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"A couple of days ago, photographer and retoucher Clint Davis shared a guest post about how he created composite photos for a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 4x4 brochure."

"An anonymous father and son over in China are making headlines in that country and across the Internet after their special photos tradition came to light recently."

"‘Bliss,’ the default wallpaper that shipped with Windows XP, was photographed in Sonoma County, California, and may be the most viewed photo of all time. "

"If you have ever looked at a camera lens and wished you could simply stick helicopter rotors on it and then fly it around the house, you are in luck."

Self-help author Wayne Dyer once wrote that, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." 

What makes a striking photo? Often, it's merely ordinary things composed in an ordinary manner. That's because they always tend to have a single theme or idea, and because clutter is kept to a minimum. They are simple, true, and sincere. Today we're looking at the elements of design (line, shape, form, texture, color etc) that can turn a simple subject into a striking photo. | Difficulty: Intermediate; Tags: Photography Fundamentals

"Oleg Oprisco is a photographer based in Ukraine whose magical, dreamlike photographs have been shared far and wide on the Internet."

From adding artistry to your action shots to zinging zip into your zebra portraits, this year’s annual how-to special is a veritable encyclopedia of photographic fun. Read on for an alphabet of inspiration.

It was the ginger cake that did it. I'd come up with the perfect recipe for my G2 column – sticky, squidgy and fiery sweet – only to have a reader describe the accompanying image as looking "like something the dog regurgitated". Ouch. Clearly, taking pictures of food and "food photography" were very different things.
My pride dented, I embarked on a crash course, badgering professional food stylists and photographers for tips and obsessively studying cookbooks, magazines and blogs, trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.
I'm still no pro, but here are my dos and don'ts.

Moment is the latest company to attempt this feat, and its wide-angle and telephoto lenses are designed to complement an iPhone's, iPad's, or Samsung Galaxy's built-in camera lens. Launching on Kickstarter today, the company has the backing of Marc Barros, formerly of Contour Camera, a company that produced GoPro-like action cameras.

Like all great urban portraitists, Dille understood that a city’s character comes from the people who walk its streets. He communed with oddballs and grifters, always searching for new faces to shoot. The results, chronicled in a new exhibit at the University of Toronto Art Centre, capture some of the city’s most colourful personalities.

"As the popularity of ice climbing, bungee jumping, sky diving and other extreme sports grows in China, so too has interest among amateur photographers in high-adrenaline hobbies. Photographers who captured thrill-seekers' daring escapades were in the past exclusively professionals equipped with the best equipment. But in today's digital age, a growing number of amateur photographers passionate about extreme sports are getting behind the lens to snap their favorite activities and upload their photos online."

Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have each released their top posts of 2013, and now Flickr is taking a look back at some of the most beautiful and powerful images from mobile phones uploaded over the past year.

"Last month, NASA shared the first full photo of Earth captured with its new DSCOVR camera that's floating 1 million miles away."

"Pluto was first discovered on February 18, 1930, by a 23-year-old man named Clyde Tombaugh, who compared photos captured 6 days apart and discovered the dwarf planet moving between the two shots."

"Upon first glance, the images in art director Stephen McMennamy's #combophoto project may look like surreal photo-manipulations created using Photoshop."

Reviewing Apple's latest iPhone 6's camera and exploring its features, new apps and technology & top ten Indian photographers on Instagram

"How many times have you captured an amazing image only to view it on your computer, or as a print, and realize that you screwed something up along the way. Unfortunately, the only way to stop doing a lot of these easy-to-make mistakes is to have an image ruined by them."

Five Photography Bad Habits to Quit Today: hesitation, pixel peeping, too low ISO, luck shooting, and editing too many images.

Neal Slavin has a unique perspective on human relations. As a photographer who’s specialized in group portraiture for four decades, he has captured the strange, fascinating, and often humorous sociological phenomena that occur when people pose for a photograph together.

It's no secret that the ocean is hiding some impressive lifeforms in its depths, but good freaking lord, these pics! These pics are incredible. Jessica Rosenkrantz snapped them on a recent expedition to Bonaire and, just, whoa.

When Wilson Bentley captured the first photos of snowflakes in January of 1885, he couldn't immediately share them with the world on Instagram. Now, 129 years later, that is precisely what Connecticut-based photographer Greg Miller has done.

A scientist at the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute documented corals for five years to reveal their underwater activities.

If 2014 is finally the year you plan to turn your love of photography into a business and see if you can quit your day job to do something you enjoy, then PhotoShelter is here to help. In the infographic below, they provide you with nine very useful tips that will help you begin to look at photography from the business side of things.

"A couple of years ago, Seth Casteel made a huge splash with his amazing underwater photographs of dogs in swimming pools.His photos became a book, then a wall calendar, a follow-up book, then came the talk show circuit, an appearance on the top-rating reality show Duck Dynasty and coming in 2014: underwater puppies!"