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Even though Faamai is a big elephant, every time she hears the lullaby from Lek she still falls asleep. Recorded at the Elephant Nature Park sanctuary in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Art that inspires is art that is remembered. An in-depth look at the comic strip that elevated the medium. Bill Watterson, you're a genius

One morning last December, I woke up and noticed that a dream of mine came true: I had taken a picture that went viral. A picture I took at a friend's wedding had been shared by UNILAD on Facebook with the caption "Best ...

We already knew Chinese electronics brand Xiaomi would be releasing a drone today, but we were only hoping that it would be the first truly affordable UAV on the market. Well, Xiaomi has confirmed our hopes. The company ...

The airline Emirates is a sponsor of the French Open championship in tennis, and one of its advertisements at the tennis matches is an aerial camera in the shape of an Airbus A380. Suspended 45 meters (~148 feet) above t...

"Bordering on Violence" is an ongoing series of illuminating, large-scale, close-up photos of flowers by Isabel Bannerman

Making an iconic landmark ‘disappear’ might seem like the purview of magicians, but it’s street artist and photographer JR who gets the glory this time around. Through clever use of massive photo prints, he managed...

Swiss lighting brand broncolor has announced a range of diffuser panels for its softboxes that help to create a rim light effect when the subject is positioned in front of the softbox. The Edge Masks feature a large blac...

At the Cannes Film Festival, HumanEyes Technologies unveiled the Vuze VR, a consumer-grade 360-degree camera for VR applications. The camera was used to record the recently screened 3D VR short movie Summertime, and is ...

We tend to see photos in isolation. By that I don't mean we only see one photo at a time — between Facebook, Flickr, and Instagram, we've become comfortable consuming many photos at once — but that we see only one ph...

The creators of Scanbot--an app that lets you quickly and effectively scan documents using your phone’s camera--have turned their attention to your old photos. Their new app Unfade promises to make digitizing old print...

The Nikon D500 is a 21MP APS-C DSLR capable of shooting at up to 10 frames per second and featuring an autofocus system derived from the one in the D5. In other words, it's exactly the kind of high-end DX format body tha...

Photography studio Bruton Stroube works with huge brands to create beautiful images, but not every step of the process is so glamorous. In a new Instagram series they call “Test Shot Tuesday,” they’re sharing some ...

The three shipwrecked boaters were stranded on the uninhabited island in the Pacific for three days

Ah, the Instagram #yoga hashtag. As of this writing, there are over 20 million posts hashtagged #yoga on Instagram, and this creative spoof describes/pokes fun of a good 50% of them. Created by JP Sears of “If Meateate...

In 2011 a team of researchers led by Australian journalist Ross Coulthart made an incredible discovery when they uncovered a collection of hundreds of photographs from World War One. The photographs were taken by a Frenc...

The photo above is a perfect example of when preparation and luck meet, shake hands, and press down your shutter in unison. Captured by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, the photo shows a lion cub in the foregrou...

If you thought milk splash photography was a bit extreme, then Canadian photographer Melissa Trotter‘s latest experiment is probably not for you. Instead of using milk, she created a ‘dress’ using fake blood. Trott...

This short little tutorial by photographer and educator Phil Steele might be too basic for most advanced and even intermediate photographers, but you might find it useful all the same. That’s because it tackles what St...

The fixed lens camera market may be a bit niche, but it's here that you'll find some of the best cameras you can buy. Sensors ranging from APS-C to full-frame are designed to match their lenses, which cover ranges from 2...