While things are going on in the background so we can open up posting on the blog we've added a Submit a Story link in the margin. If you have any photoblogging news, events, discussions, etc that you think photobloggers will be interested in, send it in.

Thanks!

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.

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

We're happy to announce that the Houston Photobloggers site has now joined the ever expanding family of photobloggers.org sites.  You can find us online at houston.photobloggers.org (many thanks to Brandon for the help and support).

If you are a photoblogger in the Houston area or Texas in general and want to contribute, join in on the discussion, organize photo outings, post pictures or be linked in our blogroll, we'd love to hear from you!  Contact details and FAQs are posted on the site.

We hope this will be a wonderful start to a strong Houston photoblogging community and a great place to share ideas, news and photography related events in htown.

Cheers,

Ninds, Laanba and Saroy

Greetings Fellow Photobloggers,
It is my pleasure to announce that the July, 2005 issue of Photoblogs Magazine is now available on-line at http://www.photoblogsmagazine.org .
We feel we've put together an outstanding collection of work by photobloggers from across the globe, all of whom are members of photoblogs.org. There's also a new html format available, in addition to our usual pdf design.
Please stop by and have a look at what our fellow community members have created; and if you like what you see, take a moment to subscribe (for free) so that you too can submit work for the September issue.
Thank you all, once again, for your tremendous support and encouragement with this project,
Matt

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!

Attention NYC Photobloggers: without furder ado, we present to you nyc.photobloggers.org!  We join an esteemed group of cities proud to carry the photobloggers.org domain name.  You will find we have already begun populating the site with content, so all you to do is join in on the discussions!

If you are a NYC-area photoblogger, we want to hear from you!

The site was made possible thanks to the generosity of Jake Dobkin (hosting and guidance), the masterful design of Rion Nakaya (site layout), the encouragement of Brandon Stone, and the many contributors who volunteered to keep you informed of the many events and topics relative to NYC.

Thank you all for your hard work!

By the way, we can always use more contributors.  If you are interested, send us an e-mail at nycphotobloggers [at] gmail.com!

Greetings All,
I'm excited to announce that the May, 2005 Issue of Photoblogs Magazine is now available on-line at http://www.photoblogsmagazine.org .
It gives me great pleasure to present the work of Massimo Marengo , Zishaan Hayath , Whit Wagner, John Mulhouse , Sarah Graybeal , and Pablo Montanez; all outstanding photographers and photobloggers, to be sure. I’m hoping that their photography, words, and courage to put their work on the line will encourage many more of you to submit work for future issues.
Also, congratulations to Bernard Mataigne (1st place), Luke Winter (2nd place), and George Butler II (3rd place), in our first Photoblogs Magazine Photo Contest. Go here to see the photos and text.
Nitsa (who presides over this contest) received a tremendous response for this first challenge, and is looking forward to the next round. If you would like to help Nitsa figure out what to do with all of her free time, you may consider submitting a photo for this next challenge. Find out how here.
If you like what you see, please take a moment to subscribe to the magazine (for free) so that you are eligible to submit work and receive updates, etc.
Thanks for your tremendous support and encouragement,
Matt

Calling all Los Angeles Photobloggers!
After a few technicalities getting the losangeles.photobloggers.org domain setup with my host, we finally have the site up and running. Thanks to Nitsa for posting our first real post and also thanks to Brandon, Susan and Whit for their help and moral support. Now the fun part. If you're a photoblogger in the Los Angeles or surrounding areas (or know someone who is), then drop by and let us know. At the very least, we want to add you to the blogroll, but what we really need are contributors to post news and stories.

Update: After a shaky start this morning, the crashed database server seems to be up and running! Let's cross our fingers that that doesn't happen too often.

Los Angeles Photobloggers