TONS of cool links!! Ready your eyeballs for some serious reading!

• I love Annie Leibovitz. She’s got a new book out called Annie Leibovitz At Work. Check out reviews from Strobist here and Digital Photography School here. I’ll post one up too, probably, I pre-ordered mine!
• Speaking of Strobist, go add a vote for them for the 2008 Weblog Awards. Strobist is easily the most informative lighting blog on the net and they more than deserve to win!
• Beyond Megapixels gives you the rundown on printing your digital photos for longevity and quality.
• Pioneer Woman shows you how important contrast really is. (As a contrast fan…probably to the point of overdoing it, I approve!)
• Photojojo teaches you how to lure young, impressionable youth into photography.
• This is really cool. Life (magazine) and Google have partnered up to host a photographic archive from the 1860′s to now. From the site “Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.” These photos are amazing. Check em out here.
• SLR Newb? Feeling lost? Check out the WikiHow Guide to understanding your SLR.
• Got Ovation TV? You might and not even know it. If you do, check out Ovation’s Genius of Photography series airing now. I’m about to dive into the episodes on my DVR.
• Interesting article about San Diego computer scientists that have built a software program that can perform key duplication with just a photograph of the key! Photography for evil? You decide.
• Spoonflower prints fabric from your photographs. As an interior design freak and photographer, this really sent me into nerd overdrive.
• Sometimes photography isn’t pretty, but powerful and disturbing. Boston.com “The Big Picture” (a favorite of mine, check it out if you’re into photojournalism) posted a story in photographs about the crisis in Congo currently worsening as I type this. All photos of the deceased are blacked out unless you click on them, so if you can’t handle that stuff, this link is still safe.