Thought it was interesting that there is an exhibit of non-traditional processing for photography. I think anything done with Photoshop is non-traditional, but what do I know??

by Steve Meltzer

posted Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 3:38 PM EDT

An American landscape photographer bought an entire French village yesterday for what many people pay for a new house.

Ahae Jeong (shown on the right), who goes by his first name, purchased the village of Saint Nicholas Courbefy, France, for just $663,000, which was actually some $400,000 over the auction starting price.

Ahae, a South Korean born photographer based in the United States, shoots very quiet and serene nature photography, images one observer described as “so simple, so beautiful, so perfect.”

Widely collected and published, Ahae will have a one-man exhibition of his images this June at the Tuileries garden of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Some of the images in that show can be seen here.

The French village, located in the Limousin region of Northwest France between Bordeaux and Lyon, consists of 19 homes, a 13th-century ruined castle, a half completed hotel, a chapel, a swimming pool, an overgrown tennis court and rundown stables. (To see more images of Courbefy, click here.)

Food Photography Photo Contest – ViewBug and Foodspotting Showcase the Art of Food Photography

Foodspotting, a visual food guide app that allows you to review dishes rather than restaurants, and San Diego-based ViewBug, the number one online photo contest community that provides the opportunity for photographers to share photos for prizes, have partnered for a food photography contest.

http://www.aday.org/

Washington Post article http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/a-snapshot-of-life-on-adayorg/2012/05/14/gIQAMOESPU_blog.html

Photographs Not Taken is a book about photography in which there is not a single photograph. It’s a collection of essays by 62 photographers about the ones that got away: the images — burned to memory and conscience — that, for one reason or another, the photographer could not make.

Lots of photo contests here.