The view from the base of New York City’s annual 9/11 memorial, Tribute in Light, captured by AP photographer Mark Lennihan last night. Now in its 12th year, the installation lights up the sky over Manhattan with 88 high-powered searchlights. [AP]
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Leica has been making some very high quality compact digital cameras for a number of years. These cameras aren’t exactly known to be cheap, but they are known for high-quality photography. Leica has announced its latest compact digital camera called the Leica C. This compact little digital camera is designed to be stylish while taking […]
Photographer Ben Marcin grew up Baltimore and has lived there for decades since, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that he began to notice a unique phenomenon in what he dubs the “rougher sections” of town: a single curbside home with no direct neighbors to either side. These multiple-story structures weren’t built to stand alone; at one point, the Colonial-era row houses were situated wall-to-wall along most streets in the area.
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The new home button on the iPhone 5S sure looks neat, but there’s much more to the brand new smartphone than a button. With iOS 7, a 64-bit A7 processor and much more we can’t wait to get our hands on it. Since everyone loves taking photos, especially iPhone users, lets talk about the much […]
Olympus has trotted out an interesting new Micro Four Thirds mirrorless digital camera that has some very interesting features. Olympus says that the new digital camera will provide the highest ever image quality offered in one of its cameras thanks to a new 16.3-megapixel LiveMOS sensor and a new TruePic VII image processor. The camera […]
If you have a knackered old SLR lying around, are game for a project and fancy adding a little quirk to your front door, why not think about creating a photography themed peephole?
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There are some science class staples that will never cease to be amazing, no matter how often you see them—among them, liquid nitrogen. To wit: these beautiful images of flower blooms, flash-frozen using liquid-state nitrogen and shattered in front of a camera lens for our amusement.
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Most card readers boast compatibility with almost every memory card format on the planet, but odds are you only ever use a couple of them at most. So Lexar has created a modular alternative it’s calling the Professional Workflow HR1, with four bays that can be customized with your choice of compact flash, SD, or XQD card readers.
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While Instagram has just announced that it has reached 150 million active users, it’s also revealed that it has plans to leverage that reach, too. Speaking to to The Wall Street Journal, Instagram has declared it will feature ads within a year.
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Instagram revealed its user base for the first time back in January, and after topping 100 million users February 26th a blog post today says its community has grown to “more than 150 million people capturing and sharing moments every month”. That means it’s added 50 million users in the last six months, growth that’s survived and thrived through the company’s acquisition by Facebook, ToS outrage and the introduction of video. There’s value in that many eyeballs however, and COO Emily White tells the Wall Street Journal it will begin selling ads in the next year — time to find out if it can balance popularity and profitability.
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