Photographer Calls Close Encounter With Grizzly Bear ‘Peaceful’

A grazing grizzly bear got within mere inches of a wildlife photographer who says that despite the proximity, he was never scared.

Matt Addington was in Katmai National Park in Alaska on a guided tour when the bears he was photographing ended up wandering very close to him as they munched on grass.

“Contrary to what the millions and millions of people who have chimed in on this think, it honestly was one of the most surreal and peaceful encounters that I’ve ever had,” Addington tells Fox News .

Addington’


Instagram Is Banning Creepy Hidden Camera Videos Filmed With Meta Smart Glasses

A woman with long dark hair and nude lipstick looks forward, lifting her black sunglasses with one hand against a plain light background.
Meta’s Starfire AI smart glasses, designed by Kylie Jenner.

Instagram is reportedly banning videos filmed on Meta smart glasses that feature harassment of strangers in public places.

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have long raised privacy concerns because they allow people to record others clandestinely and harass strangers in public. Now, Instagram is taking action against videos filmed with Meta smart glasses that feature harassment of people in public — deactivating major pick-up artist accounts on the platform.

According to a report by Business Insider , Instagram


The Insane Story of Nikon’s Cancelled DL Compact Cameras and Why it Deserves Another Chapter

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Let’s take a journey back to February 2016. DSLR cameras are a big thing, even Sony is still making them . Nikon announces the flagship D5 and the powerhouse D500 . Nikon also unveils an all-new series of premium Type 1 compact cameras: the DL Series. But they never actually arrived.

Introducing the Nikon DL Series

On February 23, 2016, while still basking in the afterglow of unveiling the exceptional D5 and D500 DSLR

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Lessons From 20 Years Photographing Wildlife in Extreme Weather

A puffin with fish in its beak, a close-up of a wolf in snow, and a silhouette of a stag in foggy surroundings.

The best wildlife photographs can happen when the weather is at its worst. After more than two decades photographing wildlife in snow, mud, rain, and storms, I’ve learned that challenging conditions are often where the most rewarding images are created.

Blue skies and perfect sunshine may seem like ideal photography conditions, but they rarely produce the most memorable wildlife images. Some of the strongest photographs are created when the weather becomes part of the story. Snow can transform a landscape into a minimalist scene while isolating subjects against a

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Photographer Captures Rare Shot of Venus and the ISS Together in One Frame

A half moon is visible in a blue sky with the International Space Station appearing nearby, both slightly blurred by atmospheric haze.
For a split-second, the ISS whizzes past Venus at an incredible speed. | Photo by AJ Smadi

Photographer AJ Smadi has captured the second-ever photograph of the International Space Station (ISS) and Venus in the same frame — he also captured the first one.

Smadi captured the cosmic alignment last Saturday at 6:38 p.m. from a park in Edmonds, Washington, north of Seattle.

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First Amendment Auditors are Taking Their Right to Film in Public to the Extreme

A close-up of a digital camera on a tripod filming a group of people in a brightly lit, blurred background setting, possibly during an interview or discussion.

In the United States, it is legal to film in a public space. Photographers, especially those working in the media, know about this First Amendment right.

But as a report from CNN this week shows, some people, who call themselves First Amendment auditors, are taking this right to the extreme by stress-testing it in public.

First Amendment auditors are not strictly photographers, but they are shooting content — mainly for their social media channels.

CNN recently


Haunting Photos Taken Under the Full Moon Turn Night Into Day

Rocky outcrops rise from a turquoise sea, partially shrouded by mist. The water appears smooth and hazy, creating a dreamlike, tranquil atmosphere under a soft, overcast sky.
Pacific, 2005 ©2026 Darren Almond

Most photographers would not dare to use moonlight as their key light, but Darren Almond is not most photographers.

The fine art photographer from the U.K. has been using the full Moon to illuminate night photos since 1998. The technique requires an exposure time of 15 minutes — sometimes even more than that.

In his book, Darren Almond. Fullmoon , the light of the Moon is eerily enhanced, infusing the landscape with haunting

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Photographer Spends a Year with Inmates in Bulgaria’s Most Notorious Prison

Two shirtless men with tattoos sit side by side on a bed in a room with patterned wallpaper. Both appear serious and look directly at the camera.
© Vladimir Karamazov

A photographer spent a year documenting inmates in Bulgaria’s most notorious prison, home to the country’s largest number of criminals serving life sentences for murder.

Vladimir Karamazov became the first photographer to be granted access to the infamous Belene Prison, located in northern Bulgaria on the border with Romania. It is the country’s most heavily guarded prison of its kind. Deliberately built on an island, escape is considered nearly impossible, and for that reason it houses the largest number of convicted murderers imprisoned for

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Everyone’s Favorite DJI Clone Just Stopped Selling its Osmo Pocket 4P Lookalike

Split image: left side shows a black multi-lens 360-degree camera on a dark background; right side shows a hand holding a compact gimbal camera with a screen, outdoors near a wooden fence and trees.

Just days after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put Xtra and other similar companies in its crosshairs , Xtra suddenly removed the Muse 2 Pro from its website, halted preorders, and said it would start refunding customers.

The Xtra Muse 2 and Muse 2 Pro are effectively clones of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 and Osmo Pocket 4P, albeit with some very minor tweaks. It looked like Xtra’s DJI-lookalikes were going to skirt past the US rules and regulations keeping DJI’s latest Osmo Pocket cameras out


Red Bull Used a Vintage Camera to Film a 68-Year-Old Plane’s Historic Return to American Skies

A person films a vintage airplane from a cockpit using a camera; next to it, the airplane is seen flying above a city skyline at sunset.

For the first time since it was manufactured in Santa Monica, California, in 1958, the historic DC-6B aircraft from Red Bull’s aviation collection returned to the skies over the United States for a series of flights, with New York City serving as its first stop. To capture the significance of the aircraft’s return, the production team chose an equally historic approach: filming the aircraft using vintage Bolex motion picture cameras from the same era.

The project, titled “DC-6

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