Photography

In its 11th year the National Audubon Society’s annual photo contest continues to deliver a world-class assortment of creative and technically stunning bird photographs. From more than 6,000 submissions here are the ten best from the 2020 competition.

Back in 2018 we reported on an interesting pocket camera that offloaded much of its functionality to the ubiquitous smartphone. Now the Pixii M-mount digital rangefinder has gone up for sale.

In its first year, the World Sports Photography Awards has attracted a wide array of powerful and technically brilliant snaps that capture the emotion, raw energy, and pure spectacle of sports ranging from heavyweight boxing to handball.

The 2020 Sony Alpha Awards photo contest has announced 33 final images from this year's thousands of entries across 11 different categories, from astrophotography to weddings, creative to editorial, with every image taken on a Sony camera.

The night sky is a beautiful canvas for photography, and the Milky Way is the star (pun intended) of the show. The latest edition of the annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year features absolutely stunning shots of our home galaxy and planet.

Focusing on the weird and experimental, the 2020 Creative Photo Awards aims to set new trends and reward visionary artists. This year’s winners are no exception, bending techniques and processes to deliver some truly spectacular works of art.

In one of global photography social network Agora’s strongest contests to date, over 9,000 entries celebrating breathtaking aerial perspectives were whittled down to a top 50, from which a single winner was chosen by popular vote.

Robin Moon has a bunch of awards under her arm as a nature and wildlife photographer, and returned this year as a Nature category judge for the Sony Alpha Awards 2020. We thought it'd be interesting to ask her about her own favorite shots.

Pablo Albarenga has won the Photographer of the Year prize in the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards for an incredible series entitled Seeds of Resistance, contrasting portraits of environmental activists with the territories they are trying to protect.

This year’s International Photography Awards One-Shot contest focused on how a single image can convey the concept of movement. The array of celebrated shots illustrate the sheer spectacle of humans, animals and machines in various states of motion.

Photography social network Agora’s latest photo contest tasked its community with capturing unique perspectives on the extraordinary worldwide lockdown. The results offer a diverse portrait of people from all over the world sharing a strange experience.

To create a great smartphone camera, first you need a great mobile camera sensor, and Samsung just unveiled a new 50-megapixel, 1/1.31-inch Isocell GN1 sensor – a component that should find its way into future Samsung phones before too long.