This just in from the folks at Dogster.com: in a few months two beautiful picture books will be released called Dogs24/7 and Cats24/7 made by the publishers of the amazing America24/7 book. Until November 15th, you can submit photos of you dog(s) or cat(s) for possible inclusion in the permanent book! Later they promise they'll let you buy specially made copies of the books with your dog or cat photo on the cover.

More from the site: The creators of the New York Times bestseller America 24/7 and the bestselling Day in the Life book series invite you to submit photos of your dog for publication in DOGS 24/7, available in spring 2005. From September 15 - November 15, 2004 submit a photo of your dog via Webshots (Official photo site for the DOGS 24/7 Project). If your photo is chosen as a large display image in the book, you will receive a free copy of DOGS 24/7 and the satisfaction of sharing your dog with the world, a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements and a Lexar Media 128Mb JumpDrive.

Click here to start www.dogs24-7.com.
More info can be found here.

-myla

After 20 years of parisian photography month, the festival now becomes european. With for this year 3 cities: Paris Berlin and Vienna.

The theme of the 2004 Month of Photography is

Histoire, histoires, du document à la fiction (HiStories - from documentary to fiction)

"Internationalization is a key feature of this edition, and reflects a new phase in its development. The MEP is producing events jointly with the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Musée d'Orsay with the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Fondation Cartier-Bresson with the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, not to mention the participation of galleries in Alinari, Charleroi, and Keshkemet (Hungary). But what stands out most clearly is the way the festival has reached out to the rest of Europe, with the inauguration of the first ever European Month of Photography in partnership with the cities of Berlin and Vienna. Over 60 exhibitions in Berlin and as many again in Vienna will take place in parallel all through the month of November. The first major event of its kind, it has been made possible by an inventive cultural policy coordinated by three municipalities in which photography plays a key role. Supported by the European Commission's Culture 2000 programme and soon to be extended to Bratislava, Rome and Moscow, the European Month of Photography will be the crowning achievement of those who believe in a European cultural identity and in the possibility of building a network of exchanges and innovative opportunities for collaboration in the domain of photography."

"The "Month" draws its inspiration from the collective values and references that provide the foundations of today's Europe: a place of civilization and shared destiny. Among the seventy or so exhibitions presented in Paris, several speak of this shared European heritage, a common identity underscored by a genuine sense of intellectual and artistic freedom. From 2006, the three capitals will invite Rome, Bratislava, Moscow and perhaps others to join them. Beyond the new links that will be forged between the many cultural institutions involved, photography will thus contribute to the free circulation of ideas, artworks and artists that lies at the heart of a cultural and fraternal Europe."

more information in http://www.2004.photographie.com/

It is too difficult for me to add any commentary about these photos, so I will just leave you with a link and a quote from the "about" section on the site.

BITTER FRUIT by Paul Fusco

In November 2003 Magnum photographer Paul Fusco began his essay on the funerals of the soldiers killed in Iraq. From the first funeral, military officers confronted media saying the families didn’t want the coverage. Fusco was never allowed to speak to the families.

I've always been at least vaguely aware of Richard Avedon. I mean, who's never heard of him? But I really consciously noticed him for the first when I drove to Wolfsburg (Volkswagen city) and saw the Richard Avedon in the American West exhibition. Enormous prints, many larger than life size, shocking in their simplicity, detail and humanity. I bought the book, talked about the images non-stop for weeks, and became a big fan.

Eberybody knows by now, Richard Avedon died a few weeks ago.

The current New Yorker has a 32 page portfolio of Avedon's last project, "Democracy". As always, his minimalistic black & white portraits bring out something essential in the subject. Well worth a look for anyone interested in photography, especially portraiture. Go buy it, or have a look at their online gallery and read the profile of Avedon and his early works from 1958.

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. KVH from C-41 taped a disposable camera to a piece of cardboard with instructions for the holder of the camera to "please take pictures of yourself, your co-workers, or anything you like" and then stuck it in the mail. The results are here. I can't believe the postal service has such a sense of humor!

One of my fav online artists calls himself O. He paints, sketches, photographs...and talks. A man of many talents.

onionboyDOTca

I hope you enjoy his work as much as I do.

Due to the great response to yesterday's post about camera makes and models, I've created a new wiki site called Camerapedia.org!

This will be a great place to collect links and information about all different kinds of cameras. Since anyone can add and update information on the site, we can shape this into whatever we want it to be.

I will also use the data on Camerapedia.org to help create new Photoblogs.org features, so I'm very excited about the possibilities here.

Right now we need to migrate the information from the current List of Camera Makes and Models to the new Camerapedia.org site. If any of you would like to help with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brandon

So here's the low-down: I hate the Canon Powershot Pro-1. It is possibly the most disappointing thing I've ever purchased (besides the Ashlee Simpson CD) and I absolutely need to sell it. So here are my two options: 1) selling it on E-Bay, 2) selling it to someone through FerociousCheese or PhotoBlogs. I can't decide which. I need your help!

Also, what camera should I buy instead? I'd love for it to be digital and I'd love for it to be wonderful and lovely and not be annoying like the Canon Powershot Pro-1. I should be able to use the money I received from selling with Pro-1 to buy the new one (give or take a couple hundred).

I'm desperate here, guys and gals. Tips?

Addendum: The Canon Powershot Pro-1 is just bland for me. I feel like I could be doing so much more with it, but I feel like I'm carrying around a $400,000,000 piece of china and I would much rather carry around the Canon Digital Rebel than that klunky, expensive little thing. Also, 8 Megapixels would be much better -- to me -- in a Digital SLR rather than a point-and-shoot. I hate auto-white balance, I'd much rather control shutter speed and aperture on my own.

Basically, it just reeks of badness.

Total solar eclipses are pretty hard to come by -- the last one happened in 2003 over Antarctica, you'll have to be somewhere along the narrow swath stretching across Africa, Turkey, and Russia to view the next one in 2006, and if you're in the continental U.S., you'll have to wait until 2017 for your next chance to witness one of these amazing events (my parents took me to the last one that happened here, way back in 1979, and it's still one of my clearest memories).

Luckily, the moon's a little less shy about going dark across a much larger portion of the globe, and there's a super photo op Wednesday night with a total lunar eclipse that's viewable from pretty much everywhere (except eastern Asia and Australia, sorry Jinky & Art). It's at 01:14 GMT, but you can check NASA's site to find when totality happens in your time zone, then visit Fred Espenak's detailed step-by-step guide to Lunar Eclipse Photography for pointers and examples of several techniques.

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