Nikon is such a tease

Ask Michele McNally, Assistant Managing Editor for Photography at The New York Times

Taking group portraits is a bear. It won't be after you read these cool tips from Digital Photography School [bookmark this site for your sanity]

Adobe announces [still beta] Lightroom for Windows. I haven't used this yet but intend to download the Mac version asap. Read more about Lightroom here.

“Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) is a volunteer network of professional photojournalists and amateur digital photographers, graphic designers, image restoration artists and others. OPR's mission is to repair photographs damaged by unforeseen circumstances such as house fires and natural disasters at no cost to the people who own them.”

Terrific Photoshop resources at Blue Vertigo

NoTxt magazine, to be viewed, not read

Adorama Academy, over a 100 ways to become a better photographer

PhotoWalkthrough presents video tutorials “showing the post processing of a photograph using Adobe Photoshop and other programs.”

Tips From The Top Floor, digital photography podcast for the digital photographer

Nikon releases 30-day trial version of their new photo editing program, Capture NX. Get the download here.

Must See Web Site – PixChannel.com [includes video interviews of some of the biggest names in the photography world]

Shahidul Alam is blogging, sorta

Jerry's Photoshop Tips

Virgin Comics, is “a new media company between Sir Richard Branson, Deepak Chopra, Shekhar Kapur and Gotham Entertainment Group.”

Friend Neelam Patel is in Sensual Reflections. If you are in DC, check this one woman show out.

Vin Bhat and Neal Shenoy have launched Sportsvite.com. Sounds similar to the ideas Active.com has introduced, but I wish the competition all the luck.

Marc Antonyesque crooner Ananda Sen. You gotta hear him at least once.

SAJAForum.org launches today. Check out the blog posts during the convention that is going on right now and also after

Rent Glass, no not the kind you drink out of but the kind you use to make images: Lenses. Now you can rent a lens you really wanted to buy.

This is where I want to be in October. If you are at all on the brink of advancing your career as a digital photographer, join me. No Kevin did not pay me to plug his workshop, but I heard him speak in Las Vegas and I gotta say, he knows his &^(#. Also check out his Photoshop Actions that transform ordinary looking images into something quite exquisite. His most recent Sloppy Borders CD is my favorite.

The first no rules street photography site on the web

Bending Light Magazine, Issue2: a terrific site that presents photographs beautifully. Last mentioned this site here.

Photojournalism as Activism, a conversation with photojournalist Lynn Johnson. Johnson is also responsible for a new project called Xenophoto, a website “about neutralizing fear based on difference.”

A White House Photo Op in real time [thanks to Melissa Lyttle for the link]

Strobist: Learning to use your small flashes better

Build your own paper pinhole camera

Into The Heart Of Unrest: Photojournalist Tomas Van Houtryve reports from Nepal

Ami Vitale on Blueeyes Magazine, Issue 11

Neeraja Viswanathan, soon to be a Siren, is guest blogging at Sepia Mutiny

ProBlogger Darren Rowse's Digital Photography School

Viswanathan on Viswanathan