Seattle photographer Charles Krebs won first place in the 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, the world's foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects. His winning image enlarges the amazing movements of a rotifer, a tiny underwater creature that sweep at lightning speed to move food into its mouth. Krebs used a special flash to freeze the cilia's...

Los Angeles-based photographer Michael D. Jones has filed a lawsuit against music producer Quincy Jones (no relation) for using one of the photographer's portraits without permission. The photograph in question, an image Quincy Jones and other musicians taken at a recording session in 1995, was allegedly used for ads and packaging materials for a signature line of Harman headphones. As part of his lawsuit, Jones has said that he was not asked to sign a contract when taking the photos, but at one time, gave Quincy Jones several 8x10 prints of his images...

Film director Jeff Orlowski has won the Audience Award at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in March for his debut feature, "Chasing Ice," following the work of National Geographic photographer James Balog and his multi-year photography project to capture the earth's changing ecosystem. The film — which debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival and is scheduled to screen at the Seattle International Film Festival in May—uses many of Balog's still images and time-lapse videos of vanishing...

Thirty-six large-scale prints by contemporary American photographer William Eggleston brought in $5.9 million at a Christie's auction in March. Meant to expand the reach Eggleston's work, digital pigment prints were made for this auction. This is the first batch of Eggleston images not printed with his traditional dye-transfer technique...

Bolstered with $20,000 in contributions, Seattle-based documentarians Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele have begun work on a new series focusing on the Pacific Northwest. One of the grants came from the Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation for $8,000 and the other is from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for $12,000. Their previous work includes a...

Selecting "blind carbon copy" or "carbon copy" can make a big difference for an e-mail message — at least that's what celebrity photo agency Retna discovered when they sent out a message to more than 250 contributors in January to alert them of a simple address change. After receiving the e-mail, recipients hit...

Riding the recent wave of enthusiasm for videography, Canon has released two interchangeable-lens digital cinema cameras—the EOS C300 and the EOS C300 PL. The first uses standard Canon SLR EF mount lenses, while the latter uses cinema-quality PL mount lenses. Both cameras house a redesigned super 35mm-equivalent, 8.29-megapixel CMOS sensor and both shoot in full 1080p HD...

Canon has introduced a new flagship SLR with the EOS-1D X, a redesigned, full-frame camera. One of the highlights of this new high-end camera is the ability to shoot as low as 50 ISO and as high as 204,800 ISO. Most aspects of the camera, in fact, have been ramped up with this model including the 61-point autofocus sensor, fast shooting up to 12 fps and the 18-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor...

An update of Nikon's D3, the flagship D4 is the revamped response to Canon's new 1D X. With this model, Nikon has put an emphasis on the guts of the camera — that is, its magnesium alloy chassis. This new body is meant to better resist dirt, moisture and electromagnetic interference. The D4 has nearly 4-megapixels more than its predecessor with a 16.2-megapixel CMOS sensor. Speed-wise, the D4 is on par with the 1D X — 50 to 240,800 ISO...

Canon has finally released it's highly anticipated EOD 5D Mark III SLR camera. Most notably, this full-frame model has been supercharged with vastly improved focusing capabilities. The Mark II, which was first released four years ago, had only nine focal points. The Mark III has a 61-point autofocusing system with 41 cross-type sensors. While the focusing system matches that of the higher-end 1D, the 5D has about half the ability for high-speed continuous shooting (6 fps) and half the range for light sensitivity (50 to 102,400 ISO)...