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A composite of the August 21, 2017 total eclipse of the Sun, showing the second and third contact diamond rings and Baily’s Beads at the start left and end right of totality, flanking a composite image of totality itself The diamond ring and Baily’s Beads images are single images The totality images is a blend of 12 exposures from 1/1600 sec to 1 second, stacked as a smart object and combined using the Mean stack mode to blend the images Several High Pass filter layers were added to sharpen and increase the contrast in the coronal structures Regulus is the star at lower left Placement of the images only roughly matches the actual position and path of the Sun across the sky However, the time sequence runs from left to right All taken through the 106mm Astro-Physics Traveler refractor with a 085x reducer/flattener, yielding f/5 at 500mm focal length, wide enough to capture Regulus at left All with the Canon 6D MkII camera at ISO 100 Shot from a site in the Teton Valley, Idaho, north of Driggs. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images)

Two eclipses and meteor showers – NASA offers simple guide to shooting August’s massive schedule of must-not-miss astrophotography events

By Alan Palazon Published

News From solar and lunar eclipses to meteor showers, August 2026 is a big month for astrophotography: here’s a summary of NASA’s top tips for enjoying the spectacles

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Alien world of photomicrography displayed at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum celebrates 101 years of Nikon microscopes

By Mike Harris Published

News Nikon’s been making microscopes for over a century, now you can visit an exhibition that explores both its history and modern photomicrography masterpieces

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Dog looking out over wall with man behind

Most photographers visiting Cuba's capital focus on the Chevys and cigars. David Saxe took a very different approach: going after the blur, the shadows and the things nobody poses for

By Tom May Published

News Cuba es Vida trades postcard shots for grain, darkness and imperfection, and it's a useful lesson for every photographer

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Three portraits: a woman with short dark hair and glasses crosses her arms; a woman with curly orange hair and small horns looks up; a black-and-white image of a woman lighting a cigarette.

What does it take to take a truly great celebrity portrait? From shooting Amy Winehouse to Yoko Ono, photographer Jillian Edelstein has spent a career finding out

By Tom May Published

NEWS Want to find the human truth behind your subject's mask? Here's a great example to follow, now in the spotlight of a new exhibition

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The ArcBlue C24 astrophotography camera used by a photographer

This full-frame camera doesn’t just photograph the stars – it tells you what stars you’re looking at from a removable magnetic LCD screen

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

ASTRO The ArcBlue C24 is a dedicated astrophotography rig for photographing (and IDing) the stars – and it works with existing lenses and telescopes

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Close-up lifestyle image of laptop running Affinity Photo 2, with hands on the keyboard next to cup of coffee, plant, phone, and jar of sugar

The best photo editing software in 2026: retouch, fix and enhance your images

By Mike Harris Last updated

BUYING GUIDE This is the best photo editing software for improving your images and feeding your creativity

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This exceptionally deep image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals the renowned COSMOS field and its surroundings in the constellation Sextans. The view is crowded with galaxies and galaxy clusters spanning an immense range of distances and cosmic ages, while only a handful of foreground stars belong to our own Milky Way. It was created by combining multiple observations from Rubin’s LSST Camera into a deep coadded image and is being released to mark Early Data Preview 2, the first Rubin data preview based on LSST Camera observations. The COSMOS field was selected more than two decades ago to provide astronomers with a relatively unobstructed window into the distant Universe. Located away from the crowded plane of the Milky Way, it contains comparatively few bright stars and little intervening dust, and it is accessible to major observatories on Earth and in space. Even in this exceptionally clear region, Rubin’s remarkable sensitivity reveals traces of faint, glowing galactic cirrus: wisps of interstellar dust within our own Milky Way superimposed on the much more distant cosmic landscape. Early Data Preview 2 comes on the heels of the beginning of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). With its ability to observe the southern sky deeply, widely, and repeatedly, Rubin Observatory is poised to transform many areas of astronomy.

This single 3200-megapixel photo contains more than half a million galaxies and 50,000+ stars. Vera Rubin scientists say this is just the beginning

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

SPACE The latest image from the world's largest camera captures an overwhelming number of galaxies on a 3200MP car-sized camera

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Dog praying at church altar.

Pooch’s prayers answered as it becomes winning scene at 2026 International Pet Photography Awards

By Alan Palazon Published

Callie Soden is the 2026 International Pet Photographer of the Year, with a creative portfolio of canine captures, including a composite of her pooch praying at a church altar

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Rocky shoreline at sunset with a distant cliff and ancient castle ruins under an orange sky

Award-winning photographers all started somewhere – these are the 10 photo contests to enter this August

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS These international photography contests want to see your images and are open to photographers of all levels

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Silhouette of moorhen in reed bed

Photographer Robert Canis spent 30 years shooting one nature reserve: here's what that patience can teach the rest of us

By Tom May Published

Book This one-off print run, built from decades of shooting, is an unspoken rebuke to our location-hopping Insta culture.

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