Canon 5D "Mark II"

A bunch of websites are claiming that Canon Germany confirmed that a successor to the EOS 5D will be announced at Photokina in Cologne during the last week of September. Since all these websites have predicted such a successor for quite a while, there's no reason to believe them now...or is there?As far as I know, no one has published verifiable information as to what Canon is working on at this time,...

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Matt Wright-Steel: Texas Mountain Trail

Photograph Matt Wright-Steel-All Rights ReservedI ought to post on more domestic photo essays and galleries, and Matt Wright-Steel's new portfolio titled Texas Mountain Trail allows me to do just that...beautifully composed (and large) images of typical Texan landscapes by a very versatile photojournalist. I particularly liked the photograph of the rusty crucifix in the old cemetery. I wonder whether...

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Digital Photo Pro Mag: Jeff Hutchens

Photograph Jeff Hutchens-All Rights ReservedDigital Photo Pro magazine has published an interesting 3 page interview with globetrotter photographer Jeff Hutchens titled The Frozen Mood.At a time when travel photographers are facing a diminution in work assignments and gigs, and existentialistic navel-gazing questions such as "is travel photography dead?", it's refreshing to see an in-depth article...

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Angkor Photo Festival: 23-28 Nov 2008

For the fourth time, the Angkor Photography Festival will take place in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from the 23rd to the 28th of November 2008.The program for 2008 includes six evenings of audiovisual presentations from around the world curated by the festival, the workshop tutors, as well as by two internationally renowned photography editors, Sujong Song and Christian Caujolle. The 2008 festival will also...

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Does Size Matter? Yes It Does.

Photograph Joseph Rodriguez-All Rights ReservedRealizing that viewers/readers are enamored with large photographs, two national newspapers have recently featured large photographs of current events. The size of these photographs are in the range of 1000 x 650 pixels (which is the favored size for displaying my own images on my web galleries, and certainly for my multimedia slideshows). The response...

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Nikon D90: Is This The Future?

On the heels of Canon announcing its new EOS 50D, Nikon has revealed details of the D90, which features a video mode. Nikon claims that the D90 is the first mid-class DSLR to offer a movie function. It allows you to shoot movies in three different motion JPEG formats: 320 x 216 pixels, 640 x 424 pixels and 1,280 x 720 pixels. The video mode is compatible with Nikkor’s range of lenses.Nobody should...

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Magnum Workshops in NYC

Magnum announced that its Magnum Workshop New York on October 20-31, 2008 will be a five day practice oriented workshop taking place at MILK Studios, a New York photography studio, located in the heart of Chelsea and the arts district. Each workshop will have a maximum of 12 participants.The following Magnum Photographers will be leading the workshops:Session 1: October 20-24, 2008Alex Webb (with Rebecca Norris Webb)Bruce GildenSession 2: October...

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Joshua Broggi: Mali

Photograph Joshua Broggi-All Rights ReservedFrom New England, Joshua Broggi traveled to over 30 countries to photograph and research. He tells us that his "focus is on non-western cultures and their distinct complexities in a post-colonial and globalizing world." I particularly liked Joshua's gallery of photographs of Mali, as exemplified by the above portrait of a young girl.Due to increasing restrictions...

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New Canon 50D

Canon announced a new camera to its EOS series with the introduction of a mid-range digital SLR. The EOS 50D has a new 15.1 million pixel resolution CMOS sensor (with 1.6x crop factor), and is capable of shooting 6.3 frames per second. It's the first DLSR to have Canon’s new DIGIC 4 image processor. While many see the 50D as an upgrade of the 40D, Canon says it intends to sell both cameras. The 50D...

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Rubin Museum of Art: Bhutan!

My favorite museum in New York City, the Rubin Museum of Art, will be featuring Cham ritual dances in public spaces in and around New York City. These events will be free to the public, and a schedule will be posted shortly on the museum's website. As soon as I receive notification of the schedule, I shall post it.The Cham dances will be performed in New York City by 13 monks from the monastery fortress of Trongsa in central Bhutan. Depending on...

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POV: What Is SEO?

Photograph Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedAn interesting post appeared on Rob Haggart's blog, A Photo Editor (if you haven't been visiting his blog, you ought to!) dealing with Search Engine Optimization. Haggart's post is very well thought out (don't forget to also check out the comments on his post), but reading it more than once to make sure, I was struck how my own entry about 18 months ago...

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La Santa Muerte

Photograph Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedWhile participating in the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Mexico City this past June, one of the projects that my class was interested in was the cult of Santa Muerte.The cult of Santa Muerte is unusual because it's the cult of the drug lords, the dispossessed, and criminals. There are many shrines to Santa Muerte in the capital city, but Tepito is...

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Kevin German: Vietnam

Photograph Kevin German-All Rights ReservedKevin German studied photography and journalism at the Washington State University, and worked throughout the United States as a newspaper photojournalist until 2008 when he traveled to Vietnam to work on social documentaries.Kevin's photo essays include transgenders in New York City, cock-fighting in Panama, the "Salt People" of Vietnam, and a lovely gallery...

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Kashmir Rumbles

Farooq Khan/European Pressphoto Agency-All Rights ReservedThe New York Times features an article today on the current civil unrest in Kashmir, where it seems that the bitter dispute between India and Pakistan has reappeared. It all started with a dispute over a 99-acre piece of land, which has for more than two months been encouraged by both separatist leaders in Muslim-majority Kashmir and Hindu...

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Barbara Paul: Traditions of India

Photographs Barbara Paul-All Rights Reserved“Traditions of India,” a photography exhibit by Barbara Paul, will be shown at the Ridgefield Library from September 3 to October 11, 2008. Barbara Paul travels through some of the most remote regions of Asia and Africa with the goal of capturing and sharing the region’s customs, dress, festivals and way of life. She has a special interest in the fabrics...

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Nat Geo's David Griffin Speaks

A worthwhile lecture by David Griffin of the National Geographic Society on the impact of photography. David, the photo director for National Geographic, knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.I briefly met David during the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, and he came across as an extremely cordial man, and as befits a National Geographic...

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Audrey Stein: All Over The Place Too

Photograph Audrey Stein-All Rights ReservedAudrey Stein tells us in her biography that travel is in her genes, and she's absolutely right. Perhaps like many of us who are peripatetic travelers, her childhood's favorite words were Timbuktu and Kathmandu, and as the far corners of the world have always attracted her, she photographed in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, China, Nepal, India, Papua New Guinea,...

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Alex Sievers: All Over The Place

Photograph Alex Sievers-All Rights ReservedAlex Sievers is a Dutch travel photographer, and an architect by trade. He travels on business but always carries his cameras and a tripod wherever he goes, and as a consequence has built an impressive body of travel galleries from virtually all over the globe.I've had a hard time deciding which gallery I'd post on TTP, but because of the Olympics I've chosen...

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WP: Dying Days of Cockfighting In America

Photograph Carol Guzy/The Washington Post-All Rights ReservedThe Washington Post published a very well-crafted multimedia feature titled Dying Days of Cockfighting In America, with striking photographs by the veteran photographer Carol Guzy. I thought that not only is the feature well-crafted (despite its less than appealing subject matter), but it has palpable atmospherics to it. As a viewer of...

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Jake Price: Riding The Rails

Photograph Jake Price-All Rights ReservedJake Price is a documentary photographer who recently published Riding The Rails, an audio photo essay on the BBC website. The photo essay is of the hundreds of people from South and Central America as well as Mexico's poorest regions who pass through Lecheria, a small factory town just outside Mexico City, on their way to the borders of the United States....

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SoundSnap

SoundSnap is a free online sound library and community for sound designers and producers. People can upload sounds and share them with the rest of the public. It's advertised as being mainly for Sound designers/recordists and music producers, filmmakers, web designer's and video game developers, but since photographers are increasingly getting involved in multimedia, I think we could find SoundSnap...

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TV Host: Photography & Travel

Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedIs this the dream job or what? The travel photography answer to Anthony Bourdain's culinary travels "No Reservations"! The following post appeared on Lightstalkers:Host Needed for Television Series: Photography & TravelMajor Television production company seeks Professional Photographer with a passion for travel and cultures to host national television...

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Mike Hettwer: Lost Tribes Of The Sahara

© Mike Hettwer Photography-All Rights ReservedIn the last 10 years. Mike Hettwer's travels have taken him to 60 countries and on 6 expeditions. He's a documentary photographer who specializes in archaeology and dinosaur expeditions...in my view, a sort of an Indiana Jones holding a Canon instead of a whip. He has photographed on expeditions to the Sahara and Gobi Desert, as well as in Lake Turkana...

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Asia Geographic: Photo Contest 2008

ASIAN Geographic magazine announced that it's looking for special photographs from photographers who have captured a striking image of Asia's land, people, architecture or wildlife. One winner and runner-up will be selected from each category. An overall Grand Prize will be awarded to the best overall picture as judged by the magazine's panel of editors. The top photographs will be exhibited as part...

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Epson's New P-6000 and P-7000

Epson announced two new generation multimedia photo viewers designed with photographers in mind. The P-6000 and the P-7000 offer photographers the opportunity to download and view their photos on a 4-inch, 640x480 (VGA) resolution LCD screen.The hard drive capacities are 80GB (P-6000) and 160GB (P-7000), and both come with a 4-inch LCD with new, exclusive Epson Photo Fine Premia technology, which...

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National Geo's International Photo Contest

I must've been asleep at the switch since I had forgotten about the 2008 National Geographic's International Photo Contest. The contest is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia, United Kingdom, Canada (excluding the province of Quebec), Australia, Republic of Ireland, India, South Africa, and New Zealand.The Categories for entries are: (1) People,...

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Photographers in Focus: Colin Finlay

The monthly Photographers in Focus video interviews by LiveBooks feature photographers who share their personal vision, inspiration and beliefs. According to LiveBooks, these "enrich the photo community by providing a means for one photographer to share knowledge with others." This month’s interview is with documentary photographer and photojournalist Colin Finlay.A self-taught photographer, Colin...

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The Um Kulthum Cafe (Baghdad)

Andrea Bruce/The Washington Post-All Rights ReservedThe Washington Post features a short slideshow of photographs taken in the Um Kulthum Cafe in Baghdad by Andrea Bruce. Unfortunately, the number (and choice) of photographs is insufficient to give the viewers the "feel" of an Arab cafe...the raucous atmosphere, the sense of family between the regular patrons, the sound of dominoes and backgammon,...

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Brian Sokol: Asia & Nepal

Photograph Brian Sokol-All Rights ReservedBrian Sokol is a photojournalist who's documenting Asia for more than a decade. Based in New Delhi, he's a fluent Nepali speaker and has covered various conflicts in the Himalayan regions.His photographs appear in publications such as The New York Times, Time, Stern, and Der Spiegel. He is the recipient of National Geographic Magazine’s 2007 Eddie Adams...

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My Show Off: Dochu La Pass

Photograph Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedDochu-La (3,088m/ 10,130 ft) is a vital pass from western Bhutan to its east, and although the chortens were built a few years ago, it's an extraordinarily beautiful place. The chortens, mani wall and the prayer flags give the site serenity and an air of sanctity. When the skies are clear, the many mountain peaks can be seen from this pass such as Masagang...

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Tatiana Cardeal: Prestes Maia Exhibition

Social documentary photographer Tatiana Cardeal is opening her solo exhibition of images made during the Prestes Maia occupation of a building in Sao Paulo from 2005 to 2007.The site was considered the largest vertical occupation in Latin America. The building was an old textile factory abandoned more than 20 years ago, and the owners owe millions in taxes to the municipal government. Some 2.000 people...

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Kenzaburo Fukuhara: Blurb Book

This is an unusual post as I'm publicizing a book that I haven't read nor seen yet. However, I like what photographer Kenzaburo Fukuhara put together in a self-published book. PAR HASARD is a collection of black & white portraits of peoples who passed by the photographer on his journeys on various Asian roads, starting in Osaka to Shanghai, to Lhasa, Mt Kailash in Tibet, to Kashgar, Dunhuang on...

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Planet Magazine Photo Contest

PLANET Magazine describes itself as a leading global culture lifestyle magazine blending the latest in contemporary art, music and fashion with coverage of distant cultures, unique travel experiences, and global awareness. It is announcing its 1st annual Global Travel Photo Contest, with a Grand Prize of a round-the-world ticket, open for one year (or $1000 cash prize), with a 10-page portfolio assignment....

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The Big Picture's Olympics

Photograph Mike Hewitt/Getty Images-All Rights ReservedThe Boston Globe's photography blog The Big Picture has published extraordinary images of the opening ceremony today for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The ceremony, held in Beijing's National Stadium known as the Bird's Nest, was attended by thousands, and watched by millions more on television.This one (click it to see in full size) is probably...

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Heather Anne Linquist: Tibet

Photograph © Heather Anne Lindquist-All Rights ReservedHeather Anne Lindquist is a documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Chicago. In 2001, she founded Eyefoto and subsequently established a studio in Tucson, Arizona. She's currently at work on a book project showcasing her work in Tibet and China. Her travels have afforded her the opportunities to photograph people, places and events...

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small Folio: Websites For iPhones

smallFolio claims that it's "a wicked-simple website solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch". It's essentially a service to create a web presence for photographers and other creative types that is specifically adapted for mobile devices.smallFolio must have its benefits, but I'm skeptical that photo editors, for instance, will use their iPhones or iTouches to view photographers' websites...to do...

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Penni Webb: An American Past

A selection of photographs from Penni Webb’s The Beauty of Aging series are to be shown at Smith Andersen North Gallery in a solo exhibition shown as diptychs with a black and white photograph and a hand painted version of the same print side by side.These photographs were taken on Penni Webb’s travels during the last twenty years. Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area; Aspen, Colorado; Taos,...

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Bangladesh Indigenous Women: Mahmud

Over 50 different indigenous societies live in Bangladesh, and women are the most excluded from the rest of society. Mahmud, of MAP Photo Agency, has photographed these populations for the last decade. This exhibition of his work, co-hosted by ActionAid and the Bangladesh Indigenous People’s Forum will be held at Drik Gallery on August 7-13, 2008.Venue:Drik GalleryHouse 58, Road 15A (New),Dhanmondi...

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Shiho Fukada: Kashgar

Photograph Shiho Fukada/The New York Times-All Rights ReservedOne of my favorite photographers, Shiho Fukada is featured in today's The New York Times in a slideshow featuring photographs of Kashgar, the town 2,500 miles west of Beijing, which is where local officials described as the worst terrorist attack in China's recent history occurred.Kashgar is west of the Taklamakan Desert (isn't Taklamakan...

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Viviane Dalles: India

Photograph © Viviane Dalles-All Rights ReservedViviane Dalles is a French photographer, who graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (Arles) in 2002. She subsequently traveled to Africa to work for the Festival of African Photography in Bamako (Mali), then worked for the Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation in Paris and with photographers from the Magnum agency, helping to edit...

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Canon Pro Network: Brent Stirton

Brent Stirton, a senior staff photographer at Getty Images and four times a World Press Photo winner, talks to Canon Professional Network's Mike Stanton about celebrity portraiture, dancing with his camera – and how he gained access to the Omo Valley in South Ethiopia, one of the most remote and volatile regions on earth armed only with an EOS-1Ds Mark III.I've already posted about Brent Stirton's...

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World Press Photo's ENTER Magazine

The 10th edition of ENTER, the online magazine of World Press Photo's Education Department is now online.Four photojournalism galleries are included in this edition's line-up: the Thai photojournalist Rungroj Yongrit documents a clinic on the Thai-Burmese border, the Turkish freelance photographer Gülbin Özdamar went to the Czech Republic to document the discrimination against the Romany people**,...

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POV: The Ten Commandments

Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedI thought I'd post my ten travel photography commandments, sharing what I've learned over the course of the past years as to what helps make better travel and environmental (or on-location) portraits...or at least, what works for me. I. Research Your Destination (or Subject Matter): It's elementary isn't it? Much before announcing details of my photo-expeditions...

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Moises Saman: Displaced To Kabul

Moises Saman for The New York Times-All Rights ReservedThe New York Times has a multimedia feature of Moises Saman's reportage from Afghanistan, where a refugee camp is filled with families escaping the heavy bombardment in southern Afghanistan. The increasing amount of refugees coming here to the west of Kabul is a sign that the conflict against the Taliban in the south is worsening, and the population...

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Vewd: A Documentary Photography Mag

According to its website, Vewd is a "documentary photography magazine aiming to continue the tradition of storytelling through a visual medium. We bring these important essays from up and coming, but largely unknown, photographers."Vewd was started by Matt Blalock, seeking to provide a venue for new photographers to share their documentary essays. Two of the latest essays caught my eye, and although...

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Leonie Purchas: A Malian Family in Paris

Photograph © Leonie Purchas-All Rights ReservedToday's feature is a change from the travel/documentary photography features I've posted this week. It's essentially a collection of social commentaries by the talented Leonie Purchas, a British photographer, who after taking an honors degree in the history of art, went on to work as a full-time assistant to the British photojournalist Tom Stoddard....

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