Are Your Lenses Not Weather Sealed? You Need This

Nikon tends to be better than most of the other brands about weather resistance; except for maybe Panasonic and Tamron. 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 th…

Tamron 12-20mm F2.8 Review: The Amazing Light and Nimble Astro Photography Lens

The Tarmon 12-20mm F2.8 is not only the lightest ultra-wide zoom I've tested in a while, it's also ushering in a new design language for Tamron.

Flashpoint XPLOR 400 Pro II Strobe – An Unmissable Upgrade

With their first gen line of strobes, Flashpoint (the US branded lineup of Godox) have established themselves as a company with affordable yet reliable speedlights and off-camera lighting accessories. They’ve recently started refreshing their lineup with next-generation releas…

How Evil Trout aims to turn a cult free game into a Steam hit again

The Incident at Galley House, the fully-voiced graphical adaption of the brilliant Type Help, is out now #

The Shape of Apps

Louie Mantia on the history, limitations, and benefits of Apple’s squircle icons #

Heard It Through the Grapevine

Marvin Gaye’s isolated vocals on I Heard It Through The Grapevine. The man has pipes. [This is a vintage post originally from Sep 2014.] Tags: Marvin Gaye · music · video

Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films...

Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films Featuring Very Strange Men with Werwulf. I’m not a horror guy but I was pleasantly surprised by Nosferatu, which I quite liked.

The Best Third-Party Portrait Lens Launched Over a Decade Ago

Portrait photographers have some lovely lenses that one can choose from. From Canon to Sony, each company has introduced a fantastic portrait lens that meets the demands of professional photographers. However, there is one model that has stood the test of time, one that is perfe…

Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women...

Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women Rebuilt It. “It’s not a pretty picture for climate communication and climate journalism right now.” You can check out the new site at climate.us.

A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music...

A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music generated by a tennis rally at Wimbledon. “Duplicating the players and then using the rhythm of the multiple tennis balls as they cross the pink line to drive the rhythm of the piece.”

Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels...

Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels placed in the otherwise unused space between railroad tracks.

The Photographer That’s Making You Look Twice at a Frame (NSFW)

Looking at the work of photographer Igor Brekhov, it's easy to see the power of humanity in an image over the world that capitalistic generative AI that is being pushed on us. "My signature is what I call 'conflict in the frame': the picture looks peaceful until you notice what…

Beautiful Hand-Drawn Guide to The Legend of Zelda

Philip Summers hand-draws game guides for old school video games. He’s done guides for games like Mega Man, Castlevania, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), and Metroid. But my favorite one is The Legend of Zelda game guide because Zelda was (and still is, tbh…

The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project , tracing &...

The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project, tracing & visualizing 10,350 LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the US since 2003. Anti-trans bills have dominated since ~2014.

Oneday

That's all I have to prep for a month on the road. Tomorrow is Baltimore. After that, North Carolina. After that, California. Back in Bloomington in mid-August. Ground down Says here [](CKWX Vancouver,)that Rogers Sports & Media has closed six of its radio stations. One of those…

On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American...

On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American English during the World Cup. “That’s not a foul, just a coming together.”

Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from...

Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.

If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s . “You...

If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s. “You are at the dentist’s office. No one has seen or heard from the dentist in months, but he’s been making stock trades.”

The Most Influential 90s Music Videos for Black and White Photographers

Are the 90s making a comeback? Apparently millennials are whistfully hearkening back to those good old days, when a Clinton was president and the tech bubble hadn't burst. And if you lived your life through music videos, you know that there were plenty of videos shot in black-an…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: If your brand name is your domain name, you don’t get to append words to the end of it. Google.Maps is fine, Google.com.Maps would be not

For Better Candid Portraits, Do This

Candid portraits are much harder than you'd think they are. First and foremost, candid portraits often require one of two things: either a lot of trust in the photographer or a really stealthy photographer that absolutely cannot be seen or heard. This is what many aspire to be:…

The Classic 85mm Lens that Still Wows Me

Earlier this year in 2026, I completed my Zeiss 85mm f1.4 Otus ML lens review. to me, it felt stale, lacking imagination, and nowhere as good as the original did. The original Zeiss Otus 85mm f1.4, which I reviewed back in 2014, is a lens where I look back with fondness. Sure, i…

The Princess and the Pea

“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth...

“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth shows signs of having devoured one of its planets — and is now gearing up for a second helping…” Scientists found signs of the meal by looking for “cosmic cookie crumbs”.

clipart.studio

make and share collages from the Internet Archive’s magazine collection or upload your own PDF #

Buddy List

an AIM-style buddy list of your active Bluesky mutuals, no login necessary #

Digger

I’d seen that there was a new Tom Cruise movie coming out this fall called Digger, but I was not prepared for the trailer, in which we see Cruise playing a dipshit oligarch in what appears to be a Dr. Strangelove-style satire/thriller. The most powerful man in the world e…