span style="font-weight: bold;"Just three days to go before Vision 2008 – British Journal of Photography’s annual event for aspiring pro photographers/spanbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kbF8SbLANHc/SQ-VLTQg-0I/AAAAAAAAAl0/wq6rfkzQNns/s1600-h/vision2008.gif"img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 51px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kbF8SbLANHc/SQ-VLTQg-0I/AAAAAAAAAl0/wq6rfkzQNns/s400/vision2008.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264590510800042818" border="0" //abr /br /More than a thousand visitors are expected at Islington's Business Design Centre on Friday 07 November as BJP opens the doors to Vision, its annual event for aspiring pro photographers. Vision 2008 offers young professionals the chance to get their portfolios reviewed by experts from across the industry, take advantage of one-day only deals on the latest photographic kit and hear top photographers speak about their careers.br /br /Attendees will hear a speech by Jacob Aue Sobol, one of Magnum Photos' rising stars and the subject of this week's cover story. He won the Leica European Publishers’ Award for his I, Tokyo project, which will be published by Dewi Lewi next month and which he’ll present at Vision. He’ll also present images from his first, celebrated, book, Sabine, which documents life in an isolated Greenland community.br /br /Simon Roberts will also give the first public viewing of his latest photo series, We English - a follow-up Motherland, his acclaimed book exploring Russian identity. This time he's focused on ideas of nationhood closer to home, taking to the road in a motorhome for six months with his wife and daughter, 'documenting landscapes where groups of people congregate for a common purpose and shared experience'.br /br /Another keynote speaker will be photojournalist...

I haven't updated in a while but I was excited enough about this quarters Macworld that I'm breaking the silence. An Airport Extreme base station with a hard drive inside!? TimeCapsule the newest product from Apple, announced today is described by Gizmondo as:

At Macworld 2008, Apple just announced Time Capsule, a full Airport Extreme base station with 802.11n wireless and four ethernet ports, plus server grade hard drives to back up all of the Leopard Macs in the house. We were hoping something like this would come around, and we'll share details with you soon. In the meantime, let's all celebrate the reasonable price: 500GB for $300; 1TB for $500.

This is the best thing ever. I was really unimpressed with TimeMachine when it debuted because I have a Macbook and I'm always moving around the house. I didn't want my computer tied to my desk. Now I don't have to worry about it because I can replace my base station with something that will act as a back-up server and my wap all at the same time!

iPhoto '08

Apple announced an iMac refresh today and the latest version of their iLife application suite for Mac OS X, which includes a new version of iPhoto. I love iPhoto, and I'm glad that they've made easier to use without having to set up smart folders or use "rolls" like folders anymore. iPhoto now has the ability to create event folders from rolls and includes new sorting features familiar to Aperture and Lightroom users, notably quickly hiding images based on star ratings and keyword searching. Also, new .Mac sharing is more like competitive photo services, allowing you to present images in online galleries with the option to protect certain photos or allow hi-res downloads suitable for printing. Your gallery visitors can even contribute to your gallery. It's yet to be confirmed if previously unsupported Pentax cameras, like the *ist DS2 and K100D Super, are going to be able to use the new iPhoto without hacking the application. iLife '08 will be free with new Macs or $79 seperately. .Mac subscribers have 10GB of storage space for photos, movies, and websites they create ($99 per year).

Links: Apple iPhoto, Macworld Apple Announcement Info, Engadget Coverage of iLife 08

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