September 13, 2011

Everpix is a new company that wants to make your entire photo collection -- both online and offline -- accessible from anywhere through the cloud. Introduced yesterday at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference, the service will come as a desktop client that monitors folders on your computer and photo sharing accounts on the Internet. Whenever you add new photographs, they're automatically beamed to the cloud (i.e. Everpix servers), allowing images created using many different devices and stored …

Johan Rijpma spent six months creating this two and a half minute time-lapse video showing rolls of transparent adhesive tape slowly unwinding. For one of the shots, he spent hours standing in the wind and rain, turning a plate 0.4 degrees every 30 seconds and then snapping a photo. Some of the sequences took as long as 12 hours to develop.

We all knew it wasn't a question of if, but of when: a major camera review site (Imaging Resource) has published a review of a cell phone (Apple's iPhone 4) as a digital camera. The review's conclusion is positive news for camera-makers though: …

Next time you're on vacation and find yourself without a camera, try checking the mini-bar in your hotel room. Ace Hotel has announced that the mini-bar in each of their guest rooms will be stock with a refurbished Polaroid camera and limited edition packs of Ace Hotel branded Impossible Project B&W instant film. If you don't plan on staying at any of their hotels, you can also purchase the branded kits through their website for $150 each.

In 1986, Texaco's gas stations ran a promotion where you received free Fujifilm film every time you filled up with at least 25 liters of gas. That's neat and all, but my question is: where can you buy that awesome photo-snappin' car?

It looks like all the negative news stories about photographers' rights in the UK is finally causing some positive change -- private security guards across the nation are being instructed (for the first time) to exercise some common sense when stopping and questioning picture-takers: …

Photographer Michael Freeman says that although things are getting tougher for professional photographers, the "consumption of imagery in all areas is actually increasing". Professionals therefore need to think more about marketing themselves and specializing in a particular niche.

Shutterbugs is a new comedy web series geared towards photo geeks: …