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Photography firm adopts after offering alternative school photos without complex needs pupils

A photography firm has “sincerely” apologized to parents after additional school pictures omitted children with “complex” needs.

Parents expressed their fury after it emerged a photographer working for Tempest Photography took additional images of a P5 class at Aboyne Primary School, in Aberdeenshire, without children with additional support needs.

One of the children removed from the photograph was a wheelchair user whose twin sister was distracted to learn she had been omitted from an image that was offered to parents for purchase.

Now, the Cornwall-based photography firm – which employs local photographers to take school photos across the UK –

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Photo giant Getty took a leading AI image-maker to court. Now it’s also embracing the technology

Anyone looking for a beautiful photograph of a desert landscape can find many choices from Getty Images, the stock photography collection.

But say you’re instead looking for a wide angle shot of a “hot pink plastic saguaro cactus with large arms that stick out, surrounded by sand, in landscape at dawn.” Getty Images says you can now ask its artificial intelligence image-generator to make one on the spot.

The Seattle-based company is taking a two-pronged approach to the threat and opportunity that AI poses to its business. First, it sued a leading purveyor of AI-generated images earlier this year for

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Viral theory new Kate Middleton photo is actually 8 years old

Kate Middleton has admitted she was responsible for altering the first official photo of herself post-surgery.

As a result, the number of conspiracy theories circulating online has escalated – including claims old photos of the Princess were superimposed onto the Mother’s Day portrait.

One theory that a photo from Kate’s 2016 Vogue photo shoot was repurposed has been viewed more than 25 million times on X, formerly Twitter, with more than 130,000 likes.

“My analysis of the Kate Middleton photo saga is that they took her face from the Vogue cover she did years ago and edited it in,” said

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