In May 2011 Canon USA launched a new promotion, Project Imagin8tion. The promotion is, as many promotions are, a photography competition, but to give it an added appeal Canon formed a partnership with award winning Hollywood film director, Ron Howard. This competition is different from the usual run of the mill competition in that the entrants are invited to take photographs that represent any one of eight themes, then the winning photo submitted for each theme will be used by Ron Howard as the inspiration for creating a short film. Great idea, but the execution of the Canon idea is far from inspiring.

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.