This week, bloggers all over America were rocked when the Philadelphia Citypaper, among other news outlets, published an article indicating the city required all bloggers with any ad or affiliate links on their site to pay a fee of $300 for a “business privilege license”. There are two clear camps: those who are outraged at being taxed when they ( Read more... )

Happy Friday everyone! It’s that time of week again where I share my favorite photography and photo editing links found throughout the week! I have some really great links to share with you too, so please be sure to visit and comment on these articles!

This week’s photographic theme was Food and the Flickr group received more submissions than ( Read more... )

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Happy Friday everyone! Friday Finds is a collection of my favorite photography, photo editing and blogging links throughout the week. Every week there’s different theme and a gallery of images is presented in addition to the links!

I have to publicly thank my husband for his brilliant suggestion to have a Signs challenge for Friday Finds! I had ( Read more... )

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Happy Friday! What a week it has been! I’ve felt pretty burned out between a photography workshop, 31DBBB, work, family and other responsibilities. (Like, I totally vacuumed the other day!)

I’m glad to be bringing you another edition of Friday Finds though. This week’s theme was Sky Shots. 18 photographs were selected for display in the Sky ( Read more... )

This article was originally published as a guest post on Skinned Knees July 24, 2010. Please be sure to stop by and give Christy some love!

By November 2009 I hadn’t picked up my digital SLR in over a year. Instead, I took pictures of my two young sons with a Cannon Powershot point and shoot. It did an adequate job, but when I compared those ( Read more... )

I got my $12 close-up filter set from Amazon a few weeks ago and I haven’t used it all that much. I’m starting to think it might be good at tilt-shift-like effects because of its narrow point of focus. I can tell the quality is deteriorated. Just makes me itch to get a macro or zoom lens.

Some time last week, I took these photos of the pillow on ( Read more... )