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This morning Leica unveiled the sleek and powerful TL2 mirrorless camera with significant speed, focusing, and processing improvements over its popular predecessor the Leica TL. 

Dronestagram, the popular global network of drone enthusiasts, has just announced the winners of their 2017 International Drone Photography Contest. For this 4th annual competition they’ve once again partnered with National Geographic to find the best drone photos from across the globe.

Brandon Woelfel is a New York photographer with over a million Instagram followers. He owes his immense popularity to a unique, glowing, vintage style that you can create yourself in your images by watching the four-minute tutorial below.

If you stumbled upon a rare Novoflex 600mm pistol grip “bazooka lens” at a yard sale for $17, we imagine you’d lay down your cash, grab the case, and quickly head for your car. That’s exactly what our weird lens guru Mathieu Stern did recently in Paris.

Today’s digital cameras have become so adept at almost any shooting situation that, paradoxically, they can inhibit creativity by always delivering a technically perfect result. With little effort, a photographer can produce a sharp, clear, well-exposed image, color balanced and, well, a bit too perfect.

“I think all art is about control—the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.”—Richard Avedon

It’s July 5^th and a lot of folks in the U.S. are just coming back to work after celebrating Independence Day. And yes, it’s been hard to concentrate today after downing hotdogs and cold beer and watching fireworks explode over our heads the night before. So why not watch a fun photography video to lighten the back-to-work doldrums?