Detroit museum shows off rare, early photographs

Sir John Herschel made important contributions to the nascent field of photography more than a century and a half ago, inventing a chemical process that allowed an image to be fixed onto photosensitive paper.

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Best Valentine for your guy? A boudoir photo

If necessity is the mother of invention, then the economic downturn sure has made one out-of-work photographer become awfully inventive.

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Entrepreneurs find funding in small doses

Instead of giving Christmas gifts to his family last year, John McWhorter donated money to budding entrepreneurs. His gift, administered through , provided microloans to eight impoverished families worldwide, enabling them to start their own businesses.

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Taking aim at far-from-perfect photos

One software program can merge multiple camera shots to eliminate that half-dazed look that always seems to afflict one person in every group photo. Another can combine a picture taken with and without a flash to pair your smiling face with a properly illuminated nighttime scene. Yet another program can pull out crystal-clear details by shifting the focus after you've snapped a picture. And who wouldn’t want a camera that can clarify an otherwise blurry image like a speeding bicyclist?

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Aerial Photos Highlight Hawaiian Coastline

It started as a simple online advertising gimmick, but Brian Powers' aerial photography project grew into something quite different. Powers, owner of Hawaiian Images Photography and Video, has photographed the entire coastline of the Big Island and posted the work on his Web site.

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More snow

Some from last year, some from this year. This is for Mac. I'm hoping for some time to get up into the high country. I want to get shots of some old ranch building in the snow.

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Drive in the woods

Before winter set deeply in we took a little drive. We were searching for elk calves for pictures but this will have to do.

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Three scientists who created the technology behind digital photography and helped link the world through fiber-optic networks shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.

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That's the International Space Station crossing the face of the Moon, what astronomers call a transit (like an eclipse, but when something small goes in front of something big).

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"For the past seven years, David Guttenfelder has witnessed and documented the changing landscape of Afghanistan.

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Once upon a time in Kabul, there was only one roundabout. And what a place it was - a heaving tide of humanity converged on this central axis in the city, an unrivalled space for commerce and conversation. All roads led to the roundabout and so did the news.

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Save the lions from extinctions. Lions are extremely endangered as a result of insecticide usage.

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This dazzling picture of our planet, all dark but the cerulean sliver of the South Pole, was a long time coming. More Articles

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Book Title Photography Challenge- The Long Walk- by Slavomir Rawicz

I am really excited about this challenge and the chance to participate in and learn a new artistic medium.

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Some iconic and historic photos. Here are some in the list: Bourke-White at Buchenwald The Execution of Leonard Siffleet Obama in Kenya Cold War on the Court Oscar Streaker The Falling Man Vulture Stalking a Child Lynching of Young Blacks

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Great Salt Lake: Salt Lake City & America's Dead Sea

This is my first foray into self-publishing.

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Last of the Fall Color

So November is well and truly here. Late fall in southern Ohio sees the trees go bare pretty quickly, but this year conditions were nearly perfect for some stunning fall color. It seemed like it came and went so fast that if you blinked, you missed it.

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Ian Fisher, American Soldier This is how an American soldier is made.

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Autumn Beauty in Nebraska (2009-Part 2)

I thought I had captured all of the autumn beauty that was left around our property (See 2009-Part 1) but Sunday was such a lovely day here in Nebraska that I spent a bit of time outside with my furry kids and captured more. So, I thought I'd share these images with you too.

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Fascinating-- and the article is accompanied by some wonderful photos as well

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Have you had it with 2009? Well, then take a look at 2010. Warning, be prepared for the nearly-Full Monty!

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BBC readers pics of Autumn.

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Remember the huge uproar in April 2008, when 15-year-old Miley Cyrus appeared in "Vanity Fair" wrapped in a sheet, with her right shoulder and the top of her back visible, implying that, under the sheet, she wasn't wearing a shirt? That week, the cover of the New York Post read " …

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The Aquatic Wilderness of Nootka Sound, Canada

Thousands upon thousands of bright pink and red strawberry anemones fill the underwater seascape, as clusters of giant, white cloud sponges protrude proudly off of the giant boulders that rest precariously upon a slope that wanders off into the abysmal depths.

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Autumn Beauty in Nebraska (2009-Part 1)

Do you like the colors of autumn?

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ANCIENT stone monuments around the Aberdeenshire countryside are the focus of a new photography exhibition. Dramatic black and white images depicting some of the region's stone circles have gone on display at Westhill.

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Worked on Pictures

Here are some pictures I did while I was off.

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October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People's Republic of China won the $30,000 W.

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An Iberian wolf strides over a fence, its eyes intent on a tasty meal in the next field. This stunning image won the Veolia Environement Wildlife Photographer of the Year, organised by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.

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Wildlife Photography Awards.

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