fisheye

This is the world’s widest full-coverage fisheye zoom and the only such zoom in Canon’s catalog. The 8–15mm f/4L ($1,500, street) offers 180-degree views on all EOS bodies, and, uniquely, on full-frame EOS models it can produce both circular and full-coverage (corner-to-corner) fisheye images.Canon has taken pains to take this lens cross-platform. Equally at home on full-frame, APS-H, and APS-C EOS bodies, it’s compatible with all Canon bodies going back to the dawn of the autofocus era.

The cityscapes in Chin Boon Leng’s Flickr stream offer more than 100 colorful and evocative depictions of urban Southeast Asia. Among this Singapore native’s most successful techniques: framing background subjects within the lines created by bridge trellises, columns, highway overpasses, and, as pictured here, monorail tracks.

You Don’t have to be a surfer to appreciate the mythos of breaking waves. And the bigger the wave, the more awestruck we are. But leave it to a surfer and photographer to capture the ocean’s power in the everyday rhythm of breakers along the California coast. Chris Burkard, a 24-year-old pro from Pismo Beach, CA, visualizes catching waves just right—and because of his background, his body senses where the camera needs to be.