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.

Alright, maybe not weekly.

Just a few tonight, I’m exhausted and shouldn’t even be on this idiot box right now. I spent the last few hours reading my blog feeds and otherwise screwing around…here’s the coolest things I came across:

• You Suck At Photoshop : Hilarious photoshop tutorials narrated by Donnie Hoyle. Misery loves company, go check them out!
• DIY Photography has a cool little article on using small strobes off camera, handy for speedlite newbs like moi.
• Got a craptastic flatbed scanner you never use? MAKE blog shows you how to turn it into a creepy photo-taking camera! So cool.
• Photojojo takes us back to the practice of post-mortem memorial photography. Creepy, but part of photography history. (Old photos of dead people warning.)
• Photojojo is awesome, and teaches you the ways of night photography.

That’s it for now. My eyes need closing. Well…after I put up my 365 photo.

Ok, so it’s been a little over a week but I totally told you that would happen.

• Get 10 free splatter brushes from PSDTUTS here.
• Pixadus is a cool site for inspiration, it posts popular photos from around the internet all day everyday. Check it out if you need a little inspiration in your day.
• Beyond Megapixels posted about keeping a photography journal here to help you improve your photography, prevent forgetfulness, and record information. The author prints small versions of certain pictures with notes, records locations he saw when he didn’t have a camera, and sketches out lighting schematics from photos he likes. GENIUS. I’ll be getting one tomorrow.
• Here’s a Lightroom video tutorial on removing things from your images.
• Digital Photography School’s Halloween Photography tips are here, just in time for your ghoulish festivites.
• Follow that with Photojojo’s guide to carved pumpkin photography here.
• Natalie Norton talks to DPS about how she achieves natural, cadid-quality portraits here.
• Great info on newborn and maternity shoots.

I plan to do this every week (let’s see how long before I forget a week!).

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Love cool Photoshop actions? Want a gaggle of free ones at your fingertips? Browse DeviantArt’s huge selection of user-made free PS actions. I literally spent an hour going through and downloading! I love actions not just for their effect but the way they inadvertently show you how to get certain effects in Photoshop. Check em out!

Ever wish your photographic pet peevs came in comic form? They do. My favorite is the first one. I hear “wow, your camera takes great pictures” all the time. It’s not the camera, jerk.

Tis the season, Beyond Megapixels has a quick article on getting great shots of autumn leaves.

Thinking of selling stock photography? Going pro? Advertising? You’ll need a model release form! There are great, downloadable & customizable examples here.

Word: Irrational put up 110 Great Resources for Photographers including lots of video tutorials!

Random Internetz: Depth of Field calculator.

Digital Photography School shows you black and white conversion, Lightroom style.

Night photography can be quite a challenge, check out this video tutorial.

And, you could be totally awesome and

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