This week’s LPB Focus photo is “Live” from pfig.

• 10 ways to make Google love your photography site
  “The internet is a cold and heartless place, and the biggest source of traffic to any website should be coming from search engines.”
• 10 Steps to maintain your camera
  “Well, just like other rituals, many of us become very fastidious about our work flow. We color manage things, we duplicate images, back them up, and save in multiple locations. Yet there hasn’t been anyone that has really talked about establishing rituals over cleaning their gear.”
• Introducing Your Little One to Photography
  “Introducing your children to photography, whether they have extra needs or not, is a great way to encourage creativity and decision-making and can give you a new activity to share with your whole family.”
• PhotoshopDisasters
  This site always cracks me up.

Every week I’ll be posting links to articles and stories elsewhere on the web. If you know of a good article that would be of interest to other photographers, contact me.

Here’s an interesting website created by New York’ radio channel WNYC: Streetshots. It’s dedicated to street photography in New York and has some great video portraits of a few photographers (Jake Dobkin of Bluejake fame is probably the most well known in the photoblogger world).
Do check out Bruce Gilden’s video, because that man has some guts to get his close-up people shots!

Iconic Britain is a photographic competition that aims to find 100 images that define Britain. Powered by Microsoft Live Search, a new image sourcing network, you can win prizes both by submitting a photo and voting on other people’s entries, with Nikon Coolpix and D60 DSLR cameras on offer. The Iconic Britain competition is open to residents of the United Kingdom, and it runs from 19th June to 14th August 2008. A panel of experts will choose the category winners and their favourite British icon. You can enter and vote in the contest at http://www.iconicbritain.com.

Could be fun! Some of the search results are a little…wonky, but there are some nice images in there. It would be interesting to see what images are selected to define Britain.

Ever wanted to go inside the iconic Battersea Power Station? Well, now is your chance as the owners of the site organize a few open days as part of the consultation process for their new plans to regenerate the site.

The power station will be opened on Saturday 12 July & Saturday 19 July, both days from 10am until 6pm. And they even encourage you to bring your camera! More information can be found on their website.

It’s July and you would kind of expect some sunshine and warmth around, but no, not with this British weather. Of course it is kind of obligatory to have rain when Wimbledon is on. Anyway, for all those rainy afternoons there is plenty to see in the galleries around London this month. Read the rest of this entry »

This week’s LPB Focus photo is “Yellow Doors” from only lines. For more photos from Kevin visit his photoblog: its-only-lines.my-expressions.com.

Some basic tips in this article from digital Photography School - How to Reduce Camera Shake - 6 Techniques. As someone who always shakes, it’s good to find some new simple techniques to try when you don’t have a tripod handy. Anyone have any other tips on reducing camera shake (other than the obvious - get a tripod)?

This week’s LPB Focus photo is “Like This…” from Knifejuggler. For more photos from Neil visit his photoblog: pic-a-day.co.uk.

(Sorry Andy, how could I resist?)

Just a reminder that there is a meet up this Sunday (29 June) at the Boleyn Stadium (West Ham United) in East London New London Stadium the home of Millwall FC. Meet at the South Bermondsey Rail Station which is about 5 mins ride on the rail line out of London Bridge Station. UPDATE!  We’ll meet at 12:30 at the front entrance (there’s only one entrance) to Bermondsey UNDERGROUND station.

The plan is to meet up at 12:30 and walk around for a few hours taking photos for maybe 3 hours or so and then either break up or go out for some refreshments.

If you have any suggestions or questions, post them below and Eric will get back to you. He’d appreciate it if you’d let him know if you’re going to join him on any particular Sunday at least a few days ahead of time by dropping me an email: alldaybreakfast at mac dot com so he have some idea of what to expect. Also let him know your mobile number and he’ll send you his in a return email.

I’ll be there so I’m looking forward to hopefully seeing some familiar faces and perhaps a few new ones too. Hope to see you guys there!