David Pogue's article in today's New York Times promises to make it easy for us to share our images with our friends and family and even have them printed at a photo store of our choice.

Please let me know of your experiences, if any of you actually use the two services mentioned; OurPictures.com and ShareALot.com. From David's article I understand that OurPictures.com is a Window-only based program. ShareALot.com appears to be open to Windows and Macintosh platforms. It's not rocket science to figure out which one I'll be using.

Twenty years ago Weston Naef, the curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum‘s photo collection in Los Angeles, established a permanent home for some very important photographs. Today, not only does he overlook the work of social documentary photographers Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange, he is also responsible for the abstract imagery that made avant-garde photographer Maholy-Nagy famous.

Now through July 25, these images and more can be seen in a show called Photographs of Genius At the Getty.

“Presenting the work of innovative photographers who profoundly influenced their contemporaries and succeeding generations of artists, this exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Museum's department of photographs. It includes selected prints by 38 major photographers whose work is held in depth by the Getty, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, and Diane Arbus. “

If you are in LA, check it out!

The New York Times reports that Vishakha N. Desai will take over as President of The Asia Society, “the first woman and the first Asian-American to head the organization.”

Ms. Desai's appointment continues this organization's evolution from an elite club of Foreign Service hands — devotees of Asian culture, most of them white and male — to a center with a broad cultural and educational purpose covering more than 30 countries, with offices in Washington, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Manila, Shanghai and Melbourne, Australia.

May we expect to see more art exhibits from South Asia?

The National Press Photographers Association has announced the winners of this year's Best of Photojournalism competition.

Much of what separates MSNBC.com from the online pack is its innovative and aggressive use of graphics – or “art” in the news-business parlance.

The article by Jon Friedman of CBS MarketWatch.com fails to mention Brian Storm (now a vice president at Corbis Images), a key player who made it possible for MSNBC.com to achieve such high standards in the use of images and graphics. Indeed for years, it was Storm's bold initiatives that garnered the website a steady stream of well-earned awards.