2026 Ocean Conservancy Photo Contest Winners Celebrate Incredible Marine Animals

Split image: Left side shows a puffin in flight with wings outstretched over blurred grass and sea. Right side shows a cuttlefish swimming above seaweed, sunlight filtering through water above.

The 2026 Ocean Conservancy Photo Contest winners celebrate the beauty of the world’s oceans and their inhabitants, delivering colorful photos of cuttlefish, serene walruses, and more.

This year’s Judges’ Choice Winner is Walrus Nursing by Richard Rothstein, a lovely portrait of two female walruses and young calves.

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The AI-Generated Taylor Swift Wedding Photos Are Getting Debunked Really Quickly

A bride in a white dress and veil walks arm-in-arm with a man in a black tuxedo, both holding wine glasses at a candlelit wedding reception with seated guests in the background.
AI-generated.

Is the Taylor Swift wedding a major turning point? No, I’m not talking about what it means for Miss Americana and her NFL husband — I’m talking about how quickly fake photos from the event last weekend are being refuted.

The songstress required all guests attending her wedding — of which there were reportedly 1,000 — to sign an NDA preventing them from leaking any information — including photos.

In the absence of any real content, social media accounts were quick to fill


Sony RX10 V Review: Sometimes the Best Still Isn’t Good Enough

Nearly nine years after Sony unveiled the Cyber-shot RX10 IV bridge camera , the company is back with its long-awaited successor, the RX10 V. Much has changed in the photography space since 2017, but unfortunately, I cannot say the same about the RX10 V.

The Sony RX10 IV has attracted a huge audience since its 2017 debut. The camera’s winning combination of a reasonably competent stacked 20-megapixel Type 1 sensor,

A calm, shallow river flows past sandy banks and grassy islands, with a forested shoreline and distant hills under a hazy blue sky.
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The Sony RX10 V Upgrades the Bridge Camera Experience for $2,299

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When the Sony RX10 IV arrived on the scene in 2017, bringing with it a new stacked Type 1 20-megapixel sensor and a Zeiss-engineered 24-600mm f/2.4-4 equivalent Vario-Sonnar T* built-in lens, it quickly attracted fanfare. It was undoubtedly the best bridge camera on the market as soon as it arrived. Nearly eight years later, its successor, the RX10 V, brings these familiar features alongside

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Amazing Photos of British Gangsters From the 1990s Set for Rare Exhibit

A group of men stand together on a road in front of houses and hills, under a dramatic, cloudy sky; the image is black and white.
Bernie’s Boys. | Photo by Jocelyn Bain Hogg

The British underworld was once famous for eccentricity, heists, and horrific violence. The Kray twins from the East End of London are arguably the most famous gangsters to ever emerge from the city; it’s a scene that is notoriously difficult to photograph.

However, one photographer, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, was commissioned in 1997 by Elle magazine to document a journalist meeting two known local villains. Bain Hogg, who began his career as a unit photographer

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The First-Ever Documentary Film Was ‘Moana’

Two people in traditional costumes dance on a sandy area, surrounded by a group watching. Palm trees and huts are visible in the background. The image is in black and white.
A scene from Moana (1926).

Disney’s live-action remake of Moana is set to be released in theaters tomorrow, and all is not well: box office sales are projected to be weak and critics are asking why this film, starring Dwayne Johnson, is even being made in the first place. But the first movie called Moana was shot all the way back in 1926 and far from being a live-action remake, it was the very first film to be labeled

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Scientists Travel to Unexplored Area of Atlantic Ocean and Photograph Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures

A long-armed deep-sea squid floats vertically on the left, while a shiny, dark-scaled fish with large eyes appears on the right, both set against a dark background.
ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

Researchers spent 35 days exploring a remote, mountainous stretch of the Atlantic Ocean where tectonic fractures constantly reshape the seafloor and bizarre animals thrive.

Science Alert reports that the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, based in California, recently explored an area of the Atlantic Ocean called the Doldrums Megatransform and Fracture Zone.

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Fujifilm GF19-35mm T3.5 Is a Wide and Fast Large Format Power Zoom

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Fujifilm has announced the Fujinon GF19-35mm T3.5 PZ OIS WR lens, its second cinema power zoom lens for large format filmmaking with the GFX system.

The company says that this new lens is the widest angle of view available for the GF format, offering filmmakers at all levels of production a large format cinema zoom “with expanded cinematic versatility and exceptional optical performance in a compact, lightweight design.” As a note, the term “large format” means something different between photo and

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Ricoh to Release Special GR IV Celebrating 30th Anniversary of GR1

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Ricoh has announced that it will release a special edition GR IV that commemorates the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Ricoh GR1, the origin of the high-end compact camera series.

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“Since the launch of the film camera Ricoh GR1 in October 1996, the GR series has earned the support of a great many users, particularly professionals and advanced amateur photographers,” Ricoh Japan

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Flickr and Black Women Photographers Launch $10,000 Grant

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Applications are now open for Flickr and Black Women Photographers’ largest grant program to date, featuring a $10,000 grand prize.

Flickr and the organization Black Women Photographers have announced the return of their annual grant program, offering a $10,000 award to a Black female or non-binary photographer.

Now in its fourth year, the initiative represents the largest grant the partnership has offered to date. The recipient will be revealed during the inaugural MODE by Flickr festival , which takes