Photo, digital imaging links - small selection

• Docma - Digital retouching, also has a good newsletter
  www.docma.info
• Fred Miranda - has a variety of Photoshop plugins
  www.fredmiranda.com
• Rob Galbraith - is on the pulse of what's going on in the industry
  www.robgalbraith.com
• www.luminous-landscape.com
• www.dpreview.com
• Media Storm
  www.mediastorm.org
• Sports Shooter
  www.sportsshooter.com
  
• Photo District News
  www.pdnonline.com 
• and a gazillion others...

A few industry links

• BVPA - German photo agency association
  www.bvpa.org
• Freelens - German Photojournalist Association
  www.freelens.com
• ASMP - American Society of Media Photographers
  www.asmp.org
• SAA - Stock Artists Alliance
  www.stockartistsalliance.org

Travel planning links for photographers

• A good start for general country specific information
  • By the US State Dept.
    http://travel.state.gov/travel/travel_1744.html
  • Similar information, from the German government
    www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/de/LaenderReiseinformationen.jsp 
  • CIA World Factbook
    https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
  • TIP - German information service
    www.tip.de

• Travel Safety
  • Questioning the safety of the new naked body scanners at airports? You are not alone.
    http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
• Leo Dict - an excellent online dictionary
  http://dict.leo.org/ende?lang=en&lp=ende&search=

• Helpful infos when travelling by plane
  • Information on Common Airplane Types and Configurations
    http://thetravelinsider.com/airplanetypes.htm
  • Seatmaps for your flight
    www.seatguru.com
  • Checking Flight Status
    http://www.iapa.com/index.cfm/travel/planning.flight_status?C=1

• Map tools, satellite imagery
  • www.digitalglobe.com
  • www.flashearth.com

• WorldClock for the desktop
  • www.carefile.com/WorldClock

Good Weather Forecasts for Photoshoots:

• THE weather and avalanche forecast for the winter
  www.powderguide.com
• The name says it all
  www.windfinder.com
• Marine weather forecasts
  www.buoyweather.com
• Tides Wxtide32 - a free Windows tide and current prediction program
  www.wxtide32.com
• www.weather365.net
• www.wunderground.com

Various Links

• Alternative News Sites
  • www.infowars.com
  • www.globalresearch.ca
  • www.drudgereport.com/

• Defying urban legends/ is it true or a rumor
  • www.truthorfiction.com
  • www.snopes.com

• Web browsing
  • Find visited sites faster in Firefox with WebReview
    http://dragontalk.opendfki.de/wiki/WebReview
  • Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago
    www.archive.org/web/web.php

• Christian
  • Bibles online
    • www.biblos.com/
    • www.bibleserver.com/
    • www.blueletterbible.org/
  • Ministries
    • Stand to Reason equips Christians with knowledge, wisdom, and character
      www.str.org
    • Radio Bible Class
      www.rbc.org
    • Ariel - solid teaching -from a jewish perspective
      www.ariel.org/amds.htm
  • Thought-provoking teaching:
    • Francis Chan
      www.cornerstonesimi.com/special/media_player.html
    • Tony Campolo
      www.tonycampolo.org/sermons.php
    • John Piper
      www.desiringgod.org/

Friends that do good work, offer excellent services or have good products

• EVOC - THE BEST in bike and snow backpacks, bags and protectors
  www.evocsports.com
• KAENON - Superb sunglasses which keep my eyes relaxed and at ease - even in bright sun, glare from water and snow, and other challenging lighting conditions. Stylish and optically superior!
  www.kaenon.com
• Blue Magazin
  www.bluemag.eu
• Professional Mountain Guiding in the Alps - Stefan Indra
  www.hoehengrad.ch
• Fine Custom Architecture - Anke Indra
  www.ankeindra.de
• Webdesign
  www.imedia-design.de
• Web programming
  www.abija.de
  www.peschuster.de
  
• Creative German Texts - Andi Spies
  www.textkommissariat.de

Some sport people I work with

• Shawna Cropas - a unique and versatile waterwoman/ model on Maui
  www.shawnacropas.com
• Clarissa Hempel - a brazilian water passionate person and professional kiteboarder
  www.clarissahempel.com
• tbc