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Happy Easter !

Easter is a Christian feast and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament. Easter is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper,[4][5] as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.

The 4-th Luxembourg International Digital Contest Public Showing of the Projected Images and Awards Ceremony is going to take place Saturday the 21-st of April 2012, at the Centre Culturel "Tramsschapp" in Rue Emersinde, Luxembourg Limperstberg.

The list of awards and accepted photos can be seen here.

Dear All,

There is a new photo event you may want to attend namely the Exhibition of Romain Nero and Jeannot Caudron
The Vernissage is on the 8-th of March 2012 at 19:30, at the restaurant "A Casa Mia", route de Perle in Flatzbour.
The exhibition will be open from 09.03 to 08.06 2012.
Looking forward to see you there!

Dear All,

A new event related to photography  you may want to put into your calendars  is the Exhibition of  Michele Lamesch-Junio, Jean-Paul Schmit and Roland Schockweiller.

The Vernissage takes place on January 27, at 19.30  in the Art Gallery “Am Duerf”, place de l’Eglise Steinsel, Luxembourg. 

The exhibition will be open Saturdays and Sundays on January 28-29 and February 4-5, 2012, from 14.30 to 18.30.

TOKYO - Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the Nikon D4, a Nikon FX-format camera that serves as the new flagship model in Nikon's line-up of digital-SLR cameras. Nikon will be exhibiting the D4 at the 2012 International CES, to be held Tuesday, January 10 through Friday, January 13 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This electronics exhibition is open to the public. Want to read more ? Click here.

Here are some of the specification highlights of the Nikon D4:

• - New 16.2-megapixel FX-format CMOS sensor (36.0 x 23.9mm)
• - Latest generation of Nikon’s EXPEED 3 image processing engine
• - New 91,000-pixel 3D colour matrix meter
• - ISO range from 100 to 204,800 for low-light capture
• - Advanced Multi-Cam 3500, 51-point AF System for maximum speed in a variety of challenging shooting situations
• - 15 cross-type sensors in the centre to detect contrast data in both vertical and horizontal planes
• - Full resolution JPEG or RAW files at up to 10 fps with full AF / AE or up to 11 fps with AF / AE locked
• - AF sensor, including subject colour as detected on the 91,000-pixel RGB sensor
• - 16 bit pipeline written to dual card slots optimized for the latest UDMA-7 Compact Flash cards, and the new XQD memory cards
• - In-camera High Dynamic Range (HDR) function that merges consecutive exposures.
• - Full HD video recording including: 1080p 30/24fps and 60 fps at 720p
• - B-Frame data compression method, users can record H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC format video for up to 20 minutes per clip
• - Using the camera’s HDMI port instead of the CF or XQD card, users can stream an uncompressed full HD signal directly out of the camera
• - Stereo headphone jack for accurate monitoring of audio levels while recording, output adjusted in up to 30 steps for precise audio adjustment. High-fidelity audio recording control with audio levels that can be set and monitored on the camera’s LCD screen. Microphone connected via the stereo mic jack can be adjusted with up to 20 steps of sensitivity for accurate sound reproduction
• - New 3.2" LCD screen with high resolution of 921K dots, with auto brightness adjustment and the capability to zoom in up to 46x to check critical HD focus

Wish you and your loved ones Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

You are kindly invited to a very interesting event, held at Prince Henri Centre, Walferdange, on December 19 at 20:00. Walfer FotoFrenn features George Schiltz with his “Cuba” on screen photo show.

Do not hesitate to step in, there are a to of interesting photos to be seen.

Le concours est divisé en deux volets :
• sujet libre (maximum 4 épreuves par auteur).
• sujet imposé « les effets du temps » (maximum 4 épreuves par auteur).

A new edition, the 7-th,   of the “Salon Mondial Photographique de Limours, 2011 France” is underway.

The competition is conducted in accordance with FIAP, PSA and FPF requirements. Each entrant is entitled to submit a maximum of 4 images (4 files) in each section:

A: Colour General (PSA - EID)
B: Monochrome General (PSA - EID)
C: Nature (PSA - ND)

The Public Exhibitions are going to be held: November 19th, 2011 – December 17th, 2011.

Around 8000 photographers from 60 countries enrolled the competition but only 900 had their works accepted.

I have had 2 photos accepted in the monochrome Section, and this is a very important event for me! Please feel free to have a look at them here.

Another 2 colleagues from Luxembourg have had their works accepted, Mr. TADDEI Gennaro and Mr. SCHMIT Jean-Paul, the latest achieved  the best results amongst us having had acceptations in all the 3 sections of the competition.

Tommy Talton was a founding member of 70s Capricorn Records group Cowboy. While in Macon, Ga. through most of the 70s, Tommy was a studio musician recording with artists such as Bonnie Bramlett, Martin Mull, Corky Lang (West, Bruce and Lang, Mountain), Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Clarence Carter, country legend Kitty Wells, Alex and Livingston Taylor, Arthur Conley of Sweet Soul Music fame, and more.He toured exclusively throughout the U.S. with Cowboy and with Gregg Allman's Laid Back tour, from Carnegie Hall (as special guests) to Fillmore West in San Francisco and most cities in between. Tommy lived and toured in Europe throughout the 90s and formed a group there, called The Rebelizers, with members of Albert Lees band Hogans Heroes. Tommy is now joined by three spirited, creative musicians from the southeast (Tallahassee and Birmingham).

Talton continues to tour with The Tommy Talton Band and Cowboy (reunited in 2010), as a solo act in intimate listening rooms, and as a special guest with many other well known, accomplished musicians and bands.

For more information check out his website.

His performance in the Blues Express Festival 2011 Luxembourg was an awaited and well received one. For about 2 hours people could listen to his great music.

An extensive coverage  as well as the high resolution files can be found on my website but as well as on my Flickr page.