2022 Urban Photo Award finalists celebrate the strange side of cities

The Urban Photo Awards is an always impressive street photography contest, reliably delivering a weird and wonderful assortment of strange snaps highlighting oddball moments of spontaneity from around the world. Here’s a handpicked selection of this ye… Continue reading 2022 Urban Photo Award finalists celebrate the strange side of cities

WAF shortlist highlights the world’s finest new architecture

Big, small, expensive and affordable – almost every conceivable type of building features in this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) shortlist. Consisting of 420 buildings from around the globe, it’s a superb opportunity to take stock of the curr… Continue reading WAF shortlist highlights the world’s finest new architecture

The 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist is out of this world

Perhaps the greatest space photography competition in the universe, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year has revealed its 2022 shortlist and its nothing short of spectacular. Here are some handpicked highlights, from a stunning moonrise over an ancie… Continue reading The 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist is out of this world

Rare sights impress in the 2022 BigPicture competition winners

Presented by the California Academy of Sciences, the BigPicture Photography Competition annually delivers an incredible collection of nature photographs. This year’s winning shots span everything from a bizarre cactus bee mating ritual to a surreal gli… Continue reading Rare sights impress in the 2022 BigPicture competition winners

Airbnb launches competition to fund the world’s wildest house designs

Airbnb isn’t exactly lacking in unusual vacation home designs – such as the Air bee and bee, for example. However, the online property rental marketplace could soon host a lot more as it has now launched a new competition soliciting the most oddball id… Continue reading Airbnb launches competition to fund the world’s wildest house designs

Tiny spaces, big ideas: 2022 Shed of the Year finalists announced

A total of 21 finalists have been announced for this year’s Cuprinol Shed of the Year competition. Packed full of interesting designs by passionate amateur “sheddies” working to a shoestring budget, highlights include an aircraft hangar-like build made… Continue reading Tiny spaces, big ideas: 2022 Shed of the Year finalists announced

The 2022 Creative Photo Awards celebrate the weird side of photography

The Siena Creative Photo Awards is a little different from your average photo contest. Celebrating all kinds of post-production techniques and digital manipulations, this contest aims to redefine the art of photography and this year’s winners are defia… Continue reading The 2022 Creative Photo Awards celebrate the weird side of photography

Robotics contest will build a biomimetic robot based on winning entry

More and more, we’re finding that by copying nature, we can develop technologies that are capable of performing previously impossible functions. A new contest encourages that kind of thinking, by inviting ideas for nature-inspired robots … and the winn… Continue reading Robotics contest will build a biomimetic robot based on winning entry

Stunning macro iPhone shots take smartphone photography into the surreal

Apple released its new iPhone 13 lineup last September, billing the camera system as the most advanced it has ever made for the handset. With that new hardware came first-of-a-kind macro functionality for the Pro and Pro Max models, and a set of 10 new… Continue reading Stunning macro iPhone shots take smartphone photography into the surreal