Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

First, I hope everyone here in the US, and Americans abroad had a nice Thanksgiving Holiday. I enjoyed a week off with my family.
The Stock Asylum has posted the text of a speech given by Roger Ressmeyer, President of the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) called, “The Storm before the Calm“.
This is a worthy [...]

Major stock photo player, Getty Images, has announced a new plan allowing photographers to place images on their site for two years. It’s a basic pay-to-play arrangement. But I’m not upset about this. I’m not even the one who is upset.
After the announcement by Getty about their new program, many industry newsgroups had a flurry [...]

The New York Times has reported on the troubles of a sports artist down ‘bama way. (That’s Alabama, btw.) It seems our esteemed artist has made a bit of a career painting scenes of “The Crimson Tide” university football team. He’s an alumni, he has several kids that attend the school, and now he can’t [...]

Photo: Deer skins on a dumpster, Kanab, Utah.

I admit it. Ok; two things…First, I’m not a hunter, never have been. Doesn’t mean I’m anti-hunting. Had I grown up in Wyoming or Montana, I’m sure I’d know this, but I’m clueless why hunters would leave these skins? Don’t they have any value?
I’ve had deer meat. Didn’t [...]

Check me on this distance thing:
The oldest stars in the universe are some 14 Billion Light years away. That’s 186,000 miles per second, times however many seconds there are in a year, times 14,000,000,000.
And yet, some scientests calculate the nearest parallel universe is only 1/10,000,000,000,000 of a millimeter away from every point in space.
So, which [...]

I just read via a link from one of my photo forums, a very interesting take on the vanishing middle-class photographers, and how technology has opened the flood gates for competition, and the lack of perceived value from the vendor side has impacted our profession. It’s fairly long and packed with comments, but worth a [...]

It the best tradition of internet sharing, this came to me by a buddy on a private photo group. I want to pass it along and ask that if you have any good ones to contribute, please add it to the list using the comment form. Thanks.
25 (and growing) Photographic Truths. (This may be [...]

Picture: Fall colors on tree below the Watchman, Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah

This month’s Photo of the Month is as fresh as they get, only a few days old, and from my recent trip to Utah. This is from the most well known icon spot in the park, but minus the river and the [...]

Photo: Cattle Guard waring sign along dirt road in the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument, near Tuweep, Arizona.

I just got back from a nine day local excursion to the Kanab / Grand Canyon / Zion region of southern Utah & northern Arizona. I have a personal affinity for driving down dirt roads, and this one [...]