TechCrunch Monday May 4, 2026
Bluesky is beefing up its social network as a better place to post photos, notes TechCrunch. The company has announced a new version of its app (version 1.121), which boosts the quality of images in posts both in terms of upload size and resolution. Before, Bluesky only supported photo uploads of 1MB or less. Now, that limit has doubled to 2MB. In addition, photos will render at up to 4000px, instead of 2000px. The company also replaced its old image grid with a swipeable carousel that can handle mixed aspect ratios without cropping. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday May 4, 2026
In 2011, photographer David Slater was following a group of crested black macaques in the Indonesian jungle, when something extraordinary happened. Slater had left his camera on a tripod with its
autofocus on and a flash set, allowing the animals to inspect it. One of them clicked the shutter button, resulting in a selfie. "What came next was nearly a decade of legal battles … Read the full Story >>
Upworthy Friday May 1, 2026
The astronauts of Artemus II proved to be exceedingly fine photographers, but, as Upworthy notes, the images of Earth and the Moon they made on their historic 10-day mission, while brilliant, set off conspiracy theories, in part because the cosmic backgrounds were all black. NASA’s answer, as explained in an Instagram post, points to how camera handle light: “Cameras can only capture a certain range between the brightest and darkest parts of a scene. Stars are very faint when compared to Earth, the Moon or other planets,” noted the space agency. Read the full Story >>
CNN Friday May 1, 2026
Nearly 10 years after his death, Prince remains one of the world’s most enigmatic musicians, a genius who could play dozens of instruments and revolutionized stage performances, but who, notes CNN, remained intensely private until the end of his life. “We just really flew by the seat of our pants,” says Steve Parke, the photographer who served as Prince’s art director for 13 years. Now Parke reveals the unseen side of Prince and his life inside Paisley Park, with his new book Prince: Black, White, Color Read the full Story >>
