NASA has shared some of its top images of 2024 featuring faraway galaxies, leaf peeping from onboard the International Space Station (ISS), and the space agency's ongoing mission to make interplanetary travel a reality.
These rare mugshots taken in December 1872 show Victorian thieves locked up at Christmas for seemingly trivial crimes such as stealing lumps of coal.
With three new lens releases, 2024 was a relatively typical year for Tamron. Last year, Tamron announced two lenses, …
What a fittingly unusual year for Ricoh Pentax, a photo company that itself is quite strange. Always one to march to the beat of its own drum, Ricoh Pentax did things unlike everyone else in 2024, and that's, by and large, a good thing.
Hasselblad was uncharacteristically busy this year, releasing a "new" camera and three new XCD lenses. The premium Swedish camera manufacturer continues to focus heavily on celebrating still photography and the experience of taking photos, and we're here for it.
The Old City of Jerusalem is a place quite unlike anywhere else on Earth. A focal point for all three Abrahamic religions, the narrow streets made out of stone bustle with Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
Two companies are actively developing products for two distinct camera systems: Fujifilm and Panasonic. In Fujifilm's case, it's the APS-C X Series and the medium-format GFX System. For Panasonic, it's the Micro Four Thirds platform and the L-Mount system, which includes full-frame mirrorless cameras and lenses. We'll look at Fujifilm next week, but for now, the attention is on Panasonic and its rather interesting (and diverse) year of product launches.
In the dark and dreary English winter, commuters huddle on London Underground platforms before taking a long, often wet walk through the city or boarding a bus that instantly fogs up when passengers climb on.
We're big believers not only in Micro Four Thirds as a platform but OM System as a company. But 2024 was, to put it mildly, a challenging year for OM System.
Film has long been considered a dying art since the rise of digital photography, with what seemed like nothing but bad news for many years. 2024, though, saw a welcomed resurgence of this analog medium. It has been a busy and fantastic year for analog photography.
It has been a fantastic year for Sigma. While the company did not launch any new cameras, Sigma released six superb new lenses.
The camera operators for Gladiator II had to dress as Roman soldiers to align with director Ridley Scott's immersive filming style.
Photographers often use this time of year to reflect on their work and maybe share some of the best shots they've taken in the past 12 months. But one wildlife photographer has taken the unusual step of sharing his "worst" photos of 2024.
A photographer had a powerful experience with a whale who swam up close allowing her to capture a close-up photo of the humpback's eye.
TCL+, a streaming service from television manufacturer TCL, has revealed a series of AI-generated movies that it believes heralds a new era of filmmaking similar to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Julian Lennon, the son of former Beatle John, is best known for his music career that began in the 1980s, but he is also an accomplished photographer reflected in a new retrospective Life's Fragile Moments.
A Shutterstock director has exclusively told PetaPixel that photographers have a "vital role" to play in the future of AI technology.
A photographer perfectly recreated a location from the Star Wars universe by using a playset and some clever lighting.
A historic set of previously unseen photos showing homemade windmills in Nebraska have been digitized from the U.S. National Archive.
When a lake-effect snowstorm hit Erie, Pennsylvania after Thanksgiving, Pittsburgh-based freelancer Jeff Swensen drove 130 miles to make widely published photos for Getty Images.
The winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024 has been announced with an image of a shark hunt form above taking home the top prize.
A bear cub was released into the wild and charged straight toward a staff photographer shooting the event.
Photographer Dan Martland is no stranger to capturing New York City. But this summer he scored a shot that he doesn't think he'll ever be able to top.
Last week, FilmNeverDie announced that its Kickstarter-backed Nana 35mm film camera was available for purchase worldwide. PetaPixel readers pointed out that the press materials that accompanied that announcement were incomplete and worth greater scrutiny. We agreed.
Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet appeared on 60 Minutes this week and brought the Rolleiflex camera she used in Lee along with her.
Roger Fenton is best known for Valley of the Shadow of Death, one of the oldest-known photos depicting war. His relatively short 10-year photography career sparked accusations that he was a government propagandist while simultaneously being praised as one of the medium's pioneers.
A photographer has shared a series of dramatic photos showing volcanic lava engulfing areas around the Blue Lagoon in Iceland after the Sundhnúka crater erupted.
A photo restorer breathed fresh life into a forgotten zoo by colorizing a set of black-and-white photos from the 1940s.
A bride has gone viral after revealing how a small detail ruined all her wedding pictures, which had cost her thousands of dollars.
Some advertising photographers equate the degree of stress during a high-profile shoot as a metric of their skill as a photographer: If you’re stressed, then perhaps you were unprepared or lacked knowledge, they might say. I don’t think that’s always the case, as sometimes the extreme challenge of a complicated image requires stress to realize its full creative potential.
Canadian Andrew Mielzynski has been crowned International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2024.
A wedding photographer filmed the moment she was forced to become the "bad guy" and tell guests to put their phones away during the ceremony.
Sony has a new flagship camera, the Alpha 1 Mark II. However, while the a1 II brings a lot of improvements, it is not a wholesale revolution compared to its predecessor, which was admittedly way ahead of its time when it launched in early 2021. So, what's new with the a1 II? How is it better?
Over a period of a few months, photographer Bryce Way traipsed around Los Angeles capturing the city's diverse beauty.
"I really want to get the light meter fixed," my dad told me once, years ago. "It's been hard, I don't think they make the parts anymore." By the late 2010s, my dad had given up on ever getting his Nikon Photomic FTn ever working again. This past summer, though, his beloved camera was brought back from the brink.
Earlier this year, my father passed away and left me with his beloved Nikon F and Photomic FTn. After getting it repaired, I found myself in love with the analog process again and have been revisiting cameras I had long since dismissed. Suddenly, I was confronted with Nikon cameras I had never seen or -- in some cases -- never heard of before.
The winners of the Evident Image of the Year awards have been announced, a competition that recognizes the world's best scientific microscopic imaging.
The Royal Photographic Society (RPS), organizers of the world's longest-running photography awards, has revealed the winners of its 146th installment.
In January 2023, Benro shared that it was developing the world's first self-leveling tripod called the Theta. The following March, the company announced its Kickstarter to bring that tripod to life. Today, many backers report that they still have not received their tripod and some even claim Benro is not willingly or quickly processing refunds.
A photographer used everyday domestic scenes to recreate some of the world's most famous artworks by artists such as Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Gogh.
A landmark book charting key moments in the U.S. as seen through the lenses of the world's most famous photographers has been released.
Nature's Best Photography Awards has announced the winners of its 2024 competition with a mother Bengal tiger teaching its son how to fight taking home the top prize of $5,000.
A photographer employed a technique usually reserved for star trails to make a spellbinding timelapse of Japan.
A photographer has spent ten years on his project Dogs of the World which sees him travel across the globe to capture dog breeds in their ancestral homeland.
Photographers across the world have competed to capture the next iconic wallpaper for Microsoft Windows.
Jamie Rojo has been crowned European Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his image, In the Forest of the Monarchs, showing millions of monarch butterflies weighing down fir trees.
Through his fantastic images, Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio shows how photos can be breathtakingly beautiful when art meets science. One of Metsavainio's recent images, WR 134 as a Rising Phoenix, is a brilliant example of the aesthetic wonders of the cosmos and the extreme technical precision required to do astrophotography.
Not long ago, camcorders ruled as the go-to device for capturing life’s moments. Now, they’re relics. Smartphones have stomped out almost every practical use for camcorders, replacing them with better features and internet connectivity. Yet, some manufacturers cling to the past, hoping to squeeze a few bucks from a dying market.
Apple Photos added a new Clean Up feature that removes unwanted objects from photos, a tool that competes directly against the one that's found inside Adobe products like ACR and Lightroom. So, which one is better?
The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners of this year’s Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year Competition.
