Andy Baio wound up paying $32,500 to settle a copyright dispute over the "Kind of Bloop" cover art. It was a pixel art homage to the photograph on the cover of "Kind of Blue."

These are instructions for building a DIY tilt-shift lens.

CHDK is hacked firmware for Canon digital cameras that expand the cameras' range of features.

AJ relates how Philadelphia cops harassed her for taking a photo in the Suburban Station concourse – where photography is permitted – and reflects on a beating death that took place at SEPTA headquarters days before.

There are only four examples on this LiveJournal post, but they do provide some insights into the priorities of inmate information management over the last two centuries.

Corbis commissioned these neat designs for pinhole cameras that use 35mm film.

Images of the installation of a microfilm reader in 1975. My dad worked on these through most of his working life.

Polaroid has announced plans to shutter it's remaining instant-film plants in March, after experiencing heavy losses against digital photography.

I wonder will happen to these giant instant cameras now that Polaroid is quitting production of instant film.

Here are instructions for making a camera-stabilization device using string and washers.

Michael Zimmer discusses how unwitting participants can appear in Google Maps' "street view" and suggests a few policies to maintain persons' privacy online.

This photo by Nina Berman won a World Press Photo award.

Library of Congress online exhibit of what I presume to be WPA work.

Chris Ware reviews Charles Burns' latest book... of photographs.

I'm really struck by how pervasive cameras are these days. It seems like a third of people at a protest or a party are taking photographs. Gillmor suggests that the profusion of cameras will erode the professional role of photogs.

Note the sample picture on the right. Fifty bucks says the creator is a dude.

This chart and explanations is useful for understanding how much of an image you can squeeze out of your camera.

Larry Lessig discusses how a commercial magazine used a photo from Flickr that was shared under a non-commercial, attribution Creative Commons license without acknowledging the photographer.

Via Tiara.org, the slimming effect is one of several pre-sets embedded in the Hewlett-Packard camera. It's only slightly surprising that the camera is marketed to women.

Via David Nuñez, this tool allows you to enter a Flickr username, and it displays many thumbnails on a single page. I find it hard to remember my pals' usernames, though.

Geotagging photos seems like an almost essential feature for Flickr going forward. It's competitor Zoomr already offers the feature, but until I have a camera with built-in GPS, I don't know that I would make the effort to geotag each image.

Wow, the Tulsa library has scanned and uploaded hundreds of old photographs of Tulsa. Unfortunately, the interface for browsing the images is terrible. There are no thumbnails and you have to click twice to get to the image.

When I lived in Philly, I was fascinated by seeing leftover paint and wallpaper sticking to the sides of buildings where a neighboring building once stood. Apparently the word for this in Barcelona is "Medianera."

Project that creates machine-readable icons for tagging objects in the physical world. Somehow, if you upload a picture with one of these tags the metadata become associated wtih the image. I'm not sure how this works or if it's there yet, but certainly a

Oh, wow, this Greasemonkey script is tight. Once installed, it allows you to view Google Image Search (or a similar site) as an interactive slideshow, complete with magnification. My only complaint is that the links to the source page are hidden at the bo

Ethan Zuckerman's account of visiting Walter de Maria's "Lightning Field" installation in rural New Mexico. The Dia Foundation, which manages the site, was criticized on bOINGbOING for restricting photography of the work.

The Miami Herald runs a photograph of a high school student in a T-shirt that says "Mexico," just to have the image of a Mexican jumping a fence.

make your own ViewMaster slides!

Modifying flatbed scanners for large-format photography.