Leonie Helm
After graduating from Cardiff University with an Master's Degree in Journalism, Media and Communications Leonie developed a love of photography after taking a year out to travel around the world.
While visiting countries such as Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh and Ukraine with her trusty Nikon, Leonie learned how to capture the beauty of these inspiring places, and her photography has accompanied her various freelance travel features.
As well as travel photography Leonie also has a passion for wildlife photography both in the UK and abroad.
Latest articles by Leonie Helm

Celebrate 100 years of the iconic photobooth with a range of pop-up events around the UK organized by Autofoto
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS Founder of Autofoto, Rafael Hortalla Vallve, explains the enduring love of the photobooth and how you can get involved with the festivities

Man who grabbed federally-protected wild horse’s face to pose for a selfie could face 6 months in jail
By Leonie Helm published
A local wildlife photographer captured the footage of the man aggressively grabbing the wild horse at Mount Charleston in Nevada

Chat GPT "doesn't like" landscape photographer's photography after he asks for a critique
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS Photographer Todd Dominey asked the AI chatbot for its opinions on his landscape photography, and the word "crunchy" came up

A Nikon prototype camera has helped Agence France-Presse verify photographs using the C2PA standard
By Leonie Helm published
The photojournalism industry has taken drastic steps to combat the threat of disinformation due to artificial intelligence-altered photographs

World’s most powerful spy camera sees Chinese scientists redefine global standards for surveillance
By Leonie Helm published
The camera could potentially enable Beijing to scrutinize foreign military satellites – or even identify human faces from a low orbit

Pioneering gallery TJ Boulting – known for supporting female photographers – closes in London after 13 years
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS “There is no breathing space. Going forward I want to free myself of those restrictions," said director Hannah Watson

71-year-old Canadian tourist could face up to 3 years in prison for using drone to photograph Cape Canaveral military base
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS Xiao Guang Pan was originally born in China, and immigrated to Canada in 2001

Woman has both hands bitten off by shark during close up photography opportunity
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS One of the woman’s hands was amputated at the wrist, while the other required amputation from the mid-section of her forearm

Did you know there was an Instagram filter craze as early as the 1800s?
By Leonie Helm published
The UK's National Gallery has revealed that something called a ‘Claude Glass’ was very popular 200 years ago

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and National Geographic astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi compare stunning star trail photographs
By Leonie Helm published
News Pettit made a name for himself as an astrophotographer after sharing his image 'Lightning Bugs' in 2012 showing beautiful star trails

"Stranded" NASA astronaut on International Space Station photographed from Earth in world first
By Leonie Helm published
news NASA astronaut Suni Williams was undertaking a repair on the ISS when she was photographed from Earth by an amateur astrophotographer

The Getty Museum has just purchased its first-ever AI-generated photograph
By Leonie Helm published
News “Would cowboy culture have embraced latex?” said artist Matias Sauter Morera “These speculative questions are at the core of my work”

Pair of very rare black wolves spotted on trail cameras in Poland stun researchers
By Leonie Helm published
A conservation charity was originally planning on studying beavers when they discovered the footage of the rare animals

Photographer sues over copyright infringement over iconic portrait of “King of New York“ rapper The Notorious B.I.G
By Leonie Helm published
news The photo is known as the 'Mona Lisa of hip-hop' and the $6 crown sold for over half a million dollars at auction in 2020

Google Photos now watermarks all AI-generated content using SynthID
By Leonie Helm published
news The watermark will be invisible, and appear in the meta data for all AI-generated images, audio, text or video

The mystery of the 100 year old photographs discovered on a Kodak No 1 camera has been solved!
By Leonie Helm published
Why are all those people gathered in the Cotwold's market town of Chipping Sodbuy? The BBC has now solved the mystery

Scientists develop a compact camera that can identify objects at the speed of light
By Leonie Helm published
Researchers have created a compact camera where the lens is replaced by engineered optics that can identify objects at lightspeed

"The best year for the camera industry since 2019" as Gen Z pushes digital camera shipments to highest
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS CIPA has predicted that 2024 was the best for the industry, with the number and value of cameras and lenses exceeding 2023

South Korea orders airports to install bird detection cameras after plane crash kills 179 people
By Leonie Helm published
All airports will get thermal imaging cameras to prevent wildlife-related plane accidents which costs an estimated US$124 million

Australia bans Chinese AI company DeepSeek after it knocks billions of dollars off the stock market
By Leonie Helm published
The Australian government has banned the AI company on all government devices and networks over fears about national security

100-year-old No 1 Pocket Kodak camera found with used film of photos of a mystery event
By Leonie Helm published
Oliver Barnes found the camera in an antique shop in England, and has since had the historic photographs developed - can you help identify what they show?

Building the perfect quantum camera could help prevent deaths from cancer
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing are designing sensors capable of detecting the smallest unit of light

From gnat ogres to mummified aphids - here are the winners of the Royal Entomological Society's 2024 Photography Competition
By Leonie Helm published
News The annual competition, organised by the UK’s leading insect science charity, celebrates the skill and creativity of amateur photographers

Previous leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, comes under fire for hiring “vanity” photographer using taxpayers' money
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS Miliband previously criticized former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron for hiring a personal photographer

Lost GoPro that spent 8 months on the ocean floor gets reunited with owner in less than 48 hours - with fully working SD card!
By Leonie Helm published
Scuba diver Ken Kieley found the GoPro while in the water in British Columbia last Sunday, and has managed to give a couple their memories back
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