Adobe is expanding its Firefly platform with new AI video editing tools that allow creators to refine generated clips instead of starting over, bringing AI video workflows closer to traditional video editing.

A newly introduced US Senate bill is aiming to fix one of the biggest problems photographers face today the high cost and rigid rules of copyright registration. Backed by major photography organisations, the proposal could make protecting visual work far more practical for working creators.

Mount Paltry has been widely shared online as Australia’s answer to the world’s smallest mountain. Said to be just seven centimetres tall, the claim has travelled quickly across travel and science pages. But when the story is examined more closely, it raises questions about where curiosity ends and fact begins.

For decades, scientists believed that the controlled use of fire emerged relatively late in human evolution. Fire was thought to have become part of daily life only after early humans had already developed advanced tools and social structures. New evidence, however, is beginning to challenge that assumption. Archaeologists working at a site in Suffolk, England, have uncovered signs that suggest early humans were making and using fire around 400,000 years ago, pushing the timeline back by as much as 350,000 years compared to earlier estimates.

The death of British photographer Martin Parr at 73 has brought an unusual stillness to the global photography community, as artists and admirers reflect on his unmistakable way of seeing everyday life.

A growing number of photographers are using fake camera accessories without realising it, and the damage often appears when it is too late. These small items look harmless but can quietly affect image quality, safety and camera life.

Many photographers upgrade their cameras expecting a new sense of direction, but the uncomfortable truth is that better equipment cannot fix a creative standstill. Feeling stuck comes from something deeper and more human than gear.

Most people worry about hackers and new malware, but the real danger often sits quietly inside our own devices. Outdated software is still the biggest and most ignored cybersecurity risk today, and the threat grows every year as the world shifts to connected life.

Millions of people install free VPN apps thinking they are protecting their privacy, but these apps often create the exact danger they promise to solve. The free VPN danger grows every year as new apps appear with hidden tracking and quiet data collection.

In the silence before the shutter, the world waits to be remembered — not as perfect, but as it was.

In a year when camera shipments are rebounding and innovation is turning once-niche features into everyday tools, mirrorless systems are becoming more than gear for the gear-obsessed—they are the lifeblood of how photographers, storytellers and image-makers negotiate the world. This is not about specs alone. It is about how we see, how we respond, how we remember.

When the camera stops working, the act of seeing begins again. A broken tool may silence the hand, but it reawakens the eye. In that stillness, stripped of speed, convenience, and control, photography rediscovers its soul — not in the perfection of capture, but in the patience of perception.

In a world that worships the global, the local often disappears — dismissed as small, irrelevant, or provincial. Yet it’s within these overlooked corners that truth breathes most freely. The local story, told with honesty, can often reveal more about humanity than any grand narrative. Photography that begins at home isn’t about limitation — it’s about seeing the universal through the familiar, finding the global pulse inside the ordinary details of a single street, festival, or face.

Every photographer begins by learning how to see within boundaries — where to place the subject, how to divide the frame, how to find beauty through alignment. Yet the longer one spends behind the lens, the more those boundaries begin to blur. Composition, once a guiding principle, can quietly turn into confinement. To unlearn composition is not to abandon structure, but to rediscover what lies beyond it — the intuition, emotion, and human imperfection that no ratio can ever measure.

Amidst the quiet fields and slow-turning seasons of rural India, a silent transformation unfolds. The faces that once defined the rhythm of the countryside — weathered, patient, and unhurried — are fading from view, replaced by something more restless, more uncertain. The change is neither sudden nor violent; it creeps in softly, through glowing screens, concrete walls, and dreams of cities that promise everything but rarely give peace in return.

Perfection may impress, but imperfection moves. The small blur, the mistimed click, the unplanned flare—these are the moments that remind us art is not about control, but connection. To chase imperfection is to stay human behind the lens.

Light is not a technical necessity — it’s a living presence. It breathes emotion into a frame, sculpts time, and decides what truth is visible. To understand photography deeply, one must stop treating light as a tool and start recognizing it as a character — unpredictable, emotional, and essential to storytelling.

Every photograph tells a story, but getting that story heard is a different art altogether. Pitching your work to photography magazines and websites isn’t about self-promotion — it’s about connection, communication, and clarity. It’s about helping editors see what you see, through your words before your images ever appear on their screens.

Sometimes the hardest part of being an artist isn’t creating — it’s returning. You lose touch with your rhythm, your tools, your sense of light. But deep down, something refuses to fade. The art of coming back isn’t about reclaiming what was lost. It’s about realizing that the vision never left — it only went quiet, waiting for you to listen again.

Once imagined only in the pages of science fiction and futurist magazines, the videophone was a dream that engineers, corporations, and governments tried to bring into daily life throughout the 20th century. From clunky prototypes and coaxial cable experiments to expensive desktop devices, the story of videophones reveals a fascinating arc of human ambition, technological struggle, and the long road that led to today’s effortless video calls.

In May 1910, nine reigning monarchs stood together at Windsor Castle for the funeral of King Edward VII. Within four years, many of them would be at war with each other. The photograph endures as one of the most poignant images of a world on the edge of collapse.

A century ago, Kerala’s villages and towns were alive with subtle markers of identity—ways of dressing, ways of carrying oneself, and above all, ways of styling hair that spoke volumes about culture, community, and individuality. German anthropologist Egon von Eickstedt’s rare portraits from the late 1920s preserve these details, offering a window into a world rarely documented, yet deeply evocative and alive.

Photography is on the precipice of an epochal transformation, driven not merely by incremental hardware improvements, but by a radical philosophical shift concerning the very nature of the image. Over the next five years, the industry will navigate a complex duality: an acceleration toward hyper-real, algorithmically-generated perfection, juxtaposed with a powerful cultural retreat to verifiable authenticity and tangible, human-centered processes. This period of seismic change demands that creators, consumers, and curators fundamentally redefine what constitutes a "photograph," shifting focus from the optical mechanics of the capture to the data integrity and ethical context of the resulting visual asset.