The word Lomo is often used to refer to the LC-A and other LOMO branded consumer cameras with which one can take, often over-saturated, snapshots. The Lomo Effect is pretty popular and can be faked by Photoshop or Gimp.
On Flickr´s Technic Group conceptDawg published a

Domen Lombergar is a young & highly talented slovenian digital creator and artist. On his website you find lots of free video tutorials on Phtoshop (effects) like

• Faking Fog in Photoshop
• Advanced Batch Processing
• Nondestructive Sepia Toning

and much more…

He runs as well a community for aspiring digital artists on artworld.si.

Links
Domens devianart page

If you’ve ever wrestled to get a decent shot of the outside and inside when shooting indoors on a sunny day, or been disappointed to find your subject silhouetted when shooting into the sun, Joshus Keay has a Photoshop fix for it.

Watch his videocast Five Minute Foto Fix on photojojo.com.

In case you don’t already watch them, I felt like I should point out to anyone who regularly uses Photoshop that there is a great resource in video tutorials (in the form of the poorly named vodcast) at photoshopkillertips.com

You can get the feed here, which you can plug into apple’s itunes or your favorite feed reader.

You have probably already seen one of the amazing photographs of earth taken from high above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. They were published on many magazine covers like GEO.

What you might not know is Arthus-Bertrand´s photographs are online and many are available as wallpapers for your pc. Due to their beauty and broad scope they display the graceful quietness only the earth from above can reflect. It´s pure joy looking at my desktop now, diving into one of these images.

If you live close to Birmingham, you can visit the free exhibition, Earth from Above (Centenary Square, by the Wheel), which is a remarkable 14 years of work on this project.

By the way, Arthus-Bertrand must be a humble and lovely man; he likes taking photos of smiling people and says: “The earth is Art. The potoprapher is only a witness.”

Links
yannarthusbertrand.com

Website of the exhibition Earth from the air

Note
Original Photography: Flooded house south of Dhaka, Bangladesh by Y. Arthus-Bertrand

His flickr nick is aqui-ali and he is one of the top five flickr photographers i came across. His photographies are just amazing and i could look at them every sunny and rainy day. They make you feeling like catching your camera, going out and taking shots of equal easiness.

A flickr community member wrote:
A perfect distillation: the beautiful essential. The eye of aqui-ali: a phenomenon.

Enjoy!

By the end of the summer no one did believe in the launch of Hans Hyttinens photoblog Lumilux anymore.

We all were wrong. Last week Hans did get his site off the ground. An excellent photoblog was born and Hans harvested admiration for an elegant design.

Congrats from TXP Mag for a nice job!

On May 7th 1945, Chief-of-Staff, German General Jodl, signed Germany’s unconditional surrender to the western allies and Russia at 2:41am. Operations had to be cease at 1 minute after midnight (GMT) on the 8th of May.

Today May 8th, 1945 is regarded the official day of German
capitulation.The greatest battle of world history ended with about 60 million people dead, and many more wounded and exiled. Europe layed in ruins.

In commemoration of this date, Mickael Therer has created the virtual visit project