2011 Winners: In’l Garden Photographer of the Year

UK-based photographer Colin Roberts has won the £5,000 prize in the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition with his Sea Thrift Flowers entry, a superb shot of Widemouth Bay in Cornwall, as a beautiful sunset streams across the sea view, illuminating the flowers in the foreground. The £2,000 Best Portfolio Prize was awarded to …

Adobe Updates Photoshop CS5 with Photoshop 12.0.4

Adobe’s update for Photoshop CS5 is officially called Photoshop 12.0.4 and it enables specially designed apps on tablets, smartphones, and PCs to communicate with and control interaction with Photoshop CS5 (Located in the File menu: Remote Connections). Adobe says now you can be creative on other devices and instantly incorporate what you create into Photoshop. You …

Fujifilm Fixes HS20EXR Firmware to Correctly Report Overheating

The Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR zoom camera can sometimes report that it is overheating when it’s actually not. The company fixes this with Firmware 1.02 for the HS20EXR by adjusting the warning to only display when the camera is actually running with a high temperature. The HS20 features a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, 30X zoom and broadcast …

Leica Akademie to Tour 16 Cities in US, Canada

Leica Akademie will be touring 16 North American cities starting July 9 this year in Santa Barbara, California and ending on December 11, 2011 in Miami, Florida with a series of 25 photography workshops, lectures and hands-on shooting. Leica Akademie is today’s version of the original German Akademie dating back to 1934. “With a rich …