Four cameras, seven lenses, and one Commonwealth Games. That was the equipment I brought to Glasgow 2026. Most days, however, only three cameras came with me to the competition venues. The fourth stayed at the hotel as a backup, unless I planned to use it as a remote camera.
We are all familiar with the social mandate of smiling for photographs. Every time someone points a lens at our mug, we are expected to give a wide, toothy smile. If you don’t comply, the photographer will quickly remind you with a religious “say cheese!”. Many years ago, it occurred to me that this practice was not only shallow but silly. Granted, a candid smile captured in photography can be telling and beautiful. On the other hand, a contrived smile for a photograph, not so much. Here …
Photographer Vilhelm Gunnarsson has been shooting the south coast of Iceland, showing a landscape that is battered by the relentless forces of the Atlantic Ocean.
Bright and joyful, energetic and optimistic, but also a sign of caution. Bold monochromes and subtle glows, conceptual pieces and documentary moments; yellow is a warning sign, a memory, a burst of light.
Photographer Lara Porzak, who has spent more than three decades using analog techniques to create photographs that function as both images and physical artifacts, has published her first book.
A photographer spent over a decade living with Black cowboys and cowgirls in the U.S., capturing a culture that is often overlooked.
More than half a century after they were captured on the streets of Toronto, photographer Brian Condron’s remarkable black-and-white photographs, most of them previously unpublished, are collected in a new book, Toronto in the Seventies: Photographs by Brian Condron.
Nikon has announced the winners of its 52nd annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. This year's winning photos celebrate the world's best and most captivating images captured through a microscope, showing the world in an up-close and unique way.
Exterior, interiors, facades, and friezes are all on display after the Architecture Photography MasterPrize (APMP) revealed its 2026 winners.
Remembering Giraffes is the latest book in the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series. It features images donated by world-leading wildlife photographers, such as Jonathan & Angela Scott, Marsel van Oosten, Frans Lanting, and Greg du Toit, in a stunning collection showcasing the world’s tallest mammal.
In Walking Blues, the acclaimed street photographer Alex Webb traverses some 40 cities across the United States, documenting moments of connection between communities with his signature eye for bold color and rhythm.
A photographer spent six years meeting more than 400 girls across the United States, inviting each to bring an object of personal significance, and capturing their portraits on film.
A camera is a powerful tool. It requires a careful blend of engineering, science, precision, and design, and what it lets us do is feel connected to our world and the people within it. It's also easy to take for granted how a camera comes to be when we fixate on what our camera can do for us, instead of how it was made possible in the first place.
A photographer has captured stunning photos of a majestic, ultra-rare white stag after a long search for him.
It's not quite Halloween yet. But people are getting freaked out by their parents' and grandparents' penchant for AI images of loved ones.
On an evening late in the season at Wrigley Field, a narrow beam of low sunlight reached the top step of the Chicago Cubs’ dugout. Pete Crow-Armstrong, the front-runner for National League MVP, was standing on that step, a spot he usually leaves to the team’s veterans, as the take-the-field video played. Team photographer Matt Dirksen saw the light land behind him. He had a few seconds to get the picture.
A photographer who captured a heartbreaking image of an elephant carrying a deceased calf has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 competition.
“It was a very unique project, to be sure.” With these words, Barbara Karant, a Chicago-based photographer specializing in architecture and interior design, as well as an author and educator, summarizes her immersion in the spaces of the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC), founded by Chicago media mogul John Harold Johnson during the Civil Rights Movement.
The Siena Awards Photo Festival is a sweeping image competition that touches on many different styles, disciplines, and genres of photography.
It is now easier than ever to type a few words into an AI generator and create a photorealistic image of something that never happened. So, when a photo goes viral, how do we prove that it is actually real? How do we prove a camera actually saw what is in the picture?
A stunning photo book explores the giant pandas of China and the country’s efforts to protect the endangered species.
Jim Wehtje is an American photographer and radiographic artist known for using X-rays to reveal the hidden internal structures of natural objects, particularly plants, flowers, and seashells.
Death in the Making by Robert Capa, first published in 1938, was a pivotal publication in photojournalism, taking a much closer and partisan look at the combatants of war.
Common Sense, one of the late photographer Martin Parr’s most ambitious and influential projects, will be presented at the Bristol Photo Festival this month.
The River Thames is one of the most famous rivers in the world, but what goes on beneath its waters? A YouTuber recently dropped a few cameras into the deep to find out.
A photographer has captured a magnificent timelapse of the Milky Way above New York City using infrared camera equipment.
Italian photographer Simone Marulli is at the very apex of aviation photography. PetaPixel spoke to Marulli about his incredible photos of planes, including commercial airliners and fighter jets alike.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has marked 5,000 Martian days on the Red Planet with a new panorama captured from a sandy ridge known as “Chocolatal.”
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil has been a hit at the box office and praised by critics, even if some fans of the video game franchise it’s based on have voiced their disapproval.
A bride and groom who strapped a GoPro to their dog Swayze during their wedding day are thrilled with the footage he shot.
January is widely considered the bleakest month of the year, and astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who is putting together his cosmic calendars for 2027, chose the first month to feature an unnerving glimpse into the future.
Photographer Kathy Shorr has spent 13 years documenting the devastating effects of gun violence in the United States.
An exhibition celebrates the work of George Hurrell, the defining portrait photographer of Hollywood’s 1930s and early 1940s, whose photographs still epitomize what we think of today as Hollywood glamor.
After 20 years of photographing fall color, I'm sharing the lessons that have helped me plan better outings, find stronger compositions, and build a more varied portfolio. Growing up in the Northeastern U.S., autumn has always been one of the times of year that draws me outside with its explosion of color and fleeting window of opportunity. Over the years, though, I've learned that creating great autumn photographs isn't simply about being in the right place when the leaves reach their peak.
What does it take to photograph action sports like the Red Bull Rampage from the edge of a cliff? A lot!
A National Geographic photographer has captured what's believed to be the first-ever footage of a great white shark snatching a fish off a line.
A photographer has retraced the route that William the Conqueror took across England after the Norman duke landed on the southern coast in 1066.
National Geographic's newest documentary series, Africa: Earth's Wild Home, is among its most ambitious to date. The seven-part series is the first in a new multiyear natural history franchise for National Geographic, and features cutting-edge camera technology across the board. PetaPixel spoke to showrunner Gavin Boyland about the incredible diversity of place, subject, and cameras in the new series.
A photographer spent the past two years dreaming of a special image of the total solar eclipse that took place in Spain this summer. She has finally completed her masterful work.
The winners of the Dog Photography Awards 2026 have been announced, a contest that seeks to showcase the most exceptional dog photographs from across the globe.
Qualcomm thinks it has something big in its 6th-generation Snapdragon mobile device processors that we’ll see in phone cameras in the coming months and years. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 were headliners at the company’s annual Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, both built on a 2-nanometer process and promising imaging performance that pushes what phones can deliver.
Photographer Kelly Conlin has made multiple visits to Cuba of late, finding that the country is currently in the midst of a crisis.
Brazilian photographer Kiko Fairbairn planned his total solar eclipse trip and photos in northern Spain for over a year. But you can only plan so much from thousands of miles away. The photographic search truly began when Fairbairn arrived in Spain, and his hard work paid off in a big way.
What's in my camera bag for fall color? Here's the gear I use for autumn landscapes, wildlife, macro photography, and video. Hopefully, seeing what I bring along will inspire you to add something useful to your own kit or approach your fall color photography a little differently this autumn.
Kesi is not an easy word to say for an English speaker (it's pronounced kooh-su), but the art form is recognizable to most Westerners who have even a passing interest in Chinese culture.
A three-and-a-half-year camera trap survey of South Africa's wild cheetah population has found there are far fewer of the spotted big cats than previously thought.
Everything feels like a blessing when you make the dreams in your head a reality. This is certainly true for former elite tennis player turned photographer, Mathieu Forget.
The Natural Landscape Photography Awards (NLPA) has announced its latest winners, a collection of beautiful landscape and nature photos that emphasize realism and authenticity.
By some strange turn of fate, I found myself sitting on a camera case, face-to-face with a 500-pound tiger from less than a foot away. I could feel his breath on my skin, and more than once, that same breath fogged the front element of my lens as I photographed him.
One of the world's fanciest hotels has enforced a photography ban after social media-obsessed guests spent more time snapping their food than eating it.
