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Want to shoot some abstract, eye-popping aerial footage? Just bring a camera drone to one of China’s busiest roadways when there’s a major traffic jam.

The video above shows drone footage and photos during an insane traffic jam outside Beijing, China, this past week.

Thousands upon thousands of cars were stuck at a point in the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway where the 50-lane road suddenly merges into 20 lanes.

Here’s an aerial photo of the... more

Voigtländer has introduced three new lenses that will be released in Spring 2016: the 10mm F5.6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar, 12mm F5.6 Ultra-Wide-Heliar, and 15mm F4.5 Super-Wide-Heliar. All three lenses will feature a Sony E-mount for use with full-frame Sony cameras sans an adapter. Read more

In 1958, Disney released the documentary White Wilderness. Youve probably never heard of it, but you likely have heard the myth that lemmings commit mass suicide. The truth is more complex: the narrator didnt actually say the lemmings were committing suicide... more

Poet Edgar Allan Poe had glowing things to say about photography after it exploded onto the scene in the mid-1800s. Other commentators in those days weren’t so kind.

There are quite a few cartoons from the 1800s that show a more pessimistic view of photography and its emergence in the world.

Daguerreotypes often required subjects to sit still for... more

Talk show host James Corden went on a 4-minute rant about selfie culture on The Late Late Show earlier this week. In the video above, titled “Stop Taking Selfies,” Corden talks about some of the stories we’ve shared in recent days: the sorority girls spotted at a baseball game, the... more

A Virginia woman has been arrested for an extremely dangerous and illegal photo shoot she did late last year. She was caught by a surveillance camera climbing down onto the tracks at a metro station near Washington, D.C. and doing yoga poses while a photographer shot portraits.

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A couple of days ago, Adobe acknowledged that a nasty bug in Adobe Lightroom CC was causing slowdowns and crashes that were being reported across the Web. If you’ve been pulling your hair out over the issue, there’s good news today: a fix has arrived.

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For over two years now, Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc has been traveling around the world with a camera in hand and shooting portraits of women in their environment for a project titled “The Atlas of Beauty,” which we... more

Voigtlnder may have just tapped out of the film rangefinder game, but the brand will still live on through new product lines. The brand, currently manufactured by Cosina, announced today that it’ll be launching a brand new line of Sony E-mount lenses in Spring 2016.

The first three lenses “are covering an extreme wide angle range and are perfect for landscape and architecture... more

Filmmaker Woody Roseland made this short 2-minute tongue-in-cheek video titled “5 Photohacks to Take Better Snapchats and Pictures at Concerts.” Step 1 is: “Don’t. Just don’t do it.”

“Nobody really cares. You’ll be fine without posting it to... more

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