Liz's Photography Blog

For the second year in a row, photographs have beat out paintings to win Kirkland's Next Great American Artist Competition. Last year, Brooke Boyer's image of a tree in ... Read More

Did you know you can view images from the Library of Congress on Flikr? Through a pilot program called The Commons, the Library of Congress has partnered with Flikr ... Read More

Leading up to PMA 2008 (the photography equivalent to the Consumer Electronics Show), Canon and Pentax have both announced new cameras and lenses. Canon has announced the new Rebel XSi with ... Read More

Remember there is still time to enter the rule of thirds assignment. The deadline for this assignment is January 31st at 10PM Eastern Time. We have some really ... Read More

Many of us use cameras that run on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Keeping spare batteries with us is more of a habit than on our to-do list. When traveling, ... Read More

We've previously discussed the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition and the amazing quality of the photographs entered in the contest from around the world. The 2008 ... Read More

This week we got a bit closer to our feathered friends. From pet birds to waterfowl to raptors, our members shot it all. Along the way we learned valuable lessons ... Read More

This assignment marks the beginning of a new assignment schedule and new rules. New Schedule Assignments will now be twice a month. The first assignment will run from the 1st through ... Read More

"Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860", is a collection of 120 images made from paper negatives by about 40 photographers. One of the photographers of these ... Read More

And the winner this week is Bryan Scarbrough (1computerguy)! Well Done! This week we reveled in the cold instead of hiding from it. We had a lot very good and ... Read More

This week the assignment theme is one near and dear to my nature photographer heart. This week's assignment is "birds." No, not the obscene hand gesture, the feathered ... Read More

When digital photography first came out, photographers were ecstatic about the instant gratification of seeing what they just shot within seconds. Even more than Polaroid's instant printing, digital photography ... Read More

You've probably heard a story of someone being harassed or even detained for taking photographs in public. One of our own forum members recently had a minor confrontation with ... Read More

And the winner is...csd619! Congrats! Another week of really hard decisions. We had a lot very good and very creative entries this week. Remember that more than just ... Read More

It is a brand new year and that year is cold! The vast majority of the United States and a large portion of Europe is very cold today. ... Read More