Inspiring Photographers
How to run a professional photography business
It's A Small World After All, Nikon's contest for microphotographers
Digital Journalist has two articles with accompanying photographs from religious festivals in India – Ashura In Bangalore and The Jain Festival
What's your slogan? Place yours in the comments section below and you will be entered to win a free Tiffinbox T-shirt. Serious.
Stock Artists Alliance has a blog set up to keep abreast of the Orphan Works debate [debacle?]
The Online Photographer satirizes a photography ban of the homeless. I thought satire was supposed to be witty.
Send in a picture, give a buck, get a sketch back
Amy Gahran of Contentious and The Right Conversation is taking over for Steve Outing as Poynter's E-Media Tidbits editor.
From Photoethnography.com: “Salon.com has a wonderful series titled Ask the Pilot where former pilot, Patrick Smith, ruminates on the airline industry. His most recent article touches upon photography at airports and how we are rapidly becoming much like pre-Glasnost Soviet Russia.”
Adobe will invest $200 million in India over the next 5 years.
Amit Varma at India Uncut writes that the future is digital. So true, well, except the future is now.
I am strongly considering a trip up to Boston for Podcast Academy, on April 28 and 29. Register by March 15 and save $50. Anyone else want to join me?
Take the 30-day Photo Challenge
Edit pictures online at Pixoh
Get the low-down on the business of graphic design from Daniel Schutzsmith
Sabeer Bhatia has a new project – BlogEverywhere.com
Dave Werner – a terrific designer, a terrific website
Desi portfolios: Nick Oza and Bhargavi Joshi
Rob Galbraith points to the Northern Short Course in Photojournalism, from March 9 – 11 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
The Eddie Adams Workshop has a new website powered by PhotoShelter. As an alumnus of Barnstorm XIII, I signed up.
Stolen Childhoods: “Filmmaker/photographer Robin Romano traveled to eight countries over a five-year period to document children working in trash dumps, quarries, brick kilns and rug-making factories.” ABC Nightline clip brought me to tears.
Jasmeen Patheja and others at Blank Noise are starting up a Blog-a-thon on March 7, to bring awareness to street sexual harassment [wherever you live]. Check it out and if you would like, please join in.
It's my father's birthday today – Happy Birthday Appa!
If you are considering becoming a blogger, do yourself a favor and check out Darren Rowse's series: blogging for beginners. The read Raj Dash's blog post about blogging for love [no, not to find love, but blogging for the love of it]. But if you aren't convinced and really want to try making money off of your blog then read Darren's most recent post here and here. Gina Trapani at Scribbling.net, though, has this to say: “It's a job. A hard job with pressure and deadlines and competition and expectations and many very public opportunities to make yourself look like a total ass.”
Dina is looking for a web designer. And, so am I. This blog needs a refresh. Don't you think so? So, if you are a web designer and specifically a designer who has worked on blogs, please contact me as well.
Colors Of India and Incredible India – both on Slide, a new image streaming service you should check out
If you are an artist, you need your diet soda
Pindices: “Rather than looking at political ideologies, institutions, groups or identities, in our project we start with the individual and their acts, and invite participants to make public a reckoning of their everyday political or citizenship activity.” Read the guide to know more.
I have decided to join the Nikonians, the Nikon user group. The big draw beyond the community, the resources and the banter is NikSecure, their new insurance program.
Edward Burtynsky‘s images of the environment are some of my favorite. Now he is challenging us all to give back. Donate $1 and Worldchanging.com receives $3 from Burtynsky and The Sapling Foundation.