In November 2016, wildfires broke out near Great Smoky Mountains National Park and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, claiming 14 lives and over 2,000 homes and businesses. Nashville-based photographer Jeremy Cowart recently decided to use his camera to help bring healing and awareness to the area’s victims. For his project Voices of Gatlinburg, Cowart […]
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“I shouldn’t be here. ” That’s all I could think as I brought my camera to my eye to frame a shot overlooking the massive expanse of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. I was in a Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter, the door removed at my request. petapixel.com »
2020-05-05 23:19
In these 19 aerial photos, I attempted to capture how the city is responding to COVID-19 and how businesses are being affected. boredpanda.com »
2020-04-06 17:25
Award-winning German photographer Tom Hegen recently took to the skies above The Netherlands at night and capturing striking photos of massive greenhouses illuminated in the landscapes below. The newly-published work is titled “The Greenhouse Series. petapixel.com »
2020-01-30 20:02
Forget those dinky HD “cameras” attached to tiny quadcopter “drones,” if you want to capture really amazing aerial shots, you have to do what Polish photographer Miron Bogacki did: build your own heavy-duty octocopter and slap a high-end full-frame DSLR on that bad boy. petapixel.com »
2016-11-03 01:45
While living in Hanoi, Vietnam, photographer Loes Heerink became fascinated by the city’s street vendors and the mobile art they created atop their bicycles every single day. So she set out to capture this beauty in an interesting, maybe even unique way. petapixel.com »
2016-10-28 23:20
Dramatic before and after photos taken from a fixed-wing aircraft show the terrible damage wrought by the LA wildfires.
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Ibarionex Perello, the founder and host of the iconic photography podcast The Candid Frame, is one of the victims of the Los Angeles Wildfires. Him and his family lost their home in this disaster that's caused so many people their homes and lives.
A Los Angeles-based photographer has lost his family home in Altadena after the Eaton Fire tore through it and destroyed all of his gear. [Read More]
Satellite images have laid bare the terrible damage done by the Los Angeles wildfires which have devastated the city and claimed the lives of at least 24 people. [Read More]
The L.A. wildfires are still burning but already drone footage has captured the devastating aftermath of the areas wrecked by the deadly blaze. [Read More]
A lo-fi picture taken by a firefighter on August 6, 2000, on a Kodak DC280 in Montana is considered to be one of the most famous wildfire photographs ever taken. [Read More]
Rachael Zimmerman, a photographer in Lahaina, Hawaii, woke in the early morning hours the day the fires hit, awakened by the noise from the high winds. In a groggy haze, she fixes the screen windows flying off her condo, but when she looks out the window, she can see some flames in the distance.