Some pretty cool things went down in the photography world this week. From a stock photo that has made a photographer over $900,000 to a copyright battle on who owns the rights to a monkey selfie, this week had plenty of interesting news.

Whether you’re a news junkie, technophile, love everything photographic, or just in case you missed it, I compiled a list of the biggest photo news for the fourth week of September 2015.

Here are the most influential photography news stories from the fourth week of September:

The $900,000 Composite

You have probably seen this iceberg shot before, but probably weren’t aware it was a composite. The photographer, Ralph A. Clevenger, made this photograph with his mentor by compositing various film images together in Photoshop in the late-90s, and what resulted was a stock photo that has brought him over $900,000 in revenue.

Who Owns the Monkey Selfie?

According to BBC: photographer David Slater, who worked to get a macaque monkey to take a selfie of himself, is fighting for the rights to his photograph against PETA. Slater is fighting PETA to retain ownership of the photo, and saying it took him days of integrating himself with the monkey’s to get them to take selfies. PETA is arguing for the monkey to have ownership of the image, and the organization says that if they win that all of the proceeds will go towards these macaques.

The State of News Photography/Photojournalism

The World Press Photo Foundation has teamed up with Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism to release the first annual report on the state of news photography. The report consisted of a survey of contestant’s that entered the 2015 World Press Photo Contest, and the results were quite interesting.

Here are some of the findings:

• 66% are happy with their choice of becoming a news photographer
• 92% say they are exposed to physical risk at some point
• 85% of the photographers are male
• 74% are making less than $40,000 a year
• 52% say they stage photos occasionally
• 62% say Facebook is the most important social media for photographers

RED to Release 4K Video Camera with Canon EF Mount

Got an extra $5,950 sitting around with some Canon EF lenses? Well if you answered yes, RED announced the RED Raven on their users forum. Andree Markefors set up an unofficial website for the RED Raven, and has collected info from the forums about the camera and made a pretty cool site with specs.

Here’s what the camera will have:

• Raven will have a fixed Canon EF Mount
• Raven will have the Dragon sensor that is 20.48mm wide (similar to APS-C sized), and a crop factor of 1.87
• EF-S lenses will also work on the Raven
• Will shoot 4K video at 120fps
• Will capture RedCode compressed raw
• $5,950 for body only; and less than $10,000 for the RTS package with media

More People Dies Taking Selfies Than Shark Attacks

The Telegraph reported that this year alone there have been 12 selfie deaths compared to eight people killed by sharks. The selfie deaths were mostly from people falling off something or an auto accident.

Taking a picture of yourself is no way to go… Put down the phone!

Precise-Moment Week in Review

If you’re new to photography then KatchUp has an infographic that will help you tremendously.

Highly light sensitive sensors are all the rage today, and Canon’s ME20F-SH can capture over 4,000,000 ISO. To demonstrate how you could use this high of an ISO, a German film company took the ME20F-SH to Norway and shot vivid video of the Northern Lights.