Just 55 days shy of 150 years in circulation, the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Colo. has announced that it will shut down.
The paper’s closure makes Denver a one-newspaper town–The Denver Post remains open–and marks …

We’ll be giving you live updates throughout the upcoming week, starting as we follow photographers covering the NASCAR event in Las Vegas this weekend and finishing with reports from PMA 2009 next week.

Olympus Imaging announced today the release of the E-620 DSLR, a 12.3-megapixel camera rich in creative features that falls into the lineup between the E-520 and the recently released E-30.

This one is interesting–someone in the UK has been collecting photos found around the country there and posting them online in the hopes that the subjects will be able to reclaim the images.

Canon USA has released two new tilt-shift lenses, one of which–the TS-E 17mm f/4L–has the shortest focal-length of any tilt-shift lens with full-frame coverage, according to the company.

Samsung unveiled yesterday the Memoir, a new touch-screen phone with an 8-megapixel camera to be available exclusively through T-Mobile.

American Anthony Suau’s stirring photograph of a sheriff’s deputy searching a foreclosed home was declared today the grand prize winner of the 52nd World Press Photo Contest, with judges terming it a “double entendre” representative …

The NCAA and the Associated Press announced this week a three-year agreement making AP Images the global distributor of the NCAA’s photo collection, a move the NCAA says will create the largest existing pool of …

A photographer in San Diego is wondering how to get the best shot of a cityscape at night. Pro photographer David Allio answers with information from his upcoming book, “101 Things Every Photographer Should Know.”

Nikon has released a new 35mm f/1.8 lens designed to give DX system shooters–those using the D40, D60 and D90 DSLRs–an affordabl 50mm equivalent lens that “produces a picture angle similar to the field of …

Fujifilm has announced this week the release of what it’s calling its most advanced compact camera to date: The FinePix F200EXR, a 12-megapixel camera with 5x optical zoom and a three-inch LCD screen.

In addition to the new F200EXR, Fujifilm released today the budget A150, a 10-megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom and a three-inch LCD that will retail for $130.

Two years after buying the photo licensing agency Scoopt, Getty Images has announced it will close the UK-based company and meld a select portion of Scoopt’s images with Getty’s as the company focuses on “core …

Nikon announced this week eight new COOLPIX point-and-shoot cameras, ranging from small, economy-minded offerings like the L19 to the more advanced P90, which comes equipped with a 24x optical zoom lens and is the first …

Photographer Dustin Snipes gives step-by-step instructions regarding the post-production work he did to achieve a sought-after look in the 70 basketball portraits he took in just two days during last year’s Cactus Classic in Arizona.

Photographer David Bergman compiled a nearly 1.5 gigapixel panoramic shot of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, and zooming in to check out the incredible level of detail is–and we don’t say things like this lightly–almost as …

Using a Canon 5d Mark II set up remotely inside a customized Pelican case, McClatchy-Tribune Photographer Chuck Kennedy captured a never-before-seen angle of the presidential inauguration, NPPA’s News Photographer Magazine reports.

Making full-sized objects look miniature in photos  has skyrocketed in popularity recently, and even those without the tilt-shift lenses you need to pull that off have been using Photoshop to create the effect. This Web …

Canon Europe announced today the release of a new addition to its line of  compact cameras: The 10-megapixel PowerShot A480, slated for release in February.

In a brief video posted on the magazine’s Web site, National Geographic Editor in Chief Chris Johns shows some of his favorite photos published in 2008 and explains why he finds them captivating.

Casio announced this week the development of six new Exilim cameras—ultra high-speed compact cameras,  some models of which can shoot in bursts of 30 shots per second and can capture video at 1,000 frames per …

Sony’s new Cyber-shot DSC-G3 camera is the first wi-fi enabled camera with a built-in Web browser, allowing users to directly upload shots to the Internet straight from the device.

Kodak announced this week several new digital cameras to be unveiled during this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, including the 12-megapixel Z980 Digital Camera, new additions to the company’s M-Series cameras and …

Photographer John Isaac arrived to New York from India in 1965, penniless. He would go on to a career as the United Nations’ top photographer, traveling the world covering war, famine and chaos before getting to turn his camera toward beauty and wildlife.

Many people will likely remember 2008 for the economic battering it doled out to the world. The world of photography is no different: It was a tough year financially for both photography companies and for …

Here’s a unique experiment: While working as a delivery driver in Southampton, England, Howard Stone discovered how to make his van backfire loudly, and then set up a camera to document people reacting to the …

Professional photographer Mark J. Rebilas–who specializes in motorsports photography–shows and comments on his favorite drag racing photos of 2008.

Among the many “best photos of the year” slideshows gracing the Web this month, here’s a stunning assemblage of 40 that will have you studying your screen for quite a while.

Photographer-turned psychologist Lisa Jack has unearthed film from a photo shoot she did with Barack Obama in 1980, when the president-elect was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and the shots got picked …

Here’s a fantastic compilation of 50 “tilt-shift” photos–photos taken with a special lens that gives the appearance of an extremely limited depth of field, thus making things look miniature–as well as a few videos.