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When Your Pictures Are Just Too Good

Taking great pictures is sometimes hard work. Just ask professional real estate photographer Robert Holowka who was hired to photograph a mansion that could not get sold. Holowka used a 16-mm lens and took hundreds of...

Reflections In The Eyes Yield Identifiable Faces

Researchers Rob Jenkins at the University of York, UK, and Christie Kerr at the University of Glasgow, UK, have discovered that reflections in the eyes of photographed people can yield identifiable images of bystanders...

London Then (1927) and Now (2013)

For some of us, 86 years is a lifetime, but few cities are as enduring as London, England as this video shows. Even after 86 years, it seems that little has changed and someone who grew up then would pretty much...

Did You Remember To Forget Your Pants Today?

The 13th Annual No Pants Subway Ride 2014 is taking place today even as you read this. If you notice subway commuters without their pants on today, it’s all for fun, so lighten up, smile and have a good laugh...

Olympus: RIP DSLR

Olympus: RIP DSLR

Well, the glass is half-full or half-empty, depending on your point of view, isn’t it? In an Amateur Photographer interview with Olympus SLR products planning manager, Toshi Terada, the latter “confirmed...