See how it was done in this video.

More information is available at http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/.

Photo credits are rare and captions usually garbled, so I find myself often wondering: Who made this? What does it mean? The forces of the Internet can sometimes turn good work into confusing shrapnel.
– Laura Brunow Miner

Contributors to Pictory (and everyone is welcome) send in their best photo on a theme, with a caption and the story that goes with it. The Pictory editors choose the best 20 to 40 submissions, then publish them on the website.

It’s a simple concept, but done with a lot of polish. The photos are big (at least 1000 pixels across or high), and the stories that accompany them brings their meaning to the original photographer home. Laura has managed to bring her skills at producing a print magazine to the web – viewing the photographs and stories in a theme is definitely an experience to savour, rather than to be flicked through in haste.

Have you submitted to Pictory, or even got published? Tell us about it!

Photo Friday is about challenging the participants to be original and creative within the constraints of the week’s theme. It’s not a competition. Anyone with a camera and a place on the internet to post pictures can participate.

You simply fill in a form with a link to your photo, and it will be displayed in a list (the ‘Link Viewer’) which allows visitors to view your entry.

Are you Noteworthy?

Noteworthy links are chosen by visitor vote. Each week between 12:01am Friday and 11:59pm Sunday CST (UTC-0600) a ‘cast noteworthy vote’ link will appear in the header frame of the Link Viewer for the previous week’s challenge. Click the link to cast your vote.

The six photo links with the most votes will be published to Noteworthy the following Monday.

You can vote as often as you like – and for as many different sites as you like, including your own – but only one vote per site per visitor will be counted.

Take More Photos!

Participating in something like Photo Friday is a great way to give you ideas (and a deadline!), and definitely works as means of getting you to take more photos. Having a theme you need to photograph for can be challenging, but it gets you to think about the topic and get creative. I now regularly take part, and it’s got me out of my ‘safe zone’ and trying new subjects.

For some of us, the end result may be an improvement .

Visit zombify-yourself.net and send us your results – we’ll feature the best ones in a gallery.

Email your pictures to Zombie.

Not only is it corrosive of press freedom but creation of the collective visual history of our country is extinguished by anti-terrorist legislation designed to protect the heritage it prevents us recording.

This campaign is for everyone who values visual imagery, not just photographers.

We must work together now to stop this before photography becomes a part of history rather than a way of recording it.

http://photographernotaterrorist.org/ aims to publicise the situation by organising flashmobs of photographers in places which discourage legal photography. They also have a very handy bust card, which explains photographers rights under the law, and is in a handy format to print out and carry with you.

It includes the classic BBC series “Master Photographers” from 1983. These are a real gem, as several of the photographers featured have died since.

Photographers include:-

• Ansel Adams
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Annie Liebowitz
• Helmut Newton
• Frank Hurley
• Dian Arbus
• Andreas Feininger
• Jacques Henri Lartigue