U.K. camera store WEX Photo Video recently opened a contender for the world’s most remote camera shop up a mountain in Wales.
WEX opened the store on top of Moel Hebog, a peak in the mountainous range of Snowdonia, a Welsh national park.
The camera company opened the pop-up store for World Photography Day on August 19 declaring it the “United Kingdom’s most remote camera…
Apple has sent out invitations for its next hardware event, widely speculated to feature the iPhone 14. The imagery for the event is space themed, leading some to speculate astrophotography features are coming to the company’s new smartphone.
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This spectacular landscape is a symbol of the risk to some of the country’s unique and irreplaceable places. One president preserved it at the urging of Native Americans who hold it sacred; another tried to open it to drilling and mining. A national monument rich with…
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The Fujifilm X-H2S is the company’s most capable video/stills hybrid yet: a 26MP X-mount mirrorless camera built around a Stacked CMOS sensor.
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Win an OM SYSTEM OM-1 Camera Kit and a Trip to the Galapagos with Lindblad Expeditions
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Have you ever dreamed of traveling to one of the most biodiverse locations on the planet? The Galapagos Islands, located 600 miles off of the coast of Ecuador, is known as a “living museum and showcase of evolution” where Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was formed following his visit in 1835.
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Google flagged photos that a concerned father took of his sick child as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and sparked a police investigation after it reported him.
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