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Featured Picture

Behold a Snail
Title: Behold a Snail
By: Lucas Fancher

Shutterbug week 1

Books

Fiction
Nonfiction
Picture Books & Readers

Movie

The way things work. Photography A video based on the book by David Macaulay.
Mammoth Island residents want to memorialize the winner of their annual golf tournament with a portrait, so a young Islander begins to experiment with how light, lenses and chemicals can be used to produce a photograph.

Websites

Flickr Photo Sharing
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. Photos can be uploaded from your desktop, sent by email or camera phone. Collections, sets, and tags can be used to organize photos. Groups and privacy controls enable you to share your photos. You can make cards, photo books, framed prints and DVDs, etc. and get updates from family and friends.

A History of Photography The history, the people and the development of photography from Dr Robert Leggat.

Photo Tips and Projects Learn how to take better photographs from Kodak. Site features projects, shooting tips, and photo stories.

The Pinhole Gallery This site provides information about the pinhole camera and photography - an inexpensive means to introduce people of all ages to the principles of photography. A pinhole camera is easy to build and the camera can be made from almost anything.

Insect Cams
Ant Cam
Bee Cam
Insect Zoo

Crafts

Fold-out Photo Gallery
Photo-Collage Tissue Box Cover
Photo Pocket Tote Bag
Me Book
Marvelous Magnetic Frames

More crafts...

If you're interested in photography, you'll have a blast exploring these great photo crafts and activities for kids.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but when you add creative techniques to photography, there's no telling how much your picture can say. One-of-a-kind frames, interesting camera angles, and drawn portions of your photographs open up new ways to create art with your camera.

Explore all these cool photo craft activities and then dream up your own ideas.
http://home.howstuffworks.com/photo-crafts-and-activities.htm

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