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Google Apps makes life better for professional photographers

It has been nearly two years since I migrated my business to Google Apps, and I can’t say enough good things about their service.  My spam has gone to almost zero, I have push contacts, calendar and email to my phone, and now Google is rolling out a service that will allow me to send [...]

Google sync for the iPhone!!

Read all about it here!! There are two drawbacks that both have a workaround for wireless syncing. Your iPhone will wirelessly sync beautifully with your Google address book and calendar, however, it will no longer sync with your Apple address book or iCal.  What a drag!  Thankfully there is a workaround posted here for the address book issue (be sure [...]

MobileMe and Exchange alternatives for the iPhone using Google Apps

As a photographer who spends a lot of time on the road, the iPhone has been a big blessing with its window to the web capabilities.  During my pre-iPhone life I never had to worry about keeping things like email, calendars and address books in sync — because I worked off of one computer.  Now [...]

Inbox Zero

Here is a brilliantly simple idea for managing the deluge of emails that make the world go round these days.  I was skeptical of the idea until i tried it.  Believe me, it works.   It takes an hour to watch the presentation below  (or half an hour for just the meat),  but will save [...]

Action Reaction at Aurora Photos

My agency, Aurora Photos, has just launched a first-class project titled Action:Reaction. The project starts with one photographer who conceives, shoots and delivers a photograph to Aurora with no restrictions on what that photograph might be. The photograph is then passed on to the next randomly selected photographer for their reaction in the form of [...]

Much needed keywording help for photographers

This week, a lifeline appeared on the keywording front when Cradoc Software, makers of the much loved FotoBiz, released a product called fotoKeyword Harvester.

The Global Food Crisis

The Washington Post is doing an very good series on the global food crisis here, click through to view the pieces from that series.  Ethanol is not a answer to our energy independence or the climate crisis, especially when it contributes to, in the words of the Washington Post, a “Silent Tsunami” of hunger worldwide.

Mentor – Paul Liebhardt

The first and second jobs I had out of Brooks Institute of Photography were directly due to Paul Liebhardt. While there were many instances during my first job in India that I couldn’t decide whether he was playing an elaborate joke with me as the unwitting victim, Paul set me on a trajectory that I have been following to this day.

MARCUS BLEASDALE ON THE CONGO

Tremendous story here by Marcus Bleasdale, VII and Media Storm on the terribly sad events happing in the Congo.

PHOTOGRAPHIC GPS GEOTAGGING – A GREAT STEP FORWARD

Last year I had the privilege to work with National Geographic photographer Flip Nicklin, videographer Jason Sturgis and whale researcher Jim Darling in Maui. Along with a few other dedicated people, they facilitate research forThe Whale Trust – an organization that supports marine research, education and conservation.

DREAMER – JONATHANKINGSTON (DOT) COM IS UPDATED

Nine years ago this January that I dropped everything and moved across the country to attend photo school. I can’t believe almost a decade has passed since that decision, for as I sat down to redesign kingstonimages the memory of pressing the shutter in almost every one of the frames is so clear it could have been yesterday.