Canadian artist and filmmaker Jon Rafman has spent many hours culling through these images. He takes screen shots of the best ones and displays them on his blog (though never reveals their location). Called "9-Eyes," his Tumblr is named after the nine cameras that Google's Street View cars use.

The Siena International Photo Awards is a renowned photography contest. Photographers from 100 countries around the world send their photos for the contest. Here are some of the best award winners and honorary mentions of 2016.

Photographer Skyler Adams decided to try herself at taking pictures with one dollar camera for a month. She said that not so long ago she realized she was more passionate about buying new expensive camera gear than about photos themselves. So, she bought a Canon Sure Shot camera for $1 and an expired roll of Fujifilm Superia 400 film. She was pleasantly surprised with the result. Have a look at what pictures a pro can take with a crappy camera.

You’ll be surprised at the simplicity.

National Geographic holds Nature Photographer of the Year contest each year and all the photographers around the world are welcome to participate. This year’s contest will end on Nov. 4, at 12 p.m. EDT (U.S.), so if you have some nature-related pics to submit you are welcome to do it.
 

The winners of the 9th Annual iPhone Photography Awards have been announced. This award collects the best photos of the world taken with just an iPhone. Here are some of the best iPhone photos of this year. They actually prove that one does not need a super expensive camera to take amazing pictures.
 

These are the photos that show how skillful and creative photographers take their perfect pictures transforming them into something beautiful and amazing. 
 

Astronaut Tim Peake has been aboard the International Space Station for 6 months and here is what beauty he managed to capture.
 

These photos were taken by a Russian pioneer in color photography Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky who traveled the Russian Empire between 1909 and 1912 documenting its daily life, population and architecture. A bunch of photographers wanted to recreate these historical pictures and visited the same places to make it happen.

Photographer Niki Boon is living with her four children on a 10-acre property in New Zealand and tries to document their everyday carefree life in natural environment. Her children aren't schooled and she believes that they "are right where they belong covered in mud."As a gift, Niki gives each child a pile of their photos on his or her birthday as these photos are a little treasure which will later tell their childhood stories.

Photoshop, of course. But there are people who can manipulate this popular software adding greatness to it. Photographer Peter Stewart is one of these people and he reveals his before and after images and what can be done "with the power of Photoshop."

Several days ago were announced winner entries of the 59th Annual World Press Photo Contest. As many as 82,951 photos were submitted for judging by 5,775 photographers from 128 different countries. We couldn't miss the opportunity to share these captivating images.
 

Whales are truly majestic creatures.

This is a very difficult technique to master in underwater photography. But when you do, you get to make such beautiful photos. And these ones are truly the best of the best.

These backstage pics from cosplay photoshoots show how awesome pictures are really made.