My wife's grandma passed away in January. Read about her and check out some images I made of her on a 2006 trip to Bangalore, India.

I am on Twitter and I think you should follow me.

Remember darkrooms? Yeah, the ones that you lost yourselves in for hours/days on end inhaling those amazingly toxic chemicals. I know, they are all but gone. Well, Richard Nicholson, a British photographer has gone and documented the last remaining darkrooms in England.

Tewfic El-Sawy, aka. The Travel Photog, recommends you check out The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop. This time it is in Manali, India from July 26 – August 1, 2009. And, yes, I would LOVE to teach there.

Adobe launched Creative Suite 4 today [and, I just bought CS3 less than a year back. Should I upgrade?]

Dropbox, still in private beta, looks AWESOME for sharing files

Want to use music tracks with your slideshow … legally? Triple Scoop Music may be just the answer.

onOne Exchange Presets for Lightroom and Photoshop

StudioLighting.net

I am now listed on NJWedding.com

Following Rae Hoffman's every word. Simply amazing writing about the business of blogging.

100 Photography Tips In 100 Days

Are you taking the 100 Day Challenge?

The Musalman, India's (and perhaps the world's?) only hand-written Urdu newspaper

The portfolio of Sanjit Das [amazing work – now why hasn't anybody alerted me to this awesome photographer before?]

Sikhs in America

16 Inspirational Portrait Photography Techniques

Are you on the Blue List?

Stretch Your Canvas

Photo Diagrams – sometimes we like to be prepared with where we are going to place our studio lights. This little utility gives you the ability to sketch out your ideas, print them off and use them on a photo shoot. Pretty cool!

Pingg – Free online invites that look good in print as well

“Photojournalism in the age of bytes and amateurs,” reads a sub-head for a Columbia Journalism Review article about the state and status of photojournalism

Photographer Dane Sanders releases Fasttrack Photographer, the definitive new approach to successful wedding photography [Dane, a review copy would be nice … hint … hint]

100 Strangers

Photographer Dayanita Singh wins Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography by Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology

Victoria Bampton is the Lightroom Queen. Now kneel and read her blog!

The band I want to listen to live the most is Nomo

Save Polaroid

Learnfest by Lena Hyde, Tamara Lackey, Laura Novak, and Audrey Woulard: some very fine photographers out to teach you the ropes. I wish I could go. The price tag is $2600 for three days/2 nights and includes the teaching, the food and the accommodations. Guess, I shouldn't be complaining. In the long run I do see it is a terrific opportunity.

In the Hindu pantheon, Yama is the god of death. Well check out this camera. Freaky, isn't it?

Lakshmi's Lounge is hosting Sandeep Sood, the man behind Badmash

Simple + Dirty – David Jackson's personal work. Some very fine art indeed. Check out his other work here. His blog is here.

So, you are a professional photographer? Got a business plan? I am working on mine right now using Strategy Avenue‘s Path To A Business Plan. Strategy Avenue also has a blog written by John and Laura.

I am infatuated with Design Aglow.

MacUpdate and MacHeist both have some cool promotions on right now.

The Vagabond II may be back-ordered, but it is the only well-built external battery source I have found for my on-location portrait photography sessions. Now to order one!

The other day for some reason I kept thinking about the movie Amelie. Photo booths are so trippy, aren't they? I may have mentioned the Photobooth Blog before. If you want to set one up yourself and have a PC, try Photo Boof!. For the Mac folks among us, there is The Mugshot Machine. Then there is Rolland Elliot who will ship and rent you a booth for a fee.

Blurb, the self-publishing/designing online tool has a new version of BookSmart out. Download it here.

Vanessa Winship was in India.