Breaking News RSS

They say that timing is everything and that's certainly the case with the seven photos on this page, all of which were captured at just the right moment for maximum impact. (In the case of the photo of the cyclist, we mean that quite literally.)

The below images were culled from nearly 70 perfectly timed shots posted on Bored Panda here and here.

(Thanks Phil!)

In September we covered the announcement of Perfect Photo Suite 7, the latest major update to onOne Software's flagship image editing plugin package. At the time, the update was still a couple of months away from public availability. It's here now, and as promised it brings changes aplenty. We've spent a little time with the latest...

Earlier this evening we shared some amazing extreme macro shots of food captured with an electron microscope and yesterday we posted a group of powerful perfectly timed images. In a similar vein, here's a freaky photo captured by Reddit user Liamm of a sink draining that looks a lot like an eye.

Optical illusion or just good timing?

See a bigger version of the "sinkeye"...

 

 

The much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Camera will go on sale this Friday, November 16, for $499.99, with or without a data plan, AT&T announced today. AT&T was named the carrier of the unique "cellular" Samsung camera in early October.

The Samsung Galaxy Camera runs Google’s Android 4.1 (aka Jelly Bean) and has...

 

 

In his project titled "Dancers Among Us," NYC-based photographer Jordan Matter captures moments of elation, passion and emotion by taking pictures of professional dancers going through the motions -- albeit the extraordinary motions that only dancers can achieve -- of everyday life. Matter has shot scenes with...

 

 

A new gallery exhibition at Somerset House in London that runs through January 27, 2013, bears the provocative title "Cartier-Bresson, A Question of Colour." The show presents 15 rarely seen black-and-white photos by famed French photographer Henri...

Last June, the Canadian government announced the passing of legislation that significantly overhauls the country's copyright laws for the first time in more than a decade. Having received royal assent, many of those changes have now come into effect in the last couple of weeks, and some of them will fundamentally change the way Canadian...

 

 

One of our favorite premium pocket cameras, Olympus XZ-1 (black version only), is selling at Amazon for the insanely low price of $200, down $300 from its original retail price of $500.

If you've ever considered a Canon S100 or Panasonic LX5 -- or if you're looking at the latest S110, LX7 or XZ-2 -- you might...

Desktop and notebook computers have improved in a lot of ways over the last decade: processors have gotten faster, storage capacities have soared, and so has the amount of memory. In one respect, though, there's been surprisingly little development for quite a long time. Although display resolutions have increased, they've climbed more...

 

 

If James Bond doesn't have one of these yet, he should immediately get on the horn to "Q." This ball-shaped camera can, quite literally, be thrown into a danger zone to get an eye on what's really going on.

Developed by a Boston-based company called Bounce Imaging, this spherical device may look like a bowling...

 

 

We've seen GoPros put in many interesting places to shoot unique point-of-view footage, but this could be one of the best uses of these tough, portable cameras yet. Photographer Ben Horne (right) and his bride stashed a GoPro Hero2 inside her wedding bouquet, and captured fantastic, wide-angle HD footage of their...

 

 

Improved in several important ways, the Panasonic LX7 digital camera was a joy to shoot. Key refinements include a manual aperture ring, a manual focus toggle, and an even higher quality lens. As we've come to expect from Lumix digital cameras, the LX7 also had rock-solid image stabilization, and the new level...

I've always been a bit fascinated by digiscoping. For those who are out of the loop, digiscoping involves taking images through a spotting scope rather than a camera lens. The advantages are obvious. A spotting scope provides magnification equivalent to a lens of 1,250 to 3,000mm.

Not to mention a spotting scope is much smaller and far...

 

 

Forgive us if we geek out from time to time on amazing images from outer space. Some of these shots from NASA are really quite incredible.

Case in point is this photo of Saturn captured recently by NASA's Cassini probe, which has been orbiting the massive ringed planet for over eight years.

To give you some...

During the biennial Photokina tradeshow held in Cologne, Germany, earlier this year, Japanese optics company Sigma announced three new lenses. The two zooms and one prime shared a common attribute: at the time, no information was provided on their pricing and availability.

Today the company's U.S. division has revealed that information...

 

 

Everyone knows that shooting street photography can get a bit dicey, especially if the random person you've decided to photograph doesn't want their picture taken. One way to break the ice with a shy or potentially, hostile subject is to feed them a comforting line, such as "You look great!" or "You have a...

 

 

The Sigma 180mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro was announced leading up to the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, and has again shown Sigma's ability to target the holes in other manufacturers' lens lineups. A long macro lens with optical stabilization, the lens features an impressive optical formula - 19 elements in 14...

 

 

Photographer Robert Burley's new book "The Disappearance of Darkness," is not exactly an epitaph to the death of analog film in photography but it certainly could be called a eulogy.

Subtitled "Photography at the End of the Analog Era," the book features haunting images documenting film's slow fade to black...

 

 

World War II ravaged Europe with a devastation few of us can comprehend. Whole cities were flattened and millions of soldiers and civilians were killed. It is hard to imagine what it looked some 70 years ago in the aftermath of war. On a visit to Normandy, France, I stayed in the picturesque town of Les Andelys, a...