Photobloggies, the awards ceremony for photobloggers will announce winners sometime today.

Twenty-year old Gautam Narang's website is a candy store of images. One never knows what to expect at each click of a link. The image below captures the fervor of Hindutva rather eloquently. The yellow/orange background and Shiva's tridents silhouetted in the foreground says more than a hodgepodge of images. It adheres to the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle. Beautifully executed.

Narang's website (like my own) is based on a .Mac account and the interface is a bit clunky, but content wins out yet again. Take a look-see.

Via Jason Kottke

“My teaching is far more important to me than my own photography.”

Jim Beecher, a photography teacher and psychotherapist, in NYC and the Catskills has an incredible website for photographers. The information you find there is simply exhaustive.

I receive a lot of emails asking about workshops, classes or seminars on photography. Learning online is perhaps the least expensive way to go about it. Beecher's online book, to us neophytes, is simply priceless as it skips the mumbo jumbo of photography but includes the internal involvement of the photographer in the process of making images.

On Beecher's site, you can download what he calls an idea chart. This chart, he says, will help you better understand: “Who you are as a photographer, Your way-of-working and Where you want to go.” Read also the 6 P's.

In a future post I'll be sure to share my idea chart with you once I get it done. This may just be the kick in the ass I need to start making images again.

Caption: The district collectorate of Anantapur houses a distress service for farmers. Begun by the new state government, is its functioning symptomatic of what the government can, or cannot, do? © Surya Sen

Tip of the hat to Intellectual Property & Social Justice for mentioning this series on their web site.

Down To Earth: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9.

Thanks also to Surya Sen for making these images available. If you know of other such personal photographic projects that focus on social justice issues, please contact me. I can arrange to have your work seen here on this site. Best thing to do is to send me a few images [72 dpi, 500 pixels wide or high, 100k maximum]. Include your full name, country of residence, a brief synopsis of the project, an email address and a telephone number.

Just read this on Jason Kottke‘s site – Flickr, the popular online image sharing and social network company, has been acquired by Yahoo!