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You pretty much know that when you see the word “miscellanea” in my post that I just didn’t get off my butt and write something better. Today is no different. Yesterday was full of planning meetings all day, so this is a hodge-podge of nuggets from around the web – stuff you may have seen already, but if not, now’s your chance. On the plus side, the meetings went well and soon I shall rule the world! (insert conspiratorial laughter)

Adobe released an update to Lightroom2, bringing us up to Lightroom 2.2. Chief updates include RAW engines for cameras like the when-will-the-damn-thing-ever-get-here Canon 5D Mk2, the Canon G10, and new Panasonic and Leica point and shoots.  Here’s the LINK

Speaking of Canon, the camera giant released a white paper on both the 50D and 5D Mk2. Here’s the link to the 77 page PDF. We’re still waiting for Canon to publicly respond to the “black dots” issue, by the way, but Ken Rockwell has already put in his ten cents worth HERE and it’s worth a read if you’re freaking out.

And if you’ve wanted a comparative perspective on the Canon 5D Mk2 vs. the Sony A900 vs. the Nikon D700, The Online Photographer has a solid look at them HERE. For the record, the Sony A900 takes the prize of sexiest dSLR in my book.

The Travel Photographer of the Year competition has wrapped and announced fellow Canadian Darwin Wigett the grand prize winner. See the winners gallery HERE. Our own Gavin Gough got an honorable mention. Already I feel left out for not entering this year, like there was a party, and I was invited, but I stayed at home and washed my hair. If, ahem, I had hair.

While we’re on the contest theme HERE’s a look at the National Geographic Traveler contest winners.

The ThinkTank Pro StreetWalker giveaway is still open – details HERE. I haven’t set a date for the draw because it’s hinging on my receipt of my own bag, so I can write a reaction on it and announce the winner at the same time. Holiday shipping being what it is, it’s running a little late. Should be here any day now…In 2009 I’m hoping to do the giveaways monthly and have a couple already in the wings that I just know you’re going to love.

Looks like there’s only 3 spots left in the Lumen Dei Thailand Tour. If you haven’t read the full itinerary, you should – I’m already so excited about it I can’t sleep.

Finally, Joe McNally chimes in on the discussions going on all over the place about the state of things for photographers and I think his perspective is bang on. The post is called The Best Assignments Are Free and the link is HERE.