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The Hula is an agricultural region located in northern Israel with abundant fresh water. It is a major stopover for various birds migration path along the Syrian-African Rift Valley between Africa, Europe, and Asia. An estimated half a billion birds are passing through the Hula Valley every year.

The most common bird to visit the Hulla valley is the Common Crane (scientific name: Grus Grus) which is also known as the Eurasian Crane. Its towering to an... more

Well, you can add “captioning photos” to the list of jobs robots will soon be able to do just as well as humans. After some training, the latest version of Google’s “Show and Tell” algorithm can describe the contents of a photo with staggering 94% accuracy.

Show and Tell is in the news today because Google actually... more

It’s not always guaranteed, but here’s a great way to make sure your next wedding shoot goes viral: replace flower bouquets with adoptable puppies. That’s how photographer... more

I have had a great weekend shooting with the now kind-of-old, well-known, and mostly-forgotten-about Canon 50 f/1.2L lens. This lens came out years ago, and has been reviewed hundreds of times by users, reviewers, and anyone with an opinion. So why I am dedicating a post and short review to this lens?

Because now that I have shot it on the Sony A7RII, I have fallen in love yet again with yet another fast 50mm lens! Its true, I have a 50mm addiction... more

Flickr Marketplace, the propertys image licensing service, is being shuttered, with the company citing feedback about subpar service as the reason. Per the email being sent to existing Marketplace licensing program users, the full shutdown will take place over the next few months, with appropriate royalties still being paid out to contributors during that time. 

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Fujifilm “won” Photokina. There’s no real doubt about that. With the announcement of the mirrorless medium format Fuji GFX 50S, they stole the show. But what does the camera actually feel like IRL. And how big it is compared to, say, a Fuji X-T1?

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This week, a fire at Puerto Rico’s largest power plant triggered a chain reaction that has left the... more

Need a little bit of gear lust in your life this Friday? We’ve got you covered. The video above by Pro Centre camera store in London claims to be the “world’s first” unboxing of the... more

Alien Skin just released the new version of their flagship Exposure software, adding features like a Histogram, History panel, and Spot Heal tool that make it a much more powerful stand-alone RAW... more

Patent and technology consultancy Chipworks has published its iPhone 7 teardown and reveals that front and rear image sensors on the new Apple models are supplied by market leader Sony. This is not too much of a surprise as earlier iPhone models used Sony sensors as well. In its report Chipworks doesn't say which exact sensor model has been deployed in the rear camera but we know the 12MP chip uses the Exmor RS... more

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