Golden Hour Calculator

Discover when the golden hour is at your current location, and explore how golden hour changes.

"Calculate sunrise and sunset times, the elevation and azimuth of the sun and display the golden hour. Choose a new location from the drop down menu to the right or by clicking on the map. Explore the changing year by clicking on the calendar at the bottom of the page."

Photographer Roger Moffatt has given us a neat, seasonal calculator to track sunset (and sunrise), and Golden Hour for any date.

http://www.golden-hour.com/

Lightroom & Photoshop User Group in Denver

Denver now has its own Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop User Group. Membership is free. Meetings are free. Giveaways during the meetings are
free. (Are you detecting the trend here?)

If you live in the Denver or Front Range community, this is a great opportunity to network with other photographers in the area and to learn more about Lightroom, Photoshop and photography. All (beginner to advanced) are welcome!

Becoming a member of the group is free! Simply click the link below, create a free account with Adobe and join the group. Also, don't forget to RSVP for any meetings you'd like to attend - it helps us plan appropriately.
http://www.dalpug.com

NY Times - Lament for a Dying Art

PARIS — When photojournalists and their admirers gather in southern France at the end of August for Visa pour l’Image, the annual celebration of their craft, many practitioners may well be wondering how much longer they can scrape by. Newspapers and magazines are cutting back sharply on picture budgets or going out of business altogether, and television stations have cut back on news coverage in favor of less-costly fare. Pictures and video snapped by amateurs on cellphones are posted to Web sites minutes after events have occurred. Photographers trying to make a living from shooting the news call it a crisis.

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Photo: © Laurent Van Der Stockt/Gamma

Fall Summit Workshops

Photographers at Oxbow Bend in Jackson, WY during Photography at the Summit. ©Rick Allen

The Fall Summit Workshops produced for some 30 years now by Rich Clarkson, convenes in Jackson Hole, Wy. in September and October with a lineup of instructors unique among the nations' workshops. With team teaching, Photography at the Summit (Sept. 27-Oct. 2) features National Geographic photographers William Albert Allard and Jodi Cobb, former editor in chief Bill Allen, World Press Photo winner John Moore, Bill Eppridge once of LIFE, MaryAnne Golon of Time, Dave Black and Bob Smith.

The Adventure Photography Workshop (Sept. 20-25) includes National Geographic Adventure magazine picture editor Sabine Meyer and top photographers Corey Rich, Keith Ladizinski and Scott Wilson of the North Face.

Workshop sponsors Nikon and Apple supply their latest cameras, lenses and computers for all to use during each week -- unique among all American workshops. ASMP members receive a ten per cent discount on the tuition. And as you can see, not only is the instruction and social event unique but the networking has propelled many careers over these years. More information at http://www.photographyatthesummit.com/