Christopher Robinson

In a global announcement with live events in New York, London and Munich, Drone maker DJI has introduced their latest update to the popular Phantom line, the new Phantom 3 and the Phantom 3 Professional.

More pixels, more problems…and so many more possibilities.

Seattle-based Creative Live has put together a week-long program with some of the biggest names in image processing.

The message from the FAA seems to be Keep Calm And Fly On…Just Don’t Be Stupid Or Drunk When You Do It.

If some is good and more is better, then too much should be just right. Canon is definitely pushing the…

New Inspire One builds on DJI’s reputation for offering robust drones with solid video and still photography capabilities. Like the highly-regarded Phantom line, the Inspire One comes as a completely ready to fly package.

It’s easy to be seduced by the surreal look of a black and white photograph. Image processing software makes it, literally, one-click simple to convert a photo from color to b&w

At Wetpixel.com, editor Adam Hanlon has an excellent review of Reikan FoCal Pro, a software package that will take care of it for you. Check out the full review

Apple confirms that Aperture will fade away in favor of the new OSX Photos app.

Jack Dykinga hospitalized, awaiting lung transplant.

As an artist, craftsman and environmentalist, Ansel Adams was one of the most important figures in nature photography.

Recycle your obsolete and unused electronics on America Recycles Day.

I wish the photo industry did a better job of naming things. The SLR was great…it’s catchy and it’s descriptive. But other than SLR, and of course, DSLR, I’m hard-pressed to think of a any particularly good names for any photographic technology. Do you have an idea for a better name than “mirrorless”? Send it my way.

The medium of photography has always confused the tool with the actual talent and craft. Every photographer has a story about showing a favorite photo and getting the question, “what kind of camera did you use?” The leap of logic is that the photographer didn’t take the picture, the camera did. In the iPhone era it’s become prevalent to take this same notion in a bizarre new direction.

In a frenetic, splintered, Tweet, Text and Instagram world, I, like many, crave the prospect of slowing down from time to time. Being out in nature with my 4 x 5 was a very contemplative experience. If you’ve never done it, the process of shooting large-format film involved a lot of steps and none were fast. Did it make me a more creative photographer?

In the greek myth, Icarus fell from the sky because he flew too close to the sun. In photography we’re trained to employ a version of the lesson of the Flight Of Icarus–don’t shoot into the sun, shoot with the sun at your back. Of course, this is a pretty awful rule to apply to apply to all of your photography.

On his first trip to Death valley, Max Vuong got this photo and he submitted it to the OP Your Favorite Places Gallery.

Darren White’s photo of Picture Lake in Washington is today’s Photo of The Day.

Nicholas Barnhart captured a quintessential view of California’s Mono Lake in this photo. The distinctive tufas draw countless photographers every year in the hopes of a moment like this when the light cooperates and the lake is calm.

Ya Zhang is today’s Photo Of The Day winner. Zhang’s choice of rendering this vista in black and white adds an element of timelessness to the image. The photo was shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mk II and a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L lens. Zhang sent this photo to the Reflections Assignment which is open for submission until April 23rd.