Articles by Leonie Helm, Staff Writer

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.

Articles by: Leonie Helm

The ONLY Olympic photographer allowed in the water during surf events tells us what's in his camera bag

By Leonie Helm published 31 July 24

News Ben Thouard is the only photographer accredited to be in the water during the Olympic Surfing events – and he told us what camera is in his bag

The Malibu Barbie Retrospekt FC-11 and Barbie & Ken Retrospekt Simple-Use cameras, in their packaging, against a white and pink background

Barbie turns 65! Celebrate with these new Barbie and Ken 35mm film cameras!

By Leonie Helm published 31 July 24

News Celebrate Barbie's 65th birthday with these 'his and hers' reusables and sugar-pink 35mm film camera!

Raspberry Pi launches 12.3MP camera module for just $50

Photographer invents world's first camera that writes poems for its images using AI and a Raspberry Pi

By Leonie Helm published 30 July 24

News Elías Sarquis created the project from a "profound desire" to communicate his perspective through images and words

Girl standing in the ruins of her tea shop in the Sundarbans

Devastating portrait of young girl who has lost everything wins environmental photography award

By Leonie Helm published 30 July 24

News The Mangrove Photography Award has chosen its 52 winning photos highlighting global environmental beauty, and threats

New photography award challenges Aberdeen students to take street portraits and recognizes contribution of local photographer Charles Skene

By Leonie Helm published 26 July 24

News Undergraduates to take to the streets in new prize in honor of local wedding photographer-turned-entrepreneur

AI camera technology is helping tackle deadly wildfires in California

By Leonie Helm published 25 July 24

News "As with everything else with AI, the more reps it has, the better it's getting at detecting that," said fire chief Acuna

Anthony Rubinstein on the set of the video

Canon challenges director Anthony Rubinstein to edit full music video and stills in under 48 hours using the new EOS R5 Mark II

By Leonie Helm published 24 July 24

News The end result – a two minute and 26 second music video, but does it look any good?

NASA astronauts to give free astrophotography master class TODAY live from space

By Leonie Helm published 24 July 24

News NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, commander of the SpaceX Crew-8 Mission, will be joined by veteran Don Pettit

A new button might be coming to the iPhone 16 range – but what does it do?

By Leonie Helm published 23 July 24

News MattTalksTech has got his hands on a range of dummy phones that could reveal secrets about the new iPhone 16 range

One for the astrophotographers – 'photographic aurora' will return as far south as New York this week

By Leonie Helm published 23 July 24

News While tricky to see to the naked eye, the Northern Lights will be visible through a lens from New York to Idaho this Wednesday

Watch wild Western Rattlesnakes go about their day on live 24-hour webcam

By Leonie Helm published 23 July 24

News The den, home to over 2,000 rattlesnakes, is a conservation effort from Project RattleCam in Colorado

Image of legendary tennis champion wins 2024 Australian Photographic Prize

By Leonie Helm published 22 July 24

News The competition is in its third year, and received entries from over 570 photographers across 12 countries

A live stream from an osprey nest in Canada

Remote camera gives live view in to rare Osprey nest in the Niagara region, Canada

By Leonie Helm published 22 July 24

News Cameras have been utilized to help preserve the environment of one of the world's most impressive hunters

The Titanic in dock roughly a year before its fatal maiden voyage

A new ocean mission is about to create the most comprehensive 3D model of the Titanic ever captured

By Leonie Helm published 19 July 24

News Two remotely controlled vehicles will travel down to the wreckage, taking millions of high definition photographs

Astrophotographer takes stunning photographs of the sun in incredible detail from his backyard in Arizona

By Leonie Helm published 19 July 24

News “I have been imaging the sun for years,” Johnston told DCW, “Recently, I created a large aperture custom solar telescope"

These stunning images from the 11th annual Academy of Science's BigPicture are seriously worth a look

By Leonie Helm published 18 July 24

News Butterfly laden fir trees, migrating tadpoles, and desert snakes are just some of the incredible images from the 2024 entries

Hubble Telescope discovers new black hole

NASA’s Hubble Telescope discovers closest black hole to Earth – changing our understanding of space

By Leonie Helm published 17 July 24

A galaxy frozen in time has been hailed as the missing link in black hole formation, discovered using 500 photographs

The world needs more trail cameras in more places, first-of-its-kind study shows

By Leonie Helm published 16 July 24

News New research finds camera trap studies are virtually non-existent in the ecosystems that need them the most

Who is Evan Vucci? The Pulitzer prize winning photographer who captured the image of Trump that will probably alter the course of history

By Leonie Helm published 16 July 24

News “A lot of strong, strong emotions are happening in that image, and I think that’s what people are reacting to,” said Vucci

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors. The Egg shows up as a tiny, teal-colored oval, because it is made up of old stars and has lost or used up most of its gas and dust. At right, the Penguin’s star-forming regions are represented in pink and purple, and contain smoke-like material known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Photograph of the Penguin Galaxy chasing the Egg commemorates second space anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope

By Leonie Helm published 15 July 24

News The stunning image is of the two galaxies on their fixed collision path, that will one day become a single entity

Weekly Wash: the 5 biggest camera news stories of the week (July 14)

By Leonie Helm published 14 July 24

News The Nikon Z6 III is compromised, Sony creates its best vlogging camera, Fujifilm fixes a bunch of cameras and Canon teases something BIG

Edward Whymper's photographs of the Matterhorn

Lost photographs of Edward Whymper's controversial conquest of the Matterhorn summit to be published

By Leonie Helm published 14 July 24

News Previously lost photos of Whymper's scandal-ridden ascent of the Matterhorn, where four men died, will be published for the first time in a reprint of his memoir

The SwitchBot 3 security camera on a white background

SwitchBot's new indoor security camera gives Ring a run for its money

By Leonie Helm published 13 July 24

News With the controversy swirling around Amazon-owned Ring, is it time to find yourself a new home security system?

A small image of a galaxy distorted by gravitational lensing into a dim ring. At the top of the ring are three very bright spots with diffraction spikes coming off them, right next to each other: these are copies of a single quasar in the lensed galaxy, duplicated by the gravitational lens. In the centre of the ring, the elliptical galaxy doing the lensing appears as a small blue dot. The background is black and empty

James Webb Space Telescope photographs jeweled ring in the cosmos in one of its best discoveries to date

By Leonie Helm last updated 12 July 24

News Did you know gravity can create lenses, and Einstein predicted it? Here's one the JSWT saw!

DwarfLab releases Dwarf 3 compact smart telescope – an observatory in your pocket

By Leonie Helm published 11 July 24

News Perfect for the traveling astronomer or wildlife enthusiast, the Dwarf 3 is roughly the size of a dictionary

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