It's too late to enter but check out some of the finalists in the Smithsonian 3rd Annual Photo Contest, there are some beautiful shots in there.

Thanks to Alex for the link.

The Camera Truck is the world's largest mobile camera, a giant pinhole camera housed in a truck that is currently touring Spain, using the giant images to take "nature's portrait".

The website is a little hard to navigate and there doesn't seem to be a single place where you can view a gallery of images but the images I did find look amazing, this one for example.

Thanks to Faisal for the link.

The theme of web legends/photobloggers/publishers Heather Powazek Champ and Derek Powazek's latest JPG Magazine is "Photography is Not a Crime". Issue number 5 begins their second year of publication, and is now available for sale at Lulu. From JPG's website:

The theme, "Photography is Not a Crime," is a rallying cry. It's meant to remind everyone that amateur photographers are the documentarians of real life. We capture our world to help us understand it. We are not a threat.

The issue contains 31 photographer's takes and stories on the theme, NYC subway photography by Edmund Leveckis, Shane Lavalette's Family Portrait Project, an interview with attorney Bert Krages, and a special clip-out Photographer's Right Bust Card.

Our rights as photographers is a topic that is repeatedly being challenged in our everyday encounters and frequently discussed in the photoblogging community. There is currently another example of how relevant this theme is at the NYC Photobloggers website. Hopefully the ongoing discussion and tools such as the current JPG issue will help someone out there know what do to when their rights are challenged.

Thank you Heather, Derek, and all of the inspiring photographers in the issue for addressing this topic head on. Check out the preview at JPG Magazine, and remember that photography is NOT a crime!

View Daniel's gallery of photographs from his trip to Chernobyl here.

Abandoned Beds, Chernobyl by Hmmm (profile)

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The Picture of the Year competition winners have been announced. It's well worth a look, there are some wonderful images that I haven't seen in other similar competitions.

Ariela and Peter have written to let us know that the first issue of Bending Light Magazine is available featuring the theme 'colour'.

Submissions are open for the next issue with the theme 'angst'.

The online photography magazine ak47 has re-emerged with a new issue for January/February, featuring amongst others Eliot Shepperd of photoblog slower.net. Check it out, I particularly liked the twos and threes series.

From JPG Magazine.

JPG Magazine Issue 4: No Theme is now available! For the final issue of our first year, we decided to take a break from the usual theme. We just asked for your best photos of 2005. And we got 'em!

Inside issue 4 you'll find 35 amazing photographs, an interview with Youngna Park and Zach Klein about their "Candy Cane for Your Portrait" project, and a set of brilliant lomos by featured photographer, Kevin Meredith.

+ Submissions open for Issue 5: Photography is Not a Crime

In a post 9/11 age of paranoia and suspicion, public photography has become threatening, even criminal. And we here at JPG are sick of it.

For Issue 5, we're asking you to go out in public and take photos. Insist on your rights as a photographer. Shoot where people tell you not to. And, of course, send the best one to us. Submissions are open now until January 15, 2006.

todayspictures.slate.com

Ok, not quite a photoblog, but Slate magazine is publishing a daily selection of photographs from Magnum's collection, and it's well worth checking out, there's no finer collection in the world.

video pablokorona | audio Justin Ouellette

A simply beautiful vignette shot "whilst in transitional limbo at an airport." I would love to see more of this type of collaboration. Fantastic job, you two. [Link]