Associated Press Tuesday June 4, 2024
An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where he also allegedly pushed an Associated Press photographer over a wall. Benjamen Scott Burlew pleaded guilty to an assault charge, agreeing that he grabbed a Metropolitan Police Department officer and tried to pull him into the crowd of rioters. He also was charged with assaulting the AP photographer. Other rioters have been charged with assaulting the same photographer, notes Associated Press.
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David Schonauer Tuesday June 4, 2024
Buckingham Palace's newly renamed King's Gallery is now filled with an extraordinary collection of photography in the exhibition "Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography." On view through Oct. 6.
are more than150 photographs from the Royal Collection and Royal Archives that showcase "the evolution of royal portrait photography from the 1920s to the present day," including works by Cecil
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PetaPixel Monday June 3, 2024
A new study from researchers at Yale University helps demystify why some images stick out in people’s memories more than others. The study, published in Nature Human Behavior, examines how the brain prioritizes certain pieces of information, notes PetaPixel. “The mind prioritizes remembering things that it is not able to explain very well,” says Ilker Yildirim, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale and senior author of the paper. “If a scene is predictable, and not surprising, it might be ignored.”
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Jonas Høholt Monday June 3, 2024
Seeing a photo of an iceberg is one thing. Hearing an iceberg is another. “Tirelessly moving, pushing, grinding and creaking,” is how Danish timelapse photographer Jonas Høholt describes bergs in Shapes of the Icefjord, a three-minute film that captures the seasonal journeys and transformations of Greenland icebergs. Høholt shot this timelapse over a four-month period during which he lived in Ilulissat, Greenland, a town some 220 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where the bergs have been shed by the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier.
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