An Orange breasted Sunbird feeds on Cape Honeysuckle at the top of Table Mountain. The bright colours in the distance is the sun on the roof tops of Cape Town.

My long time flickr contact Michael Greenwood hit the jackpot with this one.

A private equity firm took over the debt Leibovitz owed the loan organization that fronted her $24 million in exchange for signing over the rights to all her past, current, and future work.

So, she’s still under the thumbs of money men but these money men are helping her market her work and no doubt have a piece of the action as well as the debt.

This is no doubt a common story in the art, music, and performance world, it’s just that the scale is bigger here.

My flickr contact roddh got a shot of a fisher in a tree in his backyard. They can be pretty fierce little animals.

My friend Mamen documents the Holi (festival of colors) last year at Stanford.

Ed Kashi’s images of daily life in modern Syria are incredible.

Do you like going to Syria?

It’s a funny thing. I do like the idea of going there. There are moments where I actually like being there. But in general, I find it to be a bit of a frustrating and almost depressing place because you’re so close to having it be a cool place. It’s interesting. It’s colorful. People are lovely. There’s so many interesting things. But ultimately, that heavy arm of security apparatus, that paranoia, that mistrust – it sort of hangs in the air. If it doesn’t poison, it really detracts from the experience there.

Markus Schwarze has some incredible images both on flickr and on his own photo site which is excellent: Markus Schwarze – Picture of the Day.

Not only is his photography first rate but his presentation with text and graphical elements is excellent.

Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it.

Tim Johnson is an artist who uses a variety of natural materials to weave baskets and other objects. He’s based on the Isle of Wight on the southern coast of the UK.

Check out his entire collection: Basketry & My Makings. Incredible work.

Pyramid Lake (at Night), a 2004 photo by Richard Misrach is one of the included desktop photos on the iPad and it was used during the iPad introduction event. It’s a spectacular image and no doubt Apple went through many to get to this one. Congratulations Richard.

According to the photographer, this is the first time he has licensed an image for commercial use in his 40-year career–a deal he agreed to because he’s a fan of the company. ‘What’s funny is that for years I actually used the photo as my own screensaver,” Misrach says. “So I guess they know what they’re doing.”

Nick Veasey talks about his process for making X-ray photographs at TED.

How can you use a camera if you can’t see? Over 30 blind and visually impaired adults from the UK, Mexico and China have been trained in sensory photography techniques to create and experience photos.

Fascinating. I love the term “sensory photography.” I think many sighted photographers would do well to practice it.