Weekend Perusing: Geeky New Media

Photo Contests

Thanks to Fraction Magazine for pointing out Blurb’s photography book contest. It’s a big prize so I may end up finally putting a book together.

In the Photoblogosphere

Glamour Apprentice asks Are you a Geek Photographer? Admittedly I go back and forth with this.

In case you don’t already read Strobist, David Hobby did some photos at the Large Hadron Collider. Lucky dog! I would kill to go there. No really.

As many of you who follow me on flickr know, I just got an iPhone and have been having fun with the camera that everyone seems to hate so bad. I’ve had some good pictures come out, some okay pictures, and some really bad ones as well. But I haven’t yet produced pictures with an iPhone like these. They are stunning.

Over at Two Way Lens there’s a great interview with Jessica Todd Harper. You have to see the images. She’s a fantastic photographer who’s images I’ve seen elsewhere so I was very glad to see the interview.

A big congratulations to John Keatley who got his first billboard ad campaign up. Very cool to see one of your photos on a giant billboard, indeed.

If you’re a photographer that blogs or is into “new media” then you should head over to New Media Photographer where there’s a short post on wordpress themes. I used to struggle with that stuff early on so I completely understand how nerve racking that can be.

Over at Thoughts of a Bohemian you can find a great think piece on the current state of photographic selling online and how we may need to take fresh perspective, if you aren’t already.

Photographs

I love these photos over at {tribal}. You have to check them out.

Art

Daniel Sroka is an artist who’s thoughts I’ve been following for a while now and I loved this piece on Surving as an Artist in a Bad Economy.  It’s a blog I would recommend adding to your feed reader.

In Your Photo Tips News

We are currently running the March Photography Contest thanks to our sponsor Edge Tech Corp. U.S. residents only for this one.

The Photography Book Club book for the month of March is The BetterPhoto Guide to Expsoure thanks to Watson-Guptill Publications for the book to review.  We finally got a reader submitted review for last month’s book and it was great!  I want to see more of those.  They don’t have to be current books (although that would be nice) they could be reviews of books that we’ve already covered.  If you bought the book because of the review and loved or hated the book then send me a review and I’ll post it.  If you have a blog that you maintain and would like to post it on you blog and have me link to it from the Photography Book Club page than I most certainly will!  Use the contact page.

As you know, this is my favorite section of all.  Your images for all to enjoy!

Special thanks to Brian Auer of Epic Edits for helping me with the reformatting of this particular section.

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