The News Review:

- Photo Gallery: Bear-Size Catfish Half-Ton Stingrays Among World’s…
- Drivers Give New Bristol Concrete a Workout
- PayPal guys are at it again with Slide
- New Photography Website Magazine Targets Four Thirds User’s |…
- Motorsport.com: News channel
- Artists in the frame
- BYM Product and Industry News

Photo Gallery: Bear-Size Catfish Half-Ton Stingrays Among World’s…
National Geographic – Jul 24, 2007
nationalgeographic. Hogan leads the newly launched Megafishes Project the first major effort to document study and protect the world’s largest freshwater fish. The project aims to better conservation of megafishes—species that grow to at least six feet (two meters) and weigh more than 200 pounds (90 kilograms). They include the mammoth taimen catfish the size of bears and half-ton river stingrays.

Drivers Give New Bristol Concrete a Workout
TruckSeries.com – Jul 24, 2007
The surface is great. You won’t have to force anybody to go to the high side — if they need to pass they’ll be there. A full 20-photo image gallery of the new Bristol Motor Speedway racing surface can be viewed on Close Finishes by clicking on the following link – nce there just click on any photo to enlarge. SURCE: John Close CloseFinishes.

PayPal guys are at it again with Slide
USA Today – Jul 24, 2007
How Slide works Visitors come to the Slide homepage choose one of the many “skins” — a drive-in movie theater a heart-shaped window — and decide where to share their creation. They often choose social networks such as Facebook and Bebo but also blogs from Google’s online Blogger software and other companies. Rivals including Shutterfly and Kodak Gallery began as photo-sharing and e-commerce sites. Soon the e-commerce took over. They average monthly visitors in the range of 5 million to 10 million. Photobucket a pure photo-sharing site popped out of nowhere like Slide and quickly grew to dominate the field. Some 22 million visitors used Photobucket in May according to measurement firm ComScore Media Metrix.

New Photography Website Magazine Targets Four Thirds User’s |…
cameratown.com – Jul 24, 2007
It's Four Thirds User(fourthirds-user. com) featuring news in-depth reviews tutorials awiki-style interactive knowledge base and an integrated discussionforum and user photo gallery. To celebrate the launch of the new siteFour Thirds User running a prize draw to give away an lympus E-510DSLR camera the most recently introduced Four Thirds camera model. Four Thirds User or 'FTU' for short is run by Ian Burley who also edits Digital Photography Now (DPNow. com) which he founded in 2001. He explains: "I'm a life-long photography enthusiast and cameras of all makes interest me but I have been particularly interested in the Four Thirds standard as it's the only DSLR system designed from the ground up to be digital.

Motorsport.com: News channel
Motorsport.com – Jul 24, 2007
Martin Birrane Executive Chairman of Lola Cars commented “Lolaapplauds the dedication of the private owners racing at the SilverstoneClassic who work tirelessly to preserve the history of our sport. Nextyear Lola will be celebrating its 50th anniversary and the vast arrayof Lola cars racing at Silverstone is a wonderful testament to thecompany’s successes in motorsport. Supporting the notable Lola collection racing at the SilverstoneClassic a display will be set up next to the ‘art and photo gallery’area of the entertainment zone showcasing the Motorsport Technologyand Manufacturing divisions of Lola. The display will include Ireland’sA1 GP car the RML MG-Lola LMP675 the Mecom Lola Indy 500 car driven bySir Jackie Stewart in 1967 and a rare public appearance of the Voodoounmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that Lola co-designed for Meggitt Defence. 15pm on each day of the Silverstone Classic a public Q & A willbe hosted at the Lola stand featuring guests that have driven carsbuilt by the iconic British manufacturer. The guest line up will includeNigel Hulme David Leslie Bob Marston Duncan Dayton and John Watson.

Artists in the frame
The Age – Jul 24, 2007
Three minutes after walking in itwas set in stone. It was suggested that the book should debut at this year’sVenice Biennale last month which would require Payes to delivereverything by the end of February. With galleries closed andartists away over summerthe end of last year disappeared into a blur. “In some places I got more close up and personal with theartists than others” says Payes. “Sometimes I got as far as thestudio and there’s the work and there’s the artist… Portraits of Australian Artists is published byMacmillan. Selected photos from the book will be exhibited fromnext Tuesday to August 25 at Charles Nodrum Gallery Richmond.

BYM Product and Industry News
BYM News – BYM News (press release) – Jul 24, 2007
Kos Evans to exhibit at Getty Images GalleryTuesday 24 July 2007 Kos Evans one of the world’s top marine photographers is to hold the first exhibition of her work at The Getty Images Gallery in London from 12 September until 22 September 2007. This unique exhibition will feature some of Kos’s most dramatic and breathtaking photographs spanning more than 27 years as an award-winning marine sports photographer specialising in international yacht racing. An acknowledged pioneer in her field Kos is renowned for her extraordinary trademark masthead shots taken some 200ft from the deck and often involving placing herself in real danger – dangling upside down from the mast wielding a 35mm camera or out of the side of a helicopter photographing powerboats 20 feet off the water at 100 knots. Her aim as always is to capture the best most challenging and most elusive photo working against the elements to reflect her love – and awe – of the ocean in all its unfathomable majesty. “The sea is a moving canvas that changes by the millisecond and I have strived to show its every aspect” Kos says… This unique exhibition will feature some of Kos’s most dramatic and breathtaking photographs spanning more than 27 years as an award-winning marine sports photographer specialising in international yacht racing. An acknowledged pioneer in her field Kos is renowned for her extraordinary trademark masthead shots taken some 200ft from the deck and often involving placing herself in real danger – dangling upside down from the mast wielding a 35mm camera or out of the side of a helicopter photographing powerboats 20 feet off the water at 100 knots. Her aim as always is to capture the best most challenging and most elusive photo working against the elements to reflect her love – and awe – of the ocean in all its unfathomable majesty. “The sea is a moving canvas that changes by the millisecond and I have strived to show its every aspect” Kos says. “You must always perceive the action before it happens. ” Whether climbing masts diving below the yacht keel or swinging from a halyard diminutive Kos is the original action girl of the high seas. Born in Surrey Kos began taking photographs at the age of five with her father’s lympus Pen-FT.