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How to plan photographing August 12's solar eclipse and Perseids meteor shower peak

If you’re an astrophotographer looking for an exciting and unique project, go get a calendar and put a ring around Wednesday, August 12, 2026. On that day — after lunch in North America and just before sunset in Western Europe — the sun will be eclipsed by the moon. Depending on exactly where you are, it will range from something relatively minor to a landmark celestial event for the ages.
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Enchanting photo of three curious monkeys gatecrashing an online class was commended at the 2025 Living with Wildlife Photography Competition – and now it’s your turn to enter

I absolutely love this scene captured by Indian photographer Manas Khasnabish, who was a finalist at the inaugural edition of the Living With Wildlife Photography Competition last year. Entitled Monkeys in the Window, the scene depicts a young boy taking an online class at home via his cellphone during the COVID-19 pandemic, while a group of curious primates also attend from the window ledge just…
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What does it take to take a truly great celebrity portrait? From shooting Amy Winehouse to Yoko Ono, photographer Jillian Edelstein has spent a career finding out

There’s a photograph of Vivienne Westwood above that I absolutely love. Shot by Jillian Edelstein, it shows the late fashion designer in close-up: flame-orange hair wild against a warm brown background, two small silver horns tucked into her curls, her expression somewhere between mischief and defiance. It’s funny, strange and tells you more about her in a single frame than most…
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"This photo captures the first full Milky Way arch ever taken at this location," revealing the night sky over Argentina's UNESCO site, a landscape shaped over 200 million years and home to Earth's only complete Triassic record

As a photographer, creating an image that has never been made before is a career-defining moment. For Gonzalo Javier Santile, Valle de la Luna, Universo Triasico Ischigualasto represents exactly that: the first photograph showing a complete Milky Way Arch above Parque…
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The 1965 Selma photograph with no faces in it: why James Karales' camera turned away from the hero shot and focused on the sky

Scroll through the coverage of the historic 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rightsmarch and you’ll find plenty of close, urgent pictures. Clenched jaws. Raised placards. Martin Luther King mid-stride at the front of the crowd. James Karales’ contribution to that archive, now touring as part of Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder, does something dramatically…
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