The Portland Metro Photographic News

The Chicago Tribune newspaper partners with Image Fortress and Masterpiece Marketing Group
to digitally archive their vast photographic archive and market the original historic
photographs to collectors worldwide.

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PMA announces PMA 2011 will be September 8-10, 2011

Fall event kicks off key holiday promotional season for industry

Key points:

• PMA 2011 will be Sept. 8-10, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nev.

• DIMA conference will be Sept. 6-9.

• PPFA conference will be Sept. 6-9.

• PIEA conference will be Sept. 8-11.

• Photo enthusiasts welco...

A gathering of about 200 photographers, photography enthusiats and friends of the arts enjoyed a very special evening that resulted in raising $17,000 for an organization that brings hope to our at-risk, inner city youth.  The event was the Focus On Youth's First Annual Art Auction.  The Auction filled the commons area at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland with over 130 prints by some today's most respected photographers...

There are some entrepreneural endeavours that you want to succeed if for no other reason than the enormous personal risks being taken and the good intentions of the organization.  This is one of those stories.

The Impossible Project was launched in October 2008 by Florian Kaps (CMO), André Bosman (COO) and Marwan Saba (CFO) with one concrete aim: To keep th...

Picked from over 43,000 entries, "The Storybook Wolf" photograph by Joe Luis Rodriguez took the top prize in the internationally famous U.K. Veolia Environnment Wildlife Photographer of the Year. 

But, not for long. 

After an extensive investigation into the origins of the photograph, the judges determined that the picture of a wolf leaping over ...

NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SHOOTS OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE IN FULL 1080p HD VIDEO WITH CANON'S EOS DIGITAL SLR CAMERAS

EOS 5D Mark II and New EOS 7D Cameras Capture SNL Cast In True New York City Nightlife Style

The new season of NBC's Saturday Night Live debuted not only with an a new cast, but with a new look for the opening titl...

       

Poway, CA. January 7th, 2010 - Delkin Devices, Inc. today expanded their lineup of CompactFlash card storage by announcing four new blazing fast

    
Left: National Geographic Collection on 160-GB Hard Drive
Right: National Geographic Collection on 6 DVD-ROMs

Remember those volumes of National Geographic Magazines that were carefully stored in chronoligical ord...

by Tom Hubbard, 11/23/2009

Did you know that Portland's has its own Jobs & Wozniak garage success story.  In our case, that innovator and visionary is Craig Strong.

The prototype product that Craig would eventually launch into the photographic world was pieced together in his home workshop from an old Speed Graphic lens, a shop vac hose and an SLR body cap.  To the am...

Portland, OR (October 22, 2009) – Lensbaby announces today the addition of the new Fisheye Optic and Soft Focus Optic to the Lensbaby Optic Swap System. Each new optic is available for use with the Lensbaby Composer® and Muse®*.  In addition, the Soft Focus Optic is compatible with the Lensbaby Control Freak™.

© 2008, Hub

Do you have shoe boxes full of negatives or slides that your family has collected over the years? There are good reasons for converting those carefully stored negatives to digital files.  High on the list are the security of our collections and the future accessibili...

Are you an Adobe Lightroom User?  Ever wish you could have a say in
new versions of Lightroom software?

If so, Adobe would like for you to participate in the beta testing of Lightroom 3 beta. 
Here's the scoop from Adobe.

Announcing the Adobe&#...