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For their official Christmas card this year, the Norwegian photography store Stavanger Foto decided to do a creative employee photo. This is what they came up with: the human Christmas tree.

If you're a fan of both photography and science fiction, here's a movie you can add to your queue of things to watch: "Time Lapse." Released earlier this year, the film is about a mysterious camera device that shoots Polaroid pictures that show the future.

Want to see how the look of portraits have evolved with major camera developments throughout history? Photographer Leo Rosas Morin of COOPH shot 11 portraits of 1 model, and using Photoshop, he recreated the aesthetics of 11 key moments in photography history.

For its holiday campaign this year, the Yorkdale shopping mall in Toronto, Canada, created Fashion Santa. Instead of wearing his traditional red hat, coat, trousers, and boots, Santa posed for a photo shoot wearing festive outfits representing the latest trends in male fashion.

Hồ Anh Đức of Vietnam created this humorous video that shows the "truth" behind those picture perfect photos you see shared all over Instagram and Facebook. You don't need Photoshop to stretch the truth in photos.

Apollo 15 was the 4th NASA mission to land astronauts on the moon. On the way home in early August 1971, Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden picked up a Hasselblad camera on board and captured this amazing shot of the crescent Earth, illuminated by sunlight from the side and basked in the beam of a lens flare.

When you think of the planet Jupiter, you probably think of that giant striped planet with the Great Red Spot anticyclonic storm swirling across the face. But that's just one way of looking at Jupiter.

In Lebanon, 14-year-old children can get married without their parents permission, and marriages involving 12-year-olds are not rare. But not everyone approves of the idea of child brides -- in fact, it seems that a majority doesn't.

Here's a tongue-in-cheek promotional video for a new support group designed to help Instagram Husbands. "Behind every cute girl on Instagram is a guy like me... and a brick wall," says an Instagram husband named Jeff. "My job in pictures is to make her look good." …

For the past several years, a guy in Seattle named Florin Mehedinti has been pranking his wife, Gracie, with "The Forever Pose." Florin will pretend to take a photograph of Gracie posing, but instead he'll actually be shooting a short video clip. The 2-minute video above is a compilation of all of these "forever" poses (note: there's some strong language).

If you're looking for unique Christmas portraits for your kids this holiday season, head over to the Pioneer Place shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon. There, in one of the world capitals of hipsterdom, you'll find a hipster Santa that ditched his traditional red outfit in favor of jeans, a festive cardigan sweater, and a fashionable man bun.

Check out this pint-sized Sony a7R II mirrorless camera. No, Sony didn't decide to release a new miniature version of the highly-acclaimed camera. What you see is actually an extremely detailed USB drive.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is at the center of a new Photoshop meme this week after his government was caught red handed trying to pass off a Photoshop fail as an authentic press photo.

Here's a short 30-second PSA ad about the dangers of taking pictures on train tracks. It was released by Operation Lifesaver, Inc., a US-based non-profit that advocates national rail safety.

Here's a touching 45-second video by ifolor, a photo printing company based in Switzerland. It's a simple story about an elderly couple who get to relive the moment they first met, all thanks to a photographer who was on hand to snap a few pictures.

Back in 1907, a photo retoucher named C.H. Claudy wrote an article for Volume 17 of Camera magazine titled "Faking the Negative." In the piece, Claudy describes the latest and greatest techniques for "faking a photo" at the time.

A couple of weeks ago, we shared an endearing video by a rural Irishman who accidentally spent an entire Las Vegas vacation with his son's GoPro camera pointed backwards at himself instead of out at the world. That video went wildly viral and has since been viewed over 8 million times.

Tripp and Tyler of the audio podcast Hello Today made this humorous 2.5-minute video that pokes fun at GoPro's action sport advertisements. Using GoPro cameras mounted to various things, they shot footage of themselves doing "everyday stunts" such as the Laser Hop -- when you rush at a closing garage door and jump over the laser while ducking.

Baseball pitching legend Randy Johnson made an appearance at the NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers this past weekend. After receiving the honor of raising the team's 12 flag as the special celebrity guest, Johnson didn't step into luxury box seats to watch the rest of the game in comfort. Instead, he picked up his DSLR kits, put on a vest, and stepped onto the sidelines to shoot the game as one of the photographers.

When Marshall and Addie got married in 2 feet of snow in Roan Mountain, Tennessee, they invited a very special videographer to document the special occasion: their dog Ryder. With a GoPro strapped to her back, Ryder was given the freedom to shoot what she wanted from her low perspective. What resulted is the 2-minute wedding video seen above.

Here's a nostalgia-inducing short film titled "The Sound of Film," created by Robert Marshall of Round One Films in England. It's a 1-minute tour of the different sounds (and sights) that are part of the analog photography process, from opening a new box of film to hanging up film strips to dry after developing them.

Need a camera stabilizer? Just buy a tank and duct tape your camera to the gun barrel. Despite their large size and deadly nature, some tank guns can be incredibly stable while the tank is rumbling about.

These are the first and last photos that were taken by NASA's Apollo mission astronauts on the surface of the moon. They bookend the entire set of lunar images that can be found in the Project Apollo Archive.

You've heard "don't drink and drive" and "don't use your phone while driving." Now there's a new warning, "don't like and drive," that warns against browsing Instagram photos while you're behind the wheel.

Police in body armor showed up at an office building in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, yesterday after someone called 911 to report a gunman holding a machine gun. Turns out it was a photographer holding a tripod.

Over in Japan, a guy named Mansun has invented an arm-extension selfie stick. Instead of being a stick that you hold, it's shaped like an extra long arm.

Did you know that your brain can be tricked into seeing a black-and-white photo in full color? The 1-minute BBC clip above shows an example of this, and you can try it out for yourself.

If you have a telescope or lens that's powerful enough, you can watch the moon transit the sky through the live view on your DSLR's LCD screen.

Here's a portrait of Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko posing with Nikon DSLR gear on the International Space Station on October 6th, 2015. Tens of thousands of dollars in camera equipment is stored on the walls of Zvezda, the Russian service module in the ISS. As you can see, there are lens mounts fixed to the walls of the module for storing the collection of glass.

When Evan Griffin's dad visited Las Vegas recently, he borrowed his son's GoPro camera to capture memories of the things he saw there.

Modelsbelike created this 5-minute comedy sketch about the different types of fashion photographers models will encounter in the studio.

Here's a crazy Animal Planet clip in which wildlife photographer "Mad Mike" Penman demonstrates how he sneaks up to wild lions for the perfect shot with only some toilet paper as a last measure of defense. Needless to say, you shouldn't ever try this yourself.

In 2012, 35 years after its launch in 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 space probe left the Solar System and became the first human-man object to enter interstellar space. On board is a Golden Record with sounds and images that show life on Earth. 116 images were selected for inclusion by a committee led by Carl Sagan.

"How do you give a second life to an old film camera?," asks the French ad agency Maison Carnot. They had an old and non-functional Fujica ST 705 camera on their hands, so they decided to create a stop-motion video and a piece of art with it. It took the team a day to disassemble the camera into its basic pieces, select some choice components, and then arrange them neatly in a frame for display. The 2-minute video above is titled "DISASSEMBLY."

Leica today announced the 0.95 Collection, a new sub-brand for high-end accessories. No, not camera accessories... luxury lifestyle accessories.

Ongoing student protests at the University of Missouri over campus race relations have dominated the media over the the past several days. Now a new video showing the group blocking a student photographer is sparking controversy and discussion about press freedom.

You know those iconic photos of NASA Apollo astronauts posing with the US flag on the moon? The 3-minute video above is a "behind-the-scenes" video that shows some of the portraits being shot.

Earlier this year, Apple launched a global ad campaign called "Shot on iPhone 6" that featured the company's favorite iPhone 6 photos, which were captured by 77 different photographers. The iPhone 6S has since replaced the 6, but Apple hasn't forgotten about how the photographers helped the phone become yet another hit.

People on the West Coast of the United States were treated to a light show Saturday night after the US Navy quietly launched a test of an unarmed missile. As a bright white light shot across the sky and burned out as a blue haze, panicked people placed 911 calls with theories of giant meteors or aliens in UFOs.

The Internet is abuzz over a series of photographs by a farmer named Liezel Kennedy in Saskatchewan, Canada. The image above may appear at first glance to be a simple snapshot of a snowy Canadian countryside, but it's actually a photo showing how well sheep can blend into their surroundings in the wild. There are about 550 sheep in the photo.

The dangers, and perks, of sports photography: Northampton Town Football Club photographer Pete Norton was shooting a match recently when he found himself being pulled into the action. After his team scored a goal to secure a 2-2 draw, the players swarmed their photographer, knocked him over, and piled on top of him.

"Tilbakeblikk" ("retrospective" in Norwegian) is a fascinating photo project that shows how Norway's gorgeous landscapes have changed over the past century. Decades-old photos are faithfully re-captured by figuring out exactly where the original photographer stood.

Here's a friendly piece of advice: if you bet on sports, never post a photo of your winning ticket online. That's what an Australian woman found out the hard way yesterday. After sharing a photo of herself with her winning ticket on Facebook, someone used the photo to claim her $825 prize.

Canon conducted an interesting experiment on the power of perspective in portrait photography. The camera company enlisted the help of 6 photographers and asked them each to independently shoot portraits of a man named Michael. But there was a twist: each photographer was told a different thing about Michael's background.

While riding the subway on Halloween this past weekend, Mike Furlender witnessed a confrontation between a (un)happy unicorn and a clown photographer. The photographer was legally shooting portraits of people wearing costumes, and the unicorn was upset that he didn't ask for her permission before taking her picture.

Here's an interesting blast from the past: in 1965, the US Army released the 25-minute film above to teach the basics of photography (for military police purposes).

Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century, with millions of immigrants arrived in the United States via the island by boat.

Warning: This comic contains some explicit language.

Want to see a super early example of a photo being faked through compositing? Look no further than this circa 1902 photo, titled "General Grant at City Point." It appears to show General Ulysses S. Grant posing on a horse with a large number of soldiers in the background, but it's actually the combination of three different photos.

If you thought the idea of a smartphone selfie stick was peculiar, get this: photographer Jesse Chehak has created a gigantic selfie stick for his large format camera, and it actually works.