Canon USA Inc has added five cinematographers and one photographer to the Explorers of Light visual media ambassadorship program.

The roster of visual media experts include directors of photography such as Alex Buono of "Saturday Night Live"; Rodney Charters of "24"; Crescenzo Notarile of "The Ghost Whisperer"; Russell Carpenter of "Titanic," "True Lies" and "Charlie's Angels"; and Shane Hurlbut of "Terminator: Salvation." 

Sports Illustrated photographer Damian Strohmeyer has also been added to the roster of 62 photographers.The Explorers of Light Program was created in 1992 to establish a place where visual media experts could share their images and expertise.

More than 1,000 photographs were donated this past year to the J. Paul Getty Museum, making the museum's 25th year a record-breaking one for donations.

The quantity of donations was due in part to a special initiative led in 2009 by Getty Photographs Council member Dan Solomon, who began collecting photographs for the anniversary.

With these new contributions, the museum now possesses works from new artists such as Gilles Peress, Robert Polidori, Liza Ryan, Brian Ulrich, Peter Wagner and Pinar Yolacan, as well as artists already featured in the museum, such as Eileen Cowan, John Divola and Chris Jordan.

These photographs will be featured in one of the Getty's newest wings, the Center for Photographs, which opened in 2006.

Using GigaPan's mega-panoramic EPIC Pro tripod technology, photographer Gerald Donovan has set the world record for the largest digital panoramic photograph.The 45-gigapixel image of Dubai was taken with a Canon 7D and is compiled of nearly 4,250 images that were taken over 3.5 hours. Before this mosaic was created, the previous title-holding panorama was 26 gigapixels, depicting the Paris skyline..If printed in actual size, this photo — which includes the world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai — would be the size of nearly 1,200 billboards.Donovan's image, as well as other notable images taken with GigaPan's EPIC systems can be viewed at gigapan.org.

In a civil lawsuit, actor Sean Penn has pleaded no contest to one count of vandalism and has been sentenced to three years of probation, 300 hours of community service and 36 hours of anger management counseling.

This sentence was delivered after Penn allegedly kicked and punched photographer Jordan Dawes on Oct. 4, 2009. The attack took place when Dawes, as well as several other paparazzi photographers, had a run-in with Penn in Brentwood, Calif.

Another photographer on the scene filmed about 30 seconds of the incident; however, this footage only shows Penn shouting and not any of the preceding physical assault. Dawes has said that he has since had surgery as a result of his injuries.Although Penn was sentenced for vandalism charges, a civil suit filed by Dawes is still pending.

On June 10-12, Seattle-based Glazer's Camera will celebrate its 75th anniversary by closing the streets surrounding its headquarters for a photo-themed trade show, called Northwest Photo Fest.

At the free community event, Glazer's will feature more than 35 big-name vendors, including Nikon, Canon, Leica, Adobe, LowePro, Sony, Wescott and ProFoto. The trade show also promises to host a variety of free seminars, speakers and demonstrations on digital imaging, videography and film-processing equipment. Glazer's will also be offering special anniversary discounts throughout the weekend.

The old saying "you are what you eat" takes on new meaning in this nude study by Seattle photographer Matt Freedman. Shot for a proposed book project, "Citrus" is part of an ongoing series of images created jointly by Freedman and James Beard Award-winning chef Tiberio Simone, owner of Seattle's La Figa Catering.

Called "La Figa: Visions of Food and Form," (lafigaproject.com), the photo series is a collection of posed nudes that are adorned — in some cases, totally covered — in painstakingly arranged gourmet ingredients. Here, a model is speckled with lemon, lime and orange slices. Others are painted with chocolate, sprinkled with seeds or buried in berries.

In nearly all of the poses, the sumptuous food brings a heightened sense of eroticism. "Tiberio has had this vision of food and bodies for years," Freedman says of his collaborator. "He's a very sensua...

After establishing himself as a painter and sculptor, this Los Angeles artist has turned to the medium of photography to create his asymmetrical, multi-dimensional cityscapes.

It takes more than a single snapshot to appreciate the intricacies of a place. The artist Jeremy Kidd, who is perhaps better known in Los Angeles as a painter and sculptor, discovered this fact a few years ago when he decided to pick up a camera as a new artistic tool.

His inspiration was, of all things, a Sylvia Plath poem. Eve Wood, a curator for the Cirrus Gallery, one of the most prestigious galleries in Los Angeles, asked Kidd to read Plath’s poem “Ariel” and create a piece for the gallery. He was traveling in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., when he saw a...

Photographer Jim Marshall, the man who famously captured Jimi Hendrix as he set his guitar on fire at a live concert, passed away in March at the age of 74.

Throughout his nearly 50-year career as a music photographer, Marshall captured decades of iconic rock images of artists like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin. Marshall also photographed momentous events in rock 'n' roll history, such as the Woodstock Festival in 1969, the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967 and the final Beatles concert at...

Seattle photographer Art Wolfe has won five Silver Telly Awards recognizing outstanding achievement in video and film production for local, regional and cable television. The award was presented for episodes of the television program "Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge," produced by Wolfe's company, Edge of the Earth Productions.

Robert Glenn Ketchum, a fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers, was featured in the March/April issue of American Photo magazine as the fifth photographer to appear in the publication's Masters Series. To date, Ketchum is the only photographer in the series whose imagery is based mostly on the natural world rather than on people, fashion and...