Aurora Photos has announced the first Aurora Multimedia Workshop, in partnership with Rich Clarkson and Associates. The workshop will take place May 26-29, 2010 on the University of Colorado campus at Boulder in the new, state-of-the-art ATLAS facility. Aurora President and workshop instructor, Jose Azel says, “Mr. Clarkson and his crew have the history of producing the best workshops around, and together we have constructed a hands-on workshop that provides instruction in combining still photographs, sound, narration and video. The presenters and instructors come from the highest levels of the editorial and advertising world.” Here: Aurora Multimedia Workshop Posted by WillCarleton

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Environmental Photographer of the Year competition is coming to a close in a few months.  Clear here for details to enter. Specialist Stock is proud to be their Media Consultants helping with marketing the competition to photographers and ensuring the winning pictures a given a suitable profile.  The relationship is set to grow over the years keeping apace with the impressive momentum of this unique international photographic competition on the environment.

Some of last years winners:

Fresh Business thinking.com Many businesses are looking to promote their “green” credentials through advertising. But as the general public become more aware of the environmental impact of their spending choices, their cynicism over companies’ green claims grows. This has led to a rise in the number of complaints about “greenwashing”. This is not to say that companies should avoid making green claims – only that they should go about it very carefully. We look at the issues in “Greenwashing”.

The worlds biggest technology exhibition, CeBIT Conference, anually held in hannover – germany, was under the motto : 3D   An international survey revieled that the media demand in photo, film and video technology for 3D increased by 75% over a period of the last 12 months.

Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker’s Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music.  Add to your Amazon reading list… Comment: “A must read for anyone who works in the archive industry, North American centred, but thorough and with insightful contributions.”

The feature film / environmental documentary called The End of the Line will have a second screening on UK television this Saturday 6th March at 7.15 on Channel 4. The first screening on More4 last August was a great success and we are hoping to reach an even larger audience with the Channel 4 Broadcast. If you think any of your friends and family would like to watch the film please forward this email to them.

ARKive has already profiled 6,000 of the world’s species on their website, with the help of the world’s best filmmakers, photographers and scientists (including Specialist Stock). These include many of our most charismatic and familiar animals: gorillas, lions, tigers and elephants. In 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, we have set ourselves the ambitious task of tracking down films and photos of 17,000 of the world’s most endangered plants and animals, including major black millipede, Marley’s golden mole and the Jeweled toad (below).

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Photos captured on a digital camera which is thought to have spent over a year in the Atlantic ocean has been recovered by a Spanish trawlerman. He is trying to trace the owner of the camera after it was hauled from the Atlantic seabed and amazingly discovered the photos were still in tact. It is believed that the camera was dropped overboard from the QM2 cruise liner in the middle of the Atlantic some time in the last two years but the exact period of time is unknown. The camera’s memory card revealed five photographs, including one of a dary haired woman posing on the deck of a ship with, the now out-of-service, QE2 cruising along in the background. The last known date when these two vessels sailed together was October 2008, shortly after the QE2 was decommissioned.

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