My Facebook Photography Page Was Hacked And Used To Scam Hundreds Of People Out Of Their Money

August 5th I received a message via facebook messenger in my johnwilhelmisaphotoholic-fb-page inbox. A man introducing himself as Adam Torres told me he would like to buy my fb page. I clearly remember how I was laughing about it with my wife (who is actually my girlfriend but it confuses people all the time to have 4 kids with a girlfriend so I call her my wife) and how I wrote him back that I was not interested in money....

April 14, 2023 · 6 min · 1111 words · Tanner Thomas

Myheritage Photo Enhancer Shows You What Your Ancestors Really Looked Like

We’ve seen some pretty epic examples of manual photo restoration and colorization. But there’s now a website that promises equally impressive results. MyHeritage uses neural networks to restore your old photos and give them color. And judging from the examples, it truly does a pretty good job for artificial intelligence. The main goal of MyHeritage doesn’t have much to do with photography per se. “Our passion is to help people connect with their family histories,” the founders write on MyHeritage blog....

April 14, 2023 · 3 min · 427 words · Anita Levy

Nasa S 1Bn Juno Probe Just Sent Back The Most Amazing Images Of Jupiter So Far

When we hear about “probes” flying around space, we probably think of something fairly small. We’ve all heard them on sci-fi TV shows. “Sent out a probe”, and off flies a little drone-like object. Well, not NASA’s Juno probe. This thing is as big as a basketball court. Launched in 2011, the probe took five years to reach and then settle into orbit around Jupiter, 415 million miles away. Juno orbits in an extremely wide arc, resulting in a brief fly-by of the gas giant every couple of months....

April 14, 2023 · 2 min · 372 words · Rickey Ray

Navy Photographer Shoots Class Graduation Photo Underwater

It’s one thing to shoot a large group shot such as at a wedding or graduation. But it’s quite another to have to do it underwater. That’s exactly what one British Columbia photographer ended up doing when her Royal Canadian Navy compatriots wanted their graduation photo taken in this unusual manner. Sailor 1st Class Valerie LeClair was given the task of capturing the underwater shot of Royal Canadian Navy Divers who had recently passed a diving course....

April 14, 2023 · 2 min · 316 words · Roger Ford

Nikon Full Frame Mirrorless Camera To Arrive By March 2019

So, it appears that we have a firm-ish date for a Nikon mirrorless camera release. Or at least, we have a goal, according to SankeiBiz, who report that Nikon aims to release a high-end full frame mirrorless camera during the current fiscal year, which ends in March 2019. Some of Google’s translation is a little iffy, but that much is crystal clear. The Google translation of the article relevant to Nikon is as follows…...

April 14, 2023 · 2 min · 319 words · Maria Davis
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