Photography

Digital Camera World //HEADLINE// 10 must-shoot events for astrophotographers in 2026 //SELL// After a thrilling 2025 filled with spectacular auroras, planet parades and two bright comets, astrophotographers have much to look forward to in 2026. In the year ahead, expect another total solar eclipse — this time over Europe — the final “blood moon” for a few years, an unusual partial lunar…

The tension between human habitation and animal migration is one of wildlife photography’s most potentially captivating themes. And this dramatic nighttime scene of an encounter between elephants and villagers along a West Bengal river captures it beautifully. When Torchlight Meets Tusks depicts a moment of raw conflict in Bishnupur, West Bengal, India, as a herd of elephants attempts to…

January brings long, cold nights rich with astrophotography targets. The month opens with a full Wolf Moon, followed quickly by the Quadrantid meteor shower peaking, albeit under bright moonlight. Jupiter reaches opposition on 10 January, dominating the night sky and offering planetary imagers their best views of the gas giant this year, before a valuable dark-sky window for deep-sky imagers…

Confession time. I ignore just about every compositional rule I regularly teach. No rule of thirds. No golden spiral. No carefully balanced foreground interest. But I took the picture anyway. The world did not end. No alarms sounded. The image did not collapse in on itself like a badly cooked soufflé. Composition is often taught as if it were a set of traffic laws rather than a loose collection…