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Photographers Help Give Children Back Their Smiles

 [photopress:0_childopsmile.jpg,full,centered] Participating photographers donate a portion of their sales to Operation Smile, which strives to give kids a beautiful smile. Image courtesy of Operation Smile. Note - regulars to our blog at SilberStudios.com may find they have been directed to our sister site, SilberStudio.Tv, where we house our video shows. Not to worry -- we

New Photography Book ‘Travelin’ Man’ Goes Backstage with Bob Seger

[photopress:bob_seger.jpg,full,centered] Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band in Detroit, 1977. Photo courtesy of Wayne State Press. As any music journalist will tell you, the best kind of Rock N Roll photography manages to capture a side of musicians most people don't know exists. Whether it's backstage, at home or during a moment of quiet

Art to Art: Creating Music from Photography

[photopress:chambers_wide.jpg,full,centered] "Black Dog's Retreat," the photograph Robbins and Walla used for inspiration. Photo by Tom Chambers. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what sort of song might it conjure? That's the question behind the Emmy-nominated NPR program, Project Song, a weekly art experiment that seeks to merge the crafts of photography and music-making.

New Jersey Teacher Helps Amazon Kids Share their World Through Photography

[photopress:jersey.jpg,full,centered] In this undated photograph, one of Coplan's child photographers goofs around with his sisters near the Samiria River, a tributary of the Amazon. Photo courtesy of Amy Coplan/AP. On Amy Coplan's volunteer trip to Peru, the New Jersey music teacher was hoping to see the wonders of the rain forest. Instead she ended up

New Photography Book Showcases the Splendor of Our National Parks

[photopress:SHIVE_Merced_RiverEl_Cap.jpg,full,centered] "Tree trunks" at Petrified Forest National Park. Photo by Ian Shive For his new book, "The National Parks, Our American Landscape," conservation photographer Ian Shive didn't just visit a few parks -- he spent almost half a decade travelling the country, including one intense 20 day trip where he covered 7,500 miles and visited

Digital Photography Pioneers Win Nobel Prize

Digital photos are pretty much the standard for images now, and you can thank American scientists Willard Boyle and George Smith for that. Back in 1969 the two inventors created the first successful Charge Coupled Device (CCD), a digital sensor that helped change the world of photography as we know it. And now, the two

Biography of Robert Capa, Famous War Photographer, Set for the Big Screen

[photopress:capa_beach.jpg,full,centered] Soldier taking cover at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944 - Photo: Robert Capa In the 20th century, there were few photojournalists who were able to capture the honor, violence and horror of war as thoroughly as Robert Capa. In his short life, Capa covered five separate wars: the Spanish Civil War, the

New Samsung DualView Camera Has Front Display

Image by Google With users eager to snap images of themselves for social networking profiles, cameras nowadays need to be able to take self-portraits just as easily as regular ones. So with this in mind, Samsung has released its latest digital camera with a display on both sides of the device. The DualView

Multiple Cameras Combine to Photograph Entire Redwood Tree

How do you take a close-up photograph of an object as tall as a 35-story skyscraper? Slowly, surely, and with a really fancy camera. According to the National Park Service, California's redwood trees can grow up to 350 feet tall and 22 feet wide at their base. Many are hundreds, even thousands, of years old