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An annual photography competition has released its collection of humorous wildlife images, showcasing animals caught in unexpectedly comical poses and moments. The contest focuses on perfectly timed shots that capture unpredictable and playful animal behavior in natural settings.
A rare cruise liner passing through Tower Bridge provided an unexpected opportunity to test the night video capabilities of the iPhone 18 Pro. The device's wider aperture and enhanced processing resulted in noticeably better low-light video quality compared to previous models. This showcases Apple's ongoing efforts to close the gap between still and video night photography in smartphones.
A film photographer describes replacing a manual darkroom workflow—scanning negatives frame by frame and hand-editing each in darktable—with an automated pipeline using Claude to control a scanner via the SANE driver stack. An early attempt saw Claude invert the scanbed's X/Y directions, nearly damaging the scanner's gear mechanism, prompting the creator to rework the approach.
Fast Company published a feature profiling a group of executives and entrepreneurs it describes as 'growth agents' for 2026, highlighting their strategies and leadership approaches. The piece is presented as a photo-led showcase crediting a team of photographers and a photo editor rather than offering detailed narrative reporting on any single company.
A photographer describes discovering, after reviewing years of personal photos, a recurring pattern of images depicting public benches with features like mid-seat armrests, segmented seating, and subtle curves designed to prevent lying down. The writer says this unconscious documentation tracked the gradual spread of so-called hostile architecture, a design trend aimed at discouraging rough sleeping or extended use of public seating that has grown more common over roughly two decades.
A visitor to robertmay.photography encounters an automated browser security verification screen before being redirected to the site. The page states this check runs once every 24 hours to protect the site's cluster services from scrapers and bots.
A photographer spent three hours at San Francisco's Muni Heritage Weekend 2026 using a line scan camera to photograph vintage streetcars, including the 1912 Muni No. 1, the first publicly owned big-city streetcar in the US, and other historic trams from Melbourne, Milan, and Blackpool. The resulting images, which capture the vehicles in a distinctive scanned format, have been released under a CC-By-SA 4.0 license and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
Apple is hosting a three-day photography exhibition in New York City, running September 18-20, featuring work by photographers Alex Prager, Jack Davison, and Jimmy Chin shot entirely on the iPhone 18 Pro. Curated by former New York Times Magazine photo director Kathy Ryan, the show titled 'What Holds Us' spans subjects from mountain climbers in British Columbia to intimate portraits inside a London warehouse.
Apple is reportedly shifting its iPhone camera strategy toward giving users more manual control over how photos are processed, rather than relying solely on automatic computational adjustments. The change is expected to arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro, allowing photographers greater flexibility in shaping the final look of their images.
Apple has outlined a new approach called Reference Image aimed at proving whether a photo genuinely came from a real camera sensor, rather than relying on after-the-fact metadata like the C2PA standard. The method uses iPhone's secure hardware and Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure to build a chain of trust starting at capture, rather than tracking edits after the fact.
Former TikTok employees Melody Chu and Jing Liu have launched Superpose, an iOS camera app that uses AI to generate four suggested poses for a selfie or photo of a friend. Users can save these AI-generated poses or use a match feature to align themselves within the frame, and the app has been downloaded over 22,000 times with more than 190,000 poses generated since its July launch.
The Public Domain Review has republished a piece on Dr. Julius Neubronner, a German apothecary who patented a miniature camera harness for carrier pigeons in the early 20th century. The device automatically snapped aerial photographs as the birds flew, producing some of the earliest examples of aerial photography.