One of the best hobbies in the world is Photography. With the advent of Digital cameras and Camera mobile phone, the ability to take a picture has become so easy. So for people with creativity photography has become the way of life. So creative digital photography and Internet is here to stay.

The giant leap in technology and affordability has helped to create a lot of amateur photographers. This is evident from the photography based communities and growing sales of digital cameras and mobile phone with cameras. It just does not stop with this. There are now plenty of sites that offer space to store these pictures that you take and help you cherish your memory. Flickr and DriveHQ are some of the examples. While sites like CNET conduct Free digital photography classes for aspirants.

One of the interesting feature with the news based sites is that they have a section called The Week in Photos or The week in Pictures or POTW. While journalism is taking the next level with the technological leap where in which Citizens actively take part in contributing news either in the form of blogs, pictures or videos. Probably internet democracy at its best. To narrate an instance, a YouTube video has helped identify human rights violation which may have gone unnoticed.

Some of the news based sites that you can take a look at are MSNBC, TIME, Yahoo, BBC. Those who love photography, visual news or those who are just amateur journalists or amateur photographers, the above mentioned sites are a wonderful learning resource. These sites can be a great inspiration. Apart from being an inspiration, today Internet is an information mine. So for those who may not have the time to look at all the pictures that hit the internet sites, the week in photos/the week in pictures is the best option. So don’t miss it. Spend a few minutes of the week.

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