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This Canon camera feature takes a photo before you've even pressed the shutter button! Now that's what I call magic

Even the best professional photographers can miss a shot sometimes. You can be in the right place, at the right time, and ready with your camera and lens to take that shot of your action subject – only to be a fraction too slow with the shutter button! What you need is a clever camera setting that can help you get the shot quicker than your mind and shooting finger allows. The often-overlooked…
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"It doesn’t matter if you are good or bad. Just enjoy it.” These stunning wildlife photos were shot by a 10-year-old with a bridge camera

Photographer Tyler DeVane has amassed thousands of followers on social media, where he shares his stunning shots of birds and wildlife. The kicker? DeVane is just ten years old – and he captures his wildlife images with a bridge camera. DeVane has grown up around cameras – his mother is a family and maternity photographer. But he didn’t turn his curiosity and creativity around nature from…
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Great balls of fire win world's richest photo competition

Italian photographer Gianluca Gianferrari has won the grand prize in the world’s richest photography competition – the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA). His photo is titled ‘Etna’s Paroxysm’ and shows glowing volcanic rock being ejected from Sicily’s Mount Etna volcano during an eruption. The prize pot of this…
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'Maybe I'll buy a new camera… or a new apartment!' Photographer who won $200,000 prize tells the dramatic story behind his award-winning shot

Italian photographer Gianluca Gianferrari only does photography in his spare time, but scooped a US$200,000 cash prize in the 2025 HIPA Awards. Themed ‘Power’, Gianluca’s striking photo of a volcano erupting in Sicily, Italy, clearly resonated with the judges. Captured on a Sony A7R IV with a Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS lens, ‘Etna’s Paroxysm’ was actually…
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