You thought color photography was out of your reach? Wrong! Thanks to these guaranteed permanent (but easily removable) oil-photo colors, you can now bring out the natural beauty of your photographs!

DSLRs can record video these days, so it pretty much follows that people will want to do video things with it, like smoothly adjusting the focus on the fly. Hence this Frankenstein mod.

(DIY follow-focus)

Jose Luis Rodriguez has been stripped of the prestigious title of “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” after the subject of his winning photo was found to be a tame Iberian wolf named Ossian. The operative term in Wildlife Photographer of the Year is apparently wild. The Natural History Museum won’t be awarding the prize to anybody else, either because *shrugs* I’m sure they have a reason. And so we learn that even the otherwise staid world of wildlife photography isn’t completely drama free.

(Was Award-Winning Wolf Wild or a Model?)

British photographers are getting angry. After several years of increasingly invasive police practices, all in the name of fighting terrorism, they’ve started to band together under the slogan, “I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist.” This Saturday the 23rd they’ll be staging a protest at Trafalgar square to assert their right to take pictures.

(I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist)

This guy buys up old and interesting cameras from thrift stores and takes them out for a spin. The results are often funky. Occasionally he gets lucky and finds undeveloped film in the cameras. Nostalgic!

(Junk Store Camera)

The Nikon Small World Competition “first began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope.” That’s great, of course, but mostly: Pretty pictures! Check out the 2009 winners.

If you take pictures in public in the United Sates, you need to have a copy of this document. Abuses by law enforcement are becoming more common, but in reality, there are almost no restrictions on photography. Legally you can pretty much take a picture whenever, wherever. You can take picture of private property and on private property. You can take pictures of private people and public figures. And without a court order, nobody can take your pictures away. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.

(The Photographer’s Right)

Macro photography is hard enough without having to worry about insanely expensive lighting solutions. And when you do decide to start worrying about lighting solutions, you realize that your best option is a ring light. Insanely expensive and insanely bland. This thing though lets you light only part of the ring, allowing you to have some actual, honest to god contrast.

Of course, the price is absolutely, completely, batshit. . .oh. . .it’s only sixty bucks.

(Brando Ring Light)