Jay Walters saw how much photography had changed when he tried to sell camera bags and photo albums at a recent flea market.

“I was selling stuff for 10 cents on the dollar,” said Mr. Walters, 59, of Clarks Summit.
BY JAMES HAGGERTY of the Scranton Times-Tribune:
“The explosion of digital photography [...]

From The Edge at BostonHerald.com:
“WASHINGTON – Three official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II will be displayed alongside Annie Leibovitz’s signature celebrity photography in a 15-year retrospective exhibition of her work that opens Saturday at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The Corcoran is the third of seven stops for the show titled “Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, [...]

From PDNonline.com:
Our annual edition showcases many of the irresistible promos that skimmed industry professionals’ desks this year. While the entries ranged from new talent to seasoned pros, every one had a distinct vibe and modern feel.
When our panel of judges came in to view the promos, spirits were high as they chatted about the creative, [...]

 Care of C-net’s News.com:
“Every year Nikon sponsors the Small World competition for photomicrography, the art of photography through a microscope. In its 33rd year, the 2007 competition had more than 2,000 entries. For more about the competition, including information on when the exhibit tour of micrographs will be in a city near you, take a [...]

By Roger Green for the Metro Times:
“As the drumbeats for war against Iran intensify, the question arises, where can we discover truths about that far-off land? From Ari Fleischer and the pro-war moneybags at Freedom’s Watch? From Dana Perino?
Get real. 
 
Better to gather input from Iranians, an option now auspiciously at hand in an eye-opening exhibit, [...]

 From DentonRC.com:
“Thirty years of work, carefully selected and mounted at The MAC (The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas), show that photographer and book artist Susan kae Grant questions the line between our conscious experiences and our dreams.
Grant, a professor of photography at Texas Woman’s University for 20 years, didn’t set out to spend [...]

By Tiffany Meyers of PopPhoto.com:
“Crouching under a carport in Port Charlotte, Florida, award-winning photographer Jim Reed records a desperate good-bye-and-I-love-you into a rolling camera for his mother. He hopes it’ll comfort her when he’s gone. Around him, 140 mph winds tear homes apart — uprooting trees and turning cars into toylike projectiles. He’s been caught [...]

By Holly Stuart Hudges of PDNonline.com:

“Alexandra Boulat, an award-winning photojournalist who covered conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel and was a founding member of the VII photo agency, died October 5 in a Paris hospital. Boulat had suffered a brain aneurysm in June while shooting in Gaza; she never recovered.
Born [...]

By Mark Goldstein of Photographyblog.com:
“The Fujifilm Finepix S8000fd digital ultra-zoom camera joins the likes of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 and the Olympus SP-550 UZ by offering an 18x optical zoom lens. Fujfilm have wisely included a CCD-shift image stabilisation system, which should ensure that most of your shots remain sharp even when using the massive [...]

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