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The winners of the Underwater Awards Australasia 2024 have been announced with a portfolio of underwater sunburst shots taking home the top prize.

Yesterday, Moment announced the SuperCage: a smartphone cage system with integrated USB-C and an SD card port. That might lead some mobile filmmakers to believe they can use their existing memory cards to take advantage of the iPhone's ProRes Log capture, but as PetaPixel has written before, it's not that simple.

A fascinating collection of iconic photos printed for newspapers complete with original editors' notes has gone on exhibit in New York.

A photo taken by NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite in 2012 has resurfaced thanks to a bright white patch of sea ice that resembles the iconic Star Trek Starfleet logo.

There are tens of thousands of satellites above us and they affect our daily lives, yet we rarely see them. But one photographer set out to record some of the best-known satellites: Elon Musk's Starlink.

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy recently traveled to the top of the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii so he could capture a rare image of Saturn being occulted by the Moon.

A lo-fi picture taken by a firefighter on August 6, 2000, on a Kodak DC280 in Montana is considered to be one of the most famous wildfire photographs ever taken.

An impactful photo showing 4,000 birds that died from colliding with buildings has won Bird Photographer of the Year 2024.

A photo of a biofluorescent frog sitting on a bioluminescent mushroom has won the People's Choice Award at the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize 2024 based in Tasmania.

The Mars Curiosity rover landed inside the Gale crater on Mars on August 6th, 2012. In the 12 years since, the rover has seen a lot of amazing things on Mars and taken thousands of photos, many unlike anything ever seen before. One such unique photo is the first-ever photo of Earth and the Martian moon Phobos as seen from Mars.

Dedicating himself to capturing ordinary men and women, Louis Stettner described himself as the "world's best-known unknown photographer".

A landscape photography competition that prioritizes the "integrity of the subject" and eschews deceptive digital editing techniques and artificial intelligence has announced its winners.

A photographer filmed a crowd of Yellowstone Park tourists blocking a grizzly bear from crossing a road so that they could take photos of the animal.

The winners of the 2024 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition have been announced with an image taken from a drone of two humpback whales cooperating to hunt a school of fish taking home the $6,800 (10,000 AUD) prize.

Apple's iPhone 16 series has a new touch-capacitive, haptics-enhanced Camera Control button and, at launch, only Apple, Beats cases, and one Otterbox case have built-in technology that lets it work as well as it does with no case at all.

The day Albert Einstein died was, obviously, huge news. Journalists and photographers rushed to Princeton hospital, all looking to get a scoop but there was one photojournalist who succeeded above the others by going a different direction.

Heading out into the Hong Kong night, photographer Lawrence Hylton is on the lookout for something lots of people will avoid: lurking creatures.

The iPhone 15 Pro series and the new iPhone 16 Pro series offer really gorgeous video capture capability, especially thanks to the addition of ProRes Log. The standard video capture suffers from oversharpening, but the log footage doesn't. But the log footage takes up a lot of storage, which means some creators might be tempted to use SD cards.

National Parks: USA premiered last weekend on Nat Geo and features breathtaking photography of some of America's most beautiful parks, including Zion, Yellowstone, Olympic, and more.

A pair of motion picture film enthusiasts have created the world's fastest, large format 65mm cameras by converting old recording technology that was used by the military to film atomic bomb tests.

A pair of YouTubers have earned a Guinness World Record after they built the world's largest working replica of an iPhone with a fully-functioning camera.

Generation Z travelers are taking staged, aesthetic photos of their airport trays in a viral social media trend.

15 photographers have won the 2024 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards and were exhibited in New York City.

Point-and-shoot cameras are having a moment right now, but many now-popular models have been long forgotten by manufacturers. Cameras are selling with high markups on eBay and used marketplaces, and the latest generation of pocketable compact models from 2019 are widely sold out.

A photographer has captured a spectacular picture of a mountain lion in the Verdugo Hills with downtown Los Angeles sparking behind it.

Meryl Meisler is perhaps best-known for capturing disco nightlife in New York City in the 1970s but a new book shows her talent for documenting wider American life.

A photographer has created a fascinating twin portrait series where a real photo is taken of the subject which is then used as the basis for an AI-generated portrait.

An underground house -- perfect for nuclear fallout -- built by an eccentric millionaire was visited by a photographer who documents doomsday locations.

These spellbinding photographs have all been Highly Commended in the sixtieth Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition held by London's Natural History Museum.

Glass Imaging is a software company that says it has developed a way to dramatically improve the poor quality of small sensor cameras -- mainly smartphones -- using a novel approach.

The cinematographer behind Alien: Romulus has revealed how he captured the terrifying chestburster scene in the movie without "one frame of CGI."