Capturing Alaska on a Cellphone

Glaciers, dogsledding and landscapes remembered through Microsoft Lumia's phone camera and software

Home to seven out of 10 of the largest national parks in the United States (and the federal government happens to be the largest landowner in the state), Alaska is, without a doubt, one of the most unique places in the country. There’s more to The Last Frontier than lots of snow, king crab legs and Denali—and in between generous helpings of reindeer sausage, we …

Alma Haser’s “Cosmic Surgery” Pop-Up Book

The photo-based artist's altered portrait series comes to 3D book form, origami included

German born, UK-based artist Alma Haser’s popular, mind-bending project “Cosmic Surgery” consists of portraits that have been enhanced—and made considerably stranger—by the addition of origami shapes. Haser initially made the origami masks to use for self-portraits, attaching them to her face with elastic bands, but realized that the process of placing them on already-printed portraits and re-photographing them was a more comfortable way to get …

Nat Geo’s 2015 Traveler Photo Contest Winners

Once again, after sorting through thousands of photographs (nearly 18,000), National Geographic has selected the top 10 submissions from its 2015 Traveler Photo Contest. Participants entered their best work into four of the contest’s categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place and Spontaneous Moments, each vying for the first place prize: an eight-day National Geographic Photo Expedition to Costa Rica and the Panama Canal. …