From PopPhoto:
“Spain’s historic architecture and a new location play key roles in Madrid’s tenth annual photography festival.
For the past nine years, Spain’s largest photography festival has been run in three-year blocks by lead curators who choose specific themes for each year. The last director, Horacio Fernández, designated his term of 2004 through 2006 the years [...]

Artist: Nancy Nimoy
Client: 3Blind Moose wine
Design Studio: HKA in San Francisco, CA
Art Director: Santosh Chawla
When: May 2007 – present
Notes : Jetblue serving wine label Nancy Illustrated.

The New York Times reports:
“Taking photos while traveling used to be an afterthought, like airport souvenirs. But thanks to the boom in digital cameras, vacation photos have proliferated like spam. There’s no film to waste, no Fotomats to visit and oodles more pictures to clog e-mail inboxes. But are those pictures any good?  Photo safaris [...]

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tags: jeff friesen, photography, halifax, nova scotia, travel, water, exploration, flowers, woods, urban

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tags:  d a, campsmith, illustrator, los angeles, california, children, books, stories, digital media, natural media, spots

Wired News informs us that:
“After releasing a private beta last week, the official version 3.0 of Parallels Desktop for Mac has arrived. As we reported earlier, Parallels 3 brings 3D graphic support and improved integration between the Windows virtual environment and Mac OS X.
In all Parallels 3.0 has over 50 new features and [...]

From Cnet:
“The good: Latest and greatest laptop GPU; built-in strobe lights play along with music and games; unbeatable mobile gaming scores; can play media files without booting up.
The bad: Similarly configured laptops are faster on some tests; some special features hidden in hard-to-find menus; [...]

Artist: Christian Romero
Project: Oscar Party
Subject: DavidCarradine
Client: Lifestyle Beverages, LLC – TrimWater

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tags: lisa, hughes, photography, rochester, new york, music, albums, portraits, still life, animals

“Struggling imaging goliath Eastman Kodak, may be pulling out of the low-cost digital camera market. Although Kodak has a billion-Dollar business, profits disappeared when prices of digital cameras tumbled and the popularity of high-margin film collapsed.”
From EphotoZine