As a photographer that photographs models, there’s two primary goals that any website that tries to connect models and photographers should aim for: 1. Assisting a photographer in finding the right model. 2. Assisting the client in finding the right photographer. All else is peripheral. The id...

Jenny Lens is an LA based photographer who has taken thousands of great early punk rock photos. She is gearing up to release a Ramones photo eBook Ramones First West Coast Tour, 1976, Highlights, V1, the first in a series of exciting, new photo eBooks from the Jenny Lens Punk Archive. The ONLY way y...

There's no denying it -- the holidays are upon us. As usual, I feel as though they snuck up while I wasn't looking. This year I've found some amazing items - from items whose proceeds contribute to a cause to wonderful clothes to goodies to pamper your body as well as your soul. Everything that I re...

( Image above by Peter Beste . You're welcome! ) The LA Weekly has a feature up about a new book with portraits of very serious Norwegian Black Metal dudes. In True Norwegian Black Metal , photographer Peter Beste captures the "blackest of the black: apolitical and anti-Christian separatist self-pre...

Photo by Walt Stoneburner Photography, good photography, is a complex and deep subject, primarily that it’s an art about making trade-offs. A while back, I wrote about The Best Photography Books Ever on Light. I’d like to now share three photography books that you need in your personal l...

My wife has a digital camera, but we hardly ever use it. As you can imagine, she uses it a lot more than I do, but even then, we barely take any pictures with it. You see, I enjoy looking at pictures, but I’m not a shutterbug in any way. Whether you enjoy looking at pictures or snapping them y...

[image: sxc] I love giveaways! I love finding and learning about new products, or discovering fun and beautiful things. I recently put out a request for giveaway prizes and the response was nothing short of amazing! For this first round we have a great selection of items for mom to be won! The next ...

Here's a nice review of the new book Punk House, which documents the squats and other punk dwellings the authors found on a cross-country trip. I crashed on a lot of sofas in houses that looked like these, and even held the lease on one at one point... Author and musician Timothy Findlen, along with...

Photo Books are a great gift idea. I once created one manually which was lots of work, never thought about the possibility to create one on the Internet before. The benefits are clearly that the photo book looks more professional but still keeps the unique touch which can be attributed to the pictur...

While I was totally occupied with Webstock over the last couple of weeks Mac stuff happened. I still haven’t caught up with it all. Phil Roy though, of NZMac.com has created a tutorial showing the process for ordering a photo book, using iPhoto. Non-Kiwi readers will wonder what the fuss is, b...