Miscellaneous

These amazing photographs of elderly New Yorkers are believed to be some of the earliest people ever photographed -- many of them were born in the 1700s.

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore recently shared a hilarious story of how a chimpanzee took one look at his makeshift studio and destroyed it in seconds.

The Vahagraphy YouTube channel took to the streets of Newport Beach, California to quiz people about photography, asking things like: "How much would you pay for a wedding photographer?"

Stunning drone footage over an Italian ghost town that's been plagued by tragedy has been filmed by the Dutch photography team Boys with Drones.

A mysterious image of a strange unidentified creature taken outside of Amarillo Zoo in Texas has left city officials and internet users baffled.

Transcend's new JetDrive Lite 360 is a 1TB SD memory card that is positioned as expandable storage for Apple MacBooks. Thanks to its unusual size, it will sit flush with the MacBook but also won't likely work in nearly any other use case.

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PhD astronomer and photographer Sean Goebel has published an incredible timelapse of Yosemite National Park filled with stunning scenes captured across 11 years.

With an implosion of shipments caused by COVID in 2020, the expectation was that 2021 would see a rebound... until COVID hit again. So how have camera manufacturers fared in what has become another traumatic business year?

Ever since the a9 in 2017, Sony has dominated the spec charts. As with all camera brands, different product lines had different strengths -- speed, resolution, video. In 2021 however, Sony dropped a surprise with the Alpha 1, which combines the best of everything that came before it.

"Landscape photography has actually been maxed out for years." That's what the former equipment manager of our local photo club told me around 1990. He was a lover of the infamous Cokin "tobacco gradient filter."

You can now see the world from a wolf's point of view. This 3-minute video is the first-ever camera collar footage shot from the perspective of a wild wolf.

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2020 has been a crazy and eventful year. Before we turn the page and move into 2021, we thought we'd take a look back at the 10 most popular articles published here over the past 365 days.

Every last Sunday of the month, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage.

Canon and Fujifilm have both released updates to their respective webcam utilities, which allow their customers to use their still photography cameras as webcams for online video conference calls.

Whether you take your photos professionally or for fun, how many of you out there can truly say you’re are happy with your photo backup strategy? If a drive were to fail, will you lose any photos? If you have a house fire or were to be burgled, do you have a copy elsewhere?

Scientists have created the highest-resolution photos of Jupiter ever captured from the ground, including this gorgeous infrared photo created by stacking a large number of exposures.

Spend your Sunday with some great reading. Here’s our roundup of interesting articles and content from around the Web for photographers. Enjoy!

Spend your Sunday with some great reading. Here’s our roundup of interesting articles and content from around the Web for photographers. Enjoy!

Spend your Sunday with some great reading. Here’s our roundup of interesting articles and content from around the Web for photographers. Enjoy!

Spend your Sunday the way you’re supposed to, with some great reading. Here’s our roundup of interesting articles and content from around the Web for photographers. Enjoy!

Spend your Sunday the way you’re supposed to, with some great reading. Here’s our roundup of interesting articles and content from around the Web for photographers. Enjoy!

Photographer Gary Fong, best known for creating the Gary Fong Lightsphere, released this 8-minute video warning about Amazon selling counterfeit copies of his popular collapsible flash diffuser.

Conversations around photographic style have always felt a little odd to me for a few reasons. It’s something I get asked about a lot by my students, as they feel that without a style, a visual signature, then they will find it very difficult to differentiate themselves from other working artists.

Shooting black and white film over digital in the last few years has changed my approach to photography a great deal. The process of shooting film, from the tactility of the Leica M7 and Rolleiflex 2.8D cameras that I use, to developing and scanning, have given me a much deeper appreciation for the craft of being a photographer.

Nikon has announced the new AF-S NIKKOR 120-300mm f/2.8E FL ED SR VR lens. It's a professional lens for the Nikon F mount that packs reach, speed, and versatility.

Peer-to-peer camera gear rental services KitSplit and ShareGrid have launched new Owner Guarantee policies that cover voluntary parting, which is when someone rents your equipment but doesn't return it.

The private equity firm Apollo Global Management has stuck deals to acquire both Shutterfly and Snapfish. It plans to merge the two photo product retailers to form an even larger combined business.

Finnish photographer Christoffer Relander shot a mesmerizing and surreal series of photos in which he used multiple-exposure photography to blend views of Hong Kong cityscapes and Scandinavian nature. With a focus on neon signs, the project is titled, "Neonland: Urban Overload."

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German timelapse photographer Martin Heck of Timestorm Films released this gorgeous 6-minute short film that showcases the beauty of the southern lights (AKA aurora australis) over the South Pole.

"Glacier Pools" is a photo series by German photographer Tom Hegen, who flew over melting glaciers in Iceland in a helicopter and captured abstract aerial views of the pools that form in the outwash plains.

The sailor who was photographed kissing a nurse in Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photo V-J Day in Times Square has died. George Mendonsa was 95.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is a US nonprofit that researches vehicle safety on behalf of car insurance companies. Here's a 5-minute behind-the-scenes video showing how the organization photographs its respected and widely publicized crash tests.

As friends and families get ready to get together for the holiday season, Google Pixel 3 owners are experiencing a bug that could get in the way of capturing special memories. People are reporting camera error messages and their phones failing to launch the highly-touted camera.