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  One of the best science museums in the world and a local favorite of mine here in San Francisco,  the California Academy of Science is in the final stretch of their Natural World Photography Competition. Winners have their photographs exhibited at the museum and are eligible to win a grand prize of $5000. Categories include “Land Mammals”, “Birds”, “Insects, Reptiles, Marine Mamma

Last week was the conclusion of my Ultimate Time-Lapse Photography giveaway and today I’m happy to announce the winners. A huge THANKS goes out to eMotimo and Dynamic Perception for donating the grand prize!  If you haven’t already please follow and thank eMotimo and Dynamic Perception on Facebook .  Thanks to BorrowLenses.com, GuraGear, and Lexar for providing great bonus prizes and most importantly ever

Thanks everyone for entering the Collagewall.com Giveaway. Everyone Wins with 15% Off Through January 15th I’m happy to report that the generous folks at Collagewall.com have extended a 15% discount to all JMG Blog readers through January 15th, 2011. On check out just enter the code “JMG” (san quotation marks) to trim 15% off your order or click on the following link to login to Collagewall.com and

Last week I stumbled across a local service here in San Francisco that offers a very cool photo product that allows you to quickly make a custom photo collage wall display. Fittingly the service is named Collagewall. To give you an idea of what they do see their website at Collagewall.com and the Collagewall Flickr photostream. The holidays are around the corner and the kind folks at Collagewall have made available a

Borrowlenses.com has been kind enough to make available a 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 risk of a

If you’re into photo contests these three might just be right up your alley.  For each I leave it to you to review terms and rules. In my initial pass I see nothing that should warrant anyones concern. Below are the contests for your consideration: 2009 California Fall Challenge “Click Off!”  by the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) This contest is specific to the San Francisco Bay Area, an

Two announcements that I’m happy to share: 1. I will be leading a PhotoWalk here in San Francisco from the Ferry Building to North Beach as part of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk on July 18, 2009. I invite you to sign up and join me for an evening of urban adventure. Be quick as San Francisco PhotoWalks have been filling up super quick and there are only 50 spots available. The cost is of course free.

Today after a short but intense round of research, all of 3 days, I bought a new camera. I’ve mentioned this on Twitter (@JimGoldstein) some and have been intentionally vague about it. My intention with being coy about the purchase was to make an announcement with an example of the output from the camera. I’m still going to do this, but I’ve noticed a flurry of guessing happening with my network on