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Tamron SP 15-30mm
Featured / Reviews

Tamron SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD Review

Every year there are a select number of lens announcements that I find personally exciting.  I reviewed no less than 15 lenses last year, and this is the fifth already this year, so a lot of gear passes through my hands.  Not every lens has the same capacity to excite […]

I Dreamed I Could Fly
Editor's Choice

Breast Cancer Diagnosis Inspires Photographer

I had heard it all before, “Life is too short…follow your passion…use your time wisely by doing things that inspire you…be the best person you can be.” Generally, a feeling of invincibility made those comments go in one ear and out the other but when you find out you have […]

Michael DeFreitas
News

2014 NATJA Awards Competition Grand Prize for Photography

Congratulations to Michael DeFreitas! The North American Travel Journalists Association has just announced that our PHOTO News travel photography specialist, Michael DeFreitas, has won the 2014 NATJA Awards Competition Grand Prize for Photography! Michael’s work was judged as the best of the best in travel photojournalism for 2014. In addition […]

Editor's Choice / Inspiration

Shetland – One of Europe’s Last Wildernesses

Travel around Scotland provides amazing photo opportunities with the awe-inspiring castles, well preserved and accessible ancient ruins, and summer festivals. However a trip to the Shetland Islands (also known as Shetland) is a nature photographer’s dream come true! So last summer my wife and I boarded the Northlink Ferry that […]

Shooting Sport
Tutorials

Shooting Sports

Nikon D3 – Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 | ISO 6400 – 1/800 @ f2.8 I have been shooting sports for over 25 years professionally. I first started shooting sports my last year of high school when my buddies and I would go skiing in the Laurentian mountains just north of Montreal. […]

Featured / News

A newly designed optional tripod mount ring for SP 150-600mm VC USD

Extends the base surface of the tripod mount to improve stability and versatility. Tripod mount ring (long type), an optional accessory for A011. February 13, 2015, Saitama, Japan – Tamron Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Morio Ono), a leading manufacturer of precision optics, has announced that the company will display samples […]

Cameras for Healing
Featured / News

Cameras for Healing

Emotional healing through photographic arts and creative expression for those living with pain, grief, fear, poverty or stress. by Maurice Henri & Karen Casey ABOUT CAMERAS FOR HEALING: Founder, Maurice Henri believes that the power of the photographic image can open the heart and change people’s view of the world. It also […]

Passages Street Photography
Events

PASSAGES street photography exhibit by Maurice Henri featuring Karen Casey

Exhibition from January 16 to March 6, 2015 City of Saint John Gallery A program of the City’s Cultural Affairs Office Saint John Arts Centre, 20 Peel Plaza

Broncolor Gen Next Contest 2015
Editor's Choice / Photo Challenge

Submissions Now Open for Broncolor Gen NEXT Contest 2015

ARE YOU THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY? If you are a young and talented photographer under 30 years of age seeking to push your career to the next level, enter broncolor Gen NEXT contest and stand the chance to win a broncolor sponsorship. This includes broncolor gear worth $24,000. Click here […]

SP15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD
Featured / News

The world's first* full-frame, F/2.8 ultra-wide-angle zoom lens with VC (Vibration Compensation)

SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD (Model A012) Tamron’s state-of-the-art lens design features an XGM (eXpanded Glass Molded Aspherical)*1 lens element and eBAND Coating*2 for outstanding detail and performance from the center to the edges of the frame over the entire zoom range. Saitama, Japan – Tamron Co., Ltd. (President […]