Lets continue the clip parade with a collection of small images in this weekend's shiny new T: Style (NYT) winter travel issue. I'm actually pretty surprised that this came together as well as it did, because the assignment was...John Loomishttp://www.johnloomis.com/

Humanising Photography Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies (DCAPS) Durham University, UK 25-27 September 2009 In the early twenty-first century, the still photographic image continues to be one of the central visual technologies of humanitarianism: from the all-too familiar images documenting successive waves of famine and disease, through those that bear witness to the action and destruction of war, to the photo ops staged in the arena of struggles for human rights. Disseminated across a range of media and spanning geographical distances and cultural divides, photographic images are presented for everyday consumption, produced by practitioners often working explicitly in the name of humanity and testifying to acts of injustice and states of destitution and abjection.  read more »

Feeling the cold already this winter? check out these beautiful, spooky landscapes shot in Ross Sea, a deep bay in the Southern Sea in Antarctica, by Reportage photographer Daniel Beltra. Crazy, nature-formed abstract ice scultptures in the sea. Brrr. A strange place, here are a few Ross facts i have discovered; A 10 metre (32.8 feet) long colossal squid weighing [...]

A short yet comprehensive list of Photoshop tutorials that photographers should definitely take a look at. The list covers commercial, HDR, and abstract effects to help you enhance your work.

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By now, most of you have read many times as I have walked through the process of balancing my flashes and ambient. I want to get past that.

Today, I want to accomplish two things:

1. To set you up with a way of quickly understanding and/or communicating how a given photo was balanced, and

2. To stop having to repeat walk-throughs on this process every time we mix flash and ambient. Which is just about every lit photo we shoot.

First, a little confession. Lots of times when I am explaining to someone how a photo was lit, they will want to know everything -- shutter speed, ISO, aperture, flash power settings, etc.  read more »

Kathy Fuld, the art-collecting wife of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld, is selling a $20 million set of rare Abstract Expressionist drawings at a November auction, according to two art dealers.

Via, MAO.

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Kathy Fuld, the art-collecting wife of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld, is selling a $20 million set of rare Abstract Expressionist drawings at a November auction, according to two art dealers.

Via, MAO.

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Buying a new website?
My new company, APhotoFolio.com builds portfolio websites for photographers.
Have a look (here).