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Congratulations to June's Long Island Photo Gallery's Framed Art Giveaway winner - Doreen Snyder! July's giveaway going on NOW! Sign up to WIN July's Giveaway!

Portraits, fashion, editorial, landscapes, documentary, conceptual - all of these genres, and others not named, are open for consideration. Prints should take whatever form they need to in order to represent the continuum of tones, including gray tone, warm tone, cool tone, sepia, or other monochromes that comprise your photographs....

This little group of ours has gone from a 'good idea' to a real 'community with opportunity'! Congratulations to Debra Moody, Jessica Hirschmann and Joanne Henig! All three Long Island Photo Gallery members have had their fine art photography chosen by the SheltAir Corporation to be on permanent display at...

Worldwide Photography Gala Awards benefiting Save the Children is calling for entries from photographers around the world. Enter for your chance to win WPGA 2010 Professional Photographer of the Year, US$ 5,000 cash prize, WPGA Amateur Photographer of the Year, US$ 3,000 cash prize, or WPGA 2010 Emerging Talent of the Year, US$...

On May 8th, 2010 Long Island Photo Gallery members and their guests will be taking a photography field trip to the Vanderbilt Estate Museum in Centerport, Long Island. According to the VanderbiltMuseaum.org website, the mansion has 24 rooms and its original construction was designed by the same architectural firm that...

Spring has officially sprung and with it flower beds around Long Island are beginning to show signs of color. It's early yet, but soon beautiful flowers will be in bloom everywhere. Flowers make great subjects and are highly sought after as fine art. Want to get that winning shot? Here's...

Long Island Photo Gallery, the LI photography "Community With Opportunity", is on a positive roll. Please join us in welcoming Tommy Brunhuber and Edward Mooney to our group. Tommy Brunhuber explains, "My “career” as a photographer is still very much in its infancy and I am by no means a professional, but I...

Topaz Adjust is a Photoshop filter plugin that allows you to create endless possibilities for your images with, very often, just one or two clicks. The differences that the filter displays in the images are dramatic, in most cases. Topaz Adjust, for me, is the quickest and easiest way to take...

I've been dancing around these characters on my computer keyboard for over a week now, trying to come up with a great topic for all of our members. I was supposed to do a piece on the fantastic time we all had at the Atlantis Aquarium, but Mother Nature dumped...

As promised, 2010 is starting out to be a much anticipated, 'Year of Action' for Long Island Photo Gallery and its members. Last night was the start of the push to increase opportunity for our members while helping to ignite the creative juices for us all. If you love photography...

Two members of LIPG spent a few hours volunteering their time, in coordination with thousands of photographers worldwide through the organization Help-Portrait, to photograph individuals and give those individuals the resulting portraits. Thank you Kim Pace & Joanne Henig for giving your time to give those in need something they...