Bird Photographer of the Year Monday September 11, 2023
Photographer Jack Zhi’s image of a peregrine falcon attacking a pelican wins the £5,000 ($6,280) grand prize in this year’s Bird Photographer of the Year competition. Zhi, who shot the photo in southern California, says he had waited for four years to capture the moment, notes CNN. “During breeding season, a female peregrine falcon fiercely protects her young, attacking anything that comes near the nest,” Zhi says. Now in its eighth year, the contest drew more than 20,000 images from around the world.
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DP Review Monday September 11, 2023
Sony has just split its small form-factor full-frame a7C series, now offering two lower-cost versions of higher-end cameras—the 33-megapixel a7C II (based on the a7 IV), and the 61-megapixel A7C R, which Engadget calls “a mini-me version of the a7R V.” DP Review says the a7C II “boasts impressive stills, video and autofocus capabilities that should appeal to a wide range of users.” DIY Photography notes that the a7CII shoots 10-bit 4:2:2 internally, with bitrates up to 600mbps, 4K up to 60fps and 1080p up to 120fps for some 4-5x slow motion.
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International Center of Photography Friday September 8, 2023
The International Center of Photography has announced the speaker schedule for the 2023 season of the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series. Named after photo historian Naomi Rosenblum and made possible with support from the Rosenblum family, the series is “a globally expansive dialogue with historians, critics, and artists,” notes the ICP. Speakers “use the photographic form to explore and reclaim archives and personal narrative, document their communities, and champion new approaches to visual storytelling.” The series kicks off on Sept. 12 with speakers Shala Miller and Ebony L. Haynes.
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AXIOS Friday September 8, 2023
Once in a blue moon, a photographer captures an image so stunning it stops social media in its tracks. And that, notes Axios Arizona, is what acclaimed astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy did when he captured a JetBlue flight traveling from San Diego to Fort Lauderdale as seen against last week's super blue moon (the last one we'll see until January 2037, according to NASA). McCarthy shared the image on X/Twitter, and asked for help contacting the flight crew. Flightradar24, a flight-tracking service, determined which plane McCarthy captured.
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