Science and engineering visualization contest winners (images)

The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the 2011 winners of a contest to create the best visualizations in the fields of science and engineering.

11 worst businesses to start in 2012

About 600,000 new U.S. businesses start each year, so maybe you're figuring 2012 in the year you join the crowd.But wait, about half the startups close within five years. Yet some types of businesses have much greater odds of survival than others. Click on the photo above for the 11 worst...

Open Season: Comfort from one outdoorsman to another

In this field, where we outdoor writers are often misread and misjudged as blood-thirsty types, who kill game and fish for sport and boast of such deeds, John D. Silva of Wareham is just the opposite. He writes for On the Water Magazine. I'm sure you've...

College offers course in iPhone photography

London colleges are planning to offer a first in photography - a course dedicated to the iPhone.

Photography trade associations weigh in on Cariou versus Prince case

new york. Cariou versus Prince is shaping up as the most significant still-photography copyright case in perhaps a century, as two trade associations representing the twin giants of image licensing—Corbis and Getty Images—as well as other photo...

Special blood drive set today

The American Red Cross is reporting lower donations than expected since the start of 2012.  O blood types are particularly low, but all blood types are needed.

Spotlight: New Photography members welcome

Whether it’s through still life, landscapes, or other types of photos, anyone looking to improve his or her picture-taking skills can join High Prairie’s photography club, which has been in existence since the spring of 2011.

Shutterstock Surpasses 200 Million Global Stock Image Downloads

NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock ( www.shutterstock.com ), a leading global marketplace for stock photography , vectors , illustrations and footage , today announced that it has surpassed ...

Stocktrek Images Reveals New Collection of Classic Warbird Photography

Stocktrek Images, the well-known online stock photography agency based in Orlando, Florida, revealed its new collection of classic warbird airplanes today. Its Warbirds Gallery represents fighter planes spanning the period from World War I (1914) until the end of the Korean War (1953) and postwar era. The photographs are available to the public for immediate licensing and use through Stocktrek’s ...

Art: Under 95 to quite a bit higher for Strauss

Zoe Strauss is a genius - not at photography, at which she's merely talented, but at marketing. She developed one brilliant concept, an annual outdoor exhibition of her work under the I-95 elevated expressway in South Philadelphia, then parlayed that into inclusion in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and now into a mid-career retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.