BetterPhoto.com Partners With Award-Winning Lens Manufacturer PR Web (press release), WA - Nov 14, 2005 The site offers over 50 different online photography classes, taught by world-renowned, published authors; the Winter session will begin on January 4, 2006.

Movie review: Familiar images convey a personal history in ‘Eggleston’ (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) “Why not be silent?” a filmmaker asks himself in the opening voiceover to the sublimely bleak documentary “William Eggleston in the Real World.” After a few minutes of narration, that filmmaker, Michael Almereyda, establishes that being quiet is key to […]

On a Noir and Stormy Night Stir Losers and Hustlers (New York Times) Harold Ramis’s noir thriller starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton is the holiday season’s biggest and dirtiest lump of coal. Family (The Villager) Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St., www.henrystreet.org/abronsartscenter : Community arts education for all ages in Dance, Music, Theater […]

The San Diego Photo Expo, a Full-Blown Digital Photography Festival, Kicks off Dec. 3rd and 4th at the Del Mar (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) POWAY, Calif.—-Nov. 21, 2005–Two local companies specializing in photography gear, George’s Camera & Video Exchange and Delkin Devices, Inc. , are co-sponsoring the San Diego Photo Expo Saturday […]

Photographer caught a wave to Kentucky (Louisville Courier-Journal) Life has taken Kirk Schlea from surf to turf, from batter’s boxes to starting gates. His early surfing adventures eventually landed him a photography job with “Surfer” magazine.