Founded by The New York Times senior staff photographer James Estrin, the Times's Lens Blog is dedicated to the newspaper's "photography, video, and visual journalism." Here, visitors will find powerful photographs and documentary footage about a wide variety of subjects from around the world. More than just a collection of images, this blog is designed to add context to photography and...

National Public Radio's "The Picture Show" photo blog is a great way to avoid culling through the thousands of less interesting and engaging photographs on the web. With a dedicated team of professionals, this blog brings together different posts that profile various sets of photographs that cover 19th century war in Afghanistan, visual memories of WWII, unpublished photographs of JFK's...

Stereoscopic photography was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This kind of photography involves placing two photographic images side by side; when one views them through a lens called a stereoscope, the side-by-side photographs create the illusion of a three dimensional image. Richard M. Dennis collected thousands of these photographic images throughout the 20th century. In 1939,...

You don't have to be a car fanatic to find this online collection tremendously interesting. Over the decades, the General Motors Corporation donated a number of photographs and related materials to the New York Public Library. The staff members at the Library mounted them in albums, and recently they digitized theses albums for use by the web-browsing public. All told, the collection includes over...

Stereoscopy was once a popular way to create the illusion of a three-dimensional image. Especially prevalent in the nineteenth century, stereoscopy involves viewing two photographs simultaneously through a device called a stereoscope. The New York Public Library (NYPL) has recently brought Stereoscopy into the twenty-first century with the Stereogranimator. This tool allows users to create their...

In 2007, the Boston Public Library rediscovered a rather intriguing cache of photographs from the late 19th century in their archives. While there is still some debate about the provenance of these photos, they believe that the prints were taken by photographers affiliated with the Boston Camera Club, and that this organization was responsible for coordinating this specific project. Recently, the...

When travel restrictions began in March 2020, the Los Angeles-based travel photographer known as Erin Outdoors found all her trips on hold indefinitely. Erin challenged herself to create wanderlust-inducing travel photographs using items found within her apartment. In the series Our Great Indoors, miniature figurines borrowed from a model train set are pictured boating through swamps of asparagus...

To celebrate its grand re-opening after a six-year closure for extensive remodeling, the National Portrait Gallery presents the first-ever Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. A jury selected 51 portraits from more than 4,000 entries submitted by artists from all over the United States to be included in the exhibition, all of which can be viewed at the Web site. Also at the site is "Portrait of...

Let's say you'd like to share some photos with friends, but just certain ones. With Overswipe you can select the images from your camera roll you'd like to share and that's it. This simple app makes sure there's no over-sharing. Users can even save settings for future sharing sessions. This version is compatible with Apple devices running i0S 7.0 and newer.

If you have left over holiday photos that need editing and a bit of retouching, you may want to consider looking over the latest version of Paint.NET. This open source photo editing program comes with support for layers, special effects and essential tools that include a cropping feature and a resizing option. This version is compatible with computers running Windows XP and newer.