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Deadline JUNE 30, 2010 – Backyard Wildlife photo contest supports wildlife conservation with donation by Tamron for every photo entered.

Commack, NY- Tamron USA, Inc. announced the second in its series of four photo contests for 2010: Backyard Wildlife. This quarter’s contest asks entrants to submit photographic portraits of their local wildlife, whether found in their own backyard, local parks, or other urban and rural neighborhood areas. The contest is looking for local wildlife indigenous to the photographer’s home town, so photos from zoos, aquariums and the like will not be considered. The contest runs from April 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010. The Grand Prize Winner of Contest Two 2010 will receive his/her choice of one of these Tamron lenses: Read the rest of this entry »

PhotoXpress.com improved website now offers 10 times more images than before. If you wish to probe this site for good images, a free subscription option is available and it offers a nice daily amount of royalty free images, but if you decide to upgrade, you can always opt either for PhotoXpress Lite or Premium subscription. Lite subscription allows users to download around 15,000 royalty-free images per month, for the modest price of $9.99/month. The Premium database contains over 6,000,000 high-quality royalty-free photos, Read the rest of this entry »

Best pinhole photos win a Lensbaby gift certificate, Joby tripod, and Red River Paper gift certificate

Portland, OR (March 2010) - In celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day on April 25, 2010, Lensbaby (www.lensbaby.com) announces today an open call for photographers to submit their best pinhole images, whether created using a Lensbaby Pinhole/Zone plate Optic or any other type of Read the rest of this entry »

International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) has revealed the winners of the photo contest ‘the first winter 4 seasons’. The first place goes to Tom Wundrak for his image “Frozen Beauty”, Elspeth Briscoe was awarded the second place, followed by Anthony Beckawarded in third position.

The overall winner receives a £500 cash prize and all the finalists will receive a Read the rest of this entry »

Eye-Fi has announced the release of two new wireless SD memory cards of the X2 series. The 4GB Connect X2 and 8GB Explore X2 SD cards uses a class 6 transfer speed with an 802.11n radio for significantly faster uploads and Endless Memory mode. Also the Explorer card offers automatic geotagging.

The Endless Memory feature, allows users to have Eye-Fi free space in a memory card after photos and videos had been safely uploaded to a computer or to the Web. A user preset Read the rest of this entry »

Brits are so in tune with their senses that they can recall the smell associated with a scene or location – just by looking at a photo of it. That’s according to research released by Nikon today to celebrate the launch of its new range of Coolpix compact cameras, which capture memories in more vivid detail than ever before.

The study, which was conducted across 23 countries, revealed that 47% of Brits can Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe has finally announced the Creative Suite 5 release date, for this Adobe created a teaser web page with a countdown clock for the CS5 release date. It will be interesting to discover all new features and improvements that this new version of Cs5 can offer us, meanwhile there is a lot of preview videos we can watch at the Adobe Cs5 launch page. Read the rest of this entry »

The company Carl Zeiss celebrates its 120 years of camera lens production this month. Zeiss history goes back to 1846, when it started by producing mainly microscopes, and gradually shifted to manufacture camera lenses by the end of march 1890. The reliability and high image quality of Zeiss lenses is undeniable, specially knowing numerous Oscar-winning films choose Zeiss lenses over other lenses, this includes movies like Barry Lyndon, The trilogy of the Lord of the Rings and even the Slumdog Millionaire. Read the rest of this entry »

We were all sad when we heard about Polaroid announce of stopping the production of its famous instant Polaroid films. But luckily a team of engineers under the direction of The Impossible Project has finally succeeded in re-producing an instant film for traditional Polaroid cameras. The Impossible Project started in October 2008 at the last preserved Polaroid plant in Enschede(The Netherlands) with the aim to save analog Instant Photography from extinction after Polaroid discontinuity of instant films production.

For the moment Impossible has just produced two film formats, including the PX100 and PX600 Silver Shade monochromatic films, followed soon by the PX Color Film around Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe second public beta update for Photoshop Lightroom 3 software is now open and available for download. Lightroom 3 new features includes tethered shooting support for select Nikon and Canon cameras, the ability to import and manage video files from DSLR cameras for a streamlined workflow and additional behind-the-scenes architecture enhancements for faster importing and Read the rest of this entry »