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Fifteen Minutes

Old media passes hanging around.

You don’t need a lot of preparations to create photographs. In fact you don’t need anything other than a camera to capture them, a computer to edit them and a little time to put something together. I was supposed to be out shooting the other day but bad weather meant the shoot was postponed. Instead, I cued up some vintage Stones and grabbed a camera and 50mm lens to shoot a bit while lunch was in the oven. The following were all photographed my lunch was heating. Are they likely to win awards? No, but that’s not the point. The point is that photographic opportunities are right at hand at all times.
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Lightroom Publishing Services

KLCC Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

KLCC Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

One of the new features that came along with Lightroom 3 was the Publishing Services panel in the Library module. Essentially, it allows for a direct connection between images in your Lightroom catalog and various photo-sharign and social media websites, as well as local hard drives. When Lightroom 3 was first released, your local hard drive and Flcikr were the only two included options but the recent update to Lightroom 3.2 adds Facebook and SmugMug to that list.
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Focus For Humanity NGO Assignment Fellowship

Feeling Blue. Kompong Phlukk, Cambodia 2006

Focus For Humanity is a US-based non profit foundation that seeks to provide financial support, resources and training to photographers who are working to capture stories and images depicting the globe’s shared humanity and to assist in funding their work with NGOs.

Their second grant is now open for submissions. The NGO Assignment Fellowship 2010 will provide up to $15 000 of funding for a specific assignment that is to be a collaboration between a working photographer and an under funded NGO, The grant is open to photographer’s who are already involved in the photography business and have an existing client base that ideally includes NGOs.

Focus for Humanity - helping photographers to focus on Humanity

Submissions must be received by the end of October, with a grant winner to be announced by judges before mid-December.

If you meet the eligibility for this award, get over to the FFH website, register and make your submission today. This is a fantastic opportunity for a working photographer and NGO.

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