What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli?

Following a prompt from Joanna at Cup of Jo… The local deli or sandwich shop names a sandwich after you. What would be on it? Perhaps another way of asking the question: what’s your favorite sandwich that’s a little bit unusual? I love a classic BLT, banh mi, or jambon b…

Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part...

Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part because Medicare pays only a fraction of the actual cost of an ambulance ride and the uninsured often don’t pay at all, so the privately insured get bills of $13,000 for a $2600 ride.

We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night...

We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies. “Our main failure isn’t a technical one. It’s that we have yet to revise our thinking about lighting at night. We use LED technology just as we did the old sources of light.”

Does Any Social Media Platform Actually Protect Your Photos?

In recent years, social media have become one of the ways to endorse your photography. Photographers from different walks of life have relied on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, X, Flickr or even TikTok to promote their photos and to be easily recognized by potential clients.…

A Matter of Form (1984)

In addition to leading the animation studio at the National Film Board of Canada, René Jodoin made several animated films that explored geometric forms and motion, including the one above, A Matter of Form from 1984. Set to the rousing notes of Schubert’s Military March,…

An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers ,...

An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers, presented as they were originally serialized in newspapers, with on eye on good typography and readability.

“ This map shows the predicted density of...

“This map shows the predicted density of underground networks created by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. These networks form one of Earth’s circulatory systems, moving massive amounts of carbon, nutrients, and water across plant communities.”

Our Favorite Nikon Lens for Bird Photography

Nikon has some wonderful lenses in its portfolio. The company has the 18-300mm, the 70-200mm f2.8E, and the 200-500mm f5.6 are some options that one can rely on. For bird photographers, there are some options one can choose from, and this is perhaps the best option out there.

The Hasselblad X2D II 100C Got a Major Upgrade, Sort Of

Recently, Capture One and Hasselblad www.thephoblographer.com/2026/07/02/hasselblad-raw-support-capture-one/ compatibility for their cameras and the software to be able to work together. To that end, we decided to do updates to our reviews. We previously updated another Hasselbl…

Our Presets Give the Magic That You’re Looking For

Every now and again I look at what our presets due to the images I shoot, and I'm always in awe. On the staff, we tend to rotate through a variety of presets. If you use Lightroom or Capture One, you'll want to see what our presets can do for you. Not only are they affordable, b…

Why Tamron is a Far More Powerful Company Than You Think

For the past few years, I've been a convert to the L-mount alliance. As a stills-photographer who cares absolutely nothing about video, they've been giving me a lot of what I crave. Those things include better autofocus, live composite, LUT adhesion, multiple exposure RAW, build…

Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The...

Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The Clapper became a viral sensation. When I was a kid, we didn’t have a Clapper, no one I knew had one, and I couldn’t understand why every single household didn’t have one of these magical devices.

Frozen Polygon Waves

Well, this is just absolutely lovely: photographer and artist Jan Erik Waider shot these videos of cracked-but-unbroken Baltic Sea ice undulating with the gentle motion of the sea. Mesmerizing…I could watch these for hours. Tags: Jan Erik Waider · mesmerizin…

We are Removing the Editor’s Choice Award for Echolens

Of any of the large photography publications, we've been one of the ones to really embrace the digicam trend and the birth of all these new point and shoot cameras. When we reviewed the camera, we gave it an Editor's Choice award. We also named it one of the best screenless digi…

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us...

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America? “A menu describes what a restaurant serves — but a menu also describes who is being served. They reflect the class, gender, political, technological, and environmental shifts of history.”

A list of Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail...

A list of Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail, including an Apple Powerbook 100, a SGI R4000 Indigo, the Motorola Envoy (PDA), and some Thinking Machines CM-5s. “This is a Unix system, I know this!”

There is nothing more I love in this world right now than...

There is nothing more I love in this world right now than these two lunch ladies performing Firestarter by The Prodigy.

Unclassifiable Artists

Using William Blake (aka “the patron saint of unclassifiable artists”) as an example, Evan Puschak’s latest video explores how society often rejects artists whose work doesn’t fit neatly into established categories and frameworks of criticism and commerce. What you�…

A digital museum of video game levels …you can move...

A digital museum of video game levels…you can move freely around each level using your keyboard. Heavy on Nintendo games (Mario Kart 64, Wii Sports, etc.) but also includes Portal, Halo, Katamari Damacy, GTA III, and World of Warcraft.

I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this...

I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this Earth and somehow I didn’t know that there are two copies of the Gettysburg Address written in Lincoln’s own hand in the Smithsonian (and five overall).

The Ultimate Bokeh Lover’s Guide to the Different Kinds

Not all bokeh is made the same. Some are clearly superior to others in the way that the bourgeoisie snubs their nose at the proletariat. Of course, I'm kidding about that. It's all personal preference. But objectively speaking, there are many different types of bokeh out there.…

Calibration Nobel

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration , a collection...

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration, a collection of oral histories recorded in Michigan in the 1970s of Black people who had previously escaped the Jim Crow South. “If we don’t get it from those individuals, then we can’t get it from anyone else.”

“ Researchers let AI models run a simulated society...

“Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest — and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days.”

The Hasselblad 907X CFV 100C Got So Much Better

Earlier this month, Capture One and Hasselblad finally put aside their feud that had been going on for way too long. Part of this was because Capture One and Phase One were so closely tied together. But since the companies split apart years ago and went into different directions…

Brian Eno on the Cherished Sounds of Failure

Near the end of 1995, the artist and producer Brian Eno wrote the following about new media in his diary, which entries were later collected in a book called A Year with Swollen Appendices. Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will sure…

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It...

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed. “Google has often said it was ‘sending out more traffic & the web is bigger than ever. And then right next to that is a bunch of publishers whose businesses are getting destroyed.’”

Should You Get the Fujifilm GFX 100S II in 2026?

Back around 2024, I reviewed the Fujifilm GFX 100S II. And since then, the review has been updated by more than just me. As I look through the images that I've shot, I really do like the images. Yet at the same time, I also really do wonder about why someone would ever consider…

Fuji Cameras Can Get Worn Down. So Protect Them With This

Fujifilm's cameras are plenty durable. But after a while, problems develop that we never thought we'd see. That's why we created the Photography Care Program, in collaboration with Full Frame Insurance. Dust affects your camera and lens performance more than you think, and unle…