I wish you all the best in 2012.

Havana, Cuba

It’s been a long time since I posted anything here except wallpapers. There is a reason for that. I have been busy with some projects. I was photographing two weddings this summer and it was great. I was also busy with writing some articles for the magazine called Svet & Ljudje. It is a Slovenian magazine about traveling and people. I have published photos from Safari in Tanzania in July-August issue, article and photos about random places from our planet in September issue and in October issue there is an article about cities and pristine nature around the globe, my interview and my cover photo. I hope to publish some more things in the future. I am really excited about this past issues. I am posting some photos of the magazines below, just to show you how it looks like…

You can find the link to the magazine Svet & Ljudje if you click here. There are some more photos from the publications on my Facebook Page.

The month is over and my guest editorship on Photoburst.net is over. I have received 521 photos from which I had to choose only 28 winning pictures. I has been hard but it was a great opportunity and a great honor to be the guest editor for the month of July. Below you can see the winning photo for the month of July by Nato Tuke, all four weekly winners and all of the photos for the photo of the day award.

Photo of the month of July 2011 on Photoburst.net

Solomon Child by Nato Tuke © 2011

Weekly Winners

Photoburst.net © 2011 Sorin Vidis, Alessio Galasso, Nato Tuke and Kaushal Parikh

Photoburst.net © 2011

Image by David Lazar

Photoburst is a daily travel photography contest. Among submitted photographs only the best are chosen and are displayed on the Photoburst main page. Among wining photos of the day, every week the photo of the week is chosen and among the wining photos of the week the monthly winner is then announced. The author of the winning monthly image receives a US$50 gift certificate to Kiva + (in even-numbered months only) an invitation to be Photoburst’s guest editor in the following month!

Gastão Bettencourt, Pedro de Sousa and Pedro Ferrão Patrício are the founders of the project, which has attracted hundreds of  travel photographers worldwide. The images that are submitted and get awarded are truly beautiful photographs that tell stories from around the globe. Travel photography daily contest has attracted a large amount of photographers, from professional photographers like Ami Vitale, Dean Zulich, Renan Rosa to amateur photographers. The quality of the images on the site is remarkable.

If you would like to enter the competition, you can submit images if you click here. As with any other competition there are some rules and guidelines, you need to follow and some conditions. Be sure to read them.

Weather you will be entering the competition or not, Photoburst.net is a good place to see and enjoy the wonders of our planet and the people living on out beautiful planet.

So far 9 of my images got awarded on Photoburst and you can find them here. Thanks!

I am proud to announce that my new page is online and I kindly invite you all to take a look at it. Would love some comments on it. I appreciate it. Thanks…

To visit my new page go to www.jusmedic.com, click on the photo below or click on the portfolio button above.

Watch this great video from National Geographic.

I have finally completed my travel photography site for Philippines. You can check it out if you click on the menu above (Travel Photography) or with clicking on this link.

iPhone 4 was officially launched two days ago and the same day Apple made iMovie for iPhone available in the App store. It works only on the new iPhone 4. I shot a few short clips in Amsterdam and put them together in iMovie right on the phone and I must say that the new phone is impressive. Well it won’t replace my 5D and Final Cut, but it is fun to use. Click on the video to watch it in HD.

Chase Jarvis is introducing the world’s first LIVE creative education internet channel. And the best news? It is FREE! Tune into creativeLIVE.com and check it out. Among photographers who are participating are also Vincent LaForet, David DuChemin, Zack Arias, Scott Bourne, Art Wolfe, and many others.

READ more about this here..

New iPhone App iShow 9in1 is now available in App Store for only 99¢ and did I mention that you get 9 apps for this price. Let me just highlight some of its features:

- Light - Whenever you need to light something, there is your fabulous light in some great colors!
- Drink – Have as many drinks as you want. Just taste it! Our treat! But remember: Don’t drink and drive!
- ScreenClean – Let our gorgeous friend clean your screen. You deserve the best service!
- Police – Whenever you want to scare your friends, just start this great police light!
- Shaver – just open up your Shaver app and turn it on. Then it is time to cut some of your friend’s hair!
- Drink – Is it hot? We offer you great cocktail with ice. Freshly made!
- BBQ – Whenever you feel hungry, just put this delicious stakes on the BBQ!
- ScreenWash – We offer you outstanding 24/7 cleaning service, by our hot girl in bikini!
- Beer – There is no such thing as a cold beer available whenever you care for one!

Click here to GET IT NOW!

Or visit 3dots.me for more information. There is also a TWITTER competition going on (read more on TWEET AND WIN).

Apple today announced the release of Aperture 3, adding over 200 new features to the company’s professional photo editing and management application. The updated version includes the Faces and Places tagging features introduced in iPhoto last year, as well as a new feature called Brushes for making painting image adjustments to photos. I think that all photographers out there with Macs were waiting for this for a while now.

Aperture 3, which runs as a 64-bit application on Intel Core 2 Duo Macs running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, is available for a suggested retail price of $199, with existing Aperture users able to upgrade for $99. A downloadable 30-day trial is also available.

Thank you Steve

This is pretty exciting news for Canon HDSLR owners who use Apple’s Final Cut Pro! Canon releases a free EOS E1 video plug-in for Apple’s Final Cut Pro. The plug-in is compatible with Final Cut Pro 6 or higher and currently supports Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 7D and EOS 1D Mark IV cameras.

This new plug-in allows simple and easy transfer of video content from Canon’s EOS DSLR cameras directly into Final Cut Pro. The EOS E1 video plug-in takes advantage of Final Cut Pro’s powerful Log and Transfer feature, which allows users to select and mark the video directly while it is still on the camera, add custom metadata and ingest the clips in the background so the editing can begin immediately.

The EOS E1 video plug-in is a free download and will be available here but so far, they haven’t posted it yet.

p.s. there are some other options available at the moment, check out this workflow

Happy New Year to all!

I have just updated travel photography section with my trip to MOROCCO. Check it out by clicking here.

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.