The Best Gear for the Serious Amateur Photographer in Your Life

The Best Gear for the Serious Amateur Photographer in Your Life

Whether you’re looking for accessories that will lift a loved one’s phone-tography to higher ground or trying to help them step up to a full-fledged camera, we’ve got you covered. It’s all in this list of gift picks for serious …

    



Deer Stand and Deliver: The Hunting Blinds of the Midwest

Deer Stand and Deliver: The Hunting Blinds of the Midwest

If you’ve ever spent time in the far reaches of the U.S., you’re probably familiar with the deer stand—a uniquely improvised, homemade shelter that gives hunters refuge, warmth, and a clear view. Though they’re designed to be inconspicuous, photographer Jason Vaughn seeks them out, finding and photographing dozens of the structures across rural Wisconsin.

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Google Confirms Its Android Camera App Is About to Get Way Better

Google Confirms Its Android Camera App Is About to Get Way Better

Earlier this month, a batch of comments in Android source code hinted that the camera app was about to get a shot in the arm. Now, Google has confirmed that’s the case.

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A Photographic Journey Down The Old Industrial Banks of the Thames

A Photographic Journey Down The Old Industrial Banks of the Thames

After the Thames River weaves eastward through London, it widens into an industrial landscape of factories sretching out into the English Channel. London-based photographer Alice Gur-Arie has documented this landscape in her series Passages: Industry on the River Thames, a collection of beautiful black and white photographs depicting the hulking structures that rely on the river for survival.

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Instagram-Printed Marshmallows: Equal Parts Delicious and Adorable

Instagram-Printed Marshmallows: Equal Parts Delicious and Adorable

There are countless online services that will turn your Instagram photos into everything from business cards, to flipbooks, to coffee mugs. But Bloomf has taken a wholly original approach to making hard copies of your digital photos—except they’re not hard at all. The website will print your shots onto gourmet marshmallows letting you devour the photos of your favorite meals all over again.

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Twitter posts pull in a king’s ransom in copyright damages for photojournalist

Freelance photojournalist Daniel Morel was awarded $1.2 million yesterday when a US federal jury found two large media companies guilty of copyright infringement. Agence France-Presse and Getty Images had swiped his photographs of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and distributed them to news outlets around the world. Guess where they swiped them from! Morel was present […]

An Open Letter to Martha Stewart Regarding Avant-Garde Food Photography

An Open Letter to Martha Stewart Regarding Avant-Garde Food Photography

The last thing I want to do is get between you and your art, Martha. But I think you should dial it back a bit and start taking “normal” photos of your meals.

    



This Instagram movie proves that every Instagram picture is the same

So this is cool: Filmmaker Thomas Jullien created a pretty sweet short movie by weaving together random strangers’ Instagram pictures to form a story. It starts with a bike ride to Paris and zaps you to New York and pretty much everywhere else in between. 852 Instagram pictures from 852 Instagram users come together for this lovely little story but by seeing all these pictures in a pseudo stop animation you realize how similar all of our photos end up being. Nothing is original. We’re all just frames in someone’s next movie.

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A new public toilet in Ichihara, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, gives visitors a littl

A new public toilet in Ichihara, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, gives visitors a little extra space to contemplate nature, when nature calls. [Architizer]

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​Sony A7, A7r Review: So Long DSLRs, Hello Future of Photography

​Sony A7, A7r Review: So Long DSLRs, Hello Future of Photography

The full-frame camera has been synonymous with the most high-end DSLRs—the biggest, the priciest. Not anymore. A new breed of camera that’s light on its feet but packs the best image quality outside of pro-grade gear is here, and it starts with Sony’s new A7 series.

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