A San Francisco-based photographer is facing some legal backlash from the Golden Gate Bridge District over a photo that they claim he took from a restricted area. The photographer says the District is simply “hunting for money” by searching the Internet for pictures that they believe were taken from restricted areas. Bruce Getty is a […]
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If you’re looking for some impressive works to inspire your landscape photography, the winning images from the International Landscape Photographer of the Year will surely do the trick. thephoblographer.com »
2020-02-09 08:00
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Bellevue, Nebraska photographer Terry Ingram is incredibly grateful that his Nikon DSLR stopped working in the middle of an outing last weekend. If it hadn’t, three young men might not be alive today. petapixel.com »
2020-01-16 19:25
Nitish Madan - an Indian wildlife photographer - has a soft spot for tigers. "I have a strange connection with them," he told one media outlet. "When I see one, I just can’t take my eyes off it. boredpanda.com »
2020-01-10 18:37
Can an introvert “make it” as a professional photographer? According to self-proclaimed introverts and successful shooters Manny Ortiz and Taylor Jackson, the answer is a resounding “yes,” and in this video they explain how they each overcame the challenges of being an introvert in a highly interactive industry. Ortiz and Jackson both work in very […] petapixel.com »
2019-12-26 19:14
Wildlife photographer Luca Bracali was shooting in Madagascar recently when a lemur dropped down from a tree and tried to yank the camera from Bracali’s hands. The photographer kept his grip on the camera and managed to capture unusual photos of the lemur reaching toward him. petapixel.com »
2019-11-25 19:05
Earlier this year, a group of well-known professional photographers was robbed… by another photographer. Approximately $12-$15K worth of gear was taken from their studio by a peer almost three months ago, and they were only able to recover the gear earlier this week, though they still don’t feel they’ve received anything resembling justice. Seth Miranda, […] petapixel.com »
2019-11-01 19:08
Earlier this year, a group of well-known professional photographers was robbed… by another photographer. Approximately $12-$15K worth of gear was taken from their studio by a peer almost three months ago, and they were only able to recover the gear earlier this week, though they still don’t feel they’ve received anything resembling justice. Seth Miranda, […] petapixel.com »
2019-11-01 19:08
Let me get this clear right from the start: this is not a Nikon bashing post. Rather, it’s a Fuji X Series love story. I love Nikon. The first ever DSLR I owned was a Nikon, and since then I’ve upgraded a number of times without ever feeling the need to consider a different system. […] petapixel.com »
2019-10-18 21:14
While on an aerial photo tour over the Icelandic wilderness late last year, photographer and pilot Haukur Snorrason dropped his iPhone 6s Plus out of the plane’s window and onto the tundra below. petapixel.com »
2019-10-02 21:20
It’s that time of year again for photographers: fall family sessions. It’s crunch time. Some photographers make the bulk of their yearly profits right now; others work their butts off in an area saturated with photographers and make enough pennies to cover operating expenses. I was part of the latter group a few years ago, […] petapixel.com »
2019-09-06 20:37
Nature photographer and guide Tero Pylkkanen was camping out in a hide in Kuhmo, Finland, when two large brown bears decided to start brawling right in front of him. Pylkkanen managed to capture this 3-minute video of the “best bear fight ever. petapixel.com »
2019-07-01 18:45
I am writing this concert photography guide in response to several ‘How to’ guides I have seen online that don’t quite hit the mark on how to take great live concert photographs. Most of the articles focus too much on the obvious, like concerts are dark and avoid things in your way (like mic stands […] petapixel.com »
2019-06-19 22:36
Adolf Hitler speaking at an undated rally. Over a thousand glass plates showing Hitler’s rise to power and the Nazi leader throughout World War ll have been digitized by the US National Archive. dpreview.com »
2019-04-25 22:48
Just announced, the results of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest are definitely going to blow away some of your winter cobwebs. Many stunning images have been rewarded this year, and the contest was fierce with over 3000 entries competing for a prize pool that included US$10,000 in cash. digitalrev.com »
2019-02-21 03:00
Check out this family portrait of our solar system. It’s a composite photo created by a single astrophotographer who photographed the planets from his own backyard in Sacramento, California. Photographer Andrew McCarthy shot the individual photos with a Sony a7 II camera, Canon 60D, ZWO ASI224MC color astronomy camera, Orion XT10 telescope, Meade 2120 telescope, […] petapixel.com »
2019-01-15 20:42
In 1966, photographer Jay Maisel spent $102,000 buying a 6-floor, 35,000-square-foot, 72-room building in New York City that would become his home and studio for the next half-century. In 2015, he sold the building for $55 million. petapixel.com »
2018-12-06 18:38
Arthur Mesbius captures moments through a comedic lens. The award-winning photographer creates hilarious one frame stories where he seeks to show the "past, present and future" in a single image. boredpanda.com »
2018-09-24 13:10
Parisa Pourtaherian is a 26-year-old photographer in Iran who has a passion for shooting sports. The problem is, women are banned from entering soccer stadiums in her country for men’s matches. petapixel.com »
2018-08-13 21:41
Late last year, photographer Irene Rudnyk reached out to a model and makeup artist for a photo concept she had in mind that featured a woman illuminated by a lantern at blue hour. Rudnyk shares in the 7-minute video above how, after putting in considerable time and effort into putting the shoot together, she failed […] petapixel.com »
2018-05-07 22:18
Today, my profession is a professional dog photographer. It could have been so different though. I grew up in a council house in Manchester and moved around a lot, I was classed as homeless at the age of 16 while I was still doing my exams. boredpanda.com »
2018-02-19 17:16
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. The HR guy comes and grabs me […] petapixel.com »
2018-02-07 23:48
Photographer Mark Duffy recently switched from Canon to Fuji, trading in the former to pick up the latter, and in this 14-minute video he shares his thoughts and impressions. For those of you who may be looking to hear insights into what the first experience with a mirrorless setup is really like, coming from the world of DSLRs, […] petapixel.com »
2018-01-27 21:06
Top 5 Photography News Stories of the Week The world of photography news moves fast, with tens of interesting, tragic, educational, and inspirational stories breaking sometimes daily. To help parse through the noise and focus on the signal, each week, we're going to recap the 5 top photography news stories from the previous seven days. dpreview.com »
2017-12-16 20:25
Self-taught photographer from Kiev (Ukraine) Vitaliy Marchuk (@vitalii85vm) not so long ago revealed in himself the talent to see what the other will miss without paying attention. This particular view of things he decided to fix using photography, which showed him one more talent - the ability to create fairly high-quality macrophotographs. boredpanda.com »
2017-12-09 20:54
Photographer Ryan Pfluger says he uses photography “as a means for therapy and connection. ” In this 12-minute talk he recently gave at TEDxPasadena, Pfluger shares an inspirational insight into how photography has played a major part in bettering his life. petapixel.com »
2017-11-24 19:45
I'm an amateur photo-hobbyist living in Tokyo, Japan. I picked up photography around 3 years ago, thinking I could jump into a new realm of world that I've never understood before. Prior to picking up a camera, I was a normal college undergrad who puts studying first before most of my hobbies; however, photography taught me that I should cherish the people and the moments around me and try to remember them especially as a foreigner living in a wonderful place like Japan. thephoblographer.com »
2017-10-20 07:00
She's called Rhea, he's called Cronus. You have below the work of the photographer Eddy Dagher, in collaboration with Make-Up Artist Raph Métamorphose, with the greek gods depicted by models Juliana Lehe and Roland Cedric. boredpanda.com »
2017-10-13 22:23
Over 100,000 Instagram users and some of the world’s best known media organizations were fooled for over two years by someone pretending to be a front-line war photographer. The entire stranger-than-fiction story was revealed recently by BBC Brazil after a lengthy investigation. dpreview.com »
2017-09-06 22:06
Want to see what it’s like to flee the devastating floods in Houston, Texas, caused by Hurricane Harvey? National Geographic conflict photographer Erin Trieb helped evacuate her mom this past weekend, and she documented the experience in the 5-minute video above. petapixel.com »
2017-08-31 00:20
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 shortlist A Battle We Are Losing © Haitong Yu (China) The Milky Way rises ominously above a small radio telescope from a large array at Miyun Station, National Astronomical Observatory of China, in the suburbs of Beijing. dpreview.com »
2017-07-30 13:00
Need some pet portraiture inspiration? Well take a look at the winning images from the 2017 Dog Photographer of the Year awards. Now in its 12th year, the competition attracted over 10,000 images from 74 different countries all over the globe, including Russia, Brazil, New Zealand and Canada. digitalrev.com »
2017-06-20 03:00
When you think of Central Park, the first things that come to your mind are probably massive crowds of people and warm sunshine. New Jersey-based photographer Michael Massaia, however, stays up late at night to make sure he captures views of the iconic park that few ever witness, and his results are positively haunting. boredpanda.com »
2017-05-23 12:03
Razvan Sera is a formidable 22-year-old aerial photographer who was born in Romania and currently lives and works in the suburbs of Chicago. Razvan has always had a fascination with sharing his unique perspective, and aerial photography offers him the perfect medium to do so. boredpanda.com »
2017-05-22 15:18
I’d love to give you some philosophical answers on how my photography connects to my music, but I can’t. Truthfully, I invested my time in photography almost in spite of music. Any musician who performs live has those dreams of “making it,” but the music industry is cold; everyone from the record executives to the club promoters. thephoblographer.com »
2017-02-20 08:02
How far would you go to see justice if you found your memory card stolen and photos posted online? For travel photographer Paul Eustice, the answer is: halfway around the world. Eustice is an international landscape, travel, and adventure photographer based in Brighton, UK. He says that in late 2016 and early 2017, he spent […] petapixel.com »
2017-02-11 20:51
Photographer Spencer Bentley relates his feelings and beliefs about taking photos during the recent Women's March here in America. thephoblographer.com »
2017-01-24 02:00
Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert is being accused of a very rudimentary style of censorship by photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo. According to Lo Scalzo, Gohmert got up and physically blocked his view so that he couldn’t photograph protesters during attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearings earlier this week. petapixel.com »
2017-01-14 01:17
Photojournalist and cameraman Austin Raishbrook is being hailed as a hero after the veteran news photographer ran across a California freeway on New Year’s Eve to pull a man out of his burning SUV, ultimately saving his life. petapixel.com »
2017-01-04 01:56
2016 Travel Photographer of the Year Joel Santos, Portugal Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2016/www. tpoty. com Salt Desert, Danakil Depression, Afar, Ethiopia. This unique aerial photo shows the salt miners guiding a dromedary and donkey caravan through this desert's unique salt patterns. dpreview.com »
2016-12-18 14:00
Many photographers hate weddings. In fact, it’s a bit of a stereotype that photographers do some other kind of photography as their passion, but take weddings “to pay the bills”. And I understand this—weddings can be brutal working environments. petapixel.com »
2016-11-09 20:45
2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest has come to an end, but before the judges pick the winners, let's take a look at the best entries ourselves. boredpanda.com »
2016-11-06 21:25
First Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 images Splitting the catch. Audun Rikardsen / Wildlife Photographer of the Year A 40 minute, 104°F wait for a hornbill to toss a termite. dpreview.com »
2016-09-02 23:15
The Haiku Stairs on the Hawaiian island of Oahu are a stunning structure that makes for a captivating photograph subject. Many have taken advantage of the stairs' beauty over the years.