Bush Administration Moves to Gut Endangered Species Act With months left in the Bush presidency an effort is underway to undermine and severely weaken the Endangered Species Act. If this is as unacceptable to you as it is to me then I urge you to take action and write your U.S. Representative and Senators urging them to oppose this legislation. The Economics of Conservation “Gretchen Daily wants to protect the
Urban Coyotes in San Francisco are again making news. Earlier in the summer another Coyote was shot and killed by California Wildlife Services in the Presidio. On top of that another Coyote was reported killed today in the Presidio after being struck by a car. Hunters shoot aggressive coyotes in Presidio – San Francisco Chronicle Word is that the San Francisco City Board of Supervisors will be taking up the top
Some very exciting services and applications launched today including a new search engine Cuil.com and Adobe Lightroom 2. Having used Adobe Lightroom 2 Beta I’ve been very impressed and opted to buy Lightroom 2 at the first notice of its availability. Unfortunately after purchasing the Lightroom 2 Upgrade per the install PDF I was unable to get the program started. I was not given the option to reference my exi
Today there was a good conversation on the subject of photo manipulation on NPR “In A Photoshop Age, Can You Believe Your Eyes?” that I highly recommend listening to if and when they put up a recording of the program. As expected the ethics of photography played heavily in the discussion with many references to last years incident with Allan Detrich of the Toledo Blade details noted in my post Ethics of P
Today Flickr announced a limited partnership with Getty to create a Flickr Stock Collection. In short you need to be discovered by Getty photo editors and additional details are forthcoming. The great folks at Getty Images and Flickr are joining forces to create a collection of royalty free, rights ready and rights managed photographs. This announcement is just the first step and there’s a lot to do before we lau
Click to Enlarge This past week the news has been full of stories about high gasoline prices, expanding domestic drilling and various politicians perspectives on the issue. Now that most every American is feeling the squeeze due to higher gasoline prices pro-oil politicians are trying their best to convince the average American that domestic drilling is the answer to their problem. Sadly nothing could be farther to t
One of the most exciting developments to occur this weekend was the landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander. Landing on the northern pole region of Mars, amazing photos were sent back detailing unusual, yet familiar looking polygonal shapes in the polar landscape. Upon seeing these photos I didn’t need to read a word on the NASA Phoenix Lander web site about what I was seeing. From my trip to the Arctic National Wil
In mid-April there was an excellent panel discussion “Copyright in a Hyper Digital Age†put on by ASMP discussing the changing landscape of Copyright law as it impacts photographers. A variety of discussions took place, but the most timely and interesting was about the Orphans Work legislation that is again being discussed in the US Congress and US Senate. No other legislation is likely to have as big of an impac