A Breakdown of the Gear Used By the World Press Photo Winners

A Breakdown of the Gear Used By the World Press Photo Winners

When it comes to photography, gear isn’t everything—but that doesn’t stop us being super interested in it anyway. So this splurge of data about the kit used by the World Press Photo winners makes for interesting reading.

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Entire Wild Trees Grow On The Walls of These Hong Kong High Rises

Entire Wild Trees Grow On The Walls of These Hong Kong High Rises

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Farmer Turns an Old Star Wars Billboard Into Greatest Chicken Coop Ever

Farmer Turns an Old Star Wars Billboard Into Greatest Chicken Coop Ever

This may just be the epitome of baby chick luxury: A coop made out of vinyl repurposed from old movie billboards. The Oregon poultry farmer responsible for this spectacular feat of ingenuity, Mark Anderson, uses the colorful barn as a shelter for chickens in the first phase of their lives. And the accompanying photographs on Modern Farmer are spectacular.

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Photographs switch the role of parent and child by changing clothes

Photographs switch the role of parent and child by changing clothes

Mom, you look ridiculous. Son, what the hell are you wearing? These type of conversations go on in every household everywhere. In a generational tug of war between style and comfort it seems like parents and children are on opposite sides. But what if they changed places? What if parents wore the outfits of their children and children wore the clothes their parents wore?

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SPARCS mortar rounds blast 360-degree surveillance into the sky

For those of you not satisfied with being able to toss a ball into the sky to capture a sphere of photos, there’s now mortar rounds. Fired from 40-millimeter-capable firearm, … Continue reading

10 Fierce Fisheye Photos

Fisheye lenses distort a scene to absurd proportions—which is why fisheye photography is so fun to see. Here are your fisheye photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge.

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The Inside Story of How Olympic Photographers Get Such Stunning Images

The Inside Story of How Olympic Photographers Get Such Stunning Images

Every single moment of the Sochi Olympics is documented in minute detail. Here’s how the AP and Getty Images, two of the biggest photo agencies on the scene, get their incredible photos from the Olympics to the United States, faster than you can microwave a bag of popcorn.

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Is a perfectly symmetrical face actually the most beautiful?

Is a perfectly symmetrical face actually the most beautiful?

Beauty is in symmetry. Symmetry is beautiful. Or something like that. But what if that’s not true? Photographer Alex John Beck played around with the idea of facial symmetry by creating perfectly symmetrical composite images of people’s faces in his photography series Both Sides Of. You’ll see two faces in the pictures here, one face is the the left half of a person’s face mirrored and the other is the right side. They’re both symmetrical. They’re not always beautiful.

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This Week's Best Photo-Related Posts on Reframe

This Week's Best Photo-Related Posts on Reframe

Did you guys know there is a Gizmodo subdomain where you can go for all things photographic? Yep! It’s called Reframe, and it’s where you’ll find additional coverage of gear, techniques, news, and all kinds of great stuff related to the crafts of photography and videography.

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Seeking a Cheap Cell Phone Signal by the Light of the Moon

Seeking a Cheap Cell Phone Signal by the Light of the Moon

It looks like a cultish gathering of smartphone users, and in many ways it is: this image shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti, holding their phones aloft to snatch cheap phone signal from nearby Somalia.

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