It may not be the first place you’d think about going for professional photography tips, but Microsoft has a nice collection of resources and information available for everyone interested in photography and extended their knowledge and skill set.

The Microsoft Professional Photography website has collections of beautiful images, articles to improve your skills, photography event listings, photo related software downloads and more. If you’re looking for answers to that question that’s been bugging you for quite sometime, you might just find it on their website. The layout and organization is nicely presented and very easy to find what you’re looking …read more

Here’s a link to some really amazing photos and images to start your day. Some absolutely beautiful landscape photos as well as very interesting images to make you think a little bit.
15 Awesome Pictures

Who are these people? They were all in attendance as Barack Obama became our nation’s 44th president. What’s impressive though is the photograph that this little picture came from.

The image above is a SERIOUSLY reduced image of what is originally a 1,474 MP image that was taken on inauguration day. See the little red box I’ve put in there on the far right? That’s the approximate location of the original image above zoomed in to view.
You can see this photo in all it’s detail and glory at the Gigapan.org website.
Uncovered by Ragamuffin Soul

Images: Photosections of giant image found …read more

If there’s one thing I’ve learned as I’ve continued to explore the online world of social media and blogging, the one hobby that seems to go hand-in-hand with many of the individuals involved is photography.
My boss shared the Opacity website with me and he was intrigued by the images that were caught on film of the numerous buildings and other man-made structures that have since begun their retreat back to the dust from which they’ve come.
Once a building no longer serves its purpose, and all of its functionality ceases to exist, it becomes truly fascinating. Each room is transforming …read more

Another great online application I was reminded of while at Blog World Expo 08 is picnik. I’m should be ashamed that I haven’t shared this site for you all yet. It’s a great app that does just about everything most users would want with regards to photo-editing, while all the time being FREE!
Tris Hussey showcased this little app during his "How to be More than a Blog: New Media Integration" session.
Check-out this list of features you can take advantage of in the completely free version of picnik:

Fix your photos in just one click
Use advanced controls to fine-tune your …read more

Okay, it’s not technically caught on “Film” but “…Caught in Pixels” didn’t quite sound right even though it’s probably more accurate.
Regardless, the point of the Wordsplosion site is to highlight a variety of grammar, well, let’s just say what they say, it can’t be said much better or succinctly.
Wordsplosion brings you the best of the worst of the world of
grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, typography etc.
We call this family of textual catastrophes “wordsplosions.”
If you’ve caught some of these types of accidents yourself, you can e-mail them and share with the world too. Just send the image to images@wordsplosion.com
I’m not sure …read more

Have you heard of Photrade? I uncovered the Photrade website awhile back through another website I’d visited and an email newsletter I received about the upcoming blogINDIANA conference coming up in Indianapolis. I then realized they were also advertising on this blog here so decided to check them out.
I was quickly impressed with what you could do with sharing your photos and even making money from them as well.
Photrade is where photographers reclaim ownership of their photos. Photraders decide how, when, where and at what cost their photos are used online. We provide unprecedented protection for photos and offer a …read more

I’m always on the look-out for new places to find some stock photography and other images to potentially use on some website for clients or just  get some inspiration for creating a completely new graphical element for design.
Photrade is a new website that’s currently available by invite only so I haven’t been able to really get into the site and see what it’s all about. However, after briefly browsing through their catalog it looks like they’ve got some great content.
Photrade is where photographers reclaim ownership of their photos.
Photraders decide how, when, where and at what cost their photos are …read more

My boss uncovered this site to me the other day.
Lost America is devoted to those areas in our country we see and forget or for many of us have never seen. The difference is that the creator uses night photography and processing to really make these “dead” places come alive to the site visitor.
In the late 80’s, he sat in on a few night photography classes and when the subject of light-painting came up briefly, he had a revelation. Here were techniques that were perfect to capture the atmosphere and mystery of these modern ghost towns. The time-exposures allow …read more

I’ve been a die-hard fan of the software SnagIt for a couple of years now. I use it so much I’m at the point now where I’d probably go crazy if I didn’t have it available. However, after hearing about feedback from people who have used Skitch.com to grab screen capture, it might push me to get a Mac and replace my SnagIt addiction with Skitch.com instead.
Skitch.com is currently available for Mac’s only. I’ll have to tell my brother about this one I guess. Watch the video below for some more details.

One component that Skitch.com seems to have over …read more