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Inspiring Photographers

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Digital Black and White [by far the most exhaustive or exhausting way to convert color images into black & white]

Belgium-based photojournalist Tomas Van Houtryve spends a great deal of time in Nepal photographing the Maoist rebellion there

Newfound photoblogs: smallestPhoto and LightTight

Editor & Publisher seeking entries for its sixth annual Newspaper Photos of the Year contest. Deadline is September 16, 2005.

BAGnewsNotes: Getting Between The Point and The View, a progressive and often satirical look at how images are used by the conservative press

BigEyeInTheSky.com shoots special aerial photographs that are combined by a computer to create fullscreen 360 degree aerial panoramas.

Random Experiences Of New Father, a must-read blog for fathers-to-be. Written by Neal Shah, it's full of useful information and often funny [which is really the best way to describe Neal himself]

Pia Awal beats leukemeia, gets married. Congratulations!

Shalini Akhil's i, Writer [adventures in the literary world]

How Is It Out There?

photo-eye is auctioning off Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment [hope you have a trust fund]

Photographer Jim Gehrz helps you find YOUR photograph

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Delivr, an API [application program interface] that creates postcards from any Creative Commons licensed image on Flickr.

Greg Downing's photo workflow for the web [96kb PDF]

Photopermit.org “is about keeping photographers out of trouble, and supporting them when trouble looms.”

You Can't Take Pictures Here

Security guards [street lingo = rent-a-cops] harassed a street photographer for taking pictures of a building at One Bush Street [at the corner of Bush and Market in San Francisco]. Mathew Honan has quickly put together a contest that invites other street photogs to go to One Bush Street and take more images of the building and post the links in his comments section. One lucky winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the iTunes Music Store. Here are a couple of Flickr sites (1, 2) that show off images from photographers exercising their freedom of expression.

ACLU's “Bustcard” [print the PDF and carry with you]

Kodachrome, an eulogy

Doug Menuez's True Moments

Framed & Exposed: Canning Film or, Viva La Digital

Really short stories: “The most basic rule is that they're just a sentence or two, totalling 25 words or less. Less hard-and-fast – but equally vital – are a theme, plot, characters, and narrative development. Everything you'd see in any good story – but short enough to fit into the time it takes to reach the bottom of that bitter little cup, as you ponder on how even the briefest experiences can make life more meaningful.”

Shooting video for the web

Yes, a ton of these links above came from CreativePro.com [subscribe for free]

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Delivr, an API [application program interface] that creates postcards from any Creative Commons licensed image on Flickr.

Greg Downing's photo workflow for the web [96kb PDF]

Photopermit.org “is about keeping photographers out of trouble, and supporting them when trouble looms.”

You Can't Take Pictures Here

Security guards [street lingo = rent-a-cops] harassed a street photographer for taking pictures of a building at One Bush Street [at the corner of Bush and Market in San Francisco]. Mathew Honan has quickly put together a contest that invites other street photogs to go to One Bush Street and take more images of the building and post the links in his comments section. One lucky winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the iTunes Music Store. Here are a couple of Flickr sites (1, 2) that show off images from photographers exercising their freedom of expression.

ACLU's “Bustcard” [print the PDF and carry with you]

Kodachrome, an eulogy

Doug Menuez's True Moments

Framed & Exposed: Canning Film or, Viva La Digital

Really short stories: “The most basic rule is that they're just a sentence or two, totalling 25 words or less. Less hard-and-fast – but equally vital – are a theme, plot, characters, and narrative development. Everything you'd see in any good story – but short enough to fit into the time it takes to reach the bottom of that bitter little cup, as you ponder on how even the briefest experiences can make life more meaningful.”

Shooting video for the web

Yes, a ton of these links above came from CreativePro.com [subscribe for free]