Yesterday, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun, collected images of the rarest predictable solar event–the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. It will not happen again during our lifetime.
Apparently, trolling isn’t just for strangers on the internet anymore. Trolls are now taking their game to one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. After seeing the mass of tourists posing for photographs at the monument, all attempting to “keep the tower from falling” for a forced perspective photograph (see photos below) a group of friends decided to have a little fun with their photography as well.
When the iPhone 4 was released, consumers lined up in front of Apple stores to get their hands on the smartphone that packed a relatively unrivaled 8MP camera capable of shooting HD video. Since then, the iPhone has become almost synonymous with the term camera phone, as it has even spawned it’s own genre of photography, iPhoneography. However, with the release of the Nokia 808 Pureview, smartphone manufacturer, Nokia, hopes to take control of the market.
Accidents don’t have to necessarily be a bad thing. Such is the case when University of Queensland undergrad Sean Murphy accidentally discovered what has come to be known as flashed face distortion. The phenomena occurs when two side-by-side head shots are perfectly aligned at the eyes and the viewer focuses on negative space between the two images. […]
Getty Images is home to millions of images available for use as stock photography. When Sophie Schoenburg and Marcus Kotlhar set out to create a short video clip for the stock photo agency to use for advertising, they decided to sift through a good percentage of those images one-by-one. A long six months later and […]
In 2003, Linda Carey was diagnosed with breast cancer. To help her during the battle, her husband, Bob Carey, took on a unique photography project that helped inject a dose of humor into an otherwise dismal situation. Wanting to do more than pin a pink ribbon to his lapel, Bob instead made it a point […]
How much would you pay for a used camera? Two hundred euros, maybe four hundred? How about 2.16 Million Euros (2.7 million dollars)? In this video from the auction hall of WestLicht in Vienna, we witness the sale of the world’s most expensive camera. The camera is question was a Leica 0-Series, one of only 25 ever made and only 12 are believed to remain in the world.
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Perhaps one the world’s most highly regarded war photographers, Horst Fass was a German-born, two time Pulitzer Prize winner. By the age of 21 he was already covering the Indochina conflict, but it is perhaps for his work in Vietnam that he is most revered: Keen to share his experience and knowledge, he recruited a […]
In a decade of iconic moments, the 1989 film footage of a solitary man standing in front of a column of Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square, must surely rate at the very top. It was a moment when the world witnessed how strongly the desire for freedom can manifest itself in an individual. Now a new […]
