Decay Photos From A Town Abandoned 30 Years Ago Near Chernobyl

I have some amazing news today! We are releasing not one, but two new back-plate packages in our decay archives. Those are not regular packages though. They were taken at Prypjat – a city only 4km away from the nuclear planet of Chernobyl. Sadly, the radiation never quite went away and the city was never […]

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Local Landmark Shipwreck in California Burnt Out for Instagram Photo

Perched on a sand bank in Tomales Bay, CA, the ship nicknamed the “S.S. Point Reyes” has sat for a great number of years, left to rot and decay naturally.  The exact number of years it’s been there is something of a local secret, adding to the mystery of the wreck, which has been a significant […]

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Adobe unveils Lightroom 2.0 for Android, complete with RAW shooting/editing, Dehaze and Split Toning

Last week, Adobe accidentally leaked the details for its upcoming 2.0 update for Android. Now, it’s officially out and ready to be downloaded by Android users across the globe. Inside the new update a plethora of new features, tools and visual adjustments to help improve the capture, edits and sharing of photos while on the […]

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World Press Photo Winner Withdrawn by Associated Press

Daniel Ochoa de Olza‘s emotional series of 8 images that received third place in the People, Stories category of the World Press Photo contest  (see the winners here) has been withdrawn by Associated Press, stating that the submission of the set was made in error. The photographs in question were never distributed by the AP – our […]

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Squijoo reminds us to be careful who you trust online

The curiously named Squijoo (who operate under the slogan “Templates For Photographers and Designers“) came under fire earlier this week and put in the naughty corner after they got caught out in what appears to be systematic copyright abuses and plagiarism infractions. Specifically, a lot of the ‘original designs’ posted on Squijoo were uncomfortably close to designs posted […]

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Three Photography Greats and a Goldfish Take-on the Same Challenge in the GPP2016 Shootout

Since first seeing JoeyL tape a polaroid to a projector screen in 2010, the annual Gulf Photo Plus Shootout has become the one photography event that I look most forward to each year. The formula is a simple, yet very effective one.  Take three wildly talented photographers, set them a challenge, and then get one or two more photographers to heckle […]

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Instagram no longer displays usernames for photos with less than 10 ‘likes’

This is interesting. Instagram is changing a small, but prominent feature of its social network service. Instagram is testing a change in how it displays ‘likes’ of images. Specifically, the Facebook-owned social network is starting to use only numbers to show how many likes an image has received—something once reserved for photos that more than […]

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Adobe Leaks Themselves with Lightroom Mobile 2.0 for Android. Still not available

An interesting teaser from the Adobe Blogs popped up on my news feed briefly last night, stating that Lightroom 2.0 for Android had now been released. Listing several cool new features, I thought this was worth a look, only to discover that the actual post on Adobe’s website did not exist, nor did any reference to it in the Adobe […]

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