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As has become a yearly tradition on the JMG-Galleries blog I’m kicking off the 3rd annual blog project for you to share your best photos of the past year. Last year we had nearly 100 people take part (Best Photos of 2008 by JMG-Galleries Blog Reader’s) tripling the results from 2007 (Best Photos From 2007 by JMG-Galleries Blog Reader’s). This has proven to be increasingly popular and a great way to introduce JM

Earlier in the year I wrote a series of blog articles on Social Media including Why Social Media Matters to Photographers. Shortly after the publication of these articles I began to receive questions from  photographers concerned about the time commitment and return on investment (ROI) in relation to Social Media activity. After numerous e-mail correspondences & phone conversations explaining the non-traditional

The results are in for the Buying Prints from Your Favorite Photographers 2009 blog project. Turn out similar to last year was small, but given the economy was worse this year than last I’m happy with the degree of participation. If you decide to pick up a print, book, calendar, etc. before the end of the year feel free to drop me an email and I’ll be happy to add an addendum to the results below. In this

Before I head out to Yosemite I wanted to make sure that everyone planning on taking part in the Buying Prints from Your Favorite Photographers 2009 photo project knows the deadline has been extended to Friday December 11th. I’m hopeful this gives everyone a little more breathing room to take part in this years project and to find photo prints worthy of purchasing. Be sure to pass word on to others about the pr

The winner of the BorrowLenses.com Lens Rental Giveaway is… Kristina Jacobs Selections were made randomly thanks to the use of the random number generator at Random.org. Extra comments or entries were excluded from the random selection. 5% Discount If you didn’t win don’t forget to claim your 5% discount at Borrowlenses.com with the JMG-Galleries Blog discount code “JJJ5” sans quotation

Happy Halloween from my photo assistants! This Halloween the dogs were in great form doing as good a job in front of the camera as they normally do behind the camera. Photographed below is Moe as Captain Hook, Curly as Tinkerbell and Zoe as Peter Pan. From my family to yours, stay forever young and have a safe Halloween. (see the videos after the jump)

Borrowlenses.com has been kind enough to make available yet another free week long lens rental (excluding super telephoto lenses) to be given away here on the JMG-Galleries blog. In order to be eligible you need to: Contest open to only those in the US. Lens rentals cannot be shipped to other countries. The lucky winner will place the order online at BorrowLenses.com and they request a credit card number to cover the

It wasn’t that long ago that I ran a poll here on the JMG-Galleries blog to get your feedback on using DISQUS. The results are visible on the original post Poll: Should I keep using DISQUS on my Blog? I found it really interesting that up until the last day the vote was a dead heat. I had an even number of votes for, against and “no opinion” up until the last day and then after that I received all p