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Excire Search 2026 review: AI-powered image searching in Lightroom Classic

If you have a large or even a more modest Lightroom Classic catalog, you’re probably aware of how difficult it can sometimes be to find specific photos. This is a problem Excire Search 2026 aims to solve with AI-powered image search, while also offering time-saving photo-culling capabilities to help you edit shoots more quickly than before. This probably all sounds too good to be true, and it…
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Every photographer knows the name Ansel Adams. But landscape photographers should learn from this photographer known as the “35mm Ansel Adams"

I’m a massive fan of the black-and-white landscape photography that helped bring the artistic genre into the mainstream, especially from the likes of Ansel Adams. His black-and-white work truly embodies the phrase “composition is king,” and I think the lack of color makes you hone in on this. But there’s another historic photographer whose name is less well-known that I think more…
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Capture beautiful photos of bluebells in the woods this Spring before they are all gone!

Spring is the time to shoot flowers in bloom, and a sea of bluebells in a forest are a real favourite of mine to photograph in the UK. It all comes down to a great location and soft sunlight when you’re photographing bluebells in woods, and some key camera skills, of course! It’s taken me a few years to find the best location in my local area. Although several woods near me have bluebells, it…
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Photojournalists were limited to public hallways, but this photographer kept showing up anyway – and her persistence earned her this major award. Emotional ICE image wins World Press Photo of the Year

Last year, when a judge ordered the Trump Administration to improve conditions at the immigration center at the Jacob K Javits Federal Building in New York City, the images used to show the “deplorable” conditions were taken from security camera footage. But even as…
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Shot with a phone camera, this striking "concrete vs. nature" image wins US$10,000 top prize in global photography competition

The winners of the photography competition ‘Concrete in Life’ 2025/26 have been announced, with Filipino photographer Celbert Palaganas taking the US$10,000 grand prize for his image Pillars Across the Sea. Shot on a Google Pixel camera phone using its 48MP ultra-wide camera, the winning image captures the contrast between nature and engineering at the Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) in…
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