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SmugMug's newest film features travel photographer Trey Ratcliff as he explores the Moroccan towns of  Fez and Chefchaouen and discusses his own journey as a photographer. Check out the film to follow along with Trey in...

Forget wildlife cameras, when it comes to capturing cool photos of birds, it seems all we need are traffic cams. Just a few months after a CCTV camera in Canada captured these shots of a snowy owl in flight, a traffic ca...

“We have to be humane,” said the driver. It was nine o’clock at night, and since six there had been no cars or buses on the plain of Chiaraje. We were the last unnatural disruption of the monotonous highland landsc...

22 iconic photographs and famous moments throughout history that captured raw human emotions and stunned the world

Eadweard Muybridge is considered one of the fathers--if not THE father--of the moving picture. But his life story is perhaps more sordid than glamorous, as this fascinating short film by filmmaker Drew Christie illustrat...

Cooperative of Photography (COOPH) has introduced the Field Jacket, designed for photographers and made from a fully waterproof Swiss cotton fabric called EtaProof. The jacket features both inner and outer pockets for ...

May cause sweaty palms and random body clenching

Actor JD Walsh recently created a Hollywood-style movie trailer… featuring strangers he encountered on the street. In the video above, titled “Run & Gun Pilot,” Walsh shows how he approached people on the sidewalks...

Adding macro capabilities to your smartphone camera usually involves a DIY hack like this one, but if you’re looking for more professional results then you should definitely check out the BLIPS micro & macro lenses. Ju...

Christoph Gelep filmed this incredible hyperlapse tour through Tokyo over the course of 5 days in January of 2016

Korean electronics manufacturer LG has announced a new action cam that can stream live content to the internet via built-in 3G and LTE connectivity. The LG Action CAM LTE allows users to connect directly from the camera ...

The Internet has not been kind to Instagram’s redesigned logo. Adweek called it “baffling” and “a travesty,” and some went so far as to call it “an abomination.” But if you hate the logo as much as these fo...

"Fauxtographer" (according to Urban Dictionary): A person that claims to be a good photographer when in reality they just set their camera to automatic mode a start shooting. This person also happens to fumble over photo...

Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 25 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting

If you’ve ever tried to stitch a panorama in Photoshop, you know that the program is not always up to the task. In this “Photoshop Secrets” tutorial, photographer Jimmy McIntyre will show you two tricks that will h...

Just because you think it can't possibly happen to you, doesn't mean it won’t happen anyway. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada at a particular spot where the tides are the highest in the world. I just recently started to g...

Shooting with the Nikon D500 continues, both in Seattle and in Palm Springs, California. DPR staffer Richard Butler is there with Nikon, weathering some scorching temperatures and getting to know the local residents at ...

Here's episode 71 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Leave a comment in this post, or use our voicemail widget for feedback/questions for the sho...