DIY: The classic string tripod

Every photographer I know has a bone to pick with poor light and shaky frames. Here's a much honed technique from instructables.com that puts together a very impressive tripod from pretty much nothing more than a string. Handy, unbelievably easy to make and fits into your jacket pocket.

Put the butts into photography

image credit: wwarby

"Call it what you like, caboose, bum or bottom - its inclusion on film can make a photograph. Have a look at this collection - no ifs or ands, but quite a few butts."

Where is Waldo?

Every artist was first an amateur.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement.

Story Of The Day - Nov 25, 2008

Brucia
Party queen left in a corner.

by Elisa Romagnoli, 32, Modena

More stories in the race for $40,000 and bragging rights at the Make History site

Chalo! India

The Mori Art Museum presents its 5th anniversary exhibition, "Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art," bringing together 27 artists / artist groups from cities throughout India such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Vadodara. Contemporary art in India has been the focus of much international attention, and this exhibition examines all of its latest movements, including in painting, sculpture, photography, and installations.

Chalo! India: A New Era in Indian Art
November 22nd 2008 – March 15th 2009

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Kids With Cameras

"Zana Auntie teaches us so well that everything goes into our brain. We like doing photography so much that we forget to do our work!"

Shanti, 11

Kids with Cameras was founded in 2002 by photographer Zana Briski out of her work teaching photography to children in Calcutta's red-light district. Kids with Cameras features photographs by these children. Go over. Have a look. The kind hearted can buy a print too.

sweet baby jesus!

HOT OFF THE PRESS!!!
Starting today, over 10 million photographs from the LIFE photo archive stretching from the 1750s to today and mostly never published before are now available on Google. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am in a state of pleasant shock. Go over and have a look. Or simply add "source:life" to any Google image search and search only the LIFE photo archive. Watch that jawline drop! Did I mention in high-res?
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Story Of The Day - November 19, 2008

Shout...
"It eases the pain."

by borj, 36, angeles city

More stories at the Make History site

The Big Solemn Truth

Of course it's all luck.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson, the undisputed master of candid photography.

Ghada's Notes From India

Award-winning Bahraini photographer Ghada Khunji debuts her India photography series at Capital D Studio in Dubai later this month. Ghada's credentials are for all to see - a female photographer from the Middle East, much awarded, much traveled.

If you happen to be in Dubai between 28 and 30 November do stop over at Capial D Studios for an exhibition of her insightful and sensitive collection on India.