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The Auto Insurance Center used Instagram hashtags to put together another study about people and driving. Last time, they tackled road rage, this time, they wanted to see where people take the most selfies while driving....

Even for the most seasoned photographers, understanding the value of a photo editor can be fleeting. Photojournalists regularly work with photo editors, but the average photographer relies on their own eyes to edit even ...

Every 2 hours, NASA's EPIC camera takes a photo of Earth from the same spot in space, about a million miles away

Virtual reality… from space. That, in a nut shell, is the appropriately named startup SpaceVR‘s goal. And in 2017, they will have achieved that goal when they launch the Overview 1 virtual reality satellite into low-...

ESPN W recently hired editorial and commercial photographer Gina LeVay (@ginalevay) to capture environmental portraits of first-time Olympians. The assignment took Levay to six countries around the world over a two month...

Coloring books for adults have exploded in popularity over the past few years, as more and more people are revisiting their childhood activity for fun and therapy. Now one photographer’s classic photo book is capitaliz...

SpaceVR is a startup that is planning to shoot VR cameras into space, so that subscribers to their service back on earth can see the planet from an astronaut's point of view, in full 360-degree VR glory. The company has ...

virtualGimbal is one of the most interesting little devices we’ve ever come across. An SD card with a gyro built right in, the device does double duty by capturing your footage while it also captures the movement of yo...

A piece of Leica history is on auction at Christie's - or more specifically, 107 pieces of history. The Stammbaum, or family tree, once greeted visitors at the company's Solms, Germany headquarters and includes models ...

VSCO has announced the launch of VSCO Open Studio, a free-to-use photography studio in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. 'It's expensive to rent studio space for your passion projects. We get it,' the c...

I don’t think the Port Authority would like it if you looked at this photo. Yesterday I spent my morning taking some photos in New York City along the Hudson river with my 4×5 camera. Very relaxing. I had one sheet of...

David Clumpner believes in using renewable natural resources. So, in addition to being a professional wedding photographer, he’s also an avid hunter, fisherman, and gardener. That explains the camera strap he now bring...

Just a quick note to let you know that tickets have just gone on sale for the Gulf Photo Plus PopUP event in Berlin for the weekend of October 29-30.If you are unfamiliar with GPP's PopUP, it is a road version/distillati...

Former Russian Olympic swimmer Evgeny Korotyshkin usually reserves his Instagram for posting pictures of swimming events or selfies with his medals. But when he was robbed at gunpoint yesterday in Rio, he posted a very d...

Photographing a meteor shower is more like photographing a time-lapse than traditional still photos. You can never anticipate where or when a meteor is going to streak across the sky. In order to catch them, you have to ...

It may look chaotic, but it's surprisingly efficient and remarkably safe

After reading so many stories about inconsiderate people putting animals’ lives in danger (or outright killing them) to get a “cool” selfie, this story was like a deep breath of fresh air. Watch as a Polish nature ...

The Leica M-D is a crazy idea--seriously, who decides to remove the LCD screen from a camera? It makes no sense, right? Honestly, you'd be amazed at how wrong you are. The Leica M-D is the closest thing that Leica has th...

Here's episode 97 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...

The Nikkor 50mm F1.4D has been around for, well, a while. Its age was something we noted even when we reviewed it back in 2008, though it's still one of five 50mm lenses that Nikon still makes today (counting the 50m...

We've waited a long time for a brand new Polaroid camera if you're in the analog market, and just this year the Impossible Project announced the I-1: which is in many ways a world's first for analog film cameras. With a ...

Brady Whitney's "Codex Silenda" has struck Kickstarter gold