This Software is Faster Than Adobe Lightroom

Every photographer knows this feeling. You get home after a full day of shooting, sit down, open Lightroom, and watch each thumbnail slowly appear on your screen one by one like your time means nothing. And that's before you've even started culling through hundreds, sometimes th…

Gear Used By Underwater Photographers of the Year 2026 Winners

Once again, photographers from around the world have displayed immense talent in showcasing what the world looks like beneath the surface of the oceans. A combination of breathtaking, mesmerising, surreal, and outright astonishing images make up the Underwater Photographer Of Th…

The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the...

The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the line-up: the Midi. “The standard Times daily crossword, you see, is a 15×15 grid. The Mini is 5×5. The new Midi is 9×9, snug in between.”

Satellite’s Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse Photo Taken From Orbit

During the recent annular solar eclipse on February 17, the ESA’s PROBA-2 satellite captured this great shot of the Moon passing in front of the Sun. Cue up the Johnny Cash. Tags: astronomy · Moon · photography · science · Sun

“ Eclipses have been connected with the fate of...

“Eclipses have been connected with the fate of rulers since at least ancient Mesopotamia, around 4,000 years ago.” But more recently: “In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England made it a felony to use horoscopes to predict her death or her successor.”

Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth : 530km...

Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth: 530km (329 miles) between “an unnamed Himalayan ridge near the Indian-Chinese border and Pik Dankova in Kyrgyzstan”.

“ x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86...

“x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the Cascading Style Sheets CSS. No JavaScript required. What you’re seeing above is a C program that was compiled using GCC into native 8086 machine code being executed fully within CSS.”

Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been...

Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been awarded a knighthood by French president Emmanuel Macron. “Macron went on to refer to Akbar as ‘the most French of the French — a Voltairean who arrived from Pakistan.’”

Tips For Photographers On Selling Your Prints (From a Buyer)

What do you think of immediately when you say that you're going to sell a print? Is it just a piece of paper and nothing more? If that's what you're doing, then you're probably selling prints wrong or the person that you're buying them from isn't doing it right at all. Because i…

Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Codebreaker

The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked thousands of codes and ciphers during WWI did the same in WWII, helping to foil Nazi spy rings and protect Allied supply ships chief cryptanalyst fo…

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account ....

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account. “The answer to why powerful people in some other parts of the world face consequences, while in America they rarely do, is that elite impunity is now an American national project.”

Back and (Go) Forth

Apologies for the relative silence. Between travels and slow recovery (still far from over) from cataract surgery for my left eye, looking at screens and writing on them hasn't been easy. But things are improving. Had a productive Monday at the Summit on Human Agency. My talk wa…

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (free...

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (free WSJ piece at MSN). “Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in.”

An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75)

Illustrator Zara Picken maintains an archive of commercial illustration from the mid-20th century. So much throwback inspiration here! Tags: illustration · Zara Picken

Lensbaby Twist 28 Review: The Squint and Shoot Experience

There's something that's always so appealing about Lensbaby products. Sometimes its the fact that they're embracing metal in their build quality. At other times, it's their unapologetic slap in the face to traditional standards of photography. And with the new Lensbaby Twist 28,…

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The...

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses. “The letter…marks one of the most significant erosions of transgender civil rights in the United States to date.”

Can Sigma’s New 85mm Art Actually Win Full Frame Market?

Sigma has multiple lenses under its portfolio for full frame cameras. However, while they have been working on various focal ranges, they have also been targeting maximum aperture for low-light photographers. For instance, the company recently introduced the 35mm f1.2 and 50mm f…

The Two Best High ISO Cameras To Pick Today

Low light photography is now a part of many other genres, such as street, portrait, photojournalism, and event photography. While most photographers focus on getting a camera that offers higher megapixels, it is also important to consider devices that deliver this alongside good…

Is the Valoi easy35 v2 Film Scanner the Best One There Is?

Last year, we tested out the original Valoi easy35 from the folks at Kamerastore, aka Kameratori, in Finland. The product was so intuitive to use that we rated it among the most convenient ways to scan 35mm film negatives and slides. Now the team at Valoi is back with an upgrade…

Little Red Dots

A nice day

It’s the 25th of February and it’s a beautiful day here in Brighton. I had lunch sitting outside—that’s how unseasonably warm it is. Like a little whiff of Summer to remind us of what’s yet to come. It’s also my birthday. The beautiful weather is an auspicious auger…

“A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree...

“A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree store locations across the United States.”

Physics Is a Conversation

Physicist Sean Carroll leads off this video with this line: I like to say that Einstein is, if anything, underrated as a physicist, which is hard to imagine given how highly he is rated. And then leads us through a history of modern physics and quantum mechanics that, Ein…

These synchronized martial arts robots are genuinely...

These synchronized martial arts robots are genuinely impressive.

They’re doing a new Pride and Prejudice adaptation...

They’re doing a new Pride and Prejudice adaptation. From the comments on the trailer: “this looks like a temu version of the 2005” and “The Darcy is not Darcying”.

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