National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry produced a fine batch of images to go with a story on the Kingman Reef.

The Guardian captures the spirit of adventure with an interesting photo gallery in its travel section called Portraits of adventure.

National Geographic is featuring a very nice collection of images from around the world in a gallery called Visions of Earth 2008.

Photographers had their creative juices flowing in this Reuters collection of 34 outstanding cycling and cycling-related images called the Tour de France photographie.

Canon will start shipments of the imagePROGRAF iPF6100 24-inch carriage photo printer next week in the U.S., says Chuck Westfall, Director of Media and Customer Relationship at Canon USA. The 17-inch carriage imagePROGRAF iPF5100 will follow in August.

Kodak has announced a new digital camera sensor design meant to dramatically reduce high-ISO noise levels. The company claims the new colour filtering technology it has developed "provides a 2x to 4x increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops) compared to current sensor designs."

Canon has recently released Digital Photo Professional 3.0.1a and EOS Utility 2.0b for Windows.

Apple today has rolled out revised 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro laptops. The 15-inch MacBook Pro features an LED-backlit display for promised better screen quality compared to the fluorescent illumination of the previous model, while the 17-inch MacBook Pro now has an optional 1920 x 1200 pixel screen (but both it and the standard 1680 x 1050 pixel screen continue to use fluorescent backlighting).

Bibble Labs has released v4.98 of Bibble for Windows, Mac and Linux. The new version adds the ability to convert RAW files from the Canon EOS-1D Mark III, Nikon D40X and Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro.

Magnum Photos is celebrating 60 years of documentary photography with the Magnum Festival during the month of June in New York City.