Many of us have a digital camera with us at all times these days, just by virtue of carrying around a cell phone. It’s an unbelievably useful tool: I feel like I find a new use for mine every day. I’ve put just a few of the ways I’ve used my camera to save…

If you’re trying to get family and friends into online photo sharing, primarily Flickr, then check out Webware’s Newbie’s Guide to Flickr. They run through all the basics in brief while delving into Flickr’s more interesting features like Notes, Geotagging and the new Collections for Pro users. Free versus pro The free version of Flickr comes with a…

KoffeePhoto is a photo sharing web site. However, KoffeePhoto allows you unlimited, free storage space and it also has a mobile version designed for cellphones. Now you can take the photos of your kids out of the wallet, upload them to KoffeePhoto, and then when it’s time to show them off, fire…

If you’ve got a blog, this is an article you don’t want to miss. The goldengod weblog has a detailed post that shows where to find great free photos for your weblog. More importantly, goldengod also gives a run down of photo licensing and what “Creative Commons” really means. After…

Do you ever want to take some modeling class on how to look better in pictures? Here may be a good start – get some techniques from the site, Digital Camera University, on how to be more photogenic – make yourself look great in front of a camera. They suggest five steps: If you are standing…

Imagine the scene: you’re at a conference, about to present on the latest application your company is proud to offer, and moments before going onstage, you realize you’ve left the usb drive with the presentation in your other bag. You’ve got nothing. Your backup copy isn’t handy. Whatever the case. Or… maybe you just don’t…

I was puzzling over a note in Dave Gray’s Flickr account, and by note, I mean a photo of a note he’d taken at a conference, when it struck me: Flickr is not a photo sharing tool. It is a platform, and it could be exceptionally useful for businesses. Flickr Business Hacks Upload a product design…

Go create something. I don’t care what, how much it cost, the purpose, or the form, but the result must be supremely innovative, worth every penny, and profoundly significant to the human race. Take your time.

The reasonable person finds this overwhelming. Creativity’s root is the tension filled conflict between the imagination and the physical: input and output, insight and achievement, learning and performing. Remove conflict and there is no need for creativity. Imagination v. reality – like a courtroom battle — negotiation leads to creative solutions. In onerous jargon laden corporate speak: look for the win/win.

Look at Dad take pictures of little Joey go down the playground slide. Wait – hasn’t he taken about 100 shots of that little boy this morning? Oh yeah – digital – our lives are digital now. Content is overwhelming: words, images, sounds. That same proud Dad uploaded this week’s most precious 150 images to the Joey’s Cute website, so all his dedicated fans can view the little darling.

Those phone photographers are in play too. The phone is now a ubiquitous capture device making no one immune from the serendipitous photographer documenting our most inelegant moments. Unedited, they’re thrown up on Flickr.com for your viewing pleasure – often for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

Pleasure? I’m not so sure. Just like those jokes we used to forward through email as web-neophytes, they swiftly become annoying. We learned only to forward those that were extra-specially, extraordinarily hilarious. The best ones traveled the internet like a virus, but as with a healthy immune system, minor viruses are cured. Who’s going to cure the information overload virus? Who’s going to help me edit my life?

Derrick Story, author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide, has just revised his great article on Digital Photography. His expert advice is that you can make great photos with simple digitial camera with some custom adjustments. There are ten tips that he suggested: Warm Up Those Tones Sunglasses Polarizer Outdoor Portraits That Shine Macro Mode Madness Horizon Line Mayhem Massive Media…