Targeting outdoor sports photographers, Lowepro has designed a series of dual-compartment camera backpacks.

Currently, there are two styles available: the Photo Sport 200 AW and the Photo Sport Sling 100 AW. Both packs are constructed out of ultra-lightweight, resilient and high-performance fabrics and have a breathable back pad...

The lastest creative inspiration from Lensbaby hit the market this spring, the SLR-ready Composer Pro.

The Composer Pro is an add-on for the Lensbaby composer, which improves the focus and tilt-control of the composer's swivel-ball and focus mechanism for more accurate focusing...

Social documentary photographer Carlan Tapp embarked on his 2,450-mile, fundraising motorcycle ride in May and has been documenting and blogging about his journey ever since.

As a means to raise money for "Question of Power" — a nonprofit organization dedicated to...

Photo auctions at Christie's and Phillips de Pury & Co. totaled $19.5 million in April. This amount is $1.5 million more than the auction houses reported from April 2010.

Phillips reported that auction sales records were set for several photographers, including Sebastião Salgado...

Japan Earthquake Effects Reveal Troubling Retail, End-User Trends. How will the disaster affect the way you purchase photographic equipment this year?

The store at which I bought my first camera closed this month. Yes, camera stores close all the time, but this was reportedly the first to close specifically due to supply problems caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Boots Camera was a large retail outlet serving Fresno, Calif., since 1974. It stocked a wide array of cameras, photography supplies and other items that might appeal to imaging enthusiasts: papers, printers, proofers, digital storage cards and developing chemicals. It even carried telescopes at one time...

Explorer of the Abyss: The famous whale photographer, who has created indelible images of ocean life at National Geographic for more than 35 years, still has many seas to discover.

On January 11th, 1963, my father rode a whale." This is how Charles "Flip" Nicklin explains the event that changed not only his father's life but his own as well. His dad, Chuck Nicklin, owned a dive shop called the Diving Locker in San Diego. His father had learned to skin dive in Hawaii during World War II and had continued it as a hobby. Scuba diving was still a new, exotic activity for most people at the time, but Chuck taught his son, Flip, to dive at an early age. Both of them also tried their hands at underwater photography.

One day, while diving with friends, Chuck Nicklin and his buddies spotted a whale tangled up in a gill net's anchor line. The Bryde's whale was floating in the water and didn't react to the divers. They all swam around it, petted it and took some photographs...

The Photo Marketing Association International (PMA) recently announced an agreement with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) to move the date, rename the September 2011 PMA International Convention and Trade Show and co-locate their respective conferences.

Under the agreement, the two groups will merge the PMA conference with...

Home/Studio Location: Auke Bay, Alaska (12 miles north of Juneau)

Websites: FlipNicklin.com; WhaleTrust.org