Alan Palazon
I’ve been writing professionally since 2021 and joined Digital Camera World as a staff writer in 2026. My previous role was as a junior editor for a careers advice publisher and I’ve freelanced in the sustainability and travel and tourism niches.
In 2025, I became a qualified journalist completing my training remotely while traveling through Latin America. The experience melded my love for words and photography, and expanded my photographic interest into international photojournalism. Capturing the world’s incredible landscapes and cultures through the lens is what most inspires me.
I started out on a Nikon D3500, which was the ideal entry-level digital camera, but have since upgraded to Sony’s Alpha system. My go-to setup is the A7III (and later A7 models) paired with the 24-105 F4 G lens. In all honesty, cameras are so advanced these days that I don’t think it matters what make or model you use.
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Quote of the day Australian photographer Peter Adams’ famous quote reminds us that the fundamental element of a strong image will always be the way it makes peopel feel

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News The 2026 International Pet Photography Awards finalists have been announced, and this year’s commended images have it all, from religious canines to picture-perfect kitties

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News A Chinese photography competition has shut down after the winning image was discovered to be AI-created – but how on Earth did it fool the judges to begin with?

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Polish photographer Marcin Zając has been recognized by the International Aerial Photographer of the Year Awards for his original depiction of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge

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News Celebrated photo book 'The Firm' returns to the limelight over 20 years later, with Leica Gallery London set to display unseen images from the project

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News German photographer Aleksandra Wilk infused negative space into this masterfully simple drone shot, winning an International Aerial Photographer of the Year Award

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Opinion 'Perfect Days' teaches photographers an important lesson: don’t overlook the seemingly mundane details of your life, because hidden among them are untold photo opportunities

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News This super-slim pancake lens has full-fat features like AF, aperture and focus rings, and an f/2.8 aperture

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News US-based photographer Kah-Wai Lin recently came 3rd at the International Aerial Photographer of the Year 2026, and his winning image has completely changed my perspective on drone photography

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News A viral video of photographers coming within meters of a wild puma in Chile has split hairs, but rules are rules, and flouting them is a slippery slope to unethical wildlife photography – yes or no?

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Hungarian photographer Gellért Gombai subtly infused the backstory into his award-winning image using light and shadows, adding deeper meaning to an otherwise abstract photo

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NEWS NASA photographer Jim Ross soared the Washington, D.C skies snapping photos of the US capital during the country’s 250th anniversary. Sorry guys, but we’ll never be as cool as this photographer…

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OPINION Both are entry-level cameras with similar specs, geared towards vloggers and creators on a budget – but I think the Sony is superior

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News Photographer Mithail Afrige Chowdhury won £10,000 from the 2025 Wellcome Photography Prize for capturing human resilience among urban expansion – and now you can enter the 2027 awards

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Opinion This tour of Kodak's New York film lab provides an education in film processing that even digital photographers can benefit from

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News Canadian zoologists strapped tiny cameras to pigeons, believing their in-flight vision could inspire more advanced machine vision systems and drones

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News This year’s Patagonia Photo Contest winners included two fantastic shots of condors, a bird of prey considered a national symbol across the Andes

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News These videos feature a spookfish so alien that it seems like a sci-fi concoction, as well as thermal vents spewing life-forming materials into the depths of the Atlantic

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News Tamron has released firmware version 6 for the Sony E-mount 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD, bringing support for latest Tamron Lens Utility remote control app

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News The winners of the seventh Patagonia Photo Contest showcase the region's spectacular scenery and iconic species while shining a light on the growing challenges of human-wildlife coexistence
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News The images shed light on the galaxy’s past and colorful stars that other telescopes couldn’t in what the dumbfounded astronomers are calling a case of “galactic archaeology”

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Photographer Thomas Savary embedded himself in the rural French town of Allanche, where every year 40,000 people celebrate an age-old tradition: the transhumance of Salers cattle to high-altitude pastures

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News Firmware version 1.10 for the Nikon Z50II enables manual aperture adjustments in shutter priority mode and rejigs a host of settings in the Setup Menu

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News The eponymous Trevor Key delves into the photographer’s innovative pre-digital visual arts techniques and collaboration with renowned graphic designer Peter Saville, and is set for release via the Sigma Foundation in August

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News WWF has shared trail cam footage from a snow leopard survey in China, these cats being so elusive only an estimated 22% of their range has been documented, with researchers nicknaming them “Ghosts of the Mountain”
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