The Lucie Awards, produced by the International Photography Awards, will celebrate its honorees and winners from the 2007 IPA competition at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on Oct. 15.

The IPA 2007 honorees included: Elliot Erwitt for Lifetime Achievement; Kenro Izu for the Visionary Award; Ralph Gibson for Achievement in Fine Art; Eugene Richards for Achievement in Documentary; Philip Jones Griffiths for...

The Popabrella easily fits onto digital and 35mm cameras to keep rain and wind from damaging equipment. The lightweight product has 360-degree movement and can be adjusted by sliding the unit left, right, up and down.The ready-to-attach Popabrella has a special lining that reduces the chance of flash bounce. For SLR and professional cameras, the Probrella is a larger version with all the same features.

The Popabrella retails at $19.99, and the Probrella is $29.99.

Adding to Tenba's Shootout Daypack collection, the company has added two new backpacks to its line of professional outdoor photo/imaging bags. The Dual Purpose Daypack has an expandable outer compartment that adds 246 square inches of storage space. The Rolling Backpack is a scaled-down version of Tenba's Large Rolling Backpack; its smaller size makes it ideal for meeting airline carry-on requirements but can still accommodate large DSLRs...

New UDMA-enabled CompactFlash PRO cards by Delkin Devices have recently been released to the photography market. The memory cards have a minimum sustained transfer speed of 305X (45MB per second) in capacities of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. The new line of memory cards does not require UDMA-enabled digital camera backs and digital SLR cameras to receive the technology's benefits. Instead, the transfer is able to take place from the memory card...

For more than 30 years, David Hume Kennerly, former staff photographer for President Gerald R. Ford, has enjoyed unprecedented access to our nation’s leaders.

The night that Gerald Ford assumed the presidency, he approached David Hume Kennerly about being his personal photographer. "I didn't want to report to anybody but him," Kennerly stipulated, "and I wanted total access to everything that was going on."

"What?" replied Ford. "No use of Air Force One on the weekends?"

Sarcasm aside, the new president apparently respected Kennerly's ground rules because, the next day, Ford offered him the post. More than 30 years later, in October 2007, Kennerly is set to release his latest book, "Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford" (University of Texas Press), a collection of Kennerly's photographs, along with comments from Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, former...

Phil Borges, of Mercer Island, Wash., was one of 15 finalists nominated for the second annual Purpose Prize, sponsored by the Seattle-based Civic Ventures. He was recognized for his work with socially relevant photography and for his nonprofit project, Bridges to Understanding.

The finalists, which were required to be 60 years of age or older, were selected for their influence on issues of social importance. Five of them received $100,000 and the remaining 10 received $10,000, Borges being one of the latter group.

p>Canon's new HG10 AVCHD Hard Disk Drive Camcorder offers advanced features and extended recording time. The camcorder has the ability of capturing up to 15 hours of high-definition footage and has a genuine Canon 10x HD video lens. Additionally, the camcorder features Canon's full HD CMOS image sensor, proprietary Digic DV II image processor, SuperRange optical image stabilization and instant autofocus. The small-bodied camcorder uses Canon's full HD CMOS sensor to capture images at 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. To achieve the look of film, the camcorder features 24p Cinema Mode and has the ability to capture 3.1-megapixel photos to a miniSD card. Using the Photo Grab function, the user can easily grab 2-megapixel stills and transfer them directly from the HD...

Ideally matched for the EOS 40D SLR, the optically image-stabilized Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS features wide-angle to mid-range zoom and offers a significant advantage of a lens-shift image stabilization system that has up to four full stops of image-shake correction.

The high-performance lens is powered by Canon's lens-shift system, which is optimal in low light, long zoom or movement while shooting. Using the viewfinder, the shooter is able to see the image stabilization effect in action, allowing for more accurate framing...

A week's journey into the pristine bear country of the Alaska Peninsula

For most people, their only encounters with grizzly bears happen during trips to the zoo, where the animals are safely behind enclosures. On the Alaska Peninsula, however, the tables are turned. The few human visitors who pass through the remote region might, themselves, be considered curious zoo exhibits by the much larger bear population.One of the best ways to get up close and personal with these giant creatures in their native habitat is to risk becoming lunch by journeying into the peninsula's Katmai National Park and Preserve. Tucked neatly into the southwestern region of the state, Katmai is a prime location for grizzlies...

On the cover: Peter Menzel’s photo of a Palestinian doctor casually jogging past burning oil wells was one of the more arresting images to come out of the 1991 Gulf War. Ironically, the runner, Dr. Mohammad Walid Daoud, was studying the effects of breathing oil-well fire smoke. “On particularly bad days, he told me that he wears a heavier charcoal mask,” Menzel recalls. 

Cover photo: © Peter Menzel