[This blog post is sponsored by Seshu's Pipal Productions – Wedding Photojournalism: Elegant. Memorable. Real.]

Joe Buissink is a wedding photographer whose work I admire and respect. Check out his website. It's not the usual masala.

What ever you choose to do, choose one thing and do it well. That was sound advice from my folks and Jim Zuckerman seems to be echoing it as well here, referring to the choices we make when we photograph.

No sex please, you are an Indian woman

Neeraja is a lawyer and writer

Another terrific wedding photographer, Neil van Niekerk, is also a teacher whom I greatly admire and respect. I think he is so good that I once enquired whether he was planning on writing a book. We won't have to wait that long because his online tutorials are available now and are a God-send. This one about using your on-board flash is to the point and helpful. Check out his web site. If you are a Nikon user, do yourself a huge favor and bookmark Neil's pages about a plethora of Nikon cameras and accessories. And if you get anything out of these tutorials, please consider supporting Neal's work by making a donation.

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[This blog post is sponsored by Seshu's Pipal Productions – Wedding Photojournalism: Elegant. Memorable. Real.]

Mark Glaser formerly at Online Journalism Review is starting a new blog for PBS called MediaShift. It launches on January 18, 2006. I'll have it bookmarked for sure as I really enjoyed Glaser's writing on OJR.

Photonotes [via Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing] is a terrific online resource which promises to answer the HOW and WHY's of photography. Also check out the popular PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography.

Visual Complexity: “The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.” More than eye candy, it promotes interesting way to present your data. [via JD on TBD]

The Online Photographer reports that Nikon is slashing all its film camera research, sales and production. Long live digital. Finally, Nikon has run out of excuses to really do battle with Canon.

National Wildlife Federation's 35th Annual Photography Contest winners are now published. Hira Punjabi's image of two male blackbucks fighting for territorial rights is simply beautiful. The image is so evocative that I can smell the dust that the animals are kicking up.

after the wave, an Oxfam/UK photo exhibit about the 2004 tsunami to hit South and South East Asia is now at the National Theatre in London. [via Shutterseek]

Top Knots, the annual photo contest for wedding photographers hosted by Photo District News has extended its deadline to February 24, 2006. Applications and more information can be found here. Check out the competition, here are the 2004 and 2005 winners.

Snaps Magazine is accepting submissions for its next themed issue, their 10th – Young Ones. Deadline is February 15, 2006. Winning is simply having your work published and seen by people from around the world.

JPG Magazine‘s next theme is Photography Is Not A Crime. Today was the deadline. Will wait and see what these images look like. Here are the past four issues of JPG: Issue 1, Issue 2, Issue 3 and Issue 4.

This is as much a dislosure as a request. I recently joined the Six Apart Affiliate Program. If you are thinking of starting a blog, allow me to recommend TypePad. That's what I have been using for the last year and a half for this and other blog sites I publish. For every trial-susbscriber who signs up, I receive $3. It's a win-win situation. So, give it a shot.

Foto Fiction: “is an interactive feature where a set of photographs with an underlying theme is given a story, one image at a time.”

Do captions matter? Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer certainly thinks so. I concur. So photographers, for 2006 please make it your resolution to learn to write better.

Thanks to fotolia for this short list of “Best of 2005” photo galleries: Reuters, The Washington Post, Time and MSNBC.com. Robert Galbraith's site has this additional gallery from The New York Times to check out as well.

Prianga and Eranga Pieris, from Sri Lanka sing about the sea. [Thanks to StoryCorps for that link]

Disaster Remembrance Week

Technorati Tags: disaster remembrance week

Sepia Mutiny links to an article by Lavina Melwani about the number of desis who work the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority [answer: 2,500]. Of course, many of them are now on strike.

Adobe Desis. ArZan beat me to it, but the growing list of desis working on Adobe's cash cows Photoshop and ImageReady are astounding

Carl Zeiss lenses that will work on Nikon F-mounts? That's the rumor. This could be big, if it is real.

Bending Light magazine: Issue 1, is out and it looks gorgeous

Cartoonster. If you ever wanted a crash course on creating your own cartoon this is it.

QuickrFlickr: If you ever wanted to post multiple images from your Flickr account, this online service now makes it possible. I think it is awesome.

Nominations for the 2005 Indibloggies have commenced. If you think this site is worth its salt, I would appreciate a nomination. Thanks in advance.

Photocritic.org: Home of budget DIY photography projects [DIY stands for Do It Yourself]

SnapJot: Group publishing for busy people

Heart and Soul, a terrific photo column by Chicago-based photog Scott Strazzante

You can take the airlines out of India, but you can't take the Indian out of the airlines

Genetically modified E.Coli bacteria apparently can now take pictures [I think I can retire now]