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AuroraMAX camera launches for dramatic season of northern lights | News

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A still from the AuroraMAX camera last season

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Have you always wanted to see the northern lights, but from the comfort of your own living room?

You’re in luck. This Monday, Jan. 8, the University of Calgary’s AuroraMAX observatory will launch for the season. The ground camera in Yellowknife, NWT offers people from around the world a live view of the northern sky.

The camera turns on automatically as soon as the sun sets in Yellowknife. If the sky is clear, the northern lights can be seen every night through the camera’s live feeds. That’s because Yellowknife is within the auroral oval — a belt around the magnetic North Pole.

AuroraMAX is led by the University of Calgary and supported by the Canadian Space Agency, Astronomy North and the City of Yellowknife. The program started in 2009 and was originally planned to extend for five years. Due to its popularity, it’s still growing. AuroraMAX has over 38,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter)where active aurora alerts are shared as well as stunning video replays from the camera in Yellowknife.

An exciting time for the aurora

Space physicists are particularly excited about the upcoming aurora season. The solar maximum occurs

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Ten Hilarious Winners of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards | SmartNews

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Jan Piecha earned a spot as a finalist with their picture of three young raccoons, titled “Secrets.”
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Since the competition began in 2015, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have captured some of the funniest moments in the animal kingdom. This year’s winners and finalists include a clumsy elephant mud bath, a gossiping gaggle of raccoons, and a young otter’s swimming lesson.

A panel of judges reviewed thousands of submissions from photographers around the world before selecting the winners for each of the categories, including air, sea, and land animals. The winning image for the people’s choice award category is left up to members of the public. The overall winner gets a handmade trophy from Tanzania and a weeklong safari in Kenya, per Rachel Treisman for NPR.

This year’s grand prize winner was Ken Jensen, who claimed the top spot for his image titled “Ouch!” of a male golden silk monkey in China. John Speirs won the Affinity Photo People’s Choice Award for his image of a pigeon being smacked on the face with a leaf, and Arthur Trevino won the Animals of the Land category with a dramatic shot of a faceoff between a prairie

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A face only a mother could love: Terrifying photo shows what an ant looks like close up

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No, this photo doesn’t depict one of the new creatures on HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” or an outtake from a horror movie. It’s an award-winning close-up photo of … an ant.

The eye-popping photo is one of 57 Images of Distinction in Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition. The terrifying portrait was captured by Eugenijus Kavaliauskas, a Lithuanian photographer.

This is the 48th year of the competition, which seeks to “recognize excellence in photography through the microscope,” according to a news release shared with CNN.

The 2022 contest received almost 1,300 entries from 72 countries, according to Nikon.

Kavaliauskas previously worked as a bird photographer before pivoting to insects, according to his website. He used reflected light to capture the shocking ant close-up, complete with what seems to be an angry expression.

Although the image received a viral welcome on the internet, Kavaliauskas didn’t receive the top prize in the competition. That honor went to Swedish photographers Grigorii Timin and Michel Milinkovitch, who produced a beautiful fluorescent image of the front paw of a Madagascar giant day gecko’s embryo. They used 63x magnification to document the hand’s tiny veins and bones.

Correction: A previous version of this story

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Ottawa photo radar: One camera issues 7,000 tickets in its first two months

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One of Ottawa’s newest photo radar cameras caught more than 7,300 speeders in its first two months of operation, as drivers adjusted to the new set of eyes on the road in Barrhaven.

The new statistics come as the city of Ottawa continues to expand the automated speed enforcement camera program in school zones and community safety zones, with plans to install 32 new cameras by the end of 2024.

There are currently 28 cameras speed enforcement cameras set up across the city.

Statistics show the new photo radar camera on Cedarview Road, near Cedarview Middle School, issued 7,359 tickets for speeding in its first two months of operation. The camera nabbed 2,925 speeders in August and 4,434 speeding drivers in September, the final month statistics are available.

Four other cameras installed over the summer in Ottawa issued a total of 4,798 tickets.

The camera on Bridgestone Drive near Maurice-Lapointe Elementary School nabbed 1,363 speeders in its first four months, the camera on Crestway Drive near St. Andrew School caught 1,287 speeders and the camera on Chapman Mills Drive near St. Emily School caught 1,243 speeders in three months. City statistics show the new camera on Stittsville Main Street near

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Get three issues of N-Photo for a fiver!

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N-Photo is the only magazine on the newsstands dedicated to Nikon photographers. As it’s written for Nikon enthusiasts by Nikon enthusiasts, you can guarantee that 100% of the content is relevant to you. So why not take advantage of our latest subs deal and pick up three issues for just £5? (UK-only – but if you’re outside the UK, you can save 10% off the regular newsstand price.)

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Here’s a taster of what you’ll find inside, month-in, month out…

Our features are written by some of the biggest names in Nikon photography, and because these are penned by Nikon pros who know the Nikon system inside out, you’ll get inside info and tips and tricks that you can put to use in your own photography .

In our ever-popular Apprentice feature, we pair a pro photographer with one of our readers, as we treat them to

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How Photography Became Africa’s Most Popular Art Form

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Joana Choumali, Mme Djeneba Haabré, 2013–14.

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Last fall, Jeanne Mercier, a French critic and curator based in Portugal, traveled to London to launch a new book. Her destination was the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, then commencing its fifth edition in the city of its founding, and the subject was Being a Photographer in Africa: The Ten Years of Afrique in Visu. Lavishly illustrated and packed with essays and interviews, the book draws on a significant history accumulated by the website Afrique in Visu, which has become an indispensable resource for followers of African photography. It also chronicles the emergence of a medium that, in the last two decades, has become contemporary Africa’s foremost art form.

Mercier created the site—whose name melds French with Latin and loosely translates as “Africa as we see it”—with her husband, the photographer Baptiste de Ville d’Avray, in Mali in 2006. As its editor-in-chief ever since, she has played a role in lending visibility and coherence to the continent’s flourishing, if often disconnected, photo communities. Mercier’s enduring work made her an ideal partner for Othman Lazraq, part of a new wave of African collectors who have

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Funniest wildlife photos revealed in global photography competition

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Settle into your seat and put that beverage down.

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards announced Thursday the “wonderful eclectic mix of hilarious wildlife” shortlisted images and videos from its 2023 competition, which include two tangoing horses, a kangaroo air guitarist and more.

Images taken by professional and amateur photographers from all around the world are “all hilarious and sure to raise a cackle or a chuckle and wonder at the wonderful wildlife we ​​share this world with,” officials said in a statement.

This year’s final shortlist of 41 standalone photographs, three videos and three portfolio entries were chosen from thousands of entries.

The public can get involved by voting for their favorite image in the Affinity Photo People’s Choice Award by heading to the competition’s website: comedywildlifephoto.com, and clicking on the people’s choice link. Winners will be announced on Nov. 23 with the top image winning a one-week safari in Kenya.

See hilarious animal photos from the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

More:Wildlife Photographer of the Year awarded to woman who captured frantic cactus bee ball

More:New wasp species discovered by Amazon rainforest scientists: What else have they discovered?

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Photo radar: 32 new photo radar cameras will be installed in Ottawa by end of 2024

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Thirty-two new photo radar cameras will be set up on Ottawa roads over the next 14 months, including at several “high speed locations” on Hunt Club Road, Walkley Road, Riverside Drive and Bronson Avenue.

The city of Ottawa continues to expand the automated speed enforcement program in school zones and community safety zones across the city of Ottawa. There are currently 28 photo radar cameras in use.

A report for the Transportation Committee meeting on November 16 outlined plans to install 12 more photo radar cameras in Ottawa before the end of the year, and another 20 automated speed enforcement cameras in 2024. By the end of 2024, there will be 60 photo radar cameras at locations across Ottawa,

Photo radar cameras issued a total of 63,440 tickets in the first six months of the year. The busiest automated speed enforcement camera location in the January to July period was on Fisher Avenue, between Deer Park Road and Kintyre Private, with 11,072 tickets issued.

Here is a look at the locations for the automated speed location cameras over the next 14 months.


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The city of Ottawa says construction is planned to install the ASE at the following locations

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See 15 Amazing Wildlife Images From the Sony World Photography Awards | SmartNews

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Carlyn Kranking

Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation

From a playful-looking stoat to a mantis shrimp guarding its eggs, the animal subjects in the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards are captivating. This year’s winning photographers captured creatures in Svalbard, Norway; Bangladesh; Brazil and the depths of the Indo-Pacific.

On Tuesday, the World Photography Organization announced the shortlist and winners in the open competition, which allowed submissions from people of all ages and experience levels. Of the 415,000 total entries, which also included images in the youth and professional categories, the open awards received 200,000.

The contest accepted photos that fit under ten broad umbrellas: architecture, creative, landscape, lifestyle, motion, natural world and wildlife, object, portraiture, street photography and travel. From all of these subjects, one winner will be crowned on April 13.

“Finding original and different viewpoints photographically is challenging—but ever more rewarding,” Mike Trow, chair of the jury that judged the entries, said in a statement when the contest’s professional winners were announced. “They covered the profound and ongoing discussions around narrative truth and agency in art, as well as wider environmental, political and societal viewpoints.”

Here are the stunning animal and nature photos commended in the open competition’s natural

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16 Largest Photography Companies In The World

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In this article, we will take a look at the 16 largest photography companies in the world. If you want to see more companies in this selection, go to the 5 Largest Photography Companies in the World.

According to Zion Market Research, the size of the global digital photography market stood at $105.2 billion at the end of 2020, and it is anticipated to increase to $149.4 billion by 2028. This would reflect a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.4% from 2021 to 2028. The increase in photo sharing over social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok has given a boost to the photography industry. Popular companies operating in the photography industry, such as Canon Inc (NYSE:CAJ), Sony Group Corporation (NYSE:SONY), and FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation (OTC:FUJIY), are continuously focusing on innovation and developing new technologies to enhance the quality of photography taking place globally. Additionally, a number of top camera manufacturers are investing in projects to create smaller, lighter camera bodies with equivalent shooting capabilities. It is anticipated that this will produce a favorable outlook for the industry in the upcoming years.

According to Nikkei, a cumulative 70% of the market share in the global photography industry

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