Here's an unusual way to decorate a wall with photos: the Lithuanian design studio Gyva Grafika printed photos of apartment windows onto tiles. Once installed, they make any wall look like a Soviet-era concrete apartment block.
Here's a curious little 43-second video by Japanese artist Kensuke Koike that's going viral. Titled "Top Breeder," it shows how you can duplicate a photo of a dog by putting the print through a pasta cutter and distributing the slices into new photos. One picture can "magically" turn into four.
A married couple in China recently discovered that they had unknowingly been captured in the same photo as teenagers, 11 years before they met and fell in love.
A PetaPixel reader was browsing for photography gigs on craigslist in South Florida today when he came across this bizarre request: someone was looking to hire a photographer to provide an "unhappy experience."
Two emperor penguins in Antarctica recently stumbled upon a camera left by researchers. Curious about their find, the penguins ended up knocking over the camera and then posing for an adorable selfie video.
Here's a fascinating 4-minute video by vlogbrothers that tells the sad and infuriating parable of The Broccoli Tree. It's a tale that shows the dangers of photo sharing in the modern Instagrammed world.
Filmmaker Andrew Saladino of The Royal Ocean Film Society made this 5-minute short film titled "The Life of a Camera." It tells the story of a Yamasheta 35mm film camera over decades of use, all through the eyes and photos of the camera.
The Zorki is a series of 35mm rangefinder cameras that were made in the Soviet Union from 1948 and 1978. Since they were originally designed to be cheap Leica clones, it's not uncommon to find fake Leica cameras that are actually modified Zorkis. But one Russian camera collector recently found the opposite: his $15 Zorki turned out to be an $800 Leica.
New York-based photographer Felix Kunze was recently visiting the iconic Lion's Head mountain in Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa, when he came across this sight at his favorite rock in a well-known lookout: a group of people had decided to scribble their full names into the rock that's featured in countless photos.
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This is the last photo of the Tesla Roadster that was launched into space this week. It shows the dummy named Starman leaving Earth in the rear view mirror as it hurtles towards Mars' orbit and then onto the Asteroid Belt.
A few months ago, a girl came in to apply for a social media position at my last job. I was one of three photographers at the company and we had an opening for another photographer position. She mentioned to the HR recruiter that she also does photography.
We live in an amazing time in which it's actually possible to shoot a photo like this one: it's a Tesla Roadster sports car flying through space with the Earth in the background.
Destin Sandlin of SmarterEveryDay was out shooting the recent Super Blue Blood moon when something weird happened. As soon as the moon "touched" the tip of a model of the Saturn 5 rocket in Alabama, USA, a dark line appeared in his photos.
Here's an 8-second video showing $5,000 in Nikon lenses getting smashed with a mallet. If you cringe at the thought of harm coming to any photographic equipment, here's the good news: the video isn't what you think. It's a creative video by stop-motion extraordinaire PES.
While traveling in Rome, photographer Oliver KMIA discovered how popular tourist spots were crowded with tourists fighting to shoot their own precious personal photo. He later scoured Instagram and created this 2-minute video, titled "Instravel," which shows a "photogenic mass tourism experience" and how so many of our travel photos look exactly like other people's.
Alex Harker was skiing with friends at the Lake Louise ski resort in Banff, Alberta, a week ago when the group stopped to take some photos on Harker's Android smartphone. After shooting a few shots, Harker found that the AI-powered panorama stitching feature inside his Google Photos app had created the photo above as the suggested panorama for his scene.
There are plenty of new digital camera unboxing videos these days, but they're generally not like this one. Lazy Game Reviews got its hands on an Epson PhotoPC and created this 11-minute video showing what it was like to unbox and use a digital camera back in 1995.
A man sharing a photograph of his father online has apparently stumbled upon the last known photograph of legendary war photographer Gerda Taro, who's regarded as the first female to shoot on the front lines of conflict (as well as the first to die while doing so).
What do you get when you pair an extremely high-end cinema camera with an extremely low-end still photography lens? LA-based filmmaker Gene Nagata of Potato Jet wanted to find out, so he mounted a $48 Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 lens onto a $12,500 Scarlet-W RED Dragon 5K camera.
Want to retouch your photos to look just like Pam Dave Zaring's amazingly bad family photos that have been going viral? Photoshop expert Antti Karppinen has just released a tutorial showing how you can achieve the exact same look in Photoshop.
This photo shoot just won the Internet... for how bad the Photoshop job was. Pam Dave Zaring says she got back her family photos from the professional photographer they hired... and nearly died laughing. She then posted the photos on Facebook, where they've been going absolutely viral.
Canon recently shared a beautiful Golden Hour landscape photograph on social media in Italy and Spain. Problem was, it was a composite photo in which a large portion of the image was taken without permission (and without giving credit) from a photo by well-known landscape photographer Elia Locardi.
A famous and rare stainless steel "fake Leica" camera sculpture has popped up on eBay. The asking price: $99,995 with $350 economy shipping.
Ah, the joys of dealing with difficult clients as a wedding photographer. A dissatisfied newlywed couple in Hong Kong recently sent their wedding photographer a giant 30-page document to point out flaws in bad photos they had received.
I bought this "digital" camera last summer. I saw it on a table at a boot sale (if you're American, that's a bit like a yard sale). As I picked it, up the seller snapped: "£4. Screen is broken. Won't turn on."
It seems like every month there's an earth-shattering new camera bag that can hold ridiculous amounts of gear in an absurd number of compartments. Fstoppers decided to poke fun at this niche in the photo industry and created this humorous 3-minute sketch showing what camera bag marketing hype is like when you buy into it.
There are plenty of stories of people finding old camera films and finding images on them. Photographer Daniel Keating recently got his hands on something a bit different: a 100-year-old bottle of Rodinal black-and-white film developer.
An Instagram husband is being celebrated as a shining example of true love this week thanks to a set of viral photos showing him photographing his wife over the Christmas holidays.
The iconic default Microsoft XP wallpaper "Bliss" is considered to be the most-viewed photo of all time. While Microsoft paid the photographer behind that photo over $100,000 for the usage, a different photographer who shot the well-known "Autumn" wallpaper earned just $45.
If you like "things organized neatly" photos of camera gear, check this one out -- it includes the photographer himself. This photo shows John Bozinov's essentials as an Antarctic expedition photographer.
The folks at Daytripper Photo recently decided to find out what happens when you microwave a DSLR camera in the name of science. The 11-minute video above documents how the Nikon D60 and 18-135mm lens fared (spoiler: not well).
NASA's Juno space probe has been orbiting Jupiter and dazzling us with photos of the giant gas planet for over a year now. In recent days, Juno has captured a number of gorgeous close-up photos that look strangely like impressionist art.
If you've ever worked in retail at a camera store, perhaps this sketch will tickle your funny bone... or bring back bad memories. At 5:30 in this episode of the comedy show Rostered On is an interaction between a store employee and a customer asking to return a "broken" camera.
Imagine finding a truck full of brand new 35mm film processing machines. That’s what happened two weeks ago, though the reality of what we found has taken a few days of research and a lot of Googling to understand. Let me explain...
Here's a lighthearted 2-minute sketch by CollegeHumor's Hot Date series, titled "Contour Makeup Has Gone Too Far." It's about a woman who takes her contouring makeup too far to look perfect in Instagram photos... at the expense of looking normal in real life.
Did you know that hidden within Photoshop CC are a number of "easter eggs" that customize the photo editing app in wacky ways? Three that you can activate in the latest version of Photoshop CC are "Layer Monkey," the "Banana Toolbar," and "Coffee & Toast."
The Georgia Dome stadium was demolished yesterday after serving for decades as the home of the Atlanta Falcons NFL football team. During the event, one unlucky cameraman was on the receiving end of one of the funniest bus photobombs you'll see.
Check out this birthday cake that was made for a photographer. It was inspired by the $3,900 Leica Summilux 50mm f/1.4 lens, which the photographer owns.
Why do so many photography-themed scary films feature Polaroid cameras? Who knows... but this 3-minute short film titled "Polaroid" by Joey Greene will have your heart racing. The synopsis reads: "It's the things we can't see that terrify us the most..."
Here's an unusual idea that you may only be able to pull off if you're rich, famous, and well-connected: socialite Khloe Kardashian wanted the perfect driver's license photo, so she decided to bring her own portrait lighting and makeup artist to the DMV.
In the age of Instagram, snapping a photo of a picture-perfect meal before eating it has become something of a ritual (science also suggests it helps food taste better). But one guy has made it a ritual of his own to ruin his friends' Instagram food photos and capture their horrified expressions.
Photographing rally car racing from right next to the track can be extremely hazardous to your health. Here's a 1-minute video that shows how one cameraman narrowly avoided getting squashed recently by a crashing and flipping rally car.
Here's a beautiful photo from over 100 years ago that shows two Native Americans looking at a strip of photographic film against the sky. It's a black-and-white photo that was colorized by colorization artist Jecinci.
Danish designer Milan Madge recently built himself a gigantic Leica III rangefinder camera out of LEGO blocks. The level of detail is impressive.
Think Photoshop runs slowly on your computer? To make yourself feel better, check out how "fast" basic Photoshop operations were 20 years ago. Here's a short clip of the Photoshop demo that was given at Macworld Expo in 1997 to show the speed of a new CPU.
Did you know that there are only two known photos in existence that show the US Supreme Court in session? Cameras have long been banned inside the courtroom, so the only two photos were captured many decades ago by people who snuck cameras in.
Want to experience what it's like to walk in space on the outside of the International Space Station? This 3.5-minute video is the first ever interactive 360-degree video shot in open space.
On September 30th, 2016, the European Space Agency ended the Rosetta space probe's mission by crashing it onto the comet that it had been orbiting for two years. It's been over a year now, but scientists just discovered that Rosetta had sent a surprise final close-up photo of the comet's surface just before impact.
On April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that sparked huge fires, destroying over 80% of the city and killing roughly 3,000 people. Immediately before and after the earthquake, cameras captured dashcam-style footage while traveling down Market Street, and those films now provide an idea of how SF was changed through the quake.