The Sacremento Bee has fired long time photographer Bryan Patrick for manipulating several photographs that it published.

London's Kensington and Chelsea College is offering a course devoted to photography using the built-in iPhone camera.

Brooklyn artist Kyle McDonald published images of people staring at computers on his blog, People Staring at Computers. The Secret Service obtained a warrant citing a federal law covering fraudulent use of a computer.

How to Recover Lost Images on Flash Memory

A friend lost his vacation images while using his digital camera. Fortunately, he suspected that they could be recovered if he put the disk aside and called us. We are delighted to report that the photos were found and to share this tutorial on dealing with similar mishaps.

Last week's news about the revolutionary new Lytro camera promises to allow photographers to simply compose a shot without worrying about focus until the post-processing phase. An excellent article on Computational Photography published this week by The Economist, explains how this and many other algorithmic photography techniques, including the already popular HDR, are accomplished.

An aerial photography plane crashed in Colorado, killing one person.

IBM has developed a new type of phase change memory (PCM) that can read and write data at 100 times the speed of today's ubiquitous flash-based solutions. The media is reliable for millions of write cycles. Flash memory degrades after thousands of writes. The cost is low enough to encourage use in inexpensive mobile devices.

Thanks to noted Boston Photographer Lou Jones we have learned of a local controversy about street photography. Boston TV station WBZ (Channel 7) did a news story about growing discomfort with street photographers in Boston's Downtown Crossing.

How to Capture Texture on a Flat Surface

This tutorial covers techniques to properly illuminate a flat surface to reveal its texture. This is critical in applications such as product photography.