The Yahoo CEO took a lot of heat for this comment, but there is a great deal of truth to it. With digital photography, photographs are so pervasive that professionals are now competing with a horde of amateurs.

These are various notes from session hosts and members of the audience during this session:

• www.blueearth.org – neat wave effect on the site.
• Escaping the Ivory Tower – photography publicizes work.
• We create visual narratives about ourselves on facebook.
• It’s important for people at organizations to take their own photos for people to use. The photo is the first thing to catch your eye.
• Strobist.blogspot.com – light tutorials, photoshop and gimp for post production,
• Graphitti archeology project – photo documents the evolution of walls over time. Scientists photograph environments, documenting change.
• Neil _____: building a community of science photographers
• Online photography community is enormous, amateurs who want to take photos but don’t know what to shoot.
• Naturescapes.net
• Birdphotographer.net
• Bugguy.net
• Bloggers think of photographers as collaborators.
• Photos illustrate, convey ideas, create visual representations of concepts
• Kids might not have professional cameras, but it’s good to get them taking photos with their phones as a means of getting them into photography.
• Gigapan Project: a camera robot takes thousands of photos, which get stitched together and allow you to zoom in for incredible detail
• What’s the best image? Steve from Scientific American: If you can get a shot that gets rid of 400 lines of copy.
• Science in the Triangle writer: break out of the average, learn how to use the camera and turn off its automatic feature
• Zenfolio – more professional photos
• Should writers do the photography, or should they collaborate with photographers. Photographers can miss things the writer thinks are important.
• “The best camera is the one you have with you.” – the photographer’s maxim
• Deviantart
• Istockphoto - $1 to $10 photos
• Discrimination Learning: everything looks the same at first, pay attention to the images that interest you to become more distinguished
• Fillflash – use it, good for evening out shadows, especially at noon or in bright light
• Caption images in your head as you take them.
• Stories Behind the Greatest Photos in Sports – HBO documentary
• 365 Project – take and post one photo a day for a year
• Visualscience at discover website
• Theartofscience.posterous.com – photos through microscopes