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Monochrome image depicting a ballet dancer performing in a garage.
Beyond polished performances: photographing the “quieter, unguarded” moments of ballet dancing

By Alan Palazon Published

Photojournalism Interval, a series by Idaho-based photographer Weston McGhee, explores ballet dancing in spontaneous settings, with one of the images recently chosen by VSCO to feature on a billboard

Photojournalism
A dark Brandt’s cormorant flies to the right with a large bundle of green surfgrass in its bill, its head and body sharp while its outstretched wings blur into streaks
High above a California cliff colony, a Brandt’s cormorant flew in with a beakful of surfgrass. Kevin Lohman slowed his camera’s shutter to turn the moment into a dramatic picture

By Tom May Published

Award winner Kevin Lohman used a classic panning technique to make a nest-building cormorant look weightless

Award winner
A glowing ring of teal and coral-red gas surrounds a dark blue-green centre containing a bright white star, scattered with stars and dozens of tiny orange and white smudges that are distant galaxies.
Peering through the heart of a dying star, photographer Kfir Simon found a host of distant galaxies hiding in plain sight

By Tom May Published

The Helix Nebula is 650 light years away, but this shot reveals galaxies far beyond even that

Astrophotography
Red-crowned crane.
How far can you blow out a scene before losing the subject? Wildlife photographer breaks down the high-key technique behind his stunning series of Japanese red-crowned cranes

By Alan Palazon Published

Bird Photography Multi-award-winning photographer Somdutt Prasad purposely exposed the images beyond what “felt natural” to capture the majestic birds against the snow-capped Hokkaido landscape

Bird Photography
Sunlight hitting exhaust plumes from a SpaceX rocket creates an unusual shape in the sky
Wild photos and videos of a “space jellyfish” behind a rocket are quickly going viral. NASA explains the magic behind the jaw-dropping sight

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

SPACE A SpaceX launch on October 13 created a “space jellyfish” that could be seen for hundreds of miles away, creating incredible photos and videos

SPACE
Mars landscape panorama.
Curiosity rover camera reveals “most detailed view yet” of distant Martian cliffs with fantastic sunrise panorama

By Alan Palazon Published

NASA The NASA rover has beamed back a series of shots depicting wind-carved cliffs on Mars illuminated by golden dawn light, which the space agency compiled into a dramatic panorama

NASA
Photograph of a Masai giraffe eating with an oxpecker, taken by M & C Denis-Huot in the Masai-Mara game reserve, Kenya. This giraffe is grazing in the grass alongside a yellow-billed oxpecker.
Remembering Giraffes: the latest book in the photo conservation series that has already raised over US$1.6 million is now on sale

By Niall Hampton Published

news We catch up with Remembering Wildlife founder Margot Raggett as the ninth coffee table book goes on sale

news
A grid of eight 100 Portraits of Becoming posters, each showing a Kenyan photographed against vividly coloured draped fabrics, with the project title and TECNO and Angélica Dass logos and a personal quote
Can a camera see past skintone? Angélica Dass, the artist who matched thousands of faces to Pantone colors, is shooting 100 portraits to find out

By Tom May last updated

news This five-country project raises questions about how cameras depicts people with different skin tones

news
Portrait of a boy in front of a blue background
That viral “mom hack” for saving money on school photos? It could end up costing far more in legal fees and opening unexpected privacy risks. As a photographer, this is what I would do instead

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

AI Parents online are using ChatGPT to avoid school photo costs, but asking AI to remove a photograph's watermark is copyright infringement

AI
Trail cam footage of adult jaguar walking in forested area.
Jaguars strike again! Conservationists spot “majestic” feline for the second time this year using 120 camera traps

By Alan Palazon Published

Camera Traps The sighting took place along a jungle corridor connecting Guatemala and Honduras, and marked the first time in a decade that the conservationists had seen the species on both sides of this border region

Camera Traps
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