Reckless drone video under investigation for flying directly above passenger jet: Digital Photography Review

via GIPHY   A complete and utter idiot shows how to fly his drone like a complete and utter idiot. This sort of stupidity is beyond any form of joke or humour. It’s just incredibly idiotic and pathetic in the extreme. A drone pilot has enraged the entire UAV community after sharing a video in […] Read more >

Digital Photography Review warns scammers are peddling fake ‘KODAKCoin’ – take note!

A bit of a heads up for those ever-present scammers after your hard earned cash. Be weary – if it looks too good to believe, it most likely is! Digital Photography Review warns Kodak is warning potential investors that “KODAKCoin” offerings found online aren’t the real thing. According to an email sent to potential investors, […] Read more >

DJI Mavic Pro review: still our favorite drone | Dronerush

I finally got up close with a present day drone on the weekend – a DJI Mavic Pro – and boy, was I impressed. In fact, I’m that impressed, I’m going to get one for myself to ‘play with’ over the next 6 months to see how I can fit drones into my existing property […] Read more >

Time Magazine Releases 12 Covers All Shot on iPhone | Fstoppers

Grab that iPhone, guys, and snap away! You’re now in the running to get your pics on a TIME Magazine cover, if you can believe it. FStoppers write “in a creative world where there is a mentality of “bigger is better,” most photographers will be shocked to hear that Time Magazine just released 12 magazine covers […] Read more >

PETA and David Slater settle copyright lawsuit over monkey selfie: DPReview

The fascinating story of an animal that took it’s own ‘selfie’ after coming across a photographer’s camera has finally played out its course after a lengthy legal battle. In a nutshell, the act of self-portraiture by a monkey unleashed the most ridiculous controversy of political correctness gone wrong mixed up with a swathe of social […] Read more >

Photography clip of the week; Photographer Annie Leibovitz

I’ve long been a Leibovitz fan. Not just for her celebrity portrait photography but also for the way she used that celebrity photography to form the cult of celebrity upon herself, in much the same manner in which Robert Mapplethorpe did. Interestingly, it has been suggested Mapplethorpe referred to Leibovitz as the most difficult subject […] Read more >

Netflix Buys Rights to Doc About War Photographer Chris Hondros

I see Netflix have picked up the streaming rights for the Jake Gyllenhaal / Jamie Lee Curtis produced documentary ‘Hondros’ covering the career of late famed war photographer, Chris Hondros. From my point of view and as a Netflix subscriber this is great move – Netflix’s audience is massive and worldwide and their reach cannot […] Read more >