Folk on the Rock's Volunteers photos online

I'm volunteering to take pictures of the goings on for Folk on the
Rocks this month...

For more information about Folk on the Rocks, visit the festival's website at
http://www.folkontherocks.com

Order tickets online at
http://www.yktix.com/

My first assignment for FOTR was to take a few pictures of a batch of
volunteers...
The pictures I took (and will take) are (or will be) available at...

http://FOTR2006PICS.notlong.com

The online slide show of the same set of pictures lives via..

http://FOTR2006slides.notlong.com

or

http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72157594187803367/

an

http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72157594187803367/show/

Click on any picture to enlarge...

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"Life is fatal, but not serious" (Oscar Wilde)

Fruit of the land

DSC_0492-v2-m, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

DSC_0492-v2-m

Spring reflections

Spring reflections, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Bullrushes near Fort Smith NWT, Canada

Cassette Rapids in Winter near Fort Smith

DSCF0010, originally uploaded by npallan.

Not mine... but I know where this photo was taken... next year...

Uploaded on February 13, 2005 by npallan
npallan's photostream

cassette rapids (Set)

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Stanley St, Montreal, Quebec

Stanley St, Montreal, Quebec, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

I used the Peel Metro Station a lot when I lived here...

Peel Metro 2

Peel Metro 2, originally uploaded by N1ghyom1.

One of my favorite metro stations!!!! Especially when I lived on Stanley Street

NYC Calling all cars: Photography still legal

FREEDOM OF PRESS
/Calling all cars: Photography still legal/
Source: National Press Photographers Association

New York City area photographers achieved a victory of sorts in March against
Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers when the New York Civil
Liberties Union threatened a lawsuit against MTA if their officers continued to
try to stop photography on the subways, Long Island Railroad, and Metro North
trains. The threatened suit brought about a written concession from MTA's
general counsel that there is "no ban on photography," but not until after
several photographers were harassed and threatened with arrest.

Over the past couple of months there has been an increase in the number of
complaints from photographers, both press and civilian, alleging that police -
mostly MTA officers - were threatening to arrest them for taking pictures in
public places, telling photographers that "photography is illegal."

The NYCLU wrote to MTA following the string of complaints, to which MTA
responded by requesting that "any photo activities get their 'prior
approval.' "
NPPA Region 2 associate director Todd Maisel, who is also vice president of the
New York Press Photographers Association and a staff photographer at the New
York Daily News, responded to MTA officials by saying that he "would never seek
their approval to take photographs in a public place."

... Catherine Rinaldi, general counsel and deputy executive director for MTA,
conceded in a March letter to photographers that there is "no ban on
photography
in the Long Island Railroad or the Metro North Transit system." The concession
came after NYCLU attorneys wrote to MTA demanding that they explain why MTA
officers were threatening photographers with arrest for taking pictures in
public areas of the transit system.

Source: National Press Photographers Association
<http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2006/04/mta01.html>

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Muffaloose Button

Muffaloose Button, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Pictures of the Wood Buffalo Frolics of 2006

Cutting Loose with the Muffaloose !

Wood Buffalo Frolics 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72057594084294773/

View as slideshow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72057594084294773/show/

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P.O. Box 456
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
X0E 0P0, Canada
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Phone 867 872-3455
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." (Max Depree)
"Try? There is not try. There is only do or not do." (Yoda)
"Life is fatal, but not serious" (Oscar Wilde)

High School kids on the land...

DSC00448, originally uploaded by Claude Doucette.

The Fort Smith PWK High School kids have some classes out on the land every year to learn the tradional ways of Canada's Boreal forest...

See more of their pictures at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70908966@N00/sets/72057594069356424/

Review of George Lessard's Bolivian Slide Show

I was asked to present my images of Bolivian at the Northern Life
Museum here in Fort Smith, This is a copy of the review of the show
that appeared in the Slave River Journal http://srj.ca , our local
newspaper.

A PSF of the story is available but it is also available th his URL (as a JPG)

Available online as a JPG file at
http://static.flickr.com/39/107240702_88bf00a470_o.jpg

or via

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/107240702/"
title="Photo Sharing"><img
src="http://static.flickr.com/39/107240702_88bf00a470_o.jpg"
width="1148" height="2200" alt="Review of George Lessard's Bolivian
Slide Show" /></a>

More of George's images of Bolivia are available at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/1072623/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/1510357/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/1510957/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/1456797/

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GEORGE LESSARD
Information & Media Specialist
6402135 Canada Inc.
60°00'N, 111°58' W
P.O. Box 456
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
X0E 0P0, Canada
Voice 867 872-3455
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This work is licensed under a
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/devnations/2.0/
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." (Max Depree)
"Try? There is not try. There is only do or not do." (Yoda)
"Life is fatal, but not serious" (Oscar Wilde)

Emergency for Professional and Creative Photographers

[Don't make the mistake of thinking that this will effect only US photogs... because it could happen to anyone's photographs someone finds in the US... including yours.]

Emergency for Professional and Creative Photographers

Folks, we have a very serious situation on our hands. Congress is right now rushing into law a bill to legalize the theft of YOUR original photographic work.

It's called the "Orphan Works" amendment to the copyright act. What it basically says is that if anybody comes across your professional or creative photography, any time, anywhere, and then attempts to locate the creator (you) but can't, then they can just take it. Take it and use it however they want to.

You forfeit your right to control your own work. This would be true even of photographs with registered copyright.... more below....

http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/2006/02/emergency-for-professional-and.html

http://www.asmp.org/news/spec2006/orphan_faxcall.php

Image for a poster

Image for a poster, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Poster for the 2004 "The Artists of the South Slave Society" festival

Pixel Counting Joins Film in Obsolete Bin

Pixel Counting Joins Film in Obsolete Bin

[excerpt]

With the collapse of the film camera market and the end of the
megapixel race, there are big changes in the photographic air.

First, there's the astonishing collapse of the film camera market. By
some tallies, 92 percent of all cameras sold are now digital.
Big-name camera companies are either exiting the film business (
Kodak, Nikon) or exiting the camera business altogether (Konica
Minolta). Film photography is rapidly becoming a special-interest
niche.

Next, there's the end of the megapixel race. "In compact cameras, I
think that the megapixel race is pretty much over," says Chuck
Westfall, director of media for Canon's camera marketing group.
"Seven- and eight-megapixel cameras seem to be more than adequate. We
can easily go up to a 13-by-19 print and see very, very clear detail."

That's a shocker. After 10 years of hearing how they need more, more,
more megapixels, are consumers really expected to believe that eight
megapixels will be the end of the line?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/technology/circuits/02pogue.html?th&emc=th