Photo Of The Day By Lorenzo Cassina

Photo By Lorenzo Cassina Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Flamingo Heart” by Lorenzo Cassina. Location: Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook,...

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Sony Alpha 1 Review: A True Flagship Camera

Sony’s full-frame mirrorless camera lineup includes a variety of models aimed at the unique needs of different users. The Sony a7R series provides the highest resolution, the Sony a7S series has the highest sensitivity and pixel-for-pixel 4K video, and the Sony a9 offered the fastest autofocus and continuous frames-per-second shooting when it was introduced. For my work, that meant I typically traveled...

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Leading Lines Assignment Winner Jemma Lee

Congratulations to Jemma Lee for winning the recent Leading Lines Assignment with the image, “Grandeur of Nature to Resemble a Castle.” Canon EOS 7D Mark II. Exposure: 1/160 sec., f/16, ISO 400, 10mm. View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! [See image gallery at...

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Photo Of The Day By Jeremy Janus

Photo By Jeremy Janus Today’s Photo Of The Day is “The Waves of Antelope Canyon” by Jeremy Janus. Location: Near Page, Arizona. “Shooting in Antelope Canyon was harder than I was expecting,” says Janus. “This was actually a blend of four different shots to get the right exposure for this intriguing landscape.” Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day...

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Photo Of The Day By Clayton Peoples

Photo By Clayton Peoples Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Moonset over Mt. Whitney” by Clayton Peoples. Location: California. “Since capturing the moonset near the Whitney Crest in my photo ‘Transition,’ I had hoped to get a photo of the moon directly above Mt. Whitney itself—particularly given that it’s the tallest peak in the contiguous 48 states,” says Peoples. “After a lot of research, I chose this...

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Sigma Introduces 35mm F1.4 DG DN Prime For Mirrorless

Sigma today announced a fast new prime lens in its DG DN line of lenses for full-frame mirrorless cameras. Available in L-Mount (Leica, Panasonic and Sigma) and Sony E-Mount, the Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art is similar to the Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art introduced in 2012 for DSLRs, but redesigned for mirrorless systems and updated with Sigma’s latest optical and mechanical technologies. Sigma 35mm...

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Photo Of The Day By Tom Elenbaas

Photo By Tom Elenbaas Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Galactic Eruption” by Tom Elenbaas. Location: Sedona, Arizona. “The COVID pandemic and resulting travel restrictions put the kibosh on most of my planned adventures this summer, but my brother and I did sneak away to Sedona over the Memorial Day weekend to do some night photography,” says Elenbaas. “Social distancing is easy at 3 a.m. Here, the...

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Photo Of The Day By Ross Stone

Photo By Ross Stone Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Lake Tahoe Orangey Sunset” by Ross Stone. Location: Lake Tahoe, Nevada. “Summer Sunset in Lake Tahoe is a thing of beauty and this is only one of the many places to photograph layers,” explains Stone. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests....

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Steady That Long Lens For Sharper Images

When you go out to make images of wildlife, magnification is essential for a number of reasons. Most obviously is that it allows the animal to be captured full frame. Unless you always create environmental portraits, many wildlife photographers live by the adage that bigger is better. A second reason is that you keep your distance. This allows the animal to go about its regular business. This increases...

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Photo Of The Day By David Connel

Photo By David Connel Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Window Into Infinity” by Arches National Park, Utah. “I spent two weeks in the Moab, Utah, area photographing night scenes in August,” explains Connel. “I slept during the heat of the day and spent all night shooting the stars. I knew the North Window arch had a lot of potential if the Milky Way would line up properly. Patience through hours of...

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Photo Of The Day By James Day

Photo By James Day Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Curious Cubs” by James Day. Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Photo Of The Day By Jody Partin

Photo By Jody Partin Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Mono Lake Blues” by Jody Partin. Location: Mono County, California. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Telephoto Landscapes Assignment Winner Ross Stone

Congratulations to Ross Stone for winning the recent Telephoto Landscapes Assignment with the image, “Shine Down On Me.” View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! [See image gallery at www.outdoorphotographer.com] The post Telephoto Landscapes Assignment Winner Ross...

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Tamron Introduces Super-Tele And Wide Zooms For Sony

Tamron today introduced two new Di III series zooms for Sony, a super-tele for full-frame cameras and a wide zoom for APS-sensor models. Both will be available in June. Tamron 150-500mm F/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD (Model A057) The Tamron 150-500mm F/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD (Model A057) is a relatively compact super-tele that will especially appeal to wildlife and sports photographers. Its closest competitor...

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Photo Of The Day By Robert Henderson

Photo By Robert Henderson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Yellow-Billed Oxpecker Conference” by Robert Henderson. Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. “The two juvenile yellow-billed oxpeckers are looking for a handout, but to no avail,” explains Henderson. “They’re going to have to find their own tasty ticks for dinner. Everyone who visits East Africa has pictures of these ubiquitous birds...

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Photo Of The Day By Kim Hang Dessoliers

Photo By Kim Hang Dessoliers Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Lancaster Super Bloom [2019]” by Kim Hang Dessoliers. Location: Lancaster, California. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage,...

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Interpreting The Landscape

Arrow Dynamic. The relationship that sand verbena have with dunes is truly remarkable. Somehow this hostile, wind-blasted environment is exactly where the delicate pink blossoms thrive. As someone who spends most of her time in wilderness environments, I felt a strong affinity for the small, vulnerable plant toughing it out in an inhospitable area. Not every photographer can pinpoint specific moments...

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