Vote in National Geographic Photo Contest
Check out some beautiful photographs and vote for your favorites in the National Geographic Photo Contest here.  Last day to voe is December 4. One of these days, I’m going to win one of these…soon as I take the time to ENTER!

Orphan Photographs
A favorite, yet rarely-indulged pastime of mine is wandering through antique stores and vintage shops. I just love artifacts  from days gone by. Invariably, the shop will have a collection of old black-and-white photos that I will thoughtfully peruse and wonder “Who are these people? Where are their families? Shouldn’t they have these images in their [...]

Free $15 Kodak Gift code
Kodak has a free $15 promotion going on now to get you to see all the different photo gifts they have to offer.   You can use it to get prints, order photo books, mugs, and other gift items they offer.  They’re limiting it to a million giveaways, so check it out  at http://tinyurl.com/yzjss33

Discover Your Inner Picasso!
How do you express your creative yearnings? We all have creativity within us, and if you think of creativity as only being able to draw, paint, or write music, your thinking could use some expansion. I remember being in a class on Creativity with business students, and it surprised me that in this class of 30 students, [...]

Want great photos? Make them, don’t take them.
One of the first photography books I ever owned was Kodak’s classic  How to Make Good Pictures, which is an instructional manual for the novice photographer. Notice, the word is make, not take–so  even for beginners the goal is to create a picture, and not just take a picture. Here’s a great article about six photographers who [...]