- One of my favorite artists, publishers and podcasters, Brooks Jensen, recently published a new folio, Winter Trees III. I purchased it last week, and couldn’t be more pleased. The whole set brought back a flood of memories of Russian winters growing up. He also has the folio available for free download in PDF format.

- Jim Goldstein partnered with Borrow Lenses and is giving away a free one-week rental of any lens you’d like on his blog to one random poster.

- As an extension to my previous post about how to improve your Flickr experience, please follow the link to the post on Flickr and read through the comments. One poster share another useful tool called Black Magic (which I loved – it’s a new way to view Flickr images) and another one is a comment from Thomas Hawk about how to create your own Flickr favs fine art gallery.

- Check out the web-site of another Bay area photographer Dan Mitchell. His recent work will remind you what time of the year it is.