Stop the press! -  the theme has changed to weather

October's theme is weather. Deadline is October 31. Thanks to everyone who
    sent in photos and help spread the word about snaps. www.snapsmagazine.com  Email photos to snapsmagazine@gmail.com. If you still havent check out snaps- visit the archives, to look at the past 6 issues. You better move quickly, still have a couple days to send photos of transportation.

Relief In Sight is a limited, hand-assembled DVD featuring three unrelated short films by three members of the photoblogging community who have applied their unique vision to filmmaking. 100% of the proceeds of the sale of this DVD will be donated to charities benefiting relief efforts in the wake of the devasting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and in particular Hurricane Katrina.

An edition of 20 will be produced and numbered, and then never made available again. The price is $20 plus shipping.

The films:

Le Requin Mort by Justin Ouellette { chromogenic.net }
ATLtoMidway by Pablo Korona { pablokorona.com/pk }
Pause by Keith Kin Yan { overshadowed.com }

Please visit chromogenic.net/relief for more information.

I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone attending this weekend. If you haven't checked the site in awhile, we've updated the schedule and events page with some more info. It's all very informal - a weekend about meeting new folks, talking photography, enjoying London and of course taking a lot of photos!

So, for those able to make it - see you tomorrow!

The Apple Store in SoHo will feature the fifth New York City Photobloggers event on Friday, September 30th at 7pm.

The line up includes Lia Bulaong  of 24in48.org, Frank Kolodziej of positive-negative, Dave Martinidez of davenycphoto.com, Marcin Wojcik of efeb.info, and Sean Sheridan of seansheridan.net. Plus special presentations by gallery owner Jen Bekman and photographer Masood Kamandy. 

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 pin-UPstairs (@ Fanelli's), the new Jen Bekman satellite space, after the event: 94 Prince St @ Mercer, SoHo.

for more information and links to all of the currently and previously featured nyc photobloggers, visit nyc.photobloggers.org/nyc5/

Cool!? Crappy!? (or both)

Check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/lbstone/44076689/
to see the surprise Brandon got while watching Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. It appears that a composite of two of his photoblog entries from last year ended up as a backdrop for one of the skits, without his knowledge. In true Brandon fashion he seems quite level headed about it all, as some people scream "sue!", some suggest "maybe someone else took the exact same picture", and others seem to think "oh well, it is probably just a
screw up".

(I've disabled the comments for this posting, to save having the same conversation here as is going on on the Flickr posting above, as well as the Google groups conversation, not to mention the Digg conversation. )

Although it is two weeks tardy, the September issue of Photoblogs Magazine is finally on-line. Again I am thrilled with our international participation, from Uganda to Bucharest, India to the U.S., and Argentina to Canada; and I’m as pleased as ever to provide this venue for photobloggers to condense a sample of their work and share their unique vision, as well as their informative and creative writing, with all of us. As with the previous issue, you will find both an html version and a more magazine-style, downloadable pdf format. Please stop by and have a look at http://www.photoblogsmagazine.org, and consider submitting your own work for the November issue.
Thanks,
Matt

A generous group of toy camera enthusiasts from blogs and various forums have banded together to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Donations include prints and cameras.
Toycamera Auction to benefit the Victims of Hurricane Katrina.

If you are in the generous spirit and would like to donate or bid, please email a jpeg, print information (size, type of print and if shipping included), along with your blog or website you'd like listed to tcauction@gmail.com. Thanks!

For all those who found no joy in the "Origin", "Lost" or "Fabulous" themes, our year-end edition of JPG Magazine is the "No Theme" theme. We're accepting submissions through September 15 with a publication date of mid-November. We hope that you'll consider submitting your favourite and/or best and/or the theme of your choice.

This photoblog auction idea was just brought to my attention (via the Photoblogs discussion group.)  It's a way for any photoblogger to auction one of their photographs and to ensure that the money goes to charity.  Thanks to Rock S. Kauser for coming up with such a great idea!

If you decide to do this, please give us a permalink to your auction in the comments below.  That way we can see who's participating.  Anything we can do to raise more money for charities is a good thing.

For all you toy camera enthusaists--
The definitive guide for toy camera photography is now available — featuring descriptions of all the major cameras both new and vintage, with tips, tricks, mods, and information on darkroom & scanning techniques, film choices, plus musings on the nature of toy camera photography from the experts at toycamera.com.

The Toycam Handbook is the result of the collaboration of 32 members of toycamera.com.
The 32 contributors donated their time and skills to make this book so that the site can receive the benefits. All profits from the Toycam Handbook go toward making toycamera.com bigger and better – anything from paying for bandwidth to building bigger and better interactive functionality into the site.
The final result is 112 high-quality pages in full-color, perfect bound, and printed on demand by Lulu.com.

For more information:

toycamera.com handbook