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• New Gear and Great Sales at Calumet
• Use Your Calumet Credit Card and Save
• Get Summer Workshop Scholarships

New Gear and Great Sales at Calumet

Visit our website to check out new products from Hahnemuhle, JVC, Canon video and Nikon. Take advantage of sale prices and save on specialty camera and studio stand kits. Hurry, these offers are good from March 6 through April 30, 2006.

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Make a purchase on your Calumet Card between March 23 and April 15, 2005, and make no payments, pay no interest until January 2007!

The no interest offer applies at one of our ten retail locations, online or by calling us direct at 800-CALUMET (800-225-8638).

Get Summer Workshop Scholarships

The Santa Fe Workshops (SFW) is pleased to offer a number of scholarships for photography workshops in Santa Fe. The Workshops has many offerings of interest to photographers and photo educators including Alternative Processes with Christopher James, Introduction to Photoshop for Photographers with Josh Withers and Black-and-White Photography for Young Photographers (specially designed for teens 13 to 17 years of age). You can review a selection of more than 50 summer workshops at www.santafeworkshops.com.

Scholarships Available:

A generous scholarship program supports the young photographer (with two full scholarships available), the educator, and the photo enthusiast or emerging professional. The Nikon Spirit Initiative, in recognition of the individual vision that animates all great pictures, awards two $750 scholarships to amateur and professional
photographers to support their personal vision through photography. The Kodak Educator Scholarship of $850 is awarded to a deserving and talented photographic or digital educator for a week-long workshop in Santa Fe between June and December 2006. Educator applicants must be high school, college, or advanced studies teachers of photography or digital imaging. The deadline for all scholarship applications is April 21, 2006.

Go to: Calumet Photographic

The organization that governs World Cup soccer has backed down from new rules that would have limited the online use of news photographs shot during soccer matches.

FIFA had proposed a two-hour embargo on photos taken during the World Cup, a serious limitation for web sites that cover sports. FIFA later reduced the embargo to one hour, then to immediately after the end of the match. The rules also banned publishing photographs shot in a sequence and limited the number of photographs that could be published online to five per half and two per extra time.

News agencies had to agree to the terms to get photo credentials to cover matches. The proposal would have benefited web sites and cell phone services that have licensing deals with FIFA to run live soccer coverage.

News organizations have been fighting the new rules since they first appeared last fall. The World Cup, played every 4 years, begins June 9 in Germany.

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