Forced perspective is a camera trick that makes small things appear much larger or smaller than they really are. Filmmaker Peter Jackson didn’t magically make Elijah Wood and his friends smaller in The Lord of the Rings; he just shot it so they appeared smaller (or so that Gandalf looked bigger).
You can use the same idea to make a toy sports car appear as if it’s the real thing, like one…
You’re sitting in a cabin in Svalbard, the Norwegian Arctic archipelago that’s one of the remotest places on Earth. An oil lamp glows on the wall. You look up, only to find a polar bear staring straight back at you through the open window.
Most of us would be…
From a dramatic whale rescue to artfully arranged birds, these are the best 7 wildlife photographs this week
November 8, 2026
Heading out on a wildlife photography hike is my favorite way to unplug – but wildlife photography from around the world enables me to enjoy the animals that I would otherwise not see.
This week, I’ve spotted stunning wildlife photographs ranging from a rescued whale to…
From Amish softball to cinematic self-portraits: VSCO reveals the final batch of billboard-bound images in its photo contest
November 7, 2026
VSCO has announced the final twenty-five images selected for The Fifty – an ongoing celebration of photography across the US, whereby selected images are displayed on billboards or large-format public displays in their creators’ home states.
The open call for images earlier this year received over 13,500 entries, with VSCO unveiling the first 25 selected shots in September and billboard…
20 award-winning images chosen in a global vote of over 800,000 – from birds and landscapes to street photography
November 6, 2026
More than 800,000 voters from around the world have chosen the People’s Choice winners at the British Photography Awards 2026.
Spanning 20 categories, from Portrait and Landscape to Drone, Documentary, Birdlife and Sports, this year’s awards saw engagement double…
When photographer James Barnor first began his career, he became Ghana’s first photojournalist. Now, Barnor has spent eight decades photographing people and their stories – and he is just as well known for his portraits and street photography as for his impact on…
One phone call led to this award-winning sports image. It was a conversation between photographer Louis Garnier and his friend Kevin Rolland, a former world champion and multiple X Games gold medallist.
“I’ve got an idea with fire. You in?”
The result: An image so vivid you can almost feel the heat, with the skier flying off a pipeline in the dark, smoke billowing around him into…
It’s Manhattan, 1945. A peanut seller leans on his cart as steam billows from the roaster. Signs offer fresh roasted peanuts for five cents.
A year later, on Fifth Avenue, an ageing Model T Ford rattles along incongruously beside a contemporary 1940s taxi, like a…
These Australian photo store workers don't just know how to sell cameras, they know how to use them too, as these winning shots show
November 3, 2026
The Camera House group of photo retailers currently has over 50 stores located all around Australia. Established in 1983 by a group of independent photographic retailers, Camera House has grown into the largest speciality photographic and video retail chain in Australia.
On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m. PDT, all hell broke loose as Mt. St. Helens, a 9,677-foot (2,950-meter) stratovolcano in Washington state, US, violently erupted.
The blast collapsed the northern face of the volcano, sending a pyroclastic flow, a destructive, superheated avalanche of gas, ash, and pumice, racing outward, reaching an estimated speed of 670 mph and temperature of 800°F (400°C).
In…
