The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards has unveiled the Sterna People's Choice Award winner for the 2025 competition. Photographer Alison Tuck from the United Kingdom earned top honors for her hilarious portrait of a gannet getting a face full of grass and weeds.
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Adobe has introduced a major expansion of its AI-powered creative ecosystem, integrating the Adobe for creativity connector for Anthropic’s Claude alongside a public beta of Firefly AI Assistant. The updates mark a broader push toward agentic workflows, in which creative tools are orchestrated via natural-language prompts across multiple applications.
Hasselblad has announced the 70 finalists of its prestigious Hasselblad Masters 2026 competition, highlighting exceptional photos across seven categories.
DwarfLab has introduced the Dwarf mini smart telescope, a compact astrophotography device designed to make stargazing and deep-sky imaging more accessible through automation, portability, and app-driven control.
Evident Scientific, a scientific solutions and microscopic imaging company, has announced the winners of its sixth annual Image of the Year photo contest. The competition celebrates the world's best scientific microscopic imaging, and the photos are as scientifically valuable as they are beautiful.
Pic-Time has announced the launch of Pic-Time 2.0, a significant overhaul of its online gallery platform designed to reshape how photographers deliver, present, and monetize their work. The update introduces a redesigned interface, expanded customization tools, and deeper AI integration.
OpenAI may be making a ChatGPT phone with AI agents replacing apps to complete different tasks, according to a new report.
It's famous for picturing far-off galaxies, redefining how the public sees the Universe, but as the Hubble Space Telescope turns 36, another satellite has snapped a birthday photo showing Hubble in all its glory.
Adobe has released the April 2026 updates to Photoshop and Lightroom, bringing version 27.6 to desktop users with a mix of AI-driven tools, workflow refinements, and performance improvements. The update continues the company’s broader push to streamline complex editing tasks while expanding generative capabilities directly inside the app.
Global superstar Taylor Swift has filed trademark applications for her image in what is believed to be an attempt to protect her likeness from AI deepfakes.
Just a week after SilverBridges shared that photographers were using WideluxX F10 prototypes out in the field, the exciting new 35mm panoramic analog camera is now available to preorder.
Reeflex has launched a new ultra-telephoto lens for Apple and Samsung's latest flagship smartphones on Kickstarter, promising mobile photographers significantly more reach and improved image quality versus using their built-in lenses with digital zoom.
DJI has been busy lately, at least everywhere but the United States. DJI today unveiled the Mic Mini 2, a colorful upgrade that promises improved audio performance and usability.
The winners of the 2026 Environmental Photography Award have been announced, and photographer Britta Jaschinski has been presented with the grand prize for her image, Handprint on Sea Turtle, which also won the “Changemakers” category.
It was supposed to be a night off, an evening of pleasure for the hard-working news photographers of Washington, D.C. But the biggest story of the weekend came to them as a gunman burst into the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) and opened fire.
A convincing AI-generated image of a runaway wolf in South Korea led to the arrest of a man after it derailed the rescue team searching for the canine.
DJI has announced the winners of the 2025 DJI SkyPixel photo and video competition, which ran from November 27, 2025, to Mar 10, 2026, and offered 53 different awards with prizes totaling almost $200,000.
In his review of the new Oppo Find X9 Ultra, famous tech YouTuber and enthusiastic photographer Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) not only evaluates Oppo's latest slab phone, but he also waxes poetic about mobile photography and smartphone cameras in general, arguing that no matter how good phones get, they won't replace dedicated cameras for hardcore photographers. He's right, and it's refreshing to hear someone in the broader tech space say so.
Xelmus used NAB Show 2026 to preview what may be one of its most ambitious optics to date, the Aura 16mm 2x anamorphic lens. Still in prototype form, the lens is being shown as a proof of concept for what the company describes as the world's widest anamorphic lens, a creatively driven addition to its growing anamorphic lineup.
