Lost for nearly a century and a half, a grainy black and white portrait of John Quincy Adams has reemerged—and it’s now considered the oldest surviving original photograph of a US president in existence.

A chance encounter with an octopus confronting an army of spider crabs puts a nature photographer in the spotlight.

Soon the Roskilde Airshow 2017 will be held. This is a photo from the 2015 event.

The Europeana Collections has over 50 million pieces of European history in its digital archive from more than 3,000 institutions. The Europeana Photography collection, which has over 2 million photographs. Music, art, fashion, sport, natural history, and maps and geography are some of the other collections. More than 3 million of the archives are openly licensed, meaning you can use them for any purpose, and many of the images are available in high resolution.

The iPhone has no monopoly on computational photography, and Android cameras are not inherently weaker. The latest arguments to the contrary, from the man who once led Google's mobile efforts, are weird and wrong.

How a business-savvy 19th-century photographer from Austria fashioned the West’s image of Japan.

Solar eclipses are a rare natural phenomenon. Total solar eclipses are even rarer. On August 21, 2017 there will be a total solar eclipse viewable and photographable across the entire United States.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich, in association with Insight Investment and BBC Sky at Night Magazine, organized the ninth annual contest for the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year. They have recently published the shortlisted images for 2017, which will show you spectacular images of space taken from all corners of the world.

To our eyes, they often are a blur. But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines.

The results of the annual photo competition are now in.

The ANAR Foundation is a Spanish organization which helps kids in risk. They Operate a unique phone number - 116 111 - where minors at risk can get aid and consultation. Anar did a campaign advertizing the number, but were facing a problem where they did not want potential aggressors to see that a kid was even looking at the ad.

Ever Wondered What It Would Be Like To Take Photos In Space? Cinemagraph expert and space buff Armand Dijcks explains the challenges of capturing timelapses from the International Space Station and why NASA’s footage lends itself perfectly to cinemagraphs.

When you think of old photographs, you naturally think in terms of black and white, but as you can see from these stunning photographs from the turn of the 20th century, color photography has been around for a lot longer than you think.

Michal Iwanowski documented the journey which his grandfather Tolek and great uncle Wiktor had endured some 70 years earlier

These stunning aerials are the winners of Dronestagram's 2017 International Drone Photography Contest.

Endangered big cats - a mother and two cubs - frolic in front of the lens, before stopping the show by removing the memory card with paw.

Intelligence agencies spy on us, and Trevor Paglen spies on them. His images, on show at the Photographers’ Gallery, shine a light on the shadow world of government surveillance. By Charlie McCann (May 19, 2016)

Hatred starts at home. By Mark Oliver.

They rise, swell, or crest—but never truly break.

The only way for award-winning photographer Jody MacDonald to go in search of the Mauritania coast was on top of an enormous freight train. Here, she shares scenes from her incredible journey through the Sahara.

The little flower seems happy and there is also plenty to be happy about. It is a very seldom flower in Denmark, but the spread of bee orchid, as it is called, in the area where I found it is increasing :-)

A picture may say a thousand words, but what if the photograph has been fabricated? There are ways to spot a fake – you just have to look closely enough.

With much of the decade dominated by World War II, the 40s haven't gone down in history as the happiest times. But, as these photos show, there was plenty to smile about.

In 2005 Kito Fujio quit his job as an office worker and became a freelance photographer.

Steve Miller uses x-rays, MRI scans and satellite imagery to reveal an eerie, unseen side of nature. What happened when he travelled to the Amazon to x-ray its plants, piranhas, snakes and sloths?

MIT researcher helps scientists and engineers hone their visual imagery.

'Tereska' is one of David 'Chim' Seymour's most famous photographs

It's an unusual sight on Newfoundland's Southern Shore highway: bumper-to-bumper traffic, packed along the side of the road.

These fascinating plants are worlds unto themselves. By Alexa Keefe. Photographs by Christian Ziegler.

If you need a break from whatever Earthly news is terrifying you today, might I suggest the stellar photo above? It’s even better in super high resolution — see for yourself. Click, breathe, and be awed. This is a picture of the Orbital Cygnus spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station this weekend. It’s not a fantastic image because of some particularly deft use of basic photographic technique. Rather, it stands apart because of the wonderful timing. Stress about the basics of photography all you want, but they’ll only get you so far without good timing and, sometimes, a little bit of luck.

Too often the humankind puts itself at the center of any reflection on the meaning of life, but the truth is our planet—not to speak about the entire universe—has existed since long before we came on to the scene, and will probably outlive us. The beauty of Beloved Curve, a recent conceptual photography series by 31 year-old Scottish photographer Sarah Amy Fishlock, is the simplicity with which it connects the existential theme of the incessant cycle of life to her grieving process for her father's death through the intelligent use of double exposures.

Beautiful macro photos of insects by Milan-based photographer, illustrator and designer Francesco Bagnato.

Last year they were a little further in the beginning of May. The April weather must have set them a little back, but now they are here :-)

People walk on a hill covered with nemophila flowers in full bloom at Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.