DIYPhotography Friday August 1, 2025
August presents its share of opportunities for astrophotographers, including the full sturgeon moon on the 9th. But the star of the nightly show this month are falling stars: The Perseids meteor shower can produce up to 60 meteors every hour. This year’s Perseids will peak on the evening of August 12 and morning of August 13. This year, all but the brightest meteors will be obscured by the declining gibbous moon, but you will still be able to catch a considerable number of them if you have patience, notes DIY Photography.
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Mashable Friday August 1, 2025
Action cam company Insta360 has announced the launch of its new drone brand, called Antigravity, and teased what it says will be the world's first drone with inbuilt 360-degree video capture. The debut Antigravity drone is set to be released in August, notes Mashable. The company says it will weigh less than 249g, which is about as heavy as the DJI Mini 4K or Mini 4 Pro and will also capture 360-degree footage at 8K resolution, just like Insta360's recently released X5 camera.
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AnOther Friday August 1, 2025
So what if it’s scorching outside? The summer of 2025 also brings new photo books, and AnOther has spotlighted 10 of them, from photographers including Lin Zhipeng, David Armstrong, and Chessa Subbiondo. Photographer Greta Ilieva spent eight years spent photographing the women of London nude in their bedrooms for her book Rooms, which makes the list. So does Roe Ethridge's book Shells, which focuses on the ultimate symbol of seaside ease and painterly mysticism.
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WWD Friday August 1, 2025
Photographer Bill Cunningham’s many years of recording fashion as seen on the streets of Manhattan made him a New York institution, and now, notes WWD, his archive has been acquired by another NYC institution — the New York Historical. The archive comprises “tens of thousands” of photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, prints, scrapbooks and correspondences that the longtime New York Times photographer created before his death on 2016. The Times confirms that it owns the copyright to some of Cunningham’s photos, but not all.
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