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As a reminder, the PRC will be CLOSED and the gallery & library dark from December 20 - January 4th. The offices will be back open January 5th and the gallery open to the public on January 6th.

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Thank you all for your generous spirit for our ongoing, new online version of the PRC’s 2009 Annual Appeal. We appreciate you and thank you. There are a few more days in 2008, and every little bit counts!

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Before we head off to family and friends, we wanted to say…

Joy to the world. This holiday season we would like to share with you a few examples of how our youth program students captured their world with wonder and joy.

Click on the image above or here to see some of the kids’ images from the PRC’s Summer Photo Camp.

Happy holidays from all of the kids, small and big, Cate, Jim, Jason & Leslie

The blog Cigarettes and Purity has been on a Boston kick as of late (thanks for the shout out!). Leave it to Wisconsin to point us to a new blog in our own backyard, “The Big Picture” from the Boston Globe!

When they say big pictures, they mean BIG! While most blogs resize pictures to around 450 pixels wide, these are a whopping 990 pixels - it’s great to see images at this size! Keep checking back for news and photojournalist images, there is a new one almost daily. I am sharing the above image from the Chinese earthquakes as startilingly, I haven’t seen too many of them and I think we should see more. You can explore more in this album.

From their mission:

The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery - with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting.

ABOVE IMAGE: A couple reacts immediately after an earthquake struck during their wedding photo shoot at a deserted catholic seminary in Pengzhou in southwest China’s Sichuan province Monday May 12, 2008. Five couples were having wedding photos taken when the earthquake struck, and all escaped without injury. The century-old seminary was destroyed in the quake, which left tens of thousands dead in Sichuan. (AP Photo)