Four Thanksgiving Dishes, From You

Every family has their own quirky, delicious, and closely guarded recipes they make for each Thanksgiving. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you documented (and shared) those delectable dishes…even though at least one was just off the back of the box…and one of you still won’t tell.

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This Dried-Up Salt Lake Lets Satellites Set Their White Balance

This Dried-Up Salt Lake Lets Satellites Set Their White Balance

This image shows a great white expanse on the surface of Earth, but it’s not snow or super-fine sand: in fact, it’s a dried up salt lake in Turkey called Lake Tersakan—and satellites even use it as a calibration tool.

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Shooting Challenge: Old School 3D

You kids and your fancy shutter glasses, your animated GIFs, your drugs and your binocular vision. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re going old school. We’re going red and blue, Biff’s friend in Back to the Future, anaglyph 3D. More »

100 Gorgeous Photos Of Fall Leaves

Fall. It’s the most beautiful time of year. And over the past few months, Gizmodo photographers have been documenting the yellows, oranges and browns of the season. Here are 100 beautiful entries in this year’s Fall Shooting Challenge. More »

Reuters cooks up remote camera rigs for 2012 Olympics, mounts them where humans can’t tread

Reuters cooks up remote camera rigs for 2012 Olympics, mounts them where humans can't tread

Sure, the 2012 Olympics may be gearing up for HD, 3D and even Super Hi-Vision broadcasts, but that doesn’t mean still photography has lost its appeal. In fact, Reuters photographers Fabrizio Bensch and Pawel Kopczynski are taking Olympic photography to the next level, perching remote-controlled camera rigs in stadium rafters. The system, which the duo has been developing since 2009, can turn, adjust focus and receive commands wirelessly. Once stills are snapped, they’re sent to an editing system and then off to distribution. The team is spending more than 12 hours a day installing the cams at different Olympic venues before the games kick off on July 27th. In the meantime, you can sprint to the source for photos of the setup.

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