Your photos have meaning intrinsically linked to your own and your viewers' personalities and subjectivities. Understanding how that works helps us to break free from bland, mundane images and create something more compelling.

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NASA's Artemis II mission ushered in a new era of space exploration and inspired billions at a time when hope is so sorely needed. The successful mission, more than 50 years after people last orbited the Moon, honored Apollo's rich legacy while charting an all-new path for the future. The four astronauts aboard Artemis II's Orion spacecraft captured many exceptional photos on their journey, and these are our favorites.

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Whether you are an exhibitor or a visitor at a Camera trade fair, there are important things you should know before you go.

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Thirteen years ago, I sat in an amphitheater in Los Angeles as Adobe announced that it would be shifting from Creative Suite to Creative Cloud. I remember being skeptical, but I was also willing to give Adobe the benefit of the doubt. After all, it created a beloved line of tools.

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An unknown man walked the streets of New York each afternoon for years, taking thousands of photographs that were only recognized after his death -- leaving behind a vast archive later compared to the rediscovered images of Vivian Maier.

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Photographer Matt Suess was halfway through a 45-minute star trail exposure in Joshua Tree when he noticed a hazy band stretched across the sky. He had grown up in New England, where light pollution hid the Milky Way, so he didn’t know what he was looking at. He pointed his camera at it. It was Suess’s first time seeing the Milky Way, but the photos came back soft. Decades of night shooting later, understanding why is the kind of lesson only experience can teach.

This week has been a big one, and the PetaPixel Podcast team is joined by Sarah Teng to talk DJI Osmo Pocket 4 and GoPro Mission 1 and how each is going to affect content creators.

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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted its blanket and unconstitutional "invisible, moving" ban on drone flights near Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other government agencies -- a ban put in place to make it more difficult to cover the activity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Back in January, Insta360's CEO and founder, Jingkang "JK" Liu posted an eye-catching image on Chinese social media site, Weibo, that showed two new products. Liu was using an unknown camera to photograph another unknown product. A recent leak sheds new light on the camera Liu teased, and it looks very interesting. Micro Four Thirds is getting a fancy new camera.

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There are plenty of essential pieces of a photography kit that aren't strictly photography items. Stoke's new Scout multitool falls into that category. Designed by Irish photographer and industrial designer Ben Millett, the Scout sports a minimalist yet highly practical design with broad utility.

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