The Week of Change and Excitement!
I have to say this last week has been pretty exciting!  To start off I did a podcast interview with Cannon Blogger Jason Anderson from Learning Digital Photographer titled Episode 34: How Low Can You Go; head over and listen to me sounding goofy!  I swear I never get used to listening to myself…… Next as many of you have noticed the look and feel of my blog has changed! 

B&H in Hot Water Again; Do You Have What it Takes to Say No?
B&H, a well know supplier of all things photographic is once again in trouble for discrimination.  Some of you might recall that Last March B&H paid out $4.3 million to 150 Latino workers because they were denied equal pay, benefits and promotions all because they were well Latino…  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought that suit forward and started a 5 year plan to monitor B&H’s activities; sadly it doesn’t sound like B&H has straightened up.  This time around B&H is be

Female Photographers and Dumb Blond Syndrome…
I have to confess that I’m appalled at some of the things I’ve seen come out of a few female photog’s. I wrote an article about sexism in the photo industry and one of my commenter’s who goes by Jason pointed out  “The thing that I noticed about the comments was that around half of the ones that talked about women not being able to understand the technology came from women… that is a far larger problem, to my mind.”  I told him that I planned on doing an article on that topic and here we are.   He was correct you see a lot of comments coming out of some women demonstrated dumb blond syndrome and it made me grind my teeth.  I cannot even compreh

Call for Art – Poster Contest; Are They Serious?
Today I open up my email and see I got a new call for art sitting there for my local area.  Oh goody I think, what it coming up, I hope it’s something real good!  That lasted all of a couple of minute.  I’m reading along nodding my head and you know what I can’t find?  Here I’ll let you read it see if you can tell me what’s missing:   Call for Art – Poster Contest – 2010 Bellevue Home Show Deadline: Nov. 22nd The 2010 Bellevue Home Show organizers are looking for local artists to participate in an exclusive poster contest. We’re looking for artwork that will be used to market and promote the 28th annual Bellevue Home Show.

Did You Know Photographers are not Authors?
Yup that is correct photographers are not authors; don’t shoot me I’m just the messenger!  This is what Judge Denny Chin’s opinion is about photography… In the class action lawsuit brought by The Authors Guild against Google , Judge Chin has ruled that only the written word and children’s illustrations can be included the lawsuit.  ASMP, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Nature Photographers Association, and some individual photographers all petitioned the court to include photograp