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Dont forget the deadline for the "Camera" Bakers Dozen is today [UPDATE: Tomorrow! Duh]. It went very well; weve gotten a lot of quirky, interesting, and varied submissions. Lots of good "camera portraits" and lots of pictures featuring smartphones, when...

Theres a new "most expensive photograph ever sold," for the first time in 11 years. Like eight of the top ten most expensive photographs, it was sold by Christies, the auction house founded in 1766. The original of Man Rays...

...But not in a good way. Click past the break at your discretion. (Dont want to make anyone upset.) The headlines: "She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit." (The New York Times) "Trump swooped in...

First off, as the kids say nowadays, this is the first GIF Ive ever made. After working online since the late 1950s (perhaps I exaggerate). Proving that you can teach old photo-dawgs new tricks. Even if those "new" tricks are...

Happy to say that Im getting some excellent submissions for the "Camera" Bakers Dozen already. The deadline will be next Saturday, May 21, at noon Eastern U.S. Time, because Saturdays are the slowest days of the week around here and...

This is either going to be wildly popular or be a total flop, or something in the middle. (Sorry, its an old Mitch Hedberg joke.) Our next theme for our lovely little readers pictures portfolio is: "Camera." Any picture that...

This could be ugly, but in a week or two Ill be able to report to you on the results of an A-B-A experiment Ive made but didnt really mean to make. An A-B-A experiment (actually its a design in...

This is a curious phenomenon that Ive noticed a number of times over the years. Briefly, it goes something like this: Someone wants to be an artist of some sort. They get a big break and are part of a...

Ive used many Leitz and Leica lenses over many years. Ive owned about eight of them and used another...ten, maybe? I cant really recall all of them now, although at one time I could have given you chapter and verse...

What part of your own practice of photography does technique play? I took this a couple of nights ago—saw it from the car, and though, hmm, maybe someday under the same conditions I could take a picture of that. Which...