We were recently invited to sit in on a friend's travel writing seminar. He began with a warning to the audience: "Stop! Get out while there's still time — that is, unless you already have a good retirement income or you're a trust-fund baby."

Acquaintances tell us what a thrilling career we've chosen, that they, too, love to travel, can write well and have taken some nice shots with their digital cameras. They want to know how to make money by writing about their travels.

As all professional travel writers and photographers know, although our jobs may appear to be glamorous, they're not all fun and games. By now, we've developed a standard response...

Lyson, a provider of inks, media and related products to the printing, photography, graphic arts and other allied industries, has introduced a bulk-feed ink delivery system with complete pigment and dye-based inksets for the Epson Stylus Pro 4000. Bulk-enabled inksets for the printer allow users to save upward of 70 percent on ink costs, speed workflow processing and eliminate the need to change cartridges.

Lyson's inksets have a wide color gamut and intense color...

Among the 142 winners of the annual Nature’s Best International Photography Awards were many members of the North American Nature Photography Association. NANPA photographers from the western United States who were recognized include: 

Robert Barber, Colorado, Highly Honored, Creative Digital;

Alice Cahill, California, Winner, Plant Life; ...

Casio has added to its Exilim line with the EX-P700. The camera has a 7.2-megapixel CCD with 4X optical zoom and a 0.01-second release time lag.

The EX-P700 also features a high-speed continuous shooting function that can shoot five photographs at a rate of three photos per second. New functions include flash assist, auto macro and icon help. The Business Shot function compensates for pictures taken at an angle and records them as though taken from straight ahead.

Auto Bracketing allows exposure, white balance and focus position to be set quickly with a single press of...

One survivor described the wall of water as "a big black cobra" coming toward him from behind. From about a kilometer away, the man said, it looked higher than the minarets at a nearby mosque in Banda Aceh.

After being knocked off his bicycle by the 9.3-magnitude earthquake on the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, the man instinctively started running with his two young kids. He hadn't even imagined that a deadly wave was coming, but he had happened to run away from the coast. The unconscious decision ended up saving their lives; after sprinting inland for about five kilometers, grabbing his childrens' arms the whole way, the water rushed past...

Byron Wolfe (byronwolfe.com), a photography instructor at California State University, Chico, has been named the winner of the 2004 Santa Fe Prize for Photography by the Santa Fe Center for Photography. 
Wolfe’s photographic diary, “Everyday: A Poetic Diary with Pictures,” can be seen on his web site, www.byronwolfe.com. The award includes $5,000 and participation in Review Santa Fe.

Nikon has introduced the F6, the latest of the F series cameras inaugurated in 1959. The F6 includes the latest Nikon advances, such as the 11-area autofocus system and the Creative Lighting System. The 3D Color Matrix Metering system has been refined for improved accuracy in scene reading.

The camera has an aluminum-alloy die-cast chassis, magnesium-alloy front body and covers, aluminum-alloy back body and camera back, strategically placed rubber surfaces, an easy-to-grip texture and a...

Howie Garber (wanderlustimages.com) received an award in the 2004 BBC Wildlife Magazine/Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. The Salt Lake City-based photographer was named a winner in the Animals in Their Environment category.

Sony has expanded its Cyber-shot T-series of digital still cameras with the 5.1-megapixel DSC-T33 model. The camera maintains its slim design with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar optical lens, which operates within the camera rather than extending outside. It also has a 3X optical zoom.

With a depth of just one-half inch, the new camera incorporates a 2.5-inch LCD viewfinder, which occupies about two-thirds of the back of...

Canadian photographer Alan Ticheler (amtphoto.com/figures) has been honored by Hidden Beach, a Mexican nudist resort, with its prize for Best Artistic Nude Photo. Ticheler’s past projects include work for “Miami Vice,” the musical group Foreigner, and Sony and Universal MCA music.