Link Roundup 09-22-2007

• paintalicious Photography
  paintalicious
  Photography section of paintalicious that shows off and reviews some very talented photographers and visual artists.
• Great Photographers on the Internet
  The Online Photographer
  Funniest thing ever! This is why I don't take critiques too seriously, and neither should you.
• Minimalism in Photography: a Group Project
  words:irrational
  Photography/writing project with a focus on minimalism. I'm doing a little research on the topic, but I'll definitely be participating.
• 5 Situations When Manual Focus is Better than Auto Focus
  digital Photography School
  Sometimes your camera's auto focus mode just won't cut it and you need to switch to manual focus. Here's when….
• DIY Project: Protect Your LCD
  Itsy-Bitsy Photo Blog
  David posts a great little DIY tutorial for making your own LCD protector. Cheap, easy, and replaceable!
• Quotations From the World of Photography
  PhotoQuotes
  Amazing collection of quotes from fellow photographers around the world — reallly fun to look through. And thanks to Niels Henriksen for telling me about it.
• Sony A700: Are The Controls Professional Grade?
  Alphatracks
  Great discussion on Sony's upcoming SLR model, the A700.

And here's a great quote from one of my favorite photographers:

Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy–the tone range isn't right and things like that–but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

-Elliott Erwitt

So if nothing else, remember that It's got to do with intention.

Any thoughts on that quote? Let's hear the opinions.