#photography Canon launched its Authenticity Imaging System this week — C2PA-based provenance built into the R5 Mark II and R1. The technology is real and the engineering is solid. The implementation is not. It requires paid activation, it's restricted to news organizations, and it launches only in EMEA. I'm grateful Canon is here. I'm disappointed in how they showed up. Full breakdown on the blog. robertjbell.com/blog/canon-s-c2pa-launch-is-real-progress-8779730 #C2PA #CommercialPhotography

#photography Canon launched its Authenticity Imaging System this week — C2PA-based provenance built into the R5 Mark II and R1. The technology is real and the engineering is solid. The implementation is not. Paid activation required. News organizations only. EMEA launch only. I'm grateful Canon is here. I'm disappointed in how they showed up. Full breakdown on the blog. robertjbell.com/blog/canon-s-c2pa-launch-is-real-progress-8779730 #C2PA #CommercialPhotography

#photography Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight into Tuesday morning. SoCal prime window: 1–4am, when Lyra is high enough to spread meteors across the sky. Best dark sky spots: Palomar Mountain, Angeles Crest above the inversion layer, or Anza-Borrego. 15–20 meteors/hour, occasional fireballs. Wide angle, f/2.8, ISO 3200, 20-second exposures. #Astrophotography #NightPhotography

#photography IPA 2026 regular deadline is April 30. If you have architectural work — exterior, interior, industrial, bridges, aerial — that you've been sitting on, this is the window. $10,000 top professional prize, Lucie Awards Gala in New York, global exhibition. photoawards.com #ArchitecturalPhotography #CommercialPhotography

#photography Quick flag: the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) 2026 International Photography Competition closes April 22 — nine days out. Open internationally across a wide range of genres including architecture, portrait, landscape, and documentary. €10 entry fee. One of the more accessible museum-affiliated competitions running right now. fmopa.org #Photography #CommercialPhotography

#photography Sony World Photography Awards ceremony is Thursday in London. Photographer of the Year announced that night. Joel Meyerowitz receives the Outstanding Contribution award — street photography to Ground Zero documentation. Architecture Open winner: Markus Naarttijärvi (Sweden), a paper mill at night in Obbola. Worth watching. worldphoto.org #ArchitecturalPhotography

#photography Something worth saying plainly: clients who hire architectural photographers often think they're documenting what a building looks like. What they're actually doing is building the case for why the space succeeds — how scale reads, how light moves through it, how materials hold up under scrutiny, how the sequence of spaces tells a story. The photograph isn't the record. It's the argument. #ArchitecturalPhotography #CommercialPhotography

#photography Architecture MasterPrize 2026 is accepting entries — it's one of the few design awards with a dedicated Architectural Photography category rather than tucking it into a general open section. Early deadline is April 30 for 25% off entry. Final deadline August 31. Past winners include work from Zaha Hadid Architects, Kengo Kuma, Snøhetta, and Álvaro Siza Vieira. architectureprize.com #ArchitecturalPhotography #Architecture

#photography IPA 2026 — the International Photography Awards — is open for submissions through June 30. Architecture is a full category with subcategories covering exterior, interior, bridges, industrial, and aerial work. Professional category winners get $1,000 and a finalist slot for the $10,000 International Photographer of the Year. Worth a look if you have work that's competition-ready. photoawards.com #ArchitecturalPhotography #Architecture

#photography The Artist Gallery's 2026 Architecture Photography Contest winners are up. First place: Witsawarut Kekina (Thailand), "The Golden Timber Structure" — repeating timber beams, warm light, a single cyclist. The geometry does the heavy lifting; the human scale makes it land. Honorable mentions are strong this year too. theartistgallery.art/architecture-photography-contest-winners-2026 #ArchitecturalPhotography #Architecture