When we read the revised terms that TwitPic had imposed on their users we could hardly believe what we were reading. We were sure that some foolish person in TwitPic's legal department was just having a bad day. That it was all a dreadful mistake, the culprit would be fired for being incompetent, the terms would be corrected, and the world would be reset to 'happy' again. Sadly, it has not turned out as we hoped and outpourings of tears and rage are clogging up social media even as we write this story.

Lucy Bell Gallery is pleased to introduce new works by photographer Vicky Wetherill, the result of a series of trips to Las Vegas which were taken over a period of ten years.

A few days ago we received a notice from a photographer drawing our attention to a photography competition organised by the United Kingdom Natural History Museum (NHM) as part of the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) partnership project. The competition is asking the public to send in weather related photographs to a project which is supported by public money (£11.75 million) granted through the UK Big Lottery Fund. In addition the OPAL project is actually comprised of seventeen separate publicly funded bodies, one of which is the Natural History Museum in London.

Royal Wedding Rights Grab - News Flash

On 14 April we published a story concerning The Royal Wedding Album. The Royal Wedding Album project, created by Benjamin Daniel Pankhurst, MD of Group Charlescannon located at 6 route des Creux, Verbier Switzerland, asks the public to send in photographs they have taken in connection with the wedding of Kate and Wills. Events have moved on since that story and we put together some more information about who is backing the rights grab.