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The Life of a Storm Chaser

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 8th, 2007

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 [...]



Obituary: Photojournalist Alexandra Boulat, 45

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 8th, 2007

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 [...]



Fujifilm Finepix S8000fd Review

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 4th, 2007

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 [...]



Al Chang, combat photographer

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 4th, 2007

From the Honolulu Advertiser:
“Al Chang was a dockworker at the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor who became a celebrated combat photographer, both as a journalist and a soldier.

Chang, who was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, died late Sunday in Honolulu, his family said. He had celebrated his 85th birthday on July 13 with family [...]



EFI Colorproof XF Delivers Five-Year Winning Streak for Customer’s Production of Smithsonian Museum Photography Exhibit

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 4th, 2007

EFI Press Release at Wide-formatimaging.com:
“For five years now, Mark McCall, president and owner of Prestige Graphics., a Reston, VA-based visual arts consultancy, has relied on the industry-leading EFI Colorproof XF proofing and production solution to create the Nature’s Best Photography Awards Exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. With EFI’s [...]



Photography Legend Monte Zucker’s Book by Amherst Media is Now Available for Purchase

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 3rd, 2007

From Press Release Newswire at www.prweb.com:
“Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) October 3, 2007 — New Book by Photography Legend Monte Zucker Released by Amherst Media Now Available Monte Zucker was widely known as a master portrait photographer, but will perhaps be remembered even more fondly for his commitment to education. Over the course of his sixty-year career, [...]



ELDORADO: Photographer delights in twisting image

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 3rd, 2007

By ANA MARIA TRUJILLO | The New Mexican:
“Eldorado photographer Bill Sherman’s photo Stairway to Bliss is open to interpretation. In fact, Sherman wants it that way.
“I’ve always been interested in how perception really works,” Sherman said as he looked over a postcard with that photo on it. Sherman’s perception of the digital photo [...]



Modern Photography in a Brand-New Space

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 1st, 2007

 By Karen Rosenberg of the New York Times:
“Since its 2003 survey of Thomas Struth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been getting serious about photography. In 2005 it presented a Diane Arbus retrospective and, in a stunning move, acquired more than 8,500 works by absorbing the Gilman Paper Company Collection. Last spring it offered a [...]



Those JPEG Files – What are They?

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 1st, 2007

By Ziv Haparnas of picturecorrect.com:
“Digital photos are computer files. They are stored either on the camera memory or on a computer hard disk. Like any other computer file digital photos are saved in well known formats. One of those standard formats is known as JPEG. Here is some useful information on JPEG files.
Digital photo files [...]



NUR Macroprinters Uncovers… The Treasures of the Sea

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 1st, 2007

From PRNewswire as seen at KVOA.com:
LOD, Israel, October 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NUR Macroprinters (NURMF.PK), a leading supplier of wide-format inkjet production printers for the printing industry, today announced a unique underwater photography exhibition by Noam Kortler to be printed on a NUR tempo Q printer. The exhibition, called “Treasures of the Sea”, will take place [...]