Photography

While visiting a friend recently, I noted that his teenage daughter’s walls were lined with Polaroids of her and her friends. I expressed some surprise and inquired about what got her interested in instant photography. She tilted her head and smirked at the question, and I soon understood why. The term “instant photography” struck her as curiously redundant. With the rapid…

The Winter Olympics are slated to start in just a few days and for the first time, Sony has provided a detailed, high-quality look at its operations to support professional photographers at the massive international competition. During the 2020 Summer Olympics (which actually took place in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic), Nikon and Canon both provided detailed behind-the-scenes…

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer has published a pair of photos of the Arabian Peninsula as seen from the International Space Station, revealing colors and lines that look akin to brush strokes on a painting. A Unique Perspective of the Arabian Peninsula Maurer is a German astronaut who joined the ESA in July of 2015. He is undertaking his first mission for the…

North Korea’s official state media has released a set of photos captured from space that it says were taken from a camera mounted on one of its missiles designed to deliver a nuclear warhead. Taken from a Missle Capable of Carrying a Nuclear Payload The photos are allegedly from the weekend launch of North Korea’s Hwason-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile test and were widely…