There are no black helicopters on this website. It's a simple fact that fingerprints aren't as useful or accurate as people believe. In 2004, a half dozen of the most prestigious analysts in the world all testified they were '100 percent certain' that th… more »

In this age of increasing cinematic illiteracy, many people have probably never seen The Bicycle Thief (now often referred to as Bicycle Thieves). This 1948 film by Vittoria De Sica comes from the 'neorealist' school of filmmaking and uses real locations… more »

Via The Big Picture, here are twenty-five winning images from the annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. Oddly, there should be fifty finalists, but still a good collection. I'd vote for Number 8. more »

A winner's been chosen in the 'Worst Photograph in Britain' contest. Lots of other bad photos included. I do regret that I never thought of this idea first. more »

Because this is the kind of thing that requires a little lead time, you need to get things going if you'd like to submit your work for portfolio review at this year's Scotiabank Contact Festival in Toronto. The deadline is April 15, Tax Day in the US, an… more »

All the reviews I can find for the new Lytro camera are glowing, and this worries me, because, as I've mentioned before, I don't see how it's anything but a silly gimmick. If you don't know, this is the camera which allows you to just snap an image and '… more »

Before it collapsed the Soviet Union had its own internal infrastructure of technology:  cars, planes, and yes, cameras. Many of these cameras were (by Western standards) weird-looking, shoddy and downright horrible. Some were quite good though, and that… more »

I've frozen a falling pin in mid-flight but I've never got a shot of light itself. These scientists, however, have. More accurately they've created movies of light in motion using exposures as brief as one-trillionth of a second. There is no real photogr… more »

Winning the right photo contest can bring a photographer a lot of attention. The problem is that many contests are really just for-profit quasi-boiler room operations. I also get lots of emails asking me to spread the word about one contest or another an… more »