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For those that took an interest in my earlier post regarding Facebook’s revised Terms of Use “Facebook’s Terms of Use: From Bad to Beyond Worse“, news is just now coming out that Facebook has reverted to an older version of their Terms of Use dated September 23, 2008. Another notable development is that Facebook has created a Facebook Bill of Rights group to solicit feedback to future changes to the

One of the previous winners of the Epson Print Academy for the 2/21/08 Los Angeles event cannot attend. If you’re in the southern California area and would like to attend simply comment to this post and I’ll randomly select a winner to attend the track of your choice for this event. The deadline to enter is 9PM PST Thursday February 19th. The event is incredibly useful discussing not just printing workflo

Watch my full comments in this interview Watch the full KPIX report See the Latest: Facebook Terms of Use Update The latest buzz across the web in the past couple of days has been the increased awareness to the outrageous modifications to the Terms of Use (ToU) at Facebook and the impact to Creatives, particularly photographers. As a photographer who is also a web marketing and social media consultant I want to share

I’m happy to announce that JMG-Galleries.com has taken on a new look and feel and a new stock photography section has been added. In fact the stock photography section is itself a web site unto itself JMG-Stock-Photo-Video.com. Check it out and let me know what you think. I’m still putting the finishing touches on the site and will be adding several thousand more images to the existing 1200 or so photogra

Sadly the statement “Film is dead.” has been played out far too much over the past few years. While running errands in my neighborhood I noticed a long standing local photo processing business had closed its doors. The casual reader might quickly dismiss this, but I urge you not to. Why? We all read articles and inflammatory posts online about film being dead, but in this instance it really is. Yes, perha

“Mount Diablo rising above a fog filled San Francisco bay” was a little too long of a title, so I went with “Morning Brew”. Fitting as everyone settles into their Monday morning, but also because metaphorically this photo works great for a less than subtle plug. The past couple of months I’ve nearly dropped off the radar with my blogging as I’ve worked to complete a tedious project

This past Tuesday I returned to Monterey to photograph California Sea Otters and was joined by a few other photographers (semi-pro and professional). The last time out in the field photographing otters we witnessed rare behavior of California Sea Otters eating birds. This time we witnessed something so rare I doubt it will ever be repeated in my lifetime. Unfortunately for me I was 1/4 of a second too late in pressin

The 25th episode of EXIF and Beyond has been released (duration 41 min. 33 sec.). Aaron Johnson creator of the What the Duck (WTD) discusses the inspiration and evolution of this quirky and fun photography-centric comic strip. In addition topics of findings one’s passion, achieving success, and more are also discussed. Aaron’s work can be found in several locations online including: WhatTheDuck.net What t