The Daily PetaPixel for 03/16/2022

The top news from the world of photography. [View this email in your browser]( [PetaPixel Homepage]( Presented by MPB.com Change gear and get paid within two days. Cash in on the photo and video kit you're not using. How much is it worth? MPB is the simplest and safest way to sell your used cameras and lenses. [Get a free instant quote now.]( [Mark Zuckerberg Confirms NFTs are Coming to Instagram]( By Jaron Schneider on Mar 15, 2022 05:44 pm Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says that NFTs are "hopefully" coming to Instagram in the next few months. Additionally, he said that the company plans to allow users to mint them within the application. [[Read More]( [Footage of a Giant Bubble Being Popped from the Inside at 50,000 FPS]( By David Crewe on Mar 15, 2022 04:47 pm [the slow mo guys]( The creative minds over at The Slow Mo Guys have shared what it looks like to pop a bubble large enough for a person to stand in at 50,000 frames per second (FPS). [[Read More]( [David Bailey Shares Stories About Photographing the Royal Family]( By Anete Lusina on Mar 15, 2022 04:12 pm [David Bailey and the Queen]( The legendary English fashion and portrait photographer David Bailey has candidly recalled what was it like to photograph Princess Diana and the Queen. [[Read More]( [Experimental Film Captures the Beauty of Crystallization in 8K]( By Jaron Schneider on Mar 15, 2022 01:54 pm [Crystallization of sodium acetate]( Photographer Thomas Blanchard has captured the unstable mixture of water and sodium acetate. When subjected to even light agitation, the solution moves from a liquid to a solid, a process he captured in brilliant 8K resolution. [[Read More]( [Artist Transforms 50-Year-Old Photo Into a Beautiful Modern Portrait]( By Michael Zhang on Mar 15, 2022 12:46 pm An anonymous digital artist is creating impressive transformations of old black-and-white photos, reimagining them as enhanced and colorized portraits that look as though they were shot in the modern-day. [[Read More]( [8-Year-Old Boy Becomes a Nat Geo Photographer For a Day]( By Anete Lusina on Mar 15, 2022 12:44 pm [Make A Wish]( An eight-year-old boy who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia had his wish come true when he was invited to a wildlife sanctuary to become a National Geographic photographer for a day. [[Read More]( [Ethics Center Wants All Photographers to Publish an Ethics Statement]( By Jaron Schneider on Mar 15, 2022 12:33 pm [Photography Ethics Center]( The Photography Ethics Center is asking all photographers to commit to publishing a statement of ethics on their websites. By doing so, the hope is that all photographers will think more proactively about the ethics of their work. [[Read More]( [Photographer Spends a Year Timelapsing the Growth of Mushrooms]( By Anete Lusina on Mar 15, 2022 12:13 pm [Mushroom macro timelapse]( Macro photographer Jens Braun has captured a 365-day long cinematic timelapse that shows the growth of nine different varieties of mushrooms, a process that pushed his equipment to its limits. [[Read More]( [Researchers Build Long-Range Drone Detection by Mapping Bug’s Brain]( By Jaron Schneider on Mar 15, 2022 11:57 am Researchers from Australia have reverse engineered the visual system of hoverflies, an insect that feeds on nectar, to detect the acoustic signature of drones from as far as four kilometers away (about 2.5 miles) even in noisy environments. [[Read More]( [ON1 Unveils Resize AI, its Next-Generation Tech for Image Upscaling]( By Jaron Schneider on Mar 15, 2022 10:56 am [ON1 Resize AI]( ON1 has announced its next-generation technology that is powered by what it calls state-of-the-art neural networks for image upscaling: Resize AI. The company says it can enlarge photos and create realistic details with spectacular results. [[Read More]( [Xiaomi Launches its 12 Series Smartphones Globally]( By Ted Kritsonis on Mar 15, 2022 10:17 am [Xiaomi Launches its 12 Series Smartphones]( Xiaomi is back with another trio of high-end smartphones and has released the new 12 Series made up of the Xiaomi 12 Pro, Xiaomi 12, and Xiaomi 12X. [[Read More]( Earlier Stories: [A Modified Pentax 300mm Lens is at the Heart of Japan’s Kitsune Satellite]( [Rotolight AEOS 2 LED Review: A Colorful and Easy to Use Hybrid Light]( [Photographer Captures Stunning Shots of Northern Lights in Real-Time]( [Foxconn Closes its Shenzhen Factories Due to COVID Outbreak]( [Ukrainian Photographer Shares What Life in a Bunker is Like on TikTok]( [Website]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( Copyright © 2022 PetaPixel, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. PetaPixel · 2944 N 44th St Ste 100 · Phoenix, AZ 85018-7258 · USA You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.