Bedtime for Miss Sloth

Anything can be beautiful if you just use a bit of imagination and creativity.

NEW ARTIST OPPORTUNTIES

Here are opportunities to submit images to a juried book competition. The juror is Doug Beasley. The selected images will become part of a published book that will contain photography, poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Click on the images below for more information, or go to: Open 2 Interpretation.

Photographer Bill Cunningham

A camera club member alerted us to a film being shown about New York photographer Bill Cunningham. The film has been shown once, but a repeat showing is scheduled for Tuesday April 26th at 9:45 pm. Click on the image below to learn more about this production.

It is being put on by the Minneapolis/St. Paul International film festival. The festival is showing 170 films from producers in over 50 countries. To learn more about this festival go to: MSPFILM.

DxOMark - Sensor rankings

DxOMark - Sensor rankings will show where your camera, or the camera you are interested in, may be in sensor rank. "DxOMark provides four different scores to rank camera sensors at RAW level: The Sensor Overall Score, showing the performance for a general purpose use case, the Portrait Score based on Color Depth, the Landscape Score based on Dynamic Range and the Sports Score based on Low-Light ISO."

Its worth a look.

Still Imaging is now optimized for mobile phones

If you use a smart phone, the Camera Council's blog has now been designed to be easily seen on mobile devices.

FSTOP SWAP

The Fstop Swap will be held next weekend in the Brooklyn Park community center. It is held twice each year in the Minneapolis area. It features used camera and related equipment, as well as, collectible prints.

For more information about this event and it's location go to http://www.fstopswap.com/.

Vivian Maier, update - new book expected this Fall

Street Photographer, Vivian Maier: Ms Maier lived into her 80’s and recently passed. Her work was accidently discovered last year and it is truly amazing. The first articles started showing up in late 2010 and news of her work spead quickly through the photography community, but now a new book is expected in Fall, 2011. I suspect it will be a great sell for the publisher.....

Getting warmer - buff up those cameras and get ready!