MORGANA IN A BATH OF MILK!

•  Morgana In A Bath Of Milk! – (or The Things we do to Models!) Last month Ian Brierley had Sarah dunking her head in a bucket of water at the Summer Show, and Katie Green was there, telling us about a forthcoming assignment involving baked beans! On the day she got off lightly – Jon Gray shot her beautifully using the new Bowens Ringflash Pro , without covering her in foodstuffs! A previous

BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY!

• Bridges of Madison County! – Featured Photographer, Christopher Hartford Madison County and its covered bridges both exist. Real-life photographer Christopher Hartford has been there and photographed them. (You'll remember they were originally shot by a fictional National Geographic tog, played on film by Clint Eastwood.) Chris Hartford's equally real-life wife, Louise, brought his portfolio

HELP START A MEET-UP FOR INDY PHOTO LABS!

• Help Start A Meet-Up for Independent Photo Labs! – THE PLOT to organize a sociable get-together for independent photo labs some time this year has THICKENED! Neil Taylor of the UK's minilabhelp forum has now launched a new web site specially to organize and promote the idea. If you think it's a good idea and would like to attend, speak up and say so. Get along to the new

GOVERNMENT RELENTS ON PHOTOGRAPHY!

•  Government Relents on Photography! – The Government has moved on from the brush-off that Home Secretary, Jaqui Smith gave the NUJ over the union's concerns about police surveillance of photojournalists. She had appeared to wash her hands of the matter, but now Lord Bassam of Brighton has said the Home Office will meet the NUJ and will contact the Association of Chief Police Officers with a

WERE YOU THERE?

•  Were You There? Summer Show On WebTV! – Were you interviewed at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW? PhotographyTV's latest episode features this event, and includes many of the delegates who were there. Were you one of them? Take a look and see! Did you photograph the WonderBra model? – photographer Jon Gray's world-class model at the Summer Show, Katie Green, has since gone on to win

MARTIN PARR WINS PHOTO ESPANA

•  Martin Parr Wins Photo Espana, Gets Honourary Doctorate! – Britain's Martin Parr (Magnum), one of our most highly regarded living photographers, has been awarded an Honourary Doctorate by his alma mater, Manchester Met. He has also just won the Baume et Mercier Award at Photo Espana. Another British winner at Photo Espana this year was Olivia Arthur (who is one of just two new photographers

PARINITA SALIAN LEAVING PHOTOWEEK!

•  Parinita Salian Leaving PhotoWeek! – Staff Journalist, Parinita Salian, is to leave PhotoWeek! at the end of the month to become a writer on DPReview. Pari was an invaluable provider of multi-media reporting to PhotoWeek! - working on our DVD productions as well as online video and writing. Her knowledge of photographic equipment and studio lighting was widely appreciated. She is joining one

MENCAP SNAP! AWARDS

• Mencap Snap! Awards! – MENCAP held a prize-winners' party for their SNAP! Awards 2008 at the Proud Gallery in London's Camden last month. SNAP! is MENCAP's annual competition for photos of or by people with learning disabilities, sponsored by Fujifilm and supported by the Sorrell Foundation. Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes were awarded in six categories, and winning photos may be viewed here.

INDEPENDENT PHOTO LABS GET TOGETHER!

• Independent Photo Labs Get Together! – A plot is afoot to organize a sociable get-together for independent photo labs at a watering hole in the North West some evening this year. The conspiracy sprung up on the minilabhelp forum this month, and is gaining ground. Forum Admin, Neil Taylor, is soliciting expressions of interest, and if the number of lab people who want to go reaches critical

RESTRICTING PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT LEGAL!

•  Restricting Photography Is Not Legal! – The Home Secretary has said there is no legal basis for restricting photography in public places. Unfortunately the statement was made in a more-or-less stock response to an NUJ letter alleging MET targeting of photojournalists. The NUJ alleged the Metropolitan Police Forward Intelligence Team were targeting photojournalists covering demos. The Home

NEW MEDIA JOURNALISTS EVALUATE EYE-FI!

•  New Media Journalists Evaluate Eye-Fi! – New media journalists in the UK have begun to evaluate simple consumer wireless video streaming and image upload technologies, such as Qik and Eye-Fi, for whisking breaking news images away from the scene. Qik enables live video casting from a mobile phone via any 3G/GPRS/Wi-fi Internet connection. And Eye-Fi SD cards automatically transmit images from

PHOTOGRAPHY TV NOT ALWAYS FREE!

• PHOTOGRAPHY TV NOT ALWAYS FREE! – Peter Davey's impressive webTV initiative, photographyTV, has taken another step toward self-sufficiency by expanding its revenue model to include subscriptions as well as advertising. The new subscription model means that although Part 1 of each show will remain free, us viewers will need to pay a small amount (currently just £3 a show or £26 for twelve)

DENNIS HYLANDER COMMENTS ON PHOTOWEEK!

• Dennis Hylander Comments on PhotoWeek! – Dennis Hylander, one of the best known names in UK wedding photography (he used to be famous!), has commented on last week's PhotoWeek! story on Helmut Newton: "In the very early 60s Helmut and I had our studios in the same office building known as Block Arcade in Melbourne's city centre. As a busy portrait photographer I never have enjoyed a

ALAMY IMAGES FOR A DOLLAR!

•  Alamy Images For A Dollar! – Stock agency Alamy has ruffled contributor feathers with its introduction last month of Limited Use, a scheme for selling images for as little as a dollar. Contributors who opted-in to new terms last Autumn, not knowing exactly what they were signing up to, now found their images exposed to Limited Use. Under the new terms, contributors were locked in, but Alamy

NIKON D700 OUT NOW!

•  Nikon D700 Out Now! – Nikon's vigorously rumoured new DSLR, the D700, was officially launched on July 1. We haven't handled one, we haven't even seen one for real, we don't have any first hand knowledge of it, but in true PhotoWeek! spirit, here's our expert assessment anyway! If you loved and coveted the ground-breaking available-light performance of the D3 (and you did), but the D200/D300