How nature sculpts masterpieces from sand, light, and time.

A female elephant carries a dead calf across a dry riverbed in Namibia. That unforgettable frame took the grand title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026, for Italian photographer Federico Veronesi. It was chosen from a record 65,403 entries from 121 countries and territories.

As a travel photographer, I see trees everywhere I go while exploring the world. They all look different, but they’re usually considered “background” or “part of the scenery.” However, I’ve come to see trees as more than just part of the landscape.

As I sat in a blind photographing pelicans, I thought about how different my life had become. Twenty years ago, I sat in a windowless office, inside the enormous building that is the IBM Research Center in Westchester, New York. In front of me, numbers and symbols chased one another across a computer screen.

Leaving home forever must be terrifying. So, when Zhang Xiang, whom we called “Hope” in English, was about to become the first captive-born female giant panda released into the wild, I did the only thing that seemed sensible: I dressed as a tree.

When Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro, one of the features that initially made me laugh was the addition of a mechanical aperture. Really? After all these years of computational photography, machine learning, increasingly sophisticated image processing, and now AI, […]

Photography has always shaped the way we understand the natural world. Today, as ecosystems change faster than ever, images have become more than works of art. They are records of a moment in time, evidence of change, and a way […]

On August 12th, 2026, a spectacular total solar eclipse crossed parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The Moon passed directly between Earth and the Sun, completely blocking the Sun for viewers along the narrow path of totality.  Totality was visible in […]

The fourth edition of the Nature and Humans International Photography Contest is now open for entries, running from May 31 to September 28, 2026. Organized by Fundación DESEA in Spain, the competition is open to amateur and professional photographers of any nationality, with a €25 entry fee and €17,000 in prizes on offer, including €10,500 in cash.

Visiting Madagascar is like turning back the clock. It all began over 160 million years ago when the world’s fourth-largest island began to break away from the massive, ancient supercontinent known as Gondwanaland.

Real conservation begins when a place stops being scenery. That realization followed me home from Zion National Park in Utah after a FUJIFILM assignment for a project called “The Great American Road Trip.” I had chosen Zion because I’d only driven through it once before, during the national park closures, and even then, I could feel something in the landscape tugging at me.

I approach the seafan for a closer look, lured in by its outrageous golden-orange hue. The gaps between the glowing branches are so packed with delicate white, eight-armed polyps that I struggle to comprehend where they can all attach.