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How to Easily Replicate a Photo’s ‘Look’ Using Curves

Check out this cool tutorial video on how to mimic a photo's style using curves in Photoshop.

Incredible Color Photographs of Early 20th Century Russia

Check out these beautiful early 20th C. color photographs from Russia by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.

The collection is housed at the Library of Congress. Click here to see the rest and learn more.

Great tip to correct color casts in your photos

This short video shows you how to use color theory to correct color casts. It's a great idea and quite easy to do.

Lighting 101

Very cool lighting tutorial with minimal gear - and minimal budget - from Strobist (with free PDF download 2.7mb).

Contemporary Photo Practice and the "Networked Lens."

Here's an interesting read on contemporary photo practice and the (possible?) paradigm shift to "networked lenses" as a (the?) new definition of the medium.