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After a woman who brazenly drove her car across the top of a frozen river in Canada crashed through the surface, onlookers were confused and shocked to find that she stopped to take a selfie with the sinking car before making it to safety. A Woman’s Car Crashes Through the Ice-Covered River After wintery conditions

Canon has partially closed its Zhuhai camera manufacturing facility in southern China and the company is considering a full shutdown amid a shrinking digital camera market, COVID-19, and the ongoing chip shortage. What started with an internal company letter that began to circulate online was followed by an official announcement of the changes coming to

Instagram has been is struggling with an identity crisis and is failing to resonate with young people. Despite this, it managed to be the number one most downloaded app globally in the last quarter of 2021. The Beneficiary of TikTok’s Ban New data published by app intelligence firm Sensor Tower shows Instagram at the top

Photographer Noam Galai, who works for Getty as a celebrity/entertainment shooter, was born in Israel and moved to New York City in 2006. The same year, he photographed The Scream, which went viral from Italy to Iraq to Indonesia and virtually 30-40 countries around the world. The photograph has even become the face of many

An undersea volcano near the Pacific island nation of Tonga has erupted, sending an explosive shockwave by air and a tsunami by sea ripping across the Pacific Ocean. The eruption was captured in satellite images and is one of the most violent ever seen from space. The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcanic island is located about

A new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showcases a spiral-shaped galaxy that lies around 150 million light-years away. But NASA says not to be fooled: its peaceful state belies a violent past. Beautiful and Tranquil Now, but with a Violent History This photo of the “lazily winding spiral arms” of galaxy NGC 976

The Japanese Cultural Heritage Inheritance Project partnered with Canon to make a visually identical copy of an ancient and priceless piece of Japanese art by combining a 4.2-gigapixel photo with the skills of artisans who practice ancient techniques. The Tsuzuri Project The Japanese Cultural Heritage Inheritance Project, also known as the Tsuzuri Project, is a

BCN+R, a large retailer and holder of one of the largest databases of electronic sales in Japan, has published the top ten cameras sold in 2021. Notably absent from the list are Nikon and Panasonic. BCN+R regularly publishes trend and sales reports across multiple electronics markets, including cameras. While it shouldn’t be taken as the

Due to the ongoing global chip shortage, Canon is finding it difficult to obtain the chips that are attached to ink cartridges that confirm their legitimacy to its printers. As a result, it has to explain to customers how to bypass its own DRM. Canon Germany has issued a public statement on its website (which

Researchers from cyber security firm Zecops have discovered a way to alter an iPhone’s shutdown sequence to trick an infected user into believing the phone has been turned off, but actually is still running and can secretly record photos and videos. As reported by BleepingComputer, typically iOS malware can be removed by restarting the device,

National Geographic has published a stirring piece from photographer Louie Palu that covers his experience documenting two impeachments, a pandemic, civil unrest, lockdowns, and an attack on democracy. “Washington On Edge” is a powerful story made up of video clips, photos, and text that provides a first person point of view of how the country’s

Pantone has launched the Pantone SkinTone Validated program, which is an addition to its existing validation program for colors and is the first such program that will attempt to validate the appearance of skin tones in displays and print. The new patent-pending technology program will allow display, TV, mobile devices, and printer manufacturers to have

Sharbat Gula, the Afghan woman made famous by photographer Steve McCurry’s iconic Afghan Girl photo, has escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan and has been evacuated to Italy. The 49-year-old Gula, also known as Sharbat Bibi, received international attention as a young girl after photojournalist Steve McCurry photographed her at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in

C+A Global, a brand licensee of Eastman Kodak, has announced the Kodak Reelz Film Digitizer, a new 8mm and Super 8 film digital converter that turns old film strips into modern MP4 files. Just like was the case with the giant inflatable backyard projector screen that was launched by C&A Marketing earlier this fall, this

The Heat Company has developed a line of warm and functional gloves for photographers who travel and shoot in extreme temperatures and for those who simply want to keep their hands warm during the colder seasons. With headquarters in Austria, the Heat Company originally developed its gloves for special forces and has continued to design

If you’re a photographer who often turns to Dollar Tree for cheap photo props or do-it-yourself materials, get ready to pay (a bit) more. After 35 years of selling most products for exactly $1, the retail chain announced today that it is hiking its price to $1.25. Founded in 1986 with the name Only $1.00,

A seemingly ordinary photo of Kim Kardashian posing next to an ancient golden Egyptian coffin has helped solve an international mystery involving looted antiquities. Although TV personality Kim Kardashian has been keen to follow in the legal career footsteps of her late father Robert Kardashian who was an attorney, it appears that she can unknowingly

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! HBO Film Tells the Story of How Gordon Parks Changed Photography – The Guardian [embedded content] Gordon Parks, a groundbreaking photographer who died in 2006,

Mick Rock, born Michael Edward Chester Smith, who is regarded as one of the most influential British music photographers and is referred to “the man who shot the 70s,” has passed away. He was 72. Rock photographed a host of some of the most iconic names in rock music, including Queen, T. Rex, Syd Barrett,

A new report has found that creators with large engagement and followings on one social media platform rarely, if ever, can recreate the same success on other platforms, which paints a bleak picture for photographers who hope to leave Instagram. Basically, creators seem to widely operate in parallel, with little overlap across the various popular

The digital payments company Square has launched the Square Photo Studio app which allows sellers to easily take “professional” product photos from a mobile device and sync them to their online store or Square item catalog for free. Square is a financial service used by many businesses, particularly smaller ones, to process sales and help

Office worker by day but a passionate wildlife photographer in his spare time, Dave Newman has found himself surrounded by fans and media attention after sharing his shots of local wildlife, many of which were captured during his lunch breaks. Based in Sleaford, a small market town in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, Newman works for a

The photographer who was recently awarded The Environmental Photographer of the Year title has come under scrutiny for his use of children in his portfolio. The controversy has raised questions about child protection in contests and the photography industry at large. Last week, PetaPixel reported on the winners of the 2021 Environmental Photographer of the

Google has updated its Google Camera app to version 8.4, which adds features that debuted on the new Pixel 6 flagship phones to older devices. As reported by XDA Developers, the 8.4 update doesn’t bring all the features found on the new flagship phones, but it does bring a few notable ones as well as

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! ‘People Arrived for Work and Got Vaporised’: How Kikuji Kawada Captured the Trauma of Hiroshima – The Guardian The ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial

Photographer Florian Kuhnt was hiking with a friend in northern Norway in order to capture the northern lights. On his last night, he was about to pack up his camera when he noticed a bright light in the sky, what he would later realize was a NASA rocket. Kuhnt, who studies aerospace engineering in Hamburg,

LensFayre, a small online film camera store, has launched what it describes as an entry-level film camera that has all the hallmarks of popular disposable cameras, but is sustainably focused and made of reusable materials. The new camera is called the Snap LF-35M, and LensFayre’s co-owner Alecia Barnes tells PetaPixel that it is an affordable

ACDSee has launched Photo Studio for Mac 8, what it describes as a powerful digital asset management tool for Mac computers and has been designed to run natively on Apple Silicon. ACDSee, founded in 1993, bills itself as one of the largest independent digital image editing and management companies in the world. The company claims

Apple has updated its iCloud for Windows app that adds support for Apple ProRes videos and Apple ProRaw photos. Apple’s iCloud app for Windows is designed to sync content such as photos, files, passwords, contacts, and calendars across devices and across platforms and consists of iCloud Photos, iCloud Drive, iCloud Passwords, and iCloud Mail, Contacts,

Google’s new “Pet Portraits” feature inside its Arts and Culture app allows users to find works of art that resemble their pets by simply submitting a photo and letting the artificial intelligence find a match from thousands of art pieces. In a similar vein to the selfie doppelgängers feature released in 2018, Google’s Arts and