The emergence of the imaging app has helped lift mobile photography to new heights and offered the smartphone shooter a plethora of new tricks and twists for their photo-taking pleasure.

For well over 100 years now photographers have been using their cameras as instruments for change, as a way to see inside our souls, as way to take us all over the world…and beyond.

Funny how the smartphone category has evolved from being a product that was initially sold as a cell phone that also took pictures to clearly now being a camera that also makes phone calls.

And, after a few starts and stops, VR is now officially becoming a big part of the consumer imaging world.

And now time for something completely different. How about a photo service that features a camera you rent that sees the pictures you take whisked off to the cloud, edited and then only your best ones are sent back to smartphone for you to decide to have printed or turned into a photobook.

Last week we took a look at some of the more unique, if a bit less ballyhooed, imaging fare from the 2017 CES. This time around we’re focusing on the goodies displayed by the more prominent photographic companies that exhibited at the big annual Las Vegas shindig.

After a week spent dodging drones and robots, trying on countless wearable gizmos and gawking at some pretty amazing TVs, the 2017 CES could leave fella too exhausted to soldier on. But alas, there were some fairly incredible imaging-related gadgets I wanted to see…I just needed to hunt them down.

Apparently it’s not scary enough that thousands of people die every year in drunk driving accidents, now we have to add potentially fatal driving while taking a selfie accidents to our list of fears while behind the wheel.

Couldn’t think of a better way to end 2016 than with some of the year’s greatest photography as National Geographic recently announced the winners of their 2016 Nature Photography of the Year contest.

The Christmas Wish Project is bringing more tan a smile to the faces of some sick children as she turns pictures with Santa into magical journeys to spectacular places.