Renaissance hosts ‘festival’ Oct. 9
Renaissance | Farragut is planning its third annual Fall Festival Saturday, Oct. 9, with two new events: a chili cook-off and a Little Miss Renaissance Farragut contest.

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Club members shoot in range of styles
An exhibition by some Peterborough photographers is open at the Kawartha Artists’ Gallery and Studio until Oct. 7. The Kawartha Photographer’s Guild annual exhibition has extended hours from 4 to 8 p.m.[...]

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Well, I know it’s a very cliche thing for a fourteen year old to say, but I want to be a photographer when I’m older. I try to practice now, but I know next to nothing about photography. I have a point-and-shoot Olympus FE-310. The man at radioshack told me it was an amazing camera for it’s price. Personally I think it’s so-so.
But anyway, are there any tips other than practice on how to get experience?

Disallowance threat set to be challenged
DURING a statement to the Assembly on Monday, Minister Michelle Gildernew MP MLA confirmed that DARD is taking its fight against EU disallowance to the European Court of Justice.

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When asked what a photographer’s life is about, the subject of this film replies that it is ‘a life looking through a lens’. She should know: Annie Leibovitz has been looking at all kinds of life through her lens for the last 30 years. Viewers who haven’t heard her name will certainly have seen her pictures: from a naked and pregnant Demi Moore to Bette Midler on a bed of roses; from Bruce Springsteen’s famous pose in front of the American flag, to a naked John Lennon curled up and vulnerable next to a distant-looking Yoko Ono, Leibovitz’s images are instantly recognisable. In her 50s now, the photographer is working harder than ever. She’s universally in demand from pop stars to political leaders, rebel-rousers to royalty (including our very own Queen) and she’s no stranger to controversy. Her recent photographs of Disney Star Miley Cyrus caused a storm when the 15-year-old was photographed wearing only a sheet and smudged lipstick. Leibovitz’s career began as a photo journalist for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1970s, where she quickly rose to the position of chief photographer. She successfully captured the spirit of the age, from the rock and roll revolution to Watergate. She famously went on tour with the Rolling Stones, earning her reputation as photographer to the stars but picking up a drug habit along the way. Clean for years now, Leibovitz’s work is most familiar these days through the covers and pages of Vanity Fair magazine. In these shots, every picture …