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Everything seemed to be going well for Vanessa Joy and her model, Victoria Menkin. They were in the middle of a photo shoot on the beach, but things took a turn when a group of boys who appeared to be minors began harassing Menkin.

A photographer who attended this year's Burning Man says that despite the rain and the mud having a huge effect on the festival, it was still "amazing" and he came back with a unique set of images.

Mountain photographer Arpan Das has traveled all over the world capturing incredible photos of dramatic peaks. But he says there’s one country that stands out above all of the others.

Eight years of discussions. Six months of training. Two days of final preparations. Much was required to give photographer Blair Bunting two hours at the edge of Earth's atmosphere to conduct the first-ever photo shoot at near-space where he captured images that have never been made before and will likely never be made again.

Despite huge advancements in camera technology, plenty of photographers still use DSLRs from the 2010s -- like the Canon 5D series and the Nikon D800s. And while they remain great cameras, mirrorless rules the 2020s.

These photos only come around once in a blue Moon, literally. The rare sight of a "blue supermoon" attracted photographers from all across the world last night.

The heavily anticipated Paul C. Buff Celestial Light has given photographers who shoot on location and on the move a compact, reliable, and affordable lighting solution for their work.

The International Pet Photographer of the Year Awards, hosted by Unleashed Pet Photography Education, has attracted criticism ahead of the competition revealing its winners next month because of its rules that allow judges to enter and win prizes.

The LT028 by Ulanzi Group is a 40 Watt portable COB LED Video Light that was designed to be a lightweight and versatile lighting solution for content creators, photographers, videographers, and even streamers who need an affordable lighting solution that can be repositioned with incredible ease.

A photographer captured bioluminescent rocks glowing off the coast of Oregon as star trails dazzle in the sky above.

An amateur photographer captured the unusual sight of an alligator launching itself out of the water the way a dolphin would.

Some of Tolman Media's branches, or franchises, have survived the wedding giant's epic collapse earlier this year. While Brennan Tolman himself appears as though he has tried to vanish, some of the businesses he oversaw persist under new names, but with familiar staff and reports of the same problems.

A years-long conflict has been brewing on the picturesque San Juan Island in northwestern Washington, and photographers are taking unwarranted and unreasonable heat for their alleged role in the tension.

Pigeons are everywhere in the world, but the common birds are often looked down upon and dubbed "flying rats." However, one photographer has sought to raise the profile of the lowly pigeon by taking a series of formal portraits in a studio setting.

Fine art photographer Sandra Bartocha is an expert with multiple exposure techniques. For some reason, Nikon Z cameras are significantly worse for multiple exposure photography than Nikon's DSLR cameras to the degree that Bartocha has started a petition in hopes of encouraging Nikon to address the problem.

Abode, a satirically named but serious project that aims to take on Adobe, just concluded its crowdfunding campaign where it raised £181,709, or about $234,900. Now comes the next step: delivering the software to the more than 3,000 artists that backed it.

Since it began its full scientific operations at the second Lagrange point (L2), about one million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth last year, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has enchanted people around the world. Webb's photos have inspired many people to learn more about space and look at the night sky with unprecedented wonder and curiosity.

Canon's EOS R-series cameras, such as the R5, R6, and R6 Mark II, are excellent mirrorless cameras and rival the best available in their respective price ranges. However, since Canon launched its first full-frame mirrorless camera, the original EOS R, in 2018, users have complained about chronically loose hot shoes.

Although sharks are under significant threat worldwide, great white sharks are appearing in greater numbers around Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a popular tourist destination. In the new television special, "Return of the White Shark," National Geographic takes a closer look at the shark population around Cape Cod.

Photographer Steven Haining and model Ciara Antoski together set the record for the deepest photo shoot ever recorded when the two of them and a team of professionals completed a shoot 32 feet below the surface near Tobermory, Ontario, Canada.

Shutterstock is paying online influencers and photographers who generate images with artificial intelligence (AI) to promote its image generator.

Photographer Seb Agnew crafts intricate miniature sets and features allegorical characters and scenes within them to skillfully spin visual narratives.

A talented landscape photographer says his decision to reject most social media platforms has resulted in him being "virtually unknown" and he is ready to bow out of the medium.

Zeiss has clarified its position in the photography market and soundly denied allegations that it is leaving the photography industry. That said, don't expect a follow-up to its Android-powered ZX1 camera.

A team of light-obsessed filmmakers and photographers in Sweden has founded Lit Systems and its first product is a highly anticipated, sleek, and feature-packed light meter called the Lit Duo 1.

Earlier this week, NASA shared an incredible time-blended composite panorama its team captured with Curiosity's navigation camera. PetaPixel spoke with Doug Ellison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California, the man who planned, captured, and processed the photos to make the "postcard."

As soon as photography was invented, there was a very obvious subject for photographers to turn their cameras toward -- the brightest object in the night sky -- the Moon.

A photographer has been awarded multiple prizes in a photo competition for work that was not his own, PetaPixel has exclusively learned.

Sphere Studios has developed a brand new type of cinema camera called The Big Sky. It features a single 316-megapixel HDR image sensor that the company says is a 40x resolution increase over existing 4K cameras and PetaPixel was given an exclusive look at the incredible technology.