This week’s photo challenge theme is: “Bundled Up”If you are newer to our site, please read our FAQ's first. details about this week's theme here before you enter. Photographer: Molly Durkin (a member of our free Community Network) Any photographer (Beginner, Amateur and Professional) is welcome to join in on our weekly photo challenges. Anyone can enter on Mon or Tues (challenge closes down...

Terry Lee Cafferty of Love Some Images – you are the LUCKY winner of the New or Re-designed blog by Cinnamon Girl Studios. Timi will contact you to get started on your new blog. Congratulations. For the rest of you, check out Cinnamon Girl Studios $12 template for Blogger Blogs. Newly available for the photographer’s template, small customizations – little add-ons and great price...

I’ve been struggling for the last couple of weeks to find a way to photograph the Japanese Magnolia trees(Magnolia soulangiana) on our property—they’ve been blossoming since late February and have been particularly beautiful this year. But approaching them on more than one occasion to ‘look’ for a photograph, I’ve come up empty. Nothing I could

Learning how to truly control and use shutter speed is one of most important lessons we all must master as photographers. The reason? Your camera’s shutter speed function is the most powerful image-making element in your arsenal of aperture, shutter speed and ISO. It’s the one factor that, more than any other, can make or

Twenty-six gigapixel Paris: Photographer Arnaud Frich and Martin Loyer have created what is being billed as the highest-resolution gigapicture yet made, a super-high-resolution view of Paris. It consists of 2,346 separate images, and, well, talk about resolution—you can make out what individual people are wearing on the steps of Montmartre's Le Sacré Coeur, on the horizon. I've always said reso...

Olympus PEN E-PL1 photo gallery : The Olympus PEN E-PL1 is a camera that is aimed at the amateur photographer that is looking for more quality, but keeping the user-friendliness of a compact camera. That user-friendliness became obvious right away when I made the first test photos with the new Olympus PEN E-PL1. The Olympus PEN camera menu is clear and well-organized, and worth noting is that it i...

How to take advantage of what is right above you. The sky is the single most abstract and dynamic canvas that a photographer has at his disposal. It is an endless source of inspiration that can change a boring photo into one of tremendous interest. Sweet Home Under White Clouds - by tipiro The sky is a key ...

After a personal encounter with a neonazi at 14 years of age, the photographer left to meet and follow the people that call themselves neonazi's

This was a fun week with our "Jump For Joy!" photo challenge and it was wonderful to welcome Kelly Moore as our Guest Photographer Judge. Here are the awesome photos that Kelly chose as her favorites for this week's theme... First Place: Three Hills Photography Kelly wrote: “I LOVED everything about this photo! The composition, the lighting, the processing, and of course the relationship that yo...

The Sony Cyber-shot S2100's "S" should stand for "simplicity." The 12.1-megapixel S2100 has been designed to meet the needs of a beginning photographer with basic exposure controls in program mode and few controls in "Easy" mode. Does the Sony S2100 strike the right balance between ease of use and quality picture-taking? Read on to find out.