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What you see here are portraits created by taking photographs of women in 40 different countries and averaging them with Face Research software. These are the most neutral faces for various nationalities.

Does Google Street View count as photojournalism? That's the question that's being discussed on the Interwebs after photographer Michael Wolf was given honorable mention in this year's World Press Photo contest for a series of photographs made using Google's Street View. "A Series of Unfortunate Events" contains photographs created by Wolf of unique scenes found in Google's street imagery, which is captured by Google using special camera-equipped vans driven down streets.

You know you’re a professional photojournalist when you try to take good care of your cameras but they still …

Think it’s difficult to muster up enough courage for street photography? At least strangers don’t eat you! This wildlife …

Rockie Nolan captured these beautiful photographs of vintage cameras placed next to matching …

One of the many thank you notes Leah Dieterich has on her “thank …

Remember Wafaa Bilal, that NYU professor that decided to have a camera implanted on the back of …

You might have framed photographs up in your home, but what about using an entire wall to show off your pictures? Photographer Lyanne Wylde turned her hallway into a photo wall by putting up wallpaper with frames and slowly filling in the frames with her own photographs. You can buy the wallpaper, titled "Frames", yourself from Graham & Brown for $45 a roll and start your own wall!

What would a calendar look like if the world was run by photography geeks? Photographer …

What would it look like if you tripped and with a Pentax Spotmatic F camera in hand, and it somehow smashed neatly into its most basic components? Artist Todd McLellan gives us an idea by taking one apart, neatly arranging it on a table, and photographing it in a style similar to Carl Kleiner's IKEA baking book shots.

Pete Eckert didn't start out too seriously in photography. Trained in sculpture and industrial design, he was working as a carpenter when one day a doctor diagnosed him with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye condition that leads to permanent blindness. He eventually discovered photography and has been doing amazing work since. The beautifully made video above sheds light on how he goes about creating art despite his visual impairment.

We’ve featured a Brownie camera clock in the past, but that one was a custom-made gift. Minnesota-based …

A new limited edition Pentax K-r has emerged to steal the award for “ugliest looking DSLR” from the …

If you're not content with having a massive telephoto lens for your DSLR camera, you can get one for your cell phone as well! The Conice Zoom Lens is a 6x lens for the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S, or Sony Xperia 10 that makes your phone look absolutely ridiculous.

You can now visit some of the most famous art museums in the world the same way you visit streets in the Street View of Google Maps. Art Project is a new Google website that uses Street View technology to make 17 top museums accessible to people who might not otherwise visit them.

Flickr user Chris Devers recently found that one of his photographs had been used by The Gap as a design for children's clothes (here and here). The photo itself was published under a Creative Commons license requiring attribution, non-commercial use, and no derivative works -- usage conditions that were completely ignored.

When Mirco Wilhelm tried to log into his Flickr account yesterday, he was surprised to find that his 5-year-old Pro account with roughly 4,000 photographs had completely vanished. It then dawned on him that only a week earlier he had reported another account for posting stolen photographs.

Beth Blafka (known as bethtastic on Etsy) makes hand casted resin bangles that …

Ann Arbor-based physician and photography-enthusiast Stephen Rosenblum was visiting the Breckenridge International Snow …

Digital hyper-realist artist Bert Monroy spent four years creating an incredibly detailed Times …

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner (February 14th, to be exact), and if the special person in your …

Big, expensive television cameras aren’t the only kind recording the action at the Australian Open. During the Federer vs.

Samsung recently partnered up with viral marketing agency The Viral Factory to launch 200 paper airplanes carrying SD cards from the edges of space. We first reported on this experiment back in September of last year, but they followed through with the plans and just published this video this week showing how they accomplished it. The balloon was launched in Germany, and each SD Card carried a message for the finder to prove how durable they are.

Enda O’Donoghue finds photographs of people taking self-portraits through social networks and blogs, and recreates them as paintings after finding the owners and requesting permission.

Canadian artist James Birkbeck shot this creative photo wearing paint to look like a van Gogh self-portrait painting.

Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator but it can still be …

Freelance designer Kim Neill had the awesome idea of creating Pantone Chip cookies, and stuffed some Pantone tins full of them as gifts for her clients. Needless to say, they were a hit, and she soon began receiving requests for refills.

Meet the Roulot’ographe, a Luxembourg-based mobile trailer that doubles as both a giant …

Redditor and DeviantArt user mygrapefruit took Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous photograph V-J Day in Times Square and colorized it, giving us a glimpse into what the photo might have looked like had Eisenstaedt used color film.

Forget those fake plastic (but wildly popular) mugs that look like Canon lenses, there's a one of a kind custom lens cup made from a real $1,300 Canon 300mm f/4 L lens being auctioned on eBay. Kai over at DigitalRev had an accident while shooting a video about the lens and, instead of tossing it out, they decided to convert it into a cup and auction it off for charity (all proceeds will go to help victims of the recent Australian flooding).

Julio César Assis is a hardcore Canon fan. To show his loyalty to the brand and his allegiance to fellow Canonites, he decided to have the logo tattooed on his bicep.

Ordinary DSLR cameras too big and bulky for you? Check out the CHOBi CAM ONE, a DSLR-style toy camera the size of an eraser that actually has lenses you can swap in and out. It shoots 1600×1200 still photos and VGA video at 30 frames per second.

Derick Childress spent three nights shooting a massive light painting photograph with the message “Emily, will you …

Just last month we featured a video showing what life is like for a broadsword, and now …

Utku Can over at Mint Digital had the fun idea of turning an iPod Nano into the world's smallest gallery for displaying Instagram photographs.

3D is a hot new fad, but the fact that viewing things in 3D often requires special glasses is …

Alexandra Pacula paints beautiful oil paintings of cities at night that look like blurry, long-exposure photographs.

Creating plexiglass clones of your Polaroid photos is a classy way of showing them off, but Lori Andrews' (aka the 10 cent designer) has an equally awesome method: she picked 154 of her favorite Polaroid pics and had them neatly framed under glass for her kitchen.

There's an old beat up Leica MP-36 being sold by a reputable seller on eBay (8533 feedback score with 99.4% positive) for the staggering price of $104,000. What's strange is that the details provided in the listing are quite sparse. The page includes a few photographs and the description,

Peter Lik, a self-taught Australian landscape photographer, has sold one of his photographs …

Flickr member Deeepa Praveen 4-year-old pro account was deleted recently without any warning …

You know that roaring lion in the logo shown before MGM movies? That's Leo the Lion, and the behind-the-scenes photograph shown above provides an interesting glimpse into how they shot him. He must have been a pretty well-trained lion to have the discipline to stand on boxes, face a camera, roar into a microphone, and not attack the crew.

By 2053, cameras are going to become so automated that they start thinking for themselves, and then realize that …

This is a low budget music video directed by sixtwelve for the song "The Better Man" by Cayetano, and filmed with a Canon 5D Mark II. The story centers around an old Polaroid 636 received as a birthday present.

Here’s a short and very interesting behind-the-scenes documentary with Scott Schuman, who has …

This crazy looking camera-gun is actually a Nikon D200 attached to a rifle stock. The Tactical Camera Long Range …

The stories are often the same -- you spend some time saving up money for the perfect piece of gear that you've spent hours reading reviews about and comparing. You finally order it, and spend some days checking the tracking information every few minutes to see if your package is still traveling according to schedule.

It’s interesting (though some might say infuriating) to see how photographers are depicted in some police training videos. Lesson …

Kodachrome film officially died at the end of last year when the last developer — …