Advertisements The winning images are stunners which certainly deserve a wider audience. The contest was judged by Max Rive of the Netherlands and John Weatherby of the USA. Max was the final round judge. Without further ado lets enjoy the images. Grand Prize Winner Grand Prize Winner Grand Prize Winner: Francisco Negroni Photo Title: The Perfect Fear Photo Description: “The picture shows a perfect “dirty storm”; the most violent moment during the eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile....

NASA has their rich media library available to the public, and they made it easier than ever for the users to access and search. Sophia Nasr, an astro-particle physicist, has created a true-color image of polar vortex on Saturn’s North Pole. A young scientist used three raw images taken by Cassini and merged them in Photoshop to create an image that shows what we would see if we were orbiting Saturn in a spacecraft....

When looking from afar, all bees look the same. But just like they’re complex and intelligent creatures, they also look different from each other. Photographer and drone operator Josh Forwood wanted to show these differences, so he took a series of macro bee portraits. His photos let us meet bees up close (and I mean, really close) and see how different their little faces really are. Like most of us, Josh was hit by the pandemic measures....

Cosplay, fantasy and photographing it has become huge over the last decade or so. At comic cons around the world, people show up as their favourite video game, TV and movie characters. And every year they just get better and better, closer the originals that inspire their creation. In the last few years, developments in technology and electronics have allowed some to take it up to the next level. This particular suit of “Sovereign” armour from Melissa Ng at Lumecluster is a perfect example....

If you’d like to control Lightroom on your computer through your mobile device, Control Room app lets you do exactly this. Young software engineer Aaron Vizzini developed this app, and it turns your smartphone or tablet into an external control panel. This means you can sit back, control the settings on your phone or tablet, and watch them get applied to the image on your computer. Basically, Control Room connects certain Lightroom’s management controls with the app....