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People Don’t Believe This Smartphone Wildlife Photographer’s Images are Real

28 May 2026 at 13:23

Three alligators are stacked on top of each other, resting on a mossy log in a swampy forest, surrounded by trees and greenery.

Logging into his profile on the 35 Awards photo competition, Steve Scott Grogin received a notification telling him his photo of an alligator's eye had been disqualified from the Mobile Phone category. The reason? The organizers believed it had been taken with "professional camera equipment."

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The Challenge of Photographing Mountain Gorillas in the Mist of an Impenetrable Forest

29 May 2026 at 13:09

Split image showing a gorilla sitting on a mossy tree branch eating leaves in a misty forest (left), and a close-up of a gorilla’s face surrounded by green foliage (right).

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda needs no further explanation. It's a challenging landscape to navigate, and numerous animals inhabit it. But its most famous residents are the mountain gorillas.

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Watch the Glorious Way Christopher Nolan Cuts Scenes in β€˜The Odyssey’ Using Literal Scissors

21 May 2026 at 12:10

A hand uses scissors to cut a strip of photographic film on a worktable. The β€œ60 Minutes Overtime” logo appears in the lower left corner.

The Odyssey is the first-ever movie to be shot entirely on IMAX 70mm film. The format is so large that it can only be shot continuously for roughly two and a half minutes, as that is the maximum length the IMAX camera can hold.

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A Streaming Service Made Up Entirely of AI-Generated Shows is About to Launch

27 May 2026 at 12:04

Two women in business attire look surprised at a man in a suit with a large fish head, standing in a wood-paneled room with a giant fish mounted on the wall in the background.

Digital asset platform Artlist is launching Artlist TV, a streaming platform that appears to be exclusively populated by AI-generated shows.

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Photographer Documents the Vanishing Wildlife of the β€˜American Amazon’

30 May 2026 at 13:00

A wide river curves through a lush, green forest at sunrise, mist hovering above the water; on the right, a close-up of a large turtle’s face peeks out from its shell.

The closest the United States gets to the Amazon rainforest is the southeastern part of the country, a biologically rich region consisting of forests and wetlands. Photographer Mac Stone has spent decades creating a visual dispatch there.

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Artist Farms World’s Largest Living Photograph That’s Visible Only From the Sky

6 June 2026 at 12:30

Aerial view of a large green field with a faint, lighter rectangular patch of different shades in the grass, possibly forming a subtle pattern or design. A road and a canal run along the edge of the field.

Fly over a field near Toulouse, France, look down, and right now you will see a giant eye looking back at you. The ambitious art installation is called Farming Photographs and is the work of British-Spanish artist Almudena Romero.

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Real Estate Agent Hires Green Screen Guy But Doesn’t Know How to Remove Him

16 June 2026 at 12:57

Three-panel image of a person in a full green bodysuit crouching in different locations in an apartment. Each panel has text: "I'm sorry I don't know how to edit this green guy.

Post-production work can be arduous, as one high-end real estate agent in Tokyo seemingly discovered after hiring someone in a green screen suit for a promotional video -- only to leave them visible in the final cut.

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