Book Review: Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon

May 26 is the late Dorothea Lange’s birthday. If you aren’t familiar with Dorothea Lange, you are probably familiar with some of her photographs from her time as a photographer with the FSA (Farm Security Administration), including one with the title: Migrant Mother, shown below.
Migrant Mother, photograph by Dorothea Lange
I finished this 560 page book, [...]

Hands-on Review of Products from AcrylicPix.com

About a month ago, I was contacted by a representative from AcrylicPix.com, a Montreal, Canada-based company that produces innovative direct-to-acrylic and direct-to-metal digital prints. I was intrigued, and asked if they would send me a few samples using images that I provided (in the case of their metal prints, they sent me a printed sample [...]

Innovative “Movie-in-a-Book” Kickstarter Project

I recently received an e-mail from Safangelo Sadeghpour who recently launched a Kickstarter project with a very interesting goal. The project’s main focus is creating a publishing system that combines the tactile feel and power of a printed color book (illustrated with high quality photography) with an audio track that is played through a website URL [...]

Recommended Photo Learning Site: Typical Shutterbug Podcast

From time to time I like to recommend outstanding blogs, podcasts, etc., and this is one of them: The Typical Shutterbug Podcast. I just listened to three recent podcasts on my iPod Touch and I highly recommend them for photographers of any level.
Victor Cajiao is someone whom I’ve known for years, and we’ve met on [...]