LiveScience Thursday February 6, 2025
An amateur photographer on Earth has captured a remarkable photo of "stranded" NASA astronaut Suni Williams floating outside the International Space Station as it passed 250 miles overhead, traveling at 17,500 miles an hour. Charline Giroud, a biochemist at the University of Oxford in England and astrophotography enthusiast, snapped the striking photo on Jan. 30 using a small telescope, notes LiveScience. The image was taken during a recent spacewalk, when Williams broke the record for most non-consecutive hours spent spacewalking by a female astronaut.
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David Schonauer Thursday February 6, 2025
Alice Longstaff, who died in 1992, was well known in her home town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, England, but not elsewhere. A working-class woman, she took astonishing photographs for 70 years,
yet she is little known precisely because, some would argue, she was a working-class woman. Now that may be changing. The Hebden Bridge-based charity Pennine Heritage, which holds Longstaff's
archive, is … Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Wednesday February 5, 2025
Real estate photography is evolving, notes Fstoppers, which features a video from YouTube channel Nathan Cool Photo that spotlights story-driven content as a key trend for 2025. “Unlike traditional ads or listing descriptions that list features, story-driven content brings a property to life,” notes FS. “For example, instead of just photographing a kitchen, you might show what it’s like to cook or entertain there. This method, popularized by platforms like Instagram, helps clients cut through ad fatigue and build genuine connections with their audience.”
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British Journal of Photography Wednesday February 5, 2025
Photographer Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo’s project “The Fish Dies by its Mouth” (“El pez muere por la boca”) illustrates the devastation the illegal drugs trade has brought to Colombia, but also advocates for a better to fight the drug trade by creating more supportive societies. Escobar-Jaramillo created the work in collaboration with communities in two coastal villages on the frontline of the Colombian drug trade, where cartels maintain control with violence and paramilitary forces, notes the British Journal of Photography.
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