The News Review:

- Photo software: some cameras’ programs are fine for organizing…
- The Master of Festivities
- Heat on tap for Fourth of July

Photo software: some cameras’ programs are fine for organizing…
Free with registration – Consumer Reports – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 1, 2007
Apple offers iPhoto as part of the iLife package with S X and Microsoft includes Windows Photo Gallery with Vista. Although Photo Gallery provides some basic editing abilities it’s more geared toward organizing your photos. As soon as you save a picture for example Photo Gallery asks you to rate the photo and add a tag (or tags) to the image making it easy to locate pictures by subject later. You can remove red-eye in Photo Gallery as well as crop flip and rotate pictures. Slider controls let you adjust brightness contrast color temperature tint and saturation.

The Master of Festivities
New York Times – Jul 1, 2007
“It was kind of an experiment that worked. ” He’s given four opening parties since last fall each crammed with his Dolce-Vita-meets-block-party crowd. But on June 22 he reached an early apotheosis when his gallery (also his home) was chosen as a party site for Magnum Photos’ 60th anniversary celebration. The show an exhibition of Paolo Pellegrin’s photographs titled “Double Blind: Lebanon Conflict 2006″ runs through July 15. Though the subject matter could not have been more serious the mood as at all of Mr. von Zeitschel’s parties sparkled with flirtatious revelry. Elliott Erwitt and David Hurn the famous Magnum photographers crowded next to D… ” Some guests came for the art. “This is the best picture” Mr. Erwitt said pointing to a giant Pellegrin photo near the foosball table (where guests clutched Peronis and avidly joggled the player bars) that showed an anguished man standing amid rubble. “It almost looks like a Caravaggio” Mr. von Zeitschel said. Scott Anderson the journalist who accompanied Mr. Pellegrin through Lebanon said that the photograph showed a man at the moment the body of his 10-year-old daughter was found.

Heat on tap for Fourth of July
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise – Jul 1, 2007
We’ll also pass along the best for the editors of the Camera to consider for print. Photographers: Log in or sign up at mytown. com create a photo gallery under your account and upload your pictures. Be sure to include the name of the person who took the pictures and give a description of what’s in the photos and where they were taken. No altering pictures.