A humorous pet photo contest has named the naughtiest pets in the United Kingdom. A one-year-old puppy named Laya was crowned as the overall winner after she was caught with a guilty look on her face with destroyed couch pillows and feathers all over the floor around her.
Michele McNally, The New York Times director of photography and top newsroom manager over a 14-year tenure who saw the publication win six Pulitzer Prizes for photography, has died. She was 66.
Scientists behind China's Yutu-2 rover say they have discovered "translucent glass globules" on the far side of the surface of the moon. Roughly a centimeter in diameter, they were discovered by the panoramic camera on the rover.
The United Kingdom's leading wedding website and app Hitched has joined forces with photographers Kim Williams and Caroline Goosey to release a Safer Weddings Manifesto to initiate a change in the wedding industry and protect suppliers from harassment and abuse.
Is this photo worth $10 million? Prince Andrew thinks so, or at least reports indicate that his out-of-court settlement with Virginia Giuffre will cost somewhere north of $10 million. The figure makes this image perhaps the most costly single photo in the world.
Instagram has announced that it is adding automatic captions to videos uploaded to the platform. The feature follows TikTok, which has enabled auto captions since last April.
Award-winning American photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been on assignment in Ukraine for the New York Times documenting the war as it unfolds, from the tragic loss of human life and homes to the poignant bravery of Ukrainians.
White House and New York Times photographer Doug Mills has captured seven different presidents through his lens. In a short video interview with Today, he discusses his time behind the lens covering some of the most powerful people on Earth.
The Canon Institute for Global Studies, a Canon Inc. think tank, has come under pressure to remove multiple articles from a researcher who refers to the climate crisis as "fake news" and who has publicly called Greta Thunberg a communist.
More than 11 years after it first launched and Instagram still has no native iPad app. Adam Mosseri, the company's head, says that fact isn't likely to change any time soon.
There's a classic meme on the Internet of Spider-Mans pointing at each other. The three Hollywood actors who have most recently played the famous comic book web-slinger on the silver screen recently got together and recreated the meme in a photo captured by photographer Matt Kennedy.
The James Webb Space Telescope has reached another major milestone in its mirror alignment process as the team has successfully worked through the second and third phases of the process and completed Segment Alignment.
Regis and Kahran Bethencourt of Creative Soul Photography have shot a series celebrating the history of Black hairstyles from the end of the 19th century to the present... and even predicting the future.
When not covering presidential rallies for international news agencies I also photograph artists, especially ballet. I've been photographing the professional ballet company of Charlotte, North Carolina, for 17 years now.
Hubble has captured a stunning photo of two interacting galaxies that likely passed through one another, which caused them to ignite in a "frenzy of starbirth."
Russian tennis star Andrey Rublev wrote "No War Please" on a live television camera just moments after he won his match and advanced to the final at the Dubai Championships.
Yellowstone National Park was established as the United States' first national park in 1872. To celebrate its 150th year, National Geographic has published a series of photos captured over that time of what is often called America's Wonderland.
After significant backlash, the Associated Press pulled plans to offer a video of a boat overcrowded with migrants as an NFT. The situation has called into question the ethics of selling photojournalism at all.
Photography -- is it a lucrative and glamorous job filled with travel, a hobby with an eye-watering amount spent on unnecessary gear, or something in between? Photographer Niels de Kemp pokes fun at the different misconceptions people have about what photography is all about in this humorous 2.5-minute tongue-in-cheek sketch.
Instagram has quietly eliminated the lower tiers of its daily usage time limits. The 10 and 15-minute options are gone, replaced with 30 minutes as the minimum. The app also gives priority placement to the three-hour limit option.
The iconic logo of the lady holding the torch that you currently see at the beginning of every Columbia Pictures movie was born in the apartment of Pulitzer Prize-winning New Orleans photographer Kathy Anderson in 1991.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But I wonder, what else do “they” say? In order to find out, I’ve culled together the best photography quotes on the subjects of photographs, cameras, inspiration, and more, as said by some of history's most famous and talented photographers.
Snapchat has announced that users will be able to change their usernames without having to create an entirely new account. Snapchat previously did not allow this due to "security reasons."
NFL star quarterback Matthew Stafford is being slammed on social media for his reaction to seeing a photographer fall off a high stage during the Los Angeles Rams' Super Bowl victory parade and rally. The woman broke her back and her camera equipment.
Anete Lusina has been a news, features, and reviews writer with PetaPixel for about a year and brings her talent for street and wedding photography to frame many of the stories you see here.
Sony has announced that 35mm, a post-apocalyptic photography game originally launched for PC in 2016, is coming to the Playstation 4 in March. The story follows two travelers as they try and survive and document their harsh world.
A viral photo posted by NFL player Prince Amukamara highlights a well-documented problem with photography: cameras have historically been particularly bad at correctly metering for darker skin tones. In this case, Amukamara nearly completely disappears from a group photo.
Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, photographers at the Olympics need to deliver their images as quickly as possible. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Getty Image’s photo editing team is mainly remote and the agency has shared how that system works.
Instagram has announced a change to Stories: instead of all reactions automatically appearing in the recipient's inbox, users can now like a Story without sending a message and all likes can only be visible to the Story owner.
Pidgeon, formerly Lensii, is a photo-sharing app designed to take on Instagram. Its founder says it will run on a freemium model and will never play host to the annoying onslaught of ads that plagues the app it's meant to replace.
The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta for its use of facial recognition, alleging Facebook collected the biometric data of millions of Texans without consent. The state is reportedly seeking damages that could exceed $500 billion.
Researchers have managed to double the power generated from a fusion reaction, a record that has been in place for the last 25 years. A camera mounted inside the chamber shows the major breakthrough in reproducing the power of the sun.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space, piercing the thick clouds that obscure the planet.
Using an open-source AI-colorization technique, Glamourdaze has restored early 20th-century footage to add color and relatability allowing viewers to travel back in time and look at hundred-year-old clips through a modern perspective.
Cent, the NFT marketplace most well known for selling an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9 million, has halted most transactions due to widespread fraud.
A photographer has learned a painful lesson on not sitting too close to an amateur golfer's tee shot after the celebrity "athlete" shanked his swing and sent the ball right into the sitting photographer. It was all caught on camera.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) uses deep-sea remote-operated vehicles (ROVs) to capture footage of some of the strangest, weirdest creatures that exist in the deep sea.
Google+ as a public social media website was shut down in 2019, but Google had kept it going as a shadow of its former self for enterprise clients in the form of Google Currents. Today, Google says that shambling corpse will finally be allowed to die for good.
The James Webb Space Telescope is currently in the midst of the months-long mirror calibration process before it starts to capture in-focus images, but NASA has released the first photo it took that verifies it is in great working condition.
A new bipartisan bill has been introduced into the United States Senate that takes aim at algorithmic-based feeds like those on Facebook and Instagram. The bill would direct two government agencies to investigate ways to add friction to content sharing.
The contest winner who submitted the winning design for Croatia's upcoming Euro coin has withdrawn his entry and returned the prize money after it was revealed that it bore a striking resemblance to a photo taken by a Scottish photographer in 2005.
Instagram has announced that the ability to bulk delete or archive posts, stories, IGTV, and Reels is rolling out to all users starting today along with additional new account controls.
Meta has published a blog post that takes aim at the language used to report that it "threatened" to pull Instagram and Facebook out of European countries if the rules around data transfers were changed.
A Sony camera went viral last week after it was caught by NBC tumbling all the way down a ski slope at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. It turns out that camera survived the accident to shoot another day.
A photographer has documented his experience of testing positive for COVID-19 in Hong Kong and then being locked for over two weeks in the city's "COVID jail" thanks to some of the strictest isolation protocols in the world.
A new report alleges that the NFT marketplace has a "wash trading" problem. That is, people who buy their own NFTs in order to drive up their prices that a real buyer would mistakenly believe is a history of increasing value.
Meta might shut down Instagram and Facebook in Europe if the company isn't allowed to process data from its European users on its U.S.-based servers, a change that is currently under regulators' scrutiny.
It took two women and a pair of viral Instagram posts to start an industry-wide conversation about the sexism and abuse wedding photographers regularly experience while doing their jobs. Thousands of other people's accounts, shares, likes, and comments later, where does the industry go from here?
A parrot in New Zealand has become Internet famous after stealing a tourist family's GoPro camera and flying away to capture some gorgeous views of a national park.
The National Institute for Dementia Education has published the results from a study that shows discussing past events along with photos of those events improved medication compliance and general cognitive performance of those with dementia.
