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I’m a former sports photographer – but after looking at this viral World Cup photo, I will never look at team photos the same way

As a photographer who got my start at a small town newspaper, I’ve had my fair share of photographing sports teams. You probably know the sort, the ones with two or three rows of players all looking at the camera. The quick and dirty sports photo that happens when you have to take two dozen team photos in the span of an hour. But after coming across a viral photo of Norway’s World Cup-bound…
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The pixel stretch trend is back!Here's how to do it easily in Photoshop

If you’ve been scrolling social media lately, you’ve probably seen the ‘pixel stretch trend’ all over your feed. If you don’t recognize it by name, this trend does exactly what it suggests: it stretches a slice of pixels from a photograph to create a dynamic sense of motion – and even leading lines. This isn’t the first time the pixel stretch trend has done the rounds on social…
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These photos of the very first FIFA World Cup Final are surprisingly good, considering they were taken on 100-year-old cameras

The 2026 FIFA World Cup officially kicks off on Thursday, June 11, when Mexico will face South Africa at Mexico City Stadium. Throughout the competition, hundreds of accredited photographers will shoot thousands of players from the sidelines of 16 stadiums across the host nations of Canada, Mexico and the United States. And yet, while the technical aspects of photography have advanced immeasurably…
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Disputed historic Kodacolor photo of John F. Kennedy's final motorcade belongs to museum, court rules

Over the years, the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK) has raised all sorts of questions, from who fired the fatal shots to the ownership of various photos and films of the president on that infamous day in Dallas, Texas, 1963. Now, the latest of these disputes, between The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (SFMDP) – the official JFK museum in Dallas, Texas – and a private photo collector…
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