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This has been an eventful week. Some of it was expected, and some was sudden and without warning, like a bolt from the clear sky. I invite you to take a moment to relax and take a cooling dip with this Mute Swan. The memory of the chill that pervaded...

This week I spent a few days exploring the picturesque corners of the Czech Republic. Actually, I didn't plan to take any pictures, but you know how that goes. I made it two days without pulling out the camera, but on the third day I gave in. To make it...

Photography is like farming. You can't just enjoy the sweet fruits - if you want to harvest, you have to sow. For a wildlife photographer, this means getting to know the habits of nearby animals. One way to learn about them is to use a photo trap to study their...

Before you swat that annoying mosquito that's just sucking your blood, hold on. This week is Insect Week. I have generously given a lot of blood to mosquitos over the past few weeks and didn't even get any photos of them in return. Instead, I tried to photograph butterflies in...

Everything comes to an end. After 17 days in the tropical Ecuadorian Andes, going from 300 meters to 4200 meters above sea level (660 to 13,800 feet), I am sitting in a gazebo in the middle of the Czech forest and writing these lines. Thousands of photos of birds and...

It's nice to have "something to photograph when there's nothing to photograph." For me, that's macro photography of oil droplets floating in water. If the weather is bad, or if I'm not inspired by anything nearby, I know that I can always exercise my photography muscles by spending an afternoon...

I'm really happy to testing lenses again, and our lens reviews will be back for you later this week. Today, I've been culling through my photos from the Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR in preparation. It's not the sharpest or brightest lens out there, but the zoom range is a...

By the time you read this week's Photography News, I'll have left the continent of Europe to be within shouting distance of the Equator. I'm spending the next two weeks in a natural paradise populated by hummingbirds, toucans, tanagers, and of course great people. Meanwhile, I have some interesting equipment...

The mongoose in the picture below is not wild, but was taken in the Prague Zoo. I didn't even take it with any new, interesting equipment. So what makes this photo so valuable to me? It's the first photo I took after a three-week photographic absence enforced by six broken...

Do you sometimes feel anxious about how dynamic and full of change the world around us is? It may be reassuring to know that there are places on our planet where time moves at a different pace. Like some caves in southern Europe. Olms (Proteus anguinus) are cave-dwelling salamanders whose...