15-Year Photo Series Showcases American Flags From Around the Country

Split image: Left side shows a backyard pool with an American flag hanging on the wall, surrounded by trees and patio furniture. Right side shows a house at dusk with a porch light on and silhouettes of trees.

Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Jason Lindsey’s latest project, UNFINISHED , is a “film for America’s 250th” anniversary. In the short four-minute film, Lindsey shows dozens of photos captured across America that have one big thing in common: they all feature the American flag in one form or another.

Growing up in the Midwest, Lindsey says he learned all about getting his hands dirty and what it means to put in a full day’s work. This gritty, salt

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Discord Banned Around 8,200 Users for Posting Inoffensive Images of Grids

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Like many online platforms, Discord has safety systems in place to automatically detect and flag abusive, illegal, and otherwise harmful content. This system bugged out in a very odd way over the past few months, leading to thousands of users being incorrectly banned. The situation provides a good chance to consider how online platforms automatically detect harmful images.

As The Verge reports , Discord users have been complaining online about being mistakenly banned for posting totally benign, inoffensive images that include grids in them. This means images of chessboards , game

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iPhone 16 Falls Into the Sea, Films Fish and Its Own Rescue

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The iPhone 16 Pro filmed from the seabed for 11 minutes before it was miraculously recovered

A woman on holiday in Greece has handed Apple a remarkable advertisement after her iPhone 16 Pro fell into the sea for 11 minutes and kept recording until it was fished out by a diver.

Liel Farhat says that the device is unharmed after its underwater escapade and she has since edited the video it shot into a viral Instagram video .

“We were on a trip with friends in Athens, and while sailing, we stopped

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The World’s Best Aerial Photos Honored in International Competition

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Left to right: Dylan de Haas, Marcin Zajac, and Azim Khan Ronnie.

The winners of the second International Aerial Photographer of the Year have been revealed, and Azim Khan Ronnie from Bangladesh has been crowned champion.

Fighting off 1,587 entries from across the world, Ronnie won Photographer of the Year, which is based on a portfolio submission of at least four images.

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Tennessee Tourism Celebrates Real Photographers by Banishing AI Images

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In the age of AI-generated photos, Tennessee’s Department of Tourist Development wants prospective visitors to know its beautiful sights are 100% real.

Tennessee’s new tourism campaign has a simple tagline: “Yeah, it’s real.” It comes with a little checkmark-centric graphic, plastered over the top of real-life, real-world photos shot from across Tennessee, like an authenticity watermark of sorts.

“Every day, millions of AI-generated photos are created,”

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TTArtisan’s $89 AF 50mm f/1.8 Lens Has Crazy Customization Options

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TTArtisan has announced the AF 50mm f/1.8 Neo, a new, ultra-affordable “nifty fifty” prime lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras. The otherwise normal-seeming lens has an unusual trick up its sleeve, too; it can be customized with colorful shells.

Straight out of the box, TTArtisan’s new AF 50mm f/1.8 Neo lens looks very typical. It is a relatively compact, lightweight black prime lens. It looks like dozens, if

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Stunning Camera Trap Survey Captures Elusive Snow Leopards Across China

A snow leopard lies on a rocky outcrop covered with patches of grass and orange moss, overlooking misty mountains in the background under a cloudy sky.
This snow leopard was caught on a camera trap in the Zhangye area of Qilian Mountain National Park, China.

A camera trap survey led by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in remote parts of China has shed light on the elusive snow leopard.

The WWF has been sharing stunning photos taken by some of the 160 infrared cameras that monitor alpine areas, including Qilian Mountain National Park — which is home to an estimated 150 snow leopards, as well as Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province

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Arri’s New Alexa 35 Live Xtreme Aims to Transform Sports Broadcasts

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Arri’s first camera launch in its new ownership era has arrived, and it’s the Arri Alexa 35 Live Xtreme .

The Arri Alexa 35 Live Xtreme promises to “elevate live entertainment coverage to new heights” thanks to its wide range of high framerate (HFR) outputs, professional broadcast-friendly workflow, and high-resolution image sensor. It’s a specialized, broadcast-friendly version of the Arri Alexa 35 Xtreme the company launched last year.

The highlight feature here is 8x

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The King and Queen of England Are Hiring a Videographer

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla

King Henry VII infamously employed a Groom of the Stool, Queen Victoria hired a bagpipe player to perform each morning beneath her royal window, and now King Charles III is searching for a creator to shoot sizzle content.

According to a report in The Times of London , Buckingham Palace is searching for a full-time videographer who will produce on-trend content for social media.

The job pays £52,000 ($70,000) and the successful


Webb Celebrates Fourth Year of Science By Showing Off its Cutting-Edge Cameras

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To celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope’s fourth anniversary of scientific operations, NASA, ESA, and CSA have unveiled new photos of a familiar galaxy that illustrate just how special Webb’s imaging systems are. The new images showcase Webb’s exceptional ability to peer through cosmic dust and unravel the mysteries of the Universe.

The new images show Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, a galaxy that has long ignited heated debate among scientists. Located about 11 million light-years from Earth

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