Sublime Light - an amazing series of articles about lighting in photography.
Strobist - lighting tips by David.
Food Photography Blog - lighting technique for food photography.
Photoflex Lighting School - lighting from the basics right up to studio lighting with complex kits - clear and well explained.

If you know any other sites about lighting you want to share, let me know by posting a comment.

Dan Heller's Photography Business Blog - a wonderful journal to read. Plenty of in depth information and articles.
DPReview - perhaps the best place to learn a lot about photography. Top-notch camera reviews and remarkable forums.
Luminous Landscape - a great resource with many tutorials and reviews.
Photozone - any lens you can think of has been tested here.
AfterCapture - magazine with monthly publications for photographic post-production work.
It also provides online multimedia resources for the photographic professional. In addition to archives of AfterCapture’s print articles, it provides original online content, tutorials, blogs, and audio and video podcasts.

If you know of any other good sites you find useful, please leave a comment.

for French Vogue, Febraury 2001

Google has a very useful service for those of you who try to save their phone bill (who try to do the data trasfered a lot less) . And primarily designed for browsing websites on cellphones, it will also be of great use for those using laptops but with a very slow connection (e.g. standard GSM data connections).
The ultra-minimalist Google site acts as a proxy that strips out all the fancy stuff and reduces the chosen website to either pure text, or text & images. Give it a try - you’ll find it here or see how this site looks in text & images form here.

Actions are one of the most powerful and time-saving features of Adobe Photoshop.
Everyone has their own favourites, but if you are looking to find some additional ones, here’s a couple places hosting downloadable actions:

Adobe Photoshop Exchange
PhotoshopSupport
ActionCentral
About.com
Action FX
The Light’s Right Studio
Fred Miranda

If you know of any other good sites or actions you find useful, please leave a comment.

GREAT LINKS ACROSS THE WEB is a new blog feature where I will post links to useful sites.

• 10% of what we read
• 20% of what we hear
• 30% of what we see
• 50% of what we both hear and see
• 70% of what is discussed with each other
• 80% of what we experience personally
• 95% of what we TEACH to someone else

Japanese Graphics Now!, Julius Wiedermann, Gisela Kozak, Julius Wiedemann, Taschen, ISBN 3 8228 2589 1

So many places to get photo & design inspiration, and as I'm being in Bournemouth in July and in August I'm going to visit some Art Galleries & Museums in London (certainly!) and in other towns as well. That gets my motor running.

Atlas Gallery - Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm, 49 Dorset Street
AOP Gallery -Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 12pm-4pm subject to exhibition, 81 Leonard Street
Hackelbury Fine Art -Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, 4 Launceston Place
Michael Hoppen Gallery - Tuesday - Friday 12am - 6pm, Saturday 10:30am - 4pm, 3 Jubilee Place
Photofusion -Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm, 17a Electric Lane
British Museum - every day 10am - 5:30pm, Great Russell Street
Blink Gallery - Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 12am - 6pm, 11 Poland Street
Tom Blau Gallery-Camera Press - ???, 21 Queen Elizabeth Street

Annely Juda Fine Art- Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 11 am - 5 pm, 4th Floor, 23 Dering Street
96 Gillespie - Thursday - Sunday 2pm - 6pm, 96 gillespie road
Advanced Graphics London - Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm, 32 Long Lane

I live without thinking about photography at all until the autumn'2005 when I found the site of Michael Kenna who become the key figure in my life.

This discovery open my eyes on such a huge world of art photography and turn my steps in BHSAD where I currently studying graphic design and illustration...

• Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising. Jef I. Richards, University of Texas Advertising Department

• Vision without craft remains unfulfilled. Craft without vision is meaningless. Suess B., Creative Black-and-White Photography

• Artists who seek perfection in everything are those that cannot attain it in anything. Eugene Delacroix