Dan Sweet, media service manager for Columbia Helicopters in Aurora, Ore., has taken the top award in an international photo contest for images of helicopters at work. Sweet's winning photo depicted a Vertol 107-II helicopter at a snowy logging operation above Detroit Lake in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.

The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) Coalition has published the Universal Picture Licensing Glossary, a free resource providing industry-standard definitions for more than 1,300 terms used in transactions involving photography and illustration. The glossary is the first component of PLUS, industry standards created and approved by a worldwide coalition of art buyers, photographers, illustrators, publishers, graphic designers...

Canon has redesigned its camcorders, including the Elura 100 camcorder, which includes wide-screen high-resolution recording, a 2.7-inch display panel, easy-to-use joystick, Smooth Zoom Control and Level Shot Control. Other features include nine-point AiAF autofocus, special scene modes and image effects.

The Elura 100 also allows users to display wide-screen video on standard televisions and has megapixel resolution for crisper video and photos. The camera has...

Florian Shulz's journey to save North America's wilderness.

More than anything else, wildlife needs room — room to roam, to forage, to follow the flow of the seasons. The same can be said of Florian Schulz, a German-born nature photographer who has spent nearly half his life wandering the wilderness of North America, trying to preserve the fragile paradise around him, one photo at a time.

His cause can be summed up neatly in three characters, Y2Y, an acronym that stands for Yellowstone to Yukon, the vast, 2,000-mile long "ecoregion" stretching from the Alaska/Canada border, down the Rocky Mountains to Wyoming. Inside this region are some of the last remaining areas of pristine wilderness on the continent, mostly isolated in little islands of biodiversity amid growing suburban sprawl...

Sotheby's Institute of Art-London is offering a master's program in historic and contemporary photography, starting in September 2006. The MA in Photography, Historic and Contemporary, is intended to reflect the shift in the way that photography is received and understood. Master's candidates will acquire the skills needed to appreciate and analyze photography in terms of intention, production, encounter and interpretation, better preparing them for careers in art with specializations in the photographic medium.

The course will look at photography's role...

Pentax has released two compact digital cameras, the 8-effective megapixel A10 and the 6-effective megapixel E10.

The A10 represents a complete upgrade and overhaul of Pentax's digital cameras and is the first model of the company's new high-end Optio series. The A10 has been equipped with an smc Pentax zoom lens and a new shake reduction system, made possible by...

Because the advent of digital photographic technology is rapidly changing the image marketplace, a working group representing digital imaging professionals and allied trade groups and manufacturers has drafted the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG).

Gaps in creative and quality control have led to confusion, inequities, loss of quality and unnecessary expense, according to the working group. In addition, the lack of transparencies or reference prints has left a void...

The work of Seattle-area photographer Tara McDermott is now available at the online gallery Dislocation Photo (dislocationphoto.com). McDermott is known primarily for her spare landscapes and lush colors.

The U.S. Copyright Office has issued new interim regulations regarding the registration of unpublished works being prepared for commercial distribution in media that the Register of Copyrights determines have had a history of pre-release infringement. The office also sought comments on whether use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser would create difficulties in the preregistration process.

The preregistration process was outlined in the Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005, and was intended to give artists protection against pre-release infringement of their work prior to authorized commercial distribution. Originally, the regulations required...

Hasselblad has released a new camera and three camera backs based on the combination of a 39-megapixel CCD sensor and digital APO correction technology.

The H2D-39 is based on the Hasselblad H2 camera with its range of central shutter-based lenses, DAC lens optimization and Instant Approval Architecture. It is compatible with the entire range of Hasselblad H System lenses and the Hasselblad V camera lens system.

The new 39-megapixel digital backs include the CFH-39, CF-39 and CF-39MS. The backs were designed to meet the...