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Thieves Steal 10 Years’ Worth of Photographer’s Work

Thieves Steal 10 Years’ Worth of Photographer’s Work

How would you handle losing a decade’s worth of your photography? Professional documentary photographer Jennifer Little is dealing with it gracefully, all things considered. Her house was burglarized in late September, leaving her only one large-format camera out of the nine she owned, and hardly any external hard drives, which she used to back up her life’s work: This is crushing […]

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Was Color Film Made for White People?

Was Color Film Made for White People?

If you printed family photos in color between the 1940s and 1990s—and, as an important caveat, you’re not white—you were probably disappointed by the skin tones of the results. Because the relatively rudimentary chemicals that developers used to coat film had trouble accurately capturing darker colors such as brown, for years the industry standard for color was called the Shirley […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Full Moon Rising Behind Chicago

Interesting Photo of the Day: Full Moon Rising Behind Chicago

Peter Dykstra knew the full moon was rising on September 27—he was tweeting about it before it even happened. At the ready with his Canon 7D, he snapped this gorgeously balanced shot: Dykstra isn’t a professional photographer—at least not by trade—but he clearly understands the craft, not to mention social media. He posted the image to Twitter, […]

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Watch This Photographer Stand Firm Against a Charging Elephant

Watch This Photographer Stand Firm Against a Charging Elephant

When Tor Bowling first saw the elephant, he froze. He tried to step aside, but the creature tracked his every move. After a few moments, his friend flipped on a video camera. Less than a minute later, the elephant began to charge toward Bowling, who was holding nothing but his camera. Then this happened: Bowling has since been […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Fire in the Australian Sky

Interesting Photo of the Day: Fire in the Australian Sky

The Australian outback gets blazingly hot—and here’s proof. This aerial inferno shows an expansive empty farm field overwhelmed by a sun-kissed sky and delicately textured clouds: It’s unclear where this shot was taken exactly, but it was captured by Simon Diete, whose HDR-enhanced images bring out the robust emotions in the natural world. The sun […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: A Magical Russian Childhood

Interesting Photo of the Day: A Magical Russian Childhood

There’s nothing like the relationship between a boy and his dog, alone against the world. That’s what Russian photographer Elena Shumilova so beautifully captures in this image from her quiet farm outside Moscow, Russia: She uses a Canon 5D Mark II body with a 135mm lens. But it’s truly the post-production that makes the picture sing “magical […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Dog Photobombs the Golden Gate Bridge

Interesting Photo of the Day: Dog Photobombs the Golden Gate Bridge

Interrupting an otherwise picturesque shot of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, one graceful dog leapt up and caught a flying rubber chicken in his mouth, aligning himself perfectly against the curvature of one of America’s greatest architectural landmarks. Truly, a thing of beauty: The perfectly timed moment was captured by Myles Weissleder, who runs a […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: A Crashed and Sunken Plane

Interesting Photo of the Day: A Crashed and Sunken Plane

Like something out of the Tomb Raider video game series, this award-winning photograph showcases a fallen World War II Japanese seaplane off the coast of Palau, a microscopically small island nation in the Pacific Ocean. At once eerie, horrifying, and beautiful, it is a true captured moment in history: The winner was snapped by Tony Cherbas, a citizen of […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Signals on a Djibouti Coast

Interesting Photo of the Day: Signals on a Djibouti Coast

John Stanmeyer was walking along the beach in Djibouti City when he spotted a handful of men raising their phones to the full moon. He turned to his translator and asked what they were doing. These are Somalian refugees, his translator explained, with Somalian SIM cards, trying to catch a signal from back home. Stanmeyer […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Perfectly-Timed Dolphin Races a Surfer

Interesting Photo of the Day: Perfectly-Timed Dolphin Races a Surfer

It’s a beautiful confluence of chance: a good wave, a strong surfer, gorgeous sunlight–and, to top it all off, a dolphin pops into the frame, just as the photographer presses down on the shutter. As much a testament to luck as to skill, this image tells a lovely story of nature gracing man with a […]

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