Even works of art that appear relatively innocuous can cause huge controversy and have political repercussions. Take two different cases that have rocked Australia in the past year. The first involved renowned Australian photographer Bill Henson. In late May, the opening of his new exhibition in Sydney was cancelled after complaints that it included pictures of naked underage children.

BOTH amateur and professional photographers in the UK are facing an up-hill struggle when trying to take photographs in public places, after misinformation has been taken as fact by so many organizations and the public. Even the police have been warned by the UK government to stop interfering with photographers.

Facestat, a popular website where you can upload an image and have it judged by the site's visitors is presently down showing 500 error.

Outdoor Photography and PC Photo magazines are publishing a three month feature sponsored by Microsoft and Canon USA to identify and recognize the Top 100 Iconic Photo Locations of the World.

Microsoft Corp. today introduced two new products to help photographers manage their digital photos in a new way using location data, a process known as geotagging. Geotagging is an exciting new way to organize your digital photos that was previously available only to those with technical expertise.

[a 72 year old vicar of a country parish, who all his life had dreamed of seeing Paris] found it possible to…[visit] the gay French capital. On his return, friends and parishioners [asked], ’And how, dear Vicar, did you enjoy your stay in the wicked city of Paris?’.’Oh very thoroughly indeed...But I must confess that my pleasure was marred from time to time...by a vague regret - mind you, a very vague regret - that I had never been in Paris before I gave my soul to God.’”

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A Palestinian photographer for Agence France-Presse won an Arab award on Wednesday for a picture of the funeral of a Palestinian child killed during an Israeli incursion in the Gaza Strip.