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WIMPY WIMPS WIMP OUT Newsworthy

WIMPY WIMPS WIMP OUT

Cnet News has a report out today that Microsoft is set to launch a new image file format to rival and replace the web and email standard, JPEG. The format, if I have this correct, is going to be called, Windows Media Photo. Umm, is it April 1st? WiMP? Oh…
Gary Crabbe
May 25, 2006
Judge this shoot NewsworthyPhotos

Judge this shoot

Photographers are best at showing only their best photos. It's rare that a member of the outside community gets to see an entire take of a given photo shoot. If anyone bothered to calculate the number frames that never see the light of day in any given year, I'm sure…
Gary Crabbe
May 10, 2006
Score One for the Writers Newsworthy

Score One for the Writers

Making headlines in national media today are reports that The DaVinci Code author, Dan Brown has won a copyright infringement lawsuit that had been filed by the two authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail. You can read the AP story at Newsday.com. This just goes to prove the old adage,…
Gary Crabbe
April 7, 2006
Score One for the Photographers Newsworthy

Score One for the Photographers

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has reported a victory for photographers against New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority. All it took was the threat of a potential lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties Union. It seems a bunch of (insert: arrogant, paranoid) transit police have been harrassing photographers…
Gary Crabbe
April 7, 2006
Ouch Thats gotta hurt CopyrightNewsworthy

Ouch Thats gotta hurt

Bummer. According to an item in last weeks PDN Newswire, a copyright infringment case brought by several noted photographers has been tossed out of court. The three photographers, several of whom I (e)know through various professional forums, sued the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a company that provides licensing for magazine…
Gary Crabbe
April 5, 2006
Best PJ 2006 NewsworthyPhotos

Best PJ 2006

The National Press Photographer Association (NPPA) has posted the 2006 Best of Photojournalism Winners. As with most news related image exhibitions, there are some very graphic images that are not appropriate for younger viewers. The very first image in the first category (PhotoJournalist of the Year) is an amazing shot…
Gary Crabbe
March 28, 2006
I want that one NewsworthyPhotos

I want that one

It's certainly a nice photo. It should be. It just set a record. Selling at Sotheby's auction house in New York for nearly $3,000,000.00, this 1904 Edward Steichen print titled, The Pond-Moonlight became the most expensive photograph ever sold. The CBC reports that the print, purchased by a private collector,…
Gary Crabbe
March 3, 2006