Oswaldo Royett

If there’s one thing you can rely on us photographers for, it’s bleeding every last drop of quality out of our work. We feverishly pursue clarity like a commission-only ophthalmologist and over the last couple of years, time-lapse photography has been the most blatant exhibition of this.  Photographer Martin Heck  has presumably seen the bar that has been set for high quality time-lapses, and then promptly vaulted over it.  ‘Patagonia 8K’ is footage of Chile and Argentina shot over six weeks. What makes this special is not just the content and composition of the frames, but that the 100,000 images that make up this video are shot using the medium format  Pentax 645Z . The sense of scale and depth in this time-lapse is unparalleled and genuinely like nothing I have seen before. The only complaint from me is that most people – myself included – can’t even watch this masterpiece in its native resolution and quality, which is a tragedy in its ...

Here's how WhatsApp looks on the desktop. WhatsApp, one of the most popular messaging apps on earth, introduced a fully functionally desktop app for Mac and Windows on Tuesday. The Facebook-owned messaging behemoth already offers a web version of its service, but this is the first time it's had a native app designed specifically for Macs and Windows PCs. "Like WhatsApp Web, our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone: the app mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device,"  the company said on its blog . The desktop app supports notifications and keyboard shortcuts. You can  download WhatsApp's desktop app directly from its website  on Mac and Windows. WhatsApp has over 1 billion monthly active users, which makes its reach only second to Facebook itself.