Hot Updates!!!!!!!

Time Borrows Photo Inspiration from NBA Ad Campaign
The NBA campaign features split images of NBA players with the tag line "There Can Only Be One," just like the Time cover of Clinton and Obama.



PentaxPhotoGallery.com Nominated for Best Use of Photography for Annual Webby Awards
The site is the singular vision of Ned Bunnell , president of PENTAX Imaging Company and a passionate photographer in his own right.



Photographer's Return to Her Muse--NYC-- Reignites Her Ability to Transform Urban Scenes into Theatrical Dramas
Jill Freedman, now 68, is a Leica shooter whose pictures are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the International Center of Photography.



Canon Plants The Seed For New Forest Program from May to August
Beginning this spring, for every 10 new and existing Canon Green products registered, the company will plant a tree and offer consumers the opportunity to take part in several volunteer programs that will help to revitalize urban parks, gardens and public lands.



Other World Computing Builds Green Headquarters
Designed to meet LEED platinum (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards.



Strobist Blog about Lighting Photos Hits it Big
He jotted down some ideas and posted a blog to show how any beginning photographer could get beyond ordinary shots by using inexpensive, $300 flashes, just like pros.



Aerial Photography Perfected by Kite
After 20 years of this sport, he has just released a picture book aptly titled "Hanging by a Thread, A Kite's View of Wisconsin."



Noritsu and Epson to Establish Business Alliance to Further Consolidate/Develop Printing Businesses
The board of directors of each company approved the proposed alliance at their respective April 21st meetings.



Kodak Names Its First Chief Blogger
Company extends its approach to product innovation with company's first chief blogger.



Sony's Latest Digital Imaging Products 'Tumble' Into Spotlight With New HD Campaign
Sony has developed interactive content around the spot that will be housed on a dedicated web site that launched on April 21 and will include behind-the-scenes footage of the film.



New Search Engine Launches for Photographers
Site makes it easy for photo buyers to quickly find photographers based on location and/or specializations.

Ken McCoy.TV goes online Today.

Photo By : James Ranells

KenMcCoy.TV

Syndicated photojournalist, Ken McCoy has collaborated with some of the largest media companies to create a internet television portal called KenMcCoy.TV powered by KLCHTV. In additon to his syndicated radio show the "Ken McCoy Entertainment Report(TM)", the television show will have video feeds to some of the biggest news stories in the world of entertainment including the Grammys, Academy Awards, BET Programming, Christian Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards with selected celebrities and entreprenuers from all over the world. Video feeds will come in daily from trusted news sources including Associatad Press, BBC,TV Guide, ABC News ,to name a few. " The donation and advertiser funded site will also act as a digital training facility for young people looking to pursue broadcasting and digital media in the real world as career goals",according to McCoy. To donate to our youth program contact me directly via email. Thank you.
Photo seminars and workshops will soon be recorded as well as photographic programming and training. Note: Some of the images on the site will be stock images taken while traveling.
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New Web Site---- Must See!!!!!!

Friends and Colleagues,

For those who don't know, photobetty is a community of
women mostly photojournalists, spotlighting strong
work by sister shooters, and keeping in touch with
each other and the world, via a website
(www.photobetty.com) and listserv. It was founded by
Stephanie Sinclair, former shooter for the Chicago
Tribune, now freelancing in Bagdad. Now Serena Stucke,
a Columbia College grad
working in NYC, is its chief content editor and
contributor.

She's just posted 3 new stories about 3 women working
on underreported stories about people in Afghanistan,
Kurdistan and Azerbaijan. Their images are beautiful, horrifying and familiar...sometimes all three at once. Captions pop-up when you put your cursor on the enlarged pictures.

So many thoughts and emotions are inspired by these
picture stories.

See below and check it out.

Karen Kring

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This in from Serena from www.photobetty.com:

This month's photographers are not only international, award-winning photojournalists, but they are shooting stories that cover regions and situations that have been largely underreported.

I am very proud to be showing photojournalist Jean
Chung's most recent work from Afghanistan (http://www.photobetty.com/jeanchung), as she has recently won the CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage. She shares with us an intimate story on a young Afghan mother giving birth and dying from the complications associated with it--a situation that is all too common for women in Afghanistan.

The second Spotlight feature comes from a wonderful
emerging documentary photographer Anastasia
Taylor-Lind
(http://www.photobetty.com/anastasia-taylor-lind).
Anastasia documented a small band of Kurdish guerrilla
fighters called the Peshmerga Force for Women who make
up a third of the PKK--a pretty surprising fact! Her
story comes at a time of relevance as the PKK's
presence in northern Iraq remains a critical issue in
Turkish politics.

Our final new story is shot by social documentary
photographer Rena Effendi (http://www.photobetty.com/renaeffendi), who has been a winner of the Fifty Crows International Fund for Documentary Photography competition and was selected as one of PDN's 30 Emerging Photographers. Rena 's series of images focus on the internally displaced people in her own country of Azerbaijan. Her images give a voice to the widely forgotten about refugees and their inhuman living conditions that persist.

New Alliance Formed!!!!! More to Follow!!!!!!

Major announcement in the photography area to follow .... keep watching this Blog!

Ken To Report "Live" on France 24 Network-

I was called to LA, for a Breaking News story for France 24 Network. It will be live Via Satellite to Paris,France... More on the Blog with Photos from the Assignment " Captured" on Monday. This is Hot!!!! Here is the scoop: Its on Floyd Landis ( 2006 Tour De France Winner)