Kodak announced the end of an era yesterday when they said they would no longer manufacture black-and-white papers after the end of the year. According to a Kodak spokesperson, demand for black-and-white paper declined about 25 percent annually. Another casuality of the digital revolution. I cut my photographic teeth on Polycontrast fiber based paper. So long, Polycontrast, it was fun while it lasted. Hello Ilford (and Bergger and Oriental, too)...

The good news is that they will still make black and white film and chemicals. My precious HC-110 is safe... for now. The entire article can be viewed here.

I have only recently rediscovered posting at Flickr.  Long after signing up I am nowgot back into the swing of posting images and creating a contact list of authors to follow.

I started bookmarking favorites, thought I'd pass along the link to the 46, errrrr...make that 51 now, images I have designated as favorites in an attempt for others to uncover a few new photographers, from a few different places.  If you like candid portraits you'll notice I do as well in the ones I've chosen so far, a few to chew on.

Anyone have a favorite list to post/comment with?

The NYC Photobloggers series is VERY proud to announce that our participants are currently be featured on the homepage of VanityFair.com, lead by a photograph from Redrick DeLeon.

This is the second time that VF has featured New York City photobloggers. Congratulations everyone!

All aboard!! The latest project from UTATA features 28 photographers, beautiful words and pictures that will take you back in time and will delight you over and over again. When was the last time you took the train?

This Sunday, June 12th,  we are having our second meetup at Paddington Station at 10:30am.

Meet at the BurgerKing Starbucks located next to Heathrow Express terminal in Paddington Station and we'll go from there. The plan is to do a walk from Paddington to Little Venice and hit the canal from there. There will be tons of great photo ops and we'll find a spot along the way (perhaps Regents Park) to sit, grab a bite and chat a little as well.

Update: Sorry for the belated change.  We will be meeting at Starbucks located next to Heathrow Express Terminal in Paddington Station.  I'll make sure to head along to the BurgerKing to find anyone though, so no worries.

The Chicago Photobloggers will have their monthly meetup/shootout Sunday, June 19 (Father's Day) at 1 pm at the Custer Street Art Fair in Evanston, Illinois. There'll be plenty of good food, great art -- including photography -- and some terrific street photography opportunities. Our staging area will be the Starbucks on Main Street just east of Chicago Avenue.

The Apple Store in SoHo will feature the fourth New York City Photobloggers event on Friday, June 17th at 7pm.

The line up includes Eliot Shepard of slower.net, Nontajit "Go" Lertworachon of gophotoblog.com, Jay Parkinson of darkshapesprowl.com, Keith Kin Yan of overshadowed.com, Raul Gutierrez of mexicanpictures.com, Jenene Chesbrough of /pixietart, and Travis Ruse of express train.

Hosted by Jacob Dobkin of bluejake and sponsored by gothamist and nyc.photobloggers.org. Come participate in the evening's discussions, and join everyone for drinks at a local bar after the event. (details to come.)

for more information and links to all of the currently and previously featured nyc photobloggers, visit nyc.photobloggers.org/nyc4/

Today's New York Times Circuits section features several photoblogs of interest in an article by Jennifer 8. Lee (no, that's not a typo): Heather Champ's The Mirror Project, challenge photoblogs such as Photo Friday and Thursday Challenge, and bighappyfunhouse by Chicago's very own Ron Slattery.

Registration is free but required on the New York Times site. It's also available by RSS Feed.

Photoblogring.org will be having a 2 week hiatus from this week onwards...
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Pinx Photoblog is one of those great, unpretentious sites with a wonderful variety of excellent images. Well worth checking out, I think Kenneth Karstens is overdue a little exposure

A couple of my favourites:

photoblogs.org profile here