kingdom has a new tool to monitor the declining hedgehog population: artificial intelligence.
Nikon has long been a popular choice for amateur and professional wildlife photographers. Since the days of its film and digital SLR cameras, it has committed to engineering robust cameras with swift autofocus and making top-tier telephoto lenses. That same focus persists in the mirrorless age, perhaps even more.
In this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA), more than 14,000 incredible wildlife images were whittled down to a single grand prize winner, photographer Ryan Stalker.
A photographer in Tanzania captured a set of amusing photos showing a pride of lions snoozing on Caterpillar construction vehicles.
Nature photographer Henri Olckers spotted a leopard hiding in the tall grass in South Africa's Kruger National Park while driving past. The leopard is so well camouflaged that other visitors struggled to see it.
Nikon described itself as "passionate" about providing firmware updates to its users, and the company demonstrated this commitment yet again with Nikon Z9 firmware version 5.00, the fourth major update since the flagship mirrorless camera launched in October 2021.
Aerial drones have revolutionized the way visual artists can tell stories, and the burgeoning field of underwater drones has begun to achieve the same transformative power for aquatic photo and video.