Last week, I surfed on in to our blogs stats and saw that Jörg Colberg of the blog Conscientious had posted on Boston Photography Focus as a blog to check out! Our stats increased substantially and I wanted to return the favor to him and a few other blogs of note. We’ll keep highlighting great blogs, so keep checking back.

Conscientious is a font of information and images. Jörg seems to post every day, and sometimes several times a day. One of the best things on the blog are his extensive interviews. I wanted to give Jörg a hearty thanks and second his emotion on 2 of them (the others I still have to check out!).

Dawoud Bey just launched a new blog called What’s Going On. Dawoud teaches at Columbia College in Chicago and was one of our past visiting lecturers. An amazing, humble, wonderful man, you can tell he is a wonderful teacher.

We can’t paint blog is one I have stumbled across recently as well. It’s nicely designed and shows some great stuff. We can’t paint also accepts submissions, the deadline is August 1st, so check them out! Plus, We can’t paint is an excellent name and its author is Canadian, both very cool attributes.

We can’t paint recently posted on Pause, to Begin, a unique project dedicated to emerging photographers that combines the web, a book, and recordings. The team just announced the 15 photographers selected for 2008 - and it includes 3 folks I know: Matthew Gamber, Colin Blakely, and Shawn Records. Congrats guys!

ABOVE IMAGE: We heart blog, found on flickr in tarop’s photostream.

For those who haven’t yet had the “Swanny” - aka Mary Virginia Swanson - experience , I pass along a link to her web site and to her incredible blog.

I first met Swanny at the SPE Austin, TX in 2003 and she knew who I was before I knew who I was! I highly recommend her book The Business of Photography and required it for my class at AIB.

For those wanting to get all the happenings, news, and calls for entries first, her blog is a MUST! I thought I subscribed to a lot of emails and listservs, but she takes the cake. You can get it all in one place here. Check it out now, bookmark it, visit often, or better yet, subscribe to her RRS feed - marketingphotos.wordpress.com

ABOVE IMAGE: We heart blog, found on flickr in tarop’s photostream.

CALL FOR PHOTOS!

The PRC invites you to share your photographs with our new Flickr group, “New England Survey Online.” - www.flickr.com/groups/newenglandsurveyonline

Can’t make it physically to see the exhibition New England Survey at the Photographic Resource Center? Or, you did see it, were inspired, and want to respond artistically? Or even, have you scads of wonderfully poetic photographs of and about the New England landscape?

Well then, you are in luck… we have launched a topical PRC flickr group. Help us test the waters of this new idea in the hopes that we can do it with other topics in the future. Share your work with us and the world! To date we have over 100 photos, 40 members, and an active discussion. Browse the photographs in the pool here and see how to add yours below.

This is an open opportunity for all to share and discuss photographs which resonate with our current exhibition and asks “What is New England about New England landscape?” We are hoping to gather together images that explore a state of mind and a sense of place that is unique to this region. We invite you to post your thoughts about this issue as well as any information on your images (and even poems too!).

To share your New England photographs and get started, first you must have a Flickr account (free!). After you do, sign in as yourself first, then go to the PRC’s group page by clicking here and to the right you’ll see “Join this Group” link. Click on it, read the rules and if you agree, and then join the group! (The rules are very minor but will help to keep the group running smoothly and a joy to all.) After you’ve joined, return to your Flickr page, click on the picture you want to share and along the top of it you’ll see “Send to group.” Click on that, select our group’s name, and then presto you are all set! If you have any issues, first visit these Flickr group FAQs, or send us an email.