Upworthy Wednesday July 15, 2026
If you’re old enough to have used a computer before smartphones ate the world, you have stared at the photograph—a peaceful image of a green hill, a blue sky, and a few clouds. The default Windows XP wallpaper, it shipped on more than a billion machines and it has been called the most-viewed photograph in human history. The photo, notes Upworthy, was shot by photographer Charles O’Rourke, while driving through California’s Napa Valley wine region, and the reason the hills were so green was that Napa was in the midst of a phylloxera infestation, Read the full Story >>
COLOSSAL Wednesday July 15, 2026
Where do deer sleep? That question prompted photographer Katherine Wolkoff to traverse the grassy meadows of Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island. The result is her series “Deer Bed.” In Wolkoff’s work, the absence of the deer becomes the subject of the project. “My mother, a science teacher, first mentioned deer beds to me, and I began walking the fields, following deer paths to find them,” Wolkoff tells Colossal. “That solitary, meditative search is still central to how I work today.” Read the full Story >>
WIRED Wednesday July 15, 2026
So you paid a few hundred bucks for a neat little gadget and think you're good to go. But it turns out you'll need to subscribe to a monthly plan to unlock all its advanced features. That, notes Wired, is where AI-powered consumer electronics are increasingly heading, and Meta is the latest to prove it with its smart glasses: The company now notes on its help pages that users will need a Meta One Premium Plan to unlock expanded access to some features for its Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Meta-branded glasses. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Wednesday July 15, 2026
Born in Uruguay, Ximena Borrazás worked in PR and marketing before she realized she "was not contributing to making a better world.” She took a short course in photography and built a career working for National Geographic, Al Jazeera and Unesco, and winning awards and grants such as the Tom Stoddart Award in 2024. Her series “The Scars of War” records horrific injuries sustained by victims of sexual violence in the war zones of Tigray, in Ethiopia, and Ukraine, notes the British Journal of Photography. Read the full Story >>
