Just 2 Days Left to Enter.... By Jeff Greene /   Only two days left to enter the 4th annual Microsoft Future Pro Photographer Competition .    Entry deadline is Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 11:59:59 PM (PDT)   Judges for this years...

By Jeff Greene /     As part of our ongoing effort to keep you updated about Microsoft’s efforts in digital imaging, we have now added a Microsoft_Photo Facebook page .    In addition to Facebook, our online presence also includes...

By Jeff Greene / The last Sunday of every April is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day , which is this Sunday, April 29th.   The day is set aside each year to celebrate the wonders of images created by pinhole camera or, camera obscura . The WPPD site...

Name Your Dream Assignment Winner Announced by Amy Sorokas /   I am not very good at suspense so..., the 2009 Name Your Dream Assignment winners are... the Shutter Sisters - specifically Jen Lemen and Stephanie Roberts with their assignment “ Picture...

Microsoft Deep Photo Zoom   by Jeff Greene /     Microsoft has announced DeepZoomPix , a web demonstration of Microsoft® Silverlight™ , Deep Zoom and the Azure™ Services Platform . Using Silverlight’s exclusive Deep Zoom technology , DeepZoomPix...

by Amy Sorokas /   Happy Earth Day! In celebration of Earth Day, I am personally hoping that the weather holds out here in the Pacific Northwest and I get a chance to take the camera out and get some shots of the beautiful spring flowers that are...

by Jeff Greene /   OK, so we're no Ashton Kutcher or CNN Breaking News with their millions of Followers, but our little marketing team is darn proud to have @Microsoft_Photo named one of the top "20 Photography Twitters Worth Following"...

Record Your Piece of the World on Earth Day by Jeff Greene / Photographers around the world can contribute to an ambitious project that will attempt to create a photo-composite of the world on Earth Day.   The Earth Mosaic project started out as...

African Photo Entrepreneur Programme 2008 by Jeff Greene / Johannesburg-based Toni Jade Efune won the “ Microsoft Woman Photo Entrepreneur Award ” in the first African Photo Entrepreneur of the Year Awards which were presented by Africa Media Online ...

by Amy Sorokas / When I moved here about 5 years ago, I definitely was excited to live in Seattle. It’s beautiful mountain air, abundant lakes, and all the trees give it that Emerald City glow...  Seattle is a very photogenic city and also a photo...

by Amy Sorokas /   " What is Expression Media 2 ? " Expression Media 2 is software that allows you to catalog, then organize, annotate, share, present, publish and protect your work.  It handles over a hundred file types that include...

Phase One Releases Capture One 4.7     Our friends at Phase One have updated the Capture One RAW conversion software and have introduced some new features:   NEWLY-DESIGNED FILE FORMAT for Phase One RAW files The Enhanced Image Package...