NANPA’s Nature Photography Day ~ June 15, 2013
Let’s help the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) celebrate their 8th annual Nature Photography Day. Below is information on how this special day got started by NANPA and how it has taken on a life of its own. Help me help NANPA with getting out to enjoy anything in the natural… Read More »
Chicago Sun Times Agrees – There Is No Need for Professional Photographers.
About a week ago I wrote a piece on how the CEO of Flikr stated there were no longer any professional photographers. Though many were not happy about this seemingly insensitive comment, including me, from one of the largest web portals for great photography, she may end up being vindicated.… Read More »
David Versus Monsanto ~ Genetically Modified Food Fight!
Several years ago my wife Tanya and I were living in a fairly remote location and had virtually no TV. We loved it and even now we watch very little. The one channel we did have that we fell in love with was The Documentary Channel. The most memorable TV… Read More »
Flickr’s CEO Marissa Mayer Inserts Foot and Twists!
A couple of days ago I wrote about the new changes taking place at Flickr. Overall pretty positive other than the fact Flickr removes Metadata/Contact Information from all photos other than the largest, high resolution version. Then yesterday Flickr’s CEO Marissa Mayer stuck her foot in her mouth and gagged out… Read More »
The New Flickr ~ Stripping Your Photo’s Contact Information
Yesterday Yahoo announced they were improving their photo sharing site Flickr, giving every Flickr user one Terabyte of free cloud storage for photographs. “Wow” I thought. “What a deal”. I’ve had a Flickr account for a least a couple of years but I’ve never used it. So off I went… Read More »
Fix Your Photos Without Photoshop – 10 Options
This past week Adobe announced their new Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service that will force Photoshop and Creative Suite users to pay a monthly fee for the use of Adobe’s software. The idea is to get Adobe users to accept the idea of paying for software on a subscription plan.… Read More »
Panasonic Lumix GH3 Predictive AF Tests
Awhile back I wrote about the new Panasonic GH3 and how it performed in Kenya, Africa. I was quite pleased overall but I knew there was one other test that had to be conducted to really see if this camera was up to the standards as my beloved Nikons. Those… Read More »
Understanding the Issues of Stripping Contact Information From Your Photos
In my ongoing quest to end the stripping of Contact Information/Metadata from the photos we all share across the Internet, I’ve been reaching out to folks who have been working to bring attention to this problem much longer than I have. One of the Metadata/Contact Information heroes is a gentleman… Read More »
UK Photogs, Petition Against New Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill 2013
UK photographer Martyn Chillmaid recently made me aware of a petition being circulated on the internet taking a stand against the new Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill 2013. My only disappointment is you have to be a UK resident to sign the petition. So if you are from the UK you… Read More »
Canon Shooters Rejoice – I think? Canon 200-400 on its way for nearly $12,000.00 USD
Back in February of 2011 Canon announced that they planned to announce, the announcement of their recently announced, up and coming 200-400mm lens. Yes, I intentionally used the word “announce” that many times 🙂 Seems one of the hottest lenses Nikon ever built was finally hitting a nerve with Canon’s… Read More »