One of my photos from China got a huge recognition just a few days ago, when it was chosen for daily deviation on deviantART. Folks at deviantART said: “Just like many other journalistic photographs, Rice lady by *jusmedic is a display of the artist’s skill to capture a special moment in a seemingly ordinary environment. The photograph depicts a harmony between human and nature through its shiny colours and an almost tangible air of abundance. I also love how, despite her workclothes, we can still see the staggering femininity of the model.” 

As promised, here is the November wallpaper. This picture was taken in Krkavče, Slovenia. Krkavče are really close to Portorož.  

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I you would like to have “Surfing” for your desktop wallpaper, just click on (and choose save as) one of the links bellow that best represents your screen resolution and save it as your wallpaper. Let me know what you think about this….

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p.s. I am a little late with this one, new one for november will be available sooner

No I am not the winner. I have ranked 13 out of 139 people who submitted 459 photographs. The competition was held by Slovenian edition of Digital Camera Magazine. I have submitted 3 photos from my recent travels (one from Cambodia - ”Brothers”, one from Hawaii – “Friendly Shark” and one from Canary islands – “Surfing” which ended on 13th place). My personal favorite was not “Surfing”, but anyway I am pleased with the results. Congrats to all other contestants. Here is the link to 37th edition of Digital Camera.

“Surfing”

Canon has announced the development of a firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. The new firmware is expected to be made available for download in the first half of 2010.

Press release:

London, 20 October 2009 – Canon today announces that it is currently developing a firmware update to the EOS 5D Mark II to enable the recording of high definition 1080p video at 24 and 25fps. The decision to develop new firmware to support these features has been taken following feedback received from cinematographers and photographers.

Introduced in September 2008, the multi award-winning EOS 5D Mark II was the first DSLR product to offer full frame 1080p HD video recording, opening up a multitude of new creative possibilities for photo journalists, news photographers and amateur filmmakers. Since then, Canon has continued to develop its groundbreaking EOS Movie functionality, firstly with the firmware update to the EOS 5D Mark II that enabled manual exposure control, and more recently by introducing a choice of video recording frame rates with the EOS 7D and EOS-1D Mark IV.

Canon currently expects the firmware update to be made available during the first half of 2010. An announcement regarding details of the update and its availability will be made closer to the release date.