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Canines crowned king but cats lauded too as winner of 2026 Australian Animal Photographer of the Year revealed
News A dramatic series of outdoor pooch portraits placed first in the “Animal” category, but the highest-scoring overall image was a creative feline frame
The photo and video smartphone of the year award goes to this flagship for an "innovative camera system, developed in collaboration with Hasselblad" and "14mm–230mm focal length range for outstanding versatility"
NEWS The closest a smartphone has come to being a real camera in your pocket, with a 3x telephoto and 10x camera, an impressive reach, and premium Hasselblad-inspired design
This full-frame mirrorless broke sales records in Japan and now wins its second Camera of the Year award – featuring "cutting-edge photographic technology," it's a "reliable and high-performance camera for discerning photographers"
UPDATED Sony's latest full-frame camera wins the EISA Camera of the Year 2026-2027 title, after topping the Japanese sales chart for months following its release in December 2025
All award-winning photographers started somewhere – these are the 10 photo contests to enter this September
NEWS These international photography contests want to see your images and are open to photographers of all levels
Eight hours after drilling an adjacent hole in the Arctic ice, this photographer finally captured a polar bear staring straight into his DSLR lens
NEWS Norwegian photographer Audun Rikardsen waited hours for this extraordinary seal's-eye view of a polar bear – now highlighted by the world's leading wildlife photography competition
When photo competitions get it wrong, there are no "bad guys" – just the rule-abiding photographers that get stabbed in the back
opinion At this year’s Capture the Dark photo competition, winning images broke the rules. While there are never “goodies” nor “baddies” when this happens, there are the rule-abiding entrants left asking: What the heck?
"People keep asking me if it's AI. That's not an insult though, because it just doesn't seem real": photographer captures threatened species that wins Australia's most prestigious nature photo competition – but his drone almost died out on the ocean
NEWS Photographer's incredible aerial encounter with a critically endangered green sawfish and turtle in Western Australia almost didn't happen – his drone was 2.5km offshore with its battery warning beeping
Drone artist captures “vanishing beauty” in frozen landscape, becoming the Minimalist Photographer of the Year 2026
News Polish photographer Marcin Giba used a drone to capture the “incredible forms” on the frozen lakes near his hometown of Rybnik – a natural phenomenon that he says is disappearing from winters in the area
From an unlikely friendship to a leopard’s clumsy maneuver: the world’s leading wildlife photography competition reveals a sneak peek of this year's extraordinary images
NEWS The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition shares insights in the 2026 edition that received record-breaking subissions from photographers around the world
Three gentoo penguins reclaim their place in nature among the ruins of an Antarctic whaling station abandoned in 1931 – photographer captures wildlife returning to the relics of a dark industry
NEWS Award-winning wildlife photographer captures a haunting encounter between Antarctica's wildlife and its industrial past – now an Ocean Photographer of the Year finalist
