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Be you Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, or Agnostic, accept my best wishes for this holiday season.  Find joy and peace in all that you do.  Give to those who have less.  Know that all good people, regardless of nation or culture, share your same desires:  a living wage, health for children, promise for a better future, peace, understanding, and hope for the future of our fragile world.

Fanad Head in Lavender

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As you may or may not know, I am one of the founders of Photo Travel Review Magazine.

After 18 months of effort, the Team which founded the magazine now has published 100 articles.

I have just installed a plugin for my blog that detects if you are using your mobile phone or PDA to read my stuff and it automatically creates a format/theme that is friendly to your device.  If you don’t like it, you can turn it off.

Playing with Skull

by Haim Ziv

Kenya

Congratulations to Haim Ziv for his selection as the November Winner in Photo Travel of the Year Contest sponsored by Photo Travel Review Magazine.

Photographers can enter the contest, which will announce a yearly winner in 2010 by following the guidelines at Photo Travel Review Magazine.

Photo Travel Review has just announced its Travel Photo of the Year Contest.

Sponsored by Essential Photo Gear, the contest is open to anyone who enjoys travel and photography.  Monthly winners will be chosen by the PTR Team and from these winners a Travel Photo of the Year will be selected.

Avid users of compact cameras were surprised yesterday when Canon announced the Powershot G11.  Canon reduced the megapixel resolution to 10 from 15, kept the same lens as the G10, and added a swivel LCD. Canon says its new Dual Anti-Noise System combines a high sensitivity 10.0 Megapixel image sensor with Canon’s enhanced DIGIC 4 image processing technology to increase image quality and greatly improve noise performance by up to 2 stops (compared to PowerShot G10).

GOOGLE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE

Google and the Saatchi Gallery team up for new student photography competition.

National Geographic magazine has long-represented the “Ultimate” in photography for professional and amateur photographers.  Now, through the second annual “Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest,” photographers from coast-to-coast will again have the chance to have their photograph grace the pages of the magazine in an ad for Energizer® Ultimate Lithium batteries. The winner will also be awarded a trip of a lifetime – a National Geographic Expedition for two to the Galapagos Islands.