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The buzz around the Internet photo communities is the new and improved  Mpix.com is a winner. Ordering is much easier and their streamlined process makes it quicker to upload your images and get new products like the wall clings.
Other new products include frames, borders on prints, assembled albums (from Art Leather), and foamcore mounting of [...]

There is a great post on Strobist.com titled One-Light Real Estate Photography that details using a single strobe to light up both interior and exterior shots of a house. You’ll be impressed by the results, as David is a master of light.
What you need to pay attention to is the ease in which he got [...]

I recently found a website that lists Photo contests, Calls for Entries, and Art Shows from around the US. Visit ArtPerk.com and you can search by event type or geographical location (they wisely use the power of Google Maps).
No matter what type of photography you do you’re sure to find a number of places to [...]

For all of you suffering from NAS, here’s another item to add to your list. The Nikon D700 looks to be a scaled down D3 and has retained a lot of the nicer features. Pricing for the body looks to be $2999 USD and Nikon says they’re shipping in late July.
You can preorder a Nikon [...]

With a whole slew of improvements, Nikon Capture NX 2 looks to be the best NEF editor in town. It incorporates new Selection Control Points, dual monitor support, and a host of other features.
A few of the new or enhanced features:

Selection Control Point - kind of like layer masks
Auto Retouch Brush - quickly remove [...]

Call them Keywords, Tags, Categories, whatever you like. Just use them for cataloging your images. Keywords are probably the most important bits of Metadata available to you.
Create your own personal Keyword list
Look through your old photos. Thinks about the types of pictures you take. Think about how you would go about describing and finding photos [...]