Landscape, Nature And Travel Photography

The fourth episode of EXIF and Beyond has been released. This is video podcast and can be viewed or downloaded via iTunes:
EXIF and Beyond: Art Wolfe Interview Part II
Prolific nature, landscape and travel photographer Art Wolfe provides a tour of his gallery and discusses specific images on display there.

Interview photos provided by Karon Psillas

For the non-iTune listeners a streaming version of this podcast can be accessed here.

Enjoy and by all means feel free to pass on feedback.

Previous podcast episodes can be found at EXIFandBeyond.com

Its a safe bet that Homer doesn’t look like this today, but during the summer its one of the most beautiful places.

Adobe has updated its web site and now includes the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom product page. In addition to this update on the Adobe page Rob Galbraith has added an article on his site covering some of the differences between Beta 4.1 and Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. As if that weren’t enough an Adobe press release has come out detailing pricing details and release date information. Expect the initial price to be set at $199 through April 30, 2007 and the application to be released February 19, 2007.

The online edition of the Smithsonian Magazine has a great article Antarctica Erupts!, with incredible photos and video, of the actively erupting Mount Erebus on Antarctica. If you haven’t seen it yet check it out. The photos of the ice tower fumaroles and video of the ice blue lava is amazing.

After a long week I’m looking forward to the weekend. Catching up on sleep like this bear might be in the cards.

Webshots representatives, much to their credit, have promptly addressed concerns raised about sketchy search engine optimization (SEO) practices in my earlier post “Webshots.com & Seemingly Dirty Tactics or Overture Bug?”

The reason provided for the unexplained “sponsored ad” behavior…
1. Yahoo! (Overture) sponsored ads will display natural search results when there are a lack of paid advertisers.
2. Webshots code did not support linking these types of ads in all instances breaking the link to the referenced site.
Note: At the time of this post Webshots code has yet to be updated, but will be shortly to address this concern along with other scheduled updates.
Kudos to Webshots for taking on my question/feedback (albeit rough around the edges).

Fellow photographers, the lesson learned, if you see similar behavior on other sites double check that your site might be coming up through this natural search feed on Yahoo! (Overture) links and when in doubt contact the administrators of the site in question directly.

As an extension of my initial post Take Action Immediately To Protect Anza-Borrego Desert State Park From Being De-Designated Wilderness
I wanted to relay additional information received from Linda Carson at the Anza-Borrego Foundation.

The following link is a great resource to find out about the formal application and public meetings on the proposal. There are numerous in early February.

SDG&E Sunrise Powerlink Project: Home

A photographer I respect a great deal, Guy Tal, recently noticed that Webshots has stripped code from his web site and added it to image search results to create a fake sponsor link. This very deceptive and surely unethical if not illegal practice promotes Webshots search standings, while stealing eyes from Guy’s web site ScenicWild.com. Guy has assured me that he takes no part in promotional programs to advertise through Overture (which this is veiled as). I’m pretty shocked at the practice and would be curious to hear how Webshots justifies this.
More info can be found on Guy’s blog.

The link to the page in question
The Code from the page source:

Screencaptures…
Note the status bar at the bottom showing the link back to the page currently loaded. A very dirty trick.

The top of the page in question… Webshots… and the explanation is?