The alleged wildlife photographer's last photograph of a bear is spreading through internet like wildfire. A lot of people believe the story and repast it in the discussion forums and send it by email. But fewer people know that the photo (above) is a fake and has no relevance to the tragic accident that happened on August 8, 1996. Let us find out what really happened…

After I have discovered the now-famous Maria Felton's Nikon D700 birthday cake, I have been paying more attention to the sweet cameras everywhere. Let me introduce you to some of the other creations.

While browsing various photography-related websites I came upon this interesting photo. Being all into cakes and photography, it grabbed my attention and made me find everything about it. I have tracked the image down to an owner—Maria Felton, and she was kind enough, to provide us with a story behind the photo. Here it goes.

I was thinking about dirt and remembered this image that I made in the early 1990‘s. Now I‘m sure photographers would just piece the whole thing together in PhotoShop (tm) but that wasn‘t really a luxury we could count on in the first Clinton term. So I thought I would recount the process we went through back in the neanderthal days of pre-digital photography to remind myself that image making used to be a time consuming and sometimes dirty craft.

On March 5th, 1960 the iconic image of Che Guevara has been imprinted on a roll of Kodak Plus-X pan film. The photography was taken by Alberto Diaz Gutierrez (better known as Alberto Korda) while he was working for the Cuban newspaper "Revolución".

In January, 2008, I decided I wanted to learn to do photography. I asked Charlie Freeman, a professional photographer and instructor at the Art Institute of Dallas, to give me lessons in the basics. After the initial lessons, I was hooked.

The photographer counts: One… His wife Yvonne holds the chair up. Two… The assistants get ready with the water and the cats. Three… The assistants throw the cats from the right and the bucket of water from the left. Four… Salvador Dali jumps… and miliseconds later—Philippe Halsman takes the photo. Click!… Actually—28 times "Click!".

After taking several pictures of a hard-disk-casing grill (see the Blue-red macro (part 1) story first), I wanted to improve on the drama of the photos—to create something more 3D, more engaging.

A few months ago I had an opportunity to participate in a group photo along with some good friends of mine. Usually, I participate in the type of photography that I know well and been doing for several years—landscape, urban or inanimate things (examples here). But this time I decided to get on a relatively new ground for me—portrait/people photography—that also fascinates me.

Thanks to NGUYEN DINH Quoc-Huy, we have yet another on-line tool for creation of the lighting and studio-set setups. Below you can try to create your own diagram online, and save a result as *.jpg file on your disk.