Weather Photographer of the Year Thursday November 7, 2024
In August we noted that red sprites—faster-than-lightning flashes occur above thunderstorm clouds—were becoming objects of fascination for photographers. Now photographer Wang Xin has won top prize in the 2024 Weather Photographer of the Year competition for an image of red sprite lightning in the Chongming District of Shanghai. Xin adopted a trial-and-error approach by setting up the camera and waiting. After a few hours, a “faint red figure” flashed, notes the Royal Meteorological Society, which organizes the contest.
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Sony Alpha Rumors Thursday November 7, 2024
In September, Tamron announced the 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens, a move that looked like a return to the production of fast primes for the company that has lived exclusively in the world of zooms for the past several years. But, noted PetaPixel recently, the new lens may be the exception, not the rule. In an interview with French publication Phototrend, spotted by Sony Alpha Rumors, Jean-Christophe Thiry, President of Tamron France, said the launch of the 90mm was “romantic” because it ” it embodies the entire history of the brand.” Tamron, he said, intends to stick with zooms.
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David Schonauer Wednesday November 6, 2024
"I actually set out to make a book of portraits," says Adam Ferguson, recalling how he came to photograph Australia's Outback. Ferguson, a photojournalist who has worked all over the world shooting
stories for The New Yorker, Time, National Geographic and the New York Times, returned to his homeland in 2013 to begin a longterm project that would portray the people of the Outback … Read the full Story >>
CNN Wednesday November 6, 2024
On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious, notes CNN: to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock some of the universe’s deepest secrets. Housed inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Cerro Pachón, an 8,800-feet tall mountain about 300 miles north of the Chilean capital Santiago, the camera has a resolution of 3,200 megapixels, and each image will cover an area of sky as big as 40 full moons.
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