Fun with Cooliris

If you have not used the ‘slideshow’ option while browsing a contest in the gallery section of the site, be sure to check out its features. Built on top of Cooliris, it is a great way to interact with the many photo submissions in a contest. You can browse photos quickly, and its fun! Here [...]

Prizes Announced for

Finally the prizes are selected! The ‘Flowers’ Contest introduces a new Sponsor – Riley G Design Works. Riley G ‘s goal is to create quality camera straps that embody the creativity and style of the photographers who wear them.  Check out the selection of designer straps at http://www.rileygdesignworks.com. Riley G camera straps will be awarded [...]

My one shot from the Holga TIM

I got the Holga TIM a few weeks ago, and rattled off some shots so I could quickly get to the camera store and process my first roll of film. It’s usually hit or miss with me and shooting film – this time it felt more like a miss. When I got the pics back [...]

The “Flowers” contest is now open for submissions. This is a subject-based contest focused on ‘Flowers” as the subject in the composition of the photo.  Rules are simple – have a flower(s) in the photo! Quota for submissions per member is 3 photos for this contest. Prizes? Yes!  There will be prizes for the top [...]

Final Results for Windows Contest

The results are finally announced.  Thanks for everyone’s patience.  This was one of the more difficult contests as a lot of photos ranked up in the top range. Eventually, the top three photos emerged.  We usually have only 10 Honorable Mentions, but since there were so many close scores form the judges – this contest [...]

Oloneo's PhotoEngine open for Beta Users

Okay this looks like a promising tool I could spend hours in tweaking the controls and lighting in some of my old HDR Shots.  It also revives my interest is playing around with HDR shots again.  Yet – I am still obsessing with toy cameras at the moment, but I think I’ll check PhotoEngine out [...]

Unpacking the Holga 135TIM

I’ve been on a tear lately with toy camera’s.  I first got the Golden Half, then the Blackbird Fly, and now I found myself over the weekend at PhotoWorks in San Francisco staring at this odd camera on the shelf that seemed to be staring right back at me. It was the Holga 135TIM, an [...]

Staycations, vacations... better than working

Over the last few weeks, I have taken time off of work mostly for a ‘staycation’ - working in the garage, surfing, reading, and generally just sitting around the house as much as possible. I did get a chance to go back east to visit familiy and took my Golden Half along.  Its much easier to [...]

You may have noticed a number of changes over the last couple of days. The Facebook login integration has been completed to allow new user registration. You may find login issues when jumping form the Facebook App back to the site – so be sure to login from the blog page. New theme is being [...]

Facebook has made some recent changes to how websites connect members with a new set of features called the Graph API. ThirstyPhoto uses an older feature from Facebook that allows our members to log into the site and use the Facebook App for photo contests.  Since the introduction of these new features, our old code [...]

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