Today marks the end of the road for Google’s failed social media experiment, Google+. Google confirmed that fact to The Verge in an email sent by a company spokesperson. The company will begin clearing out user profiles, deleting all of the information uploaded over the course of the service’s life. While the service failed to […]
Author: Kehl Bayern
Kehl is our staff photography news writer since 2017 and has over a decade of experience in online media and publishing and you can get to know him better here and follow him on Insta.
Drones have become a bit of a public nuisance over the past couple of years. That was probably brought to a head during the winter holiday travel season at London’s Gatwick airport which was shut down for days by a rogue drone. Outside of bringing air traffic to a standstill, there are reports of drones […]
Two things really jump out at you when you look at astrophotography. One, the amazing scale of everything and, two, how much is going on that we don’t capture. In December 2018, a meteor exploded over the Bering Sea in central Asia. Releasing the energy equivalent of ten atomic explosions according to PetaPixel, this meteor shot […]
As photographers know all too well, copyright infringement is not only widespread, but it is to the point that it is almost becoming impossible to fight. But just how widespread is copyright infringement? Apparently, it’s a lot bigger than any of us ever thought. By several magnitudes, if Copytrack’s statistical analysis is correct. According to […]
Two more tragedies struck the Grand Canyon this week as a tourist from Hong Kong fell to his death while taking pictures at Grand Canyon West and another death involving a man who died at Grand Canyon National Park (some 95 miles away). The first death highlights just how dangerous it can be to take pictures […]
The world’s last Stalinist dictatorship is not immune to modern media – and the power it can have over people. That’s why the dictators in Pyongyang have employed teams of propagandists and media experts over the decades to keep their carefully manicured image in perfect condition as far as North Koreans know. So, as you […]