September's photo competition had submissions ranging from sports, to wildlife, street and simple backyard moments. When choosing the winning photos, we wanted to make sure that the decision process was based on a good interpretation of the theme, followed by other factors like light, composition, story, details, creative vision, etc. First Place: “Clear” by Stefanie Markham The post September 2026 Photo Contest Winners: Decisive Moments appeared first on Light Stalking.

In staggering news from several sources, the famous Getty Images is applying for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and planning to go private. As a private company, Getty will be controlled by the Getty family affiliates as well as Koch Equity Development and will also be backed by $533 million in new equity. This comes after its The post Getty Images Bankrupt! appeared first on Light Stalking.

One of the interesting things about the entries in this month's colour theme of “the dynamics of colour” is that so many of the strongest entries chose to use a single colour to draw the reader's interest and I think that says something quite powerful about the use of colour in photography. Simply splashing colour The post Dynamics of Colour Photo Contest Winners appeared first on Light Stalking.

I have often said that there are six stages to a photographer’s life. The very first is wow, that moment when you realise that photography is for you, something that is going to consume you for many years to come. The second stage is woe. That’s the defining moment when you realise that there is The post Turning Woe Back To Wow in Photography appeared first on Light Stalking.

There's a new proposed class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges they harvested Facebook and Instagram photographs for biometric information that was used to train image generation models and develop an, as yet, unreleased facial recognition feature called Nametag for smart glasses. Meta says that the lawsuit has misrepresented the situation and notes that Nametag The post Meta Sued Over Using People’s Photos for AI and Facial Recognition appeared first on Light Stalking.

My Sony has 61 million pixels. I could buy a Fuji with 100 million pixels. I could even buy a Samsung phone with 200 million pixels. All of this sounds very impressive until you realise that 99% of us never need that many pixels 99% of the time. The reason these high megapixel counts sound The post The Megapixel Myth appeared first on Light Stalking.