A photographer captured a shooting star, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Alps during the Perseids meteor shower -- a celestial event that is underway again in 2023.
In 2021, while on assignment for Reuters news agency in Afghanistan, Pulitzer-winning photographer Danish Siddiqui was killed after the Afghani special forces he was with came under fire by the Taliban.
In traditional landscape photography, context is important in visual storytelling, especially in grand scenic images. Context helps anchor a scene by including foreground, midground, and background (i.e., the sky).
Get a behind the scenes look at Wes Anderson's latest film Asteroid City and, specifically, how the director and his team built the entire town from scratch.
ReShark is an international organization with partners in 15 countries, including 44 aquariums, raising endangered zebra sharks in captivity to release into the wild. The group hopes that it will be able to return the wild zebra shark population back to self-sustainable numbers.
To reveal the real colors of the night skies, you need to find good dark skies. The best sky quality for astrophotography is found in locations classified as Bortle Class 1 on the Bortle scale, which measures night sky brightness.
A doctor and outdoor photographer captured a very rare white squirrel outside his office that he believes is a good omen.
The extremely active volcanic region near the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland has erupted, giving filmmakers who happened to be in the area a chance to capture new, visually stunning aerial footage of lava flows.
A powerful photo essay entitled Here I Am challenges people's false assumption that individuals with Down syndrome do not live into their senior years.
A photographer ready to pack up for the day noticed a splash in the distance. When he flew his drone over to see what it was, he saw a type of whale he had never seen before -- an all-white one.
Inspired by "Barbie," photographer Courtney Charles explores transhumanism in a surreal new set of photos called "The Doll Series."
A filmmaker employed the artificial intelligence (AI) image generator Midjourney to make a surreal video edit of a music festival.
A photographer dressed in camouflage craftily captured a series of intense fox fights over food and territory.
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.
A photographer created a stunning 360-degree star trail image with the northern lights glowing brightly.
A photographer out on a family hike came home with a set of rare photos after he spotted a cougar high up on a ridge.
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.
Sky Elements Drone Shows set a Guinness World Record for its Fourth of July drone show in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Sky Elements Drone Shows produced 40 shows during the extended holiday weekend using more than LED-equipped 10,000 drones, including 1,002 just at the show in Texas.
A wildlife photographer's stunning series of images capture the moment an animal "sees" him as their eyes meet his own.
Colorado-based photographer Aaron Watson captured an incredible photo of vibrant green streaks in the night sky near his home in the West Elk Mountains late on June 21 and early in the morning on June 22.
Photographer Seb Agnew crafts intricate miniature sets and features allegorical characters and scenes within them to skillfully spin visual narratives.
Belgian photographer Vincent Lagrange has been around photography his entire life, having grown up in his father's photography studio. While Vincent has followed in his father's portraiture footsteps, including some stunning portraits of people, Vincent has garnered international attention for his portraits of animals.
Christopher Graves previously made waves with their incredible Game Boy Camera projects and photography, including the stylish Game Boy Camera M mirrorless camera. Graves has now crafted the Game Boy Mini Camera, which shrinks the large Game Boy Camera to the size of a standard Game Boy cartridge.
A photographer has captured a series of stunning timelapse videos of vibrant cities in Africa to contrast the usual imagery seen from the continent.
An award-winning photographer who has people doubting whether his work is genuine tells PetaPixel that he does not use composites and the otherworldly landscapes he visits is partly to blame.
Nigerian photographer Bade Fuwa is a newcomer to the world of photography, having fallen in love with the camera in the last couple of years. However, despite a relatively short time behind the camera, Fuwa's portfolio is emotionally and stylistically mature.
American video game publisher Annapurna Interactive has announced Lushfoil Photography Sim, a new landscape photography video game that will take players around the world to capture beautiful images captured by a realistic, fully-featured in-game camera.
The Audubon Photography Awards has recreated its winning photos with artificial intelligence (AI) to see how the synthetic images match up to the real work of photographers.
A macro photographer who was out capturing pictures of isopods with his friends in Singapore stumbled across an entirely new species with the orange and black striped pill bug now aptly named the Singapore Tiger.
Hot on the heels of Insta360 announcing the Go 3, a compact and enjoyable action camera, Insta360 has highlighted the work of Karman Space Program (KSP), a student-led team aiming to reach space using a reusable rocket. During the team's work, it has been using Insta360 cameras to capture incredible and unique perspectives of Earth, including during a recent high-altitude balloon test, Project Eclipse.
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