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Win a signed 10×7 Fine Art Photo from Jonathan!

The rules are simple: 1 – Visit my Facebook Jonathan Kingston | Photographer Artist Page HERE. 2 – Click the ‘Like’ button. Thats it!  You’re entered to win. Winners will be announced on my Facebook artist page every Friday for the next month or so.  The weekly winner gets to choose any photo from my [...]

Bring out the band – The nomad’s new website is live!

Halleluja!  After obsessing for the last couple weeks in front of the computer to solve the problem of balancing a tightly edited website featuring a current portfolio of my work while still allowing art buyers to search older classic images, I have implemented a two pronged solution.  For anyone wishing to while away a few [...]

The story of Vivian Maier

A friend sent me this link to the story of Vivian Maier, a Chicago nanny who took more than 100,000 photos during her lifetime and never showed them to anyone.  She recently passed away and her photography has been discovered.  Some say she may rank among the top street photographers of the 20th century.

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.