A research project aimed at martens has turned up a bigger prize: a picture of a wolverine, an elusive animal scientists feared may have been driven out of the Sierra Nevada long ago by human activity.The discovery could affect land-use decisions if the wolverine is declared an endangered species, a step the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering, although the animals typically live at high elevations where th
Photoshelter on Tuesday March 4th released a Flickr Importer to enable Flickr members to migrate their photographs to their service. The import function is hardly as noteworthy as the export function of the tool which allows Photoshelter members to export watermarked images to Flickr. In an odd twist reported on March 5th Flickr disabled the ability of Photoshelters Importer to function. The exact reason the importer
Today Getty Images announced that they’re sealing the deal on a take over by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion including debt. This isn’t much of a surprise as Getty has been shopping themselves around for a while as their stock price has continued to fall. Considering the difficulties they’ve been having I’m surprised at the 39% premium that is being offered even if
I have to admit when I see a beautiful landscape or nature photo I instantly think two things: 1. “I’d love to visit this location and get this shot.” 2. “How would I strive to get my very own perspective of this scene.” In fact when I do visit certain locations its tough not to snap the classic perspective captured by greats such as Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Edward Weston, and contempo
So you’ve got this incredible image that you’ve got to show the world. Not only are you going to share it with your friends online, but you’re also going to enter it in a contest or two to win some fabulous prizes. Well before you do I recommend reading the fine print, that includes the the Terms of Use (ToU) for web sites and Contest Rules for, you guessed it, photo contests. One of the most underh
Photography Bay has dug up an interesting patent filed by Canon regarding “Iris Registration”. The patent titled “PICTURE TAKING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME” (Pub. No.: US 2008/0025574 A1) details a mechanism for a camera to capture an image of a photographers iris and embedding it in the pixel data of the images they take. “Another object of the present invention is to prov
It’s official I’m back from my trip to Maui. The weather was rather stormy making landscape work challenging, but it was a peak season for Humpback whales sightings. Approximately 10,000 whales were congregating between Maui, Lanai and Moloka’i. The whales are the star attraction this time of year and have become the focus of a lot of ecotourism activities. Locally a great balance has been struck be
ASMP (American Society of Media Professionals) held the first of its four weekend conferences Strictly Business 2 this past weekend in Los Angeles. In fact I just got in from the airport and decided that it was such a valuable experience that I’d immediately write a review about it. The last time the “Strictly Business” event was held was roughly 10 years ago and many of the then attendees have beco