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Oct 13, 2026, 5:53 PM

Getty Images to keep Seattle HQ as it goes private through bankruptcy

Getty Images says it expects no impact on its roughly 300 Seattle employees as the Getty family and Koch Equity Development invest up to $533 million to cut the photo company’s debt and take it private. Read More

Mar 21, 2023, 12:17 PM

Amazon shutting down DPReview, a leading source of digital photography information

Amazon is shutting down Seattle-based DPReview, a leading online source for news and reviews about digital cameras and photography, the… Read More

Dec 31, 2022, 8:00 AM

Electric airplanes, greenhouses, and sunrises in Seattle: Some of our favorite photos from 2022

Across Seattle and from Redmond all the way to Iceland, GeekWire had its eye — and cameras — on stories in… Read More

Jun 29, 2022, 6:00 AM

Online learning platform CreativeLive acquires Wildist, provider of courses in outdoor photography

CreativeLive, the Seattle-based company which teaches online classes in photography, video, design, music and more, is acquiring Wildist, another online… Read More

Mar 24, 2022, 9:24 AM

Award-winning Getty photographer turns lens on Seattle to illustrate problems gripping many cities

During a more than 30-year professional photojournalism career, John Moore has documented the struggles of people across 70 countries on… Read More

Dec 10, 2021, 10:16 AM

Getty Images to become public company again in $4.8B SPAC deal, building on Seattle tech roots

Getty Images, the iconic digital photography provider and visual content marketplace, will become publicly traded again, more than a decade… Read More

Oct 12, 2021, 10:11 AM

Photos: Stunning Northern Lights dance over Seattle — here are tips for catching the next one

The Northern Lights are a mesmerizing but infrequent occurrence at our latitude in Seattle. Stargazers got a treat Monday night… Read More

Sep 1, 2021, 7:10 AM

Putting the Nirvana in NFT: Photographer Charles Peterson digs into grunge archives for digital debut

The look on Kurt Cobain’s face might just say it all — like someone in 1991 just explained to him… Read More

Aug 18, 2021, 5:47 PM

Extra high tech in Seattle: Photos show worker at tip of Space Needle spire installing new PanoCam

There’s Seattle tech, and then there’s Seattle high tech, and then there’s, well, even higher Seattle tech. The Space Needle… Read More

Jan 13, 2021, 12:32 PM

Costco closing photo centers at all store locations citing rise of camera phones and social media

Costco announced Wednesday that it will no longer operate photo departments at its stores, bowing to the rise of smartphones,… Read More

Nov 2, 2020, 4:16 PM

Smartphone accessory maker Moment releasing line of MagSafe products for iPhone 12

Moment, the Seattle-based maker of cases and lens attachments for smartphones, is introducing a new line of products intended to… Read More

Jul 1, 2020, 1:00 PM

Photo-sharing startup Trover, started by Rich Barton and acquired by Expedia, is closing down

Trover’s traveling days are over. The photo-sharing hub for travelers, which began as a Seattle startup in 2011 and was… Read More

Jun 15, 2020, 3:54 PM

What’s really happening in Seattle’s protest zone? Photographer creates 360-degree immersive tour

Troubled by news reports about events allegedly taking place in an area of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in recent days,… Read More

Apr 8, 2020, 9:16 AM

Photos: ‘Pink supermoon’ rises over Seattle

Are you seeking something to do in these trying times with social distancing and travel restrictions? May I suggest some… Read More

Jan 1, 2020, 9:25 AM

Tech’s extraordinary decade: What mattered most in the past 10 years of innovation

What were the top tech stories of the past decade? I’ve been discussing this topic with others recently on LinkedIn,… Read More

Dec 31, 2019, 8:00 AM

Year in pictures: Tech giants, startups, politics, soccer and more put focus on Seattle in 2019

It was another big, busy year in tech around the Seattle region, whether it involved the largest companies or the… Read More

Oct 29, 2019, 9:20 AM

‘This changes Moment’: Smartphone photo gear maker adds online lessons to growing marketplace

When Moment launched six years ago in Seattle, the hardware startup was focused on making lenses and cases to enhance… Read More

Jul 9, 2019, 9:00 AM

New heights for Moment, as mobile photo startup launches Kickstarter for drone lens and more

Seattle-based Moment, makers of hardware, software and more designed to take mobile photography to new heights, is setting its sights… Read More

Jul 5, 2019, 2:36 AM

Happy 4th of July from GeekWire – Seattle fireworks at Gas Works Park

We always love to see the behind-the-scenes preparations for Seattle’s 4th of July fireworks show. This year we caught up… Read More

Jul 3, 2019, 10:16 PM

How to shoot awesome fireworks photos

Millions of people will be taking photos of fireworks this week, and millions of those photos will be poor. Taking… Read More

Apr 5, 2019, 2:00 PM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrating the first man in space and exploring underwater artifacts

More than 60 years ago, the world got serious about exploring space. The global fascination with the great beyond led… Read More

Mar 13, 2019, 6:46 AM

GeekWire Podcast: Photo tips and tricks from our photographer’s expedition to Mongolia

As the photographer for GeekWire, I have many unique chances to capture the goings-on of the Seattle tech community. When… Read More

Feb 4, 2019, 5:56 PM

Developing story: In age of digital, this 28-year-old photographer went to Antarctica with 65 rolls of film

Penguins and icebergs weren’t the only unusual things I encountered on a recent expedition to Antarctica. One of the trip… Read More

Jan 23, 2019, 12:50 PM

Geared Up: A review of the DJI Osmo Pocket, new iPhone battery case, and testing out Amazon’s Echo Wall Clock

Geared Up is back! Our weekly consumer electronics podcast and live video show returns this week with a new co-host:… Read More

Jan 20, 2019, 10:04 AM

This wildlife photographer invented his own devices to capture images of dangerous and elusive animals

What is it like to look up from the feet of an elephant or to see eye-to-eye with a leopard… Read More

Dec 29, 2018, 8:00 AM

Year in pictures: Amazon’s amazing growth, SpaceX blasts off, the passing of Paul Allen and more

2018 was a year of acronyms. We witnessed an overhyped search for HQ2, a flurry of IPOs and the passing… Read More

Dec 15, 2018, 8:00 AM

Artist mixes real photographs and his vision of deep space to create an otherworldly Instagram feed

Imagine the images on social media when one of our modern space-travel pioneers — whether it’s Bezos or Musk or… Read More

Nov 30, 2018, 7:30 AM

Hungry for art? Nathan Myhrvold’s new Modernist Cuisine Gallery is a photographic feast

Nathan Myhrvold calls himself the worst bartender in the world. He spills every drink he makes — and sometimes he… Read More

Sep 17, 2018, 1:08 PM

Getty Images’ visual assets will enhance Alexa searches on Amazon’s Echo devices with a screen

A search on Amazon Echo devices with a screen will return visual responses from a vast collection of photographs thanks… Read More

Aug 20, 2018, 4:45 PM

A ripple in Google Street View: 360-degree camera on a boat captures Bill Gates’ mansion and more

If you live in the Seattle area, or have visited, and have had the pleasure of boating on Lake Washington,… Read More