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A photographer spent five years traveling the world to turn the lens on amateur astronomers who have contributed to science.

On February 7, 1984, astronaut Hoot Gibson aimed his camera out of the crew cabin window of the space shuttle Challenger towards Bruce McCandless II as he floated freely in space. What resulted is one of the most, if not the most, iconic photos and most requested images. It turns 40 years old this week.

A photographer who has visited 27 of the 63 national parks -- plus an additional eight official units of the National Park System -- has shared her magnificent photos.

A photographer captured the epic moment a humpback whale breached behind a surfer as she flew into the air -- with the pair synchronizing perfectly.

The winners of the Chartered Institute of Building's architectural photography competition have been revealed.

Photographers get a kick when a character in a movie starts taking pictures, but film shooter Jason Kummerfeldt is overcome with excitement when a 35mm camera shows up on screen.

While it arrived on the wedding scene within the last couple of years, the trend of intentionally blurring photos is still going strong and it's unlikely to be leaving any time soon.

Take away WiFi, Bluetooth, and basically any other network protocol, and how do you transfer a photo from one smartphone to another? That’s where LiveDrop comes in.

Arlene Gottfried was a striking street photographer of 1970s and 1980s New York City, when Times Square was more gritty than it was Disney, to say the least. The archive of her work amounts to hundreds of boxes of film which her family is working to preserve.

A photographer captured a thundering photo of a Falcon Heavy SpaceX rocket passing in front of the Moon -- making the edges of Earth's satellite look as if they're rippling.

A photographer who dived into the water with a huge pod of killer whales only had a few minutes each day to capture a rare shot of an orca bathed in light rays.

A photographer whose name was found on a list of artists whose style the AI image generator Midjourney wanted to emulate tells PetaPixel that "creatives must be remunerated."

As part of Nikon's 90th anniversary of Nikkor lenses, Nikon provided PetaPixel the opportunity to interview three Nikon employees involved in Nikon's lens and user experience design.

More than 25 years after Pixar's groundbreaking feature film A Bug's Life first hit theaters, Disney has returned to the incredible world of insects for inspiration. A new docu-series, A Real Bug's Life, delivers a breathtaking adventure into nine different micro bug worlds.

Selfies have become a ubiquitous part of daily life in most major cities. But there is one European city where it may not be so commonplace: Berlin.

Wandering the empty streets of New York during the dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic, photographer Phil Penman captured the city at one of its lowest ebbs.

There are more than one million notes placed in the cracks of Jerusalem's Western Wall each year and one photographer has captured them in a way not seen previously.

Stephen Wilkes boasts an illustrious career defined by his superb artistic eye. Speaking at a Spotlight event at Apple’s flagship New York City location, the photographer explains his work and its evolution over time.

Alongside PetaPixel's recaps for major camera manufacturers, including Sony, Fujifilm, Nikon, and Canon, we also recapped the year for the L-Mount Alliance and the Micro Four Thirds mount. Now it's time to wrap up the year in review equipment recaps with a highlight of the "best of the rest" cameras and lenses released this year from the smaller, or at least less mainstream, brands.

A photographer captured an epic shot of a B-2 stealth bomber flying over a college football game which he says is the most special shot of his career so far.

A photographer who was integral to documenting Washington State will have his vast archive preserved and made available to the public thanks to a $25,000 grant.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has wrapped up its first full year of scientific operations, and beyond "breaking" cosmology, the telescope has also delivered some of the most spectacular photos of deep space ever seen.

This year included some fantastic new cameras, lenses, and accessories. From the Nikon Z8 and the Sony a7CR to the Canon RF 100-300mm f/2.8 and Sigma 14mm f/1.4 DG DN Art, nearly every camera maker brought something amazing to the table. However, some of them also announced products that slipped through the cracks by virtue of being dreadfully boring, if not outright bad.

This year has been a fascinating one in the world of photography, and like every year, it was full of incredible highs, devastating lows, and everything in between.

This past summer, I hit the hot streets of Marrakech, Morocco with Lomography's new LomoChrome '92 film in a Canon AE-1 SLR camera with a 50mm lens.

It has been a great year for the L-Mount Alliance. The alliance welcomed new members Samyang and Astrodesign in July, and Blackmagic Design joined in September.

Canon's EOS R system finished 2022 with a bang, with Canon introducing the excellent EOS R6 Mark II camera and RF 135mm f/1.8 L IS USM lens. The momentum carried into early 2023, with two new cameras and a pair of new lenses. After that, Canon slowed down, although some late-year announcements set the stage for a strong return to form in 2024.

Like Sony, Nikon released a very impressive 10 new products in 2023. The composition of the releases is different, with Sony splitting its debuts evenly between cameras and lenses and Nikon going heavy on glass.

In 2023, Fujifilm's X Series saw little love, with a single new camera and lens being added to the mix. The medium-format GFX System grew by one camera and three lenses this year.

It was a busy year for new cameras and lenses, and few companies were anywhere near as prolific as Sony.

The winners of the 2023 International Landscape Photographer of the Year have been announced -- the 10th iteration of the competition.

The top 50 wedding photographs taken in 2023, according to Junebug Weddings, have been unveiled.

A Nikomat 35mm film camera once belonging to American mountaineer Janet Johnson has been discovered in a receding glacier.

Photographer Alan Schaller has finally completed his Metropolis series; a haunting and provocative look at the isolation many feel in a big city.

A roll of photographic film that was loaded into a camera all the way back in 1889 has been developed 134 years later, revealing two mystery figures.