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Water July 16-23 Please vote for your choice of this week's Weekly Photo Challenge theme. The voting round will remain open for 3 days. In the event of a tie, the Weekly Photo Challenge Team will select a final winner. The winner of each challenge will select the topic for the next challenge...

Shots like this are one of the reasons I got this camera:

In case you missed it, I've been talking about the Fuji x100s in a couple different threads. Just brought one home today. Pics to follow soon. I also picked up: 2nd Fuji battery Think Tank Retrospective 5 bag x2 Sandisk Extreme 32GB SDHC cards Neck strap Would've liked to have gotten the...

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Water July 16-23 This week's photo challenge is water. Let's see how inventive you can be! Water droplets, rivers, streams, or crazy mid-air splashes. Color, B&W, HDR...anything goes! Be sure to read the NEW Weekly Photo Challenge Rules & Guidelines for more information. The Rules 1...

The goal of the Weekly Photo Challenge is to give you new topics to shoot each week, keeping you motivated to use your camera often! How the Challenge Works 1. Each challenge will run for 1 (one) week, beginning on Wednesday and ending at midnight (Eastern US time/GMT-5:00) on the following...

Story links: ACLU I ACLU II SLR Lounge I'll keep my political opinions out of this, but it should suffice to say that the surveillance of citizens is reaching McCarthy-era levels. It will be interesting to see how this lawsuit develops. The SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) list is very...

Nikon Kicks Wedding Photographer Doug Gordon out of Ambassador Program Long story short: Doug Gordon is kind of shady. He's been called out on some questionable business practices in the past, and now has two instances of blatant plagiarism on record. There's more sources to be found on this...

As the original creator of the Weekly Photo Challenge, I feel a certain responsibility for both its initial success and untimely demise. When this site was in its infancy, we had a very small pool of participants to draw from, and an even smaller team to manage the contests. It was a...

Dunno if any of you followed this story, but a mug shot went viral when women on Facebook and Twitter began swooning over this guy's looks. Jeremy Meeks was arrested on multiple weapons charges in California, and when his booking photo was posted online, hilarity ensued. Meeks is being...

My parents are selling their house, so I'm doing some photos for them. Here's the dining room shot. Nothing fancy here except for some shutter drag to draw in the ambient lighting. Looking at this now, I wish I had removed the lawn furniture covers and added a kicker light to remove some of the...

I was long overdue for an eye exam. My prescription hasn't changed since my first pair of glasses in 7th grade (over 20 years ago), and my chart revealed today that I haven't been to the eye doctor since 2006. Anyway...I'm pushing 40 now, and I've been noticing some issues that I first started...

There are a lot of tips to be learned in this video. Know your rights:

I just realized that it's been awhile since I posted one of my own for ya'll to tear apart...so here it is: EXIF: Nikon D800 1/250 @ f/3.5 ISO 100 Tamron 17-50mm @ 17mm (wide angle) LIGHTING: LumoPro LP160 @ 24mm @ 1/2 power via PocketWizard 60" Westcott convertible umbrella about 4 ft away...

Jake's recent thread inspired me to post my own new designs. I've toyed with a few different looks over the years, and here is the most recent. Feel free to post yours! Business card front and back G+ and Twitter header Facebook cover New web design (click link in my signature below)

Check em out: MagMod I remember when these guys were doing their Kickstarter campaign. Good looking stuff!

Female students from Wasatch High School in Utah were in for a surprise when they eagerly opened their new yearbook. Photos have been edited so that students showed less skin. Bare shoulders were covered and low necklines were raised. The editing policy doesn't seem to be uniformly applied to...

Do you have dreams of making it big? Do you want to rub elbows on the red carpet or show up to your shoot for a Rolling Stone cover with a supermodel on each arm? Maybe you fancy some globetrotting on National Geographic's dime? If you want to earn a living with photography, then read on...

TetherTools.com I've been looking for an inexpensive solution for tethering. I want to be able to securely attach my tablet to my tripod, so that when I'm tethering and importing directly to Lightroom on my tablet, it's all mobile and handy. In my studio, I have a roll-a-round laptop stand. It...