So you like to manage your photos in Windows Explorer? Try out Microsoft Photo Info. It’s a new Window Explorer add-in that allows you to add, change and delete common “metadata” properties for digital photographs. The add-in integrates nicely within Windows Explorer and also provides enhanced tooltips and additional sort properties for your images in Explorer.

With the Christmas season upon us it’s the time of year that we start taking more photos. Supercharge the photographs you take this year by reading this quick guide on The Rules of Photography. Follow the rules, and you’ll be sure to have more interesting memories from the holiday season!

Here is another good article that describes how to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos in Photoshop CS2. The article offers very good explanations of HDR photography - my latest favourite way to take pictures!

If you have a digital camera and Photoshop CS2, you should take a shot at creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photograph. You’ll be amazed at the results which includes fantastic color and detail in both the brighter and darker areas of your images. To get started, check out this tutorial titled High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2. It offers one of the best descriptions of HDR that I have read. If you’re wondering what an HDR photo looks like, check out the HDR Pool on Flickr.

If you’re looking to create a virtual digital darkroom, you should definately take a look at this collection of Photoshop CS2 Actions. All the actions are free and if you like them enough, send the creator a donation via PayPal. I recently used the Digital Velvia action to enhance a few pictures I took at a local park.

This is one of my favorite Flickr mashups.  If you’re like me, you often check out the Flickr Interestingness page to see what new and cool photographs have been uploaded for the current day.  The problem with the page delivered by Flickr, is that you have to navigate through quite a few pages to see them all.  Not anymore! Flickr Leech is a mashup that presents all the images on a single page!

I’m currently in the market for a new Digital SLR camera and came across an excellent Digital SLR Blog. There’s a good dose of articles and links that deal with new camera information and other related products for the DSLR user.

If you’re into macro photography, you might want to look at building your own macro ring-light.  With this do-it-yourself project, you can build a special LED light that attaches to the lens of your consumer level digital camera.

Here is a neat tutorial that will show you to Create an Extreme Macro Photography lens with a Pringles Can! Sounds crazy but the results speak for themselves!

REUTERS has posted a nice Flash based presentation of the Top 40 Photographs of 2005. Some fantastic and tragic photos that describe the state of the human condition.