X-Rite has announced a four free webinars for the month of February. The first online seminar, starting Thursday at 11am EST and hosted by Joe Brady, is entitled “Editing Portraits in Photoshop & Getting Prints Back that Match Your Display!” In this webinar, Joe will share some of his favourite techniques, tips and tricks for adding shape, direction and finish to portraits. Other topics for February include “Image Edits and Enhancements in Lightroom 3”, “For the Birds! Nature Photography with Maxis Gamez” and “Edit & Enhance Landscape Images in Photoshop.” Click through / read on for the exact webinar dates and times.

The fifth International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) exhibition will launch at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on 3rd March. The display showcases the best garden, nature and outdoor photography from around the world, illustrated through the new competition categories that were introduced last year. Over 90 stunning images will feature in the exhibition, which is open daily until 9th April.

Travel Photographer of the Year award winner Lorne Resnick has announced additional dates for his Art of Travel photography workshop series. These workshops provide photographers with an opportunity to expand their knowledge in some of the most beautiful places on Earth. Workshop locations include Cuba, Kenya, Monument Valley and Death Valley. For more information, visit the website below.

From 17th February until 31st March, Daniel Blau’s London gallery will host an exhibition entitled, Photographer’s Own - Paper Negatives from the 1850s. “The paper negative had its heyday for a brief period in the early days of photography until c. 1860,” the organisers say. “For their beauty, zeitgeist, rarity and provenance they rank amongst the greatest treasures of photography.” The Daniel Blau gallery is located at 51 Hoxton Square, London N1 6BP and is open from Tuesday to Saturday 11 to 6pm.

Tomorrow sees the opening of the exhibition, “No Place Like Home - Photographs by Judah Passow” in London’s Jewish Museum. The 98 black-and-white images by the four-time World Press Photo award winning photographer - which will become part of the Jewish Museum’s permanent photographic collection - explore issues surrounding themes of community, charity, social action, humour, faith and identity. The Museum is located at 129-131 Albert Street, Camden Town, London NW1 7NB.

Celebrity photographer Nick Saglimbeni has announced the return of his PhotoKamp workshop to Los Angeles. Taking place from 20-22 April, PhotoKamp is a two-and-a-half-day intensive learning workshop, with special emphasis on both studio and location lighting as well as the business of photography. The studio lighting sessions will be held at the world famous SlickforceStudio in downtown LA. The photoshoots will take place on location in the city. By the end of the weekend, participants will have the chance to light and photograph their own photoshoot with professional models, with the supervision of Nick and his team. The full price is $2,699. Early registration pricing is available for students who register by 15 February. For more pricing and information, visit the website below.

The Trafalgar Sun is a new public art installation in central London. The Trafalgar Sun, which took six months to create, is 30,000 times bigger than a football, has a surface area of 200m2 and weighs over 2,500kgs. Its internal light source produces 4-million lumens of light, the equivalent of 60,000 light bulbs, making the artwork visible from space. Photography Blog was there to witness this impressive spectacle - Londoners can see it for themselves until 7.33pm this evening.

‘An Age of Confidence: Photographs by Bedford Lemere & Co’ is a new exhibition hosted by Wirral’s Lady Lever Art Gallery, showcasing the work of a leading English firm of architectural photographers between 1870 and 1930. Opening on 27th January and running until 7th May, the exhibition features 43 fascinating framed images giving a deep insight into a vanished world. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is located in Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, England.

This February, East London photo gallery theprintspace will open its doors for Sample 12, an exhibition showcasing a cross-section of images by photographers and artists who have printed at theprintspace in 2011. The exhibition was compiled by Sample 12 curator, award-winning reportage photographer Toby Smith. “Curating a themed exhibition from such a diverse collection of images was always going to be difficult. Instead, I have picked work that is strong on both technical and aesthetic grounds as single images or diptychs. Dislocated from their context the shots can become even more mysterious and hopefully encourage the audience to track down other works in the same series.” Sample 12 opens at theprintspace gallery at 74 Kingsland Road on 3rd February and runs until the 28th.

Tamron USA has announced a series of photography seminars for 2012. Targeted at beginners and enthusiasts, the 2-day “Beyond the Kit Lens” seminars are focused on the choices that can be made when shooting. Topics that will be discussed include lens choice, focal length, distance to your subject, aperture and shutter speed. The cost of the seminar is only $59. Click through / scroll down for a list of participating retailers as well as a “Beyond the Kit Lens” video released by Tamron.

Two of the UK’s most popular photographers, Andy Rouse and Joe Cornish, will be teaming up to unveil a new exhibition entitled ‘Outer Visions’ - at January’s Outdoors Show in London. Between them, Andy and Joe will be exhibiting a range of their best work, in a variety of formats which will include canvas and framed art prints. All images have been handpicked for the exhibition, to both compliment each other’s work and to inspire all who love the natural world. The exhibition will be located at Stand OU609 within the show, which will take place from 12-15 January 2012. For talk times and full details of the exhibition, visit the website below.

East London gallery and professional photographic printing lab theprintspace has just announced the NME Music Photography Awards Exhibition. Hosted by NME and Nikon, the exhibition will feature music photography from both amateur and professional photographers who won the 2011 competition. Photographers competed in categories including Live, Portrait, Reportage, Festivals, and Under-18s. On show from 6-11 January 2012 at theprintspace gallery on 74 Kingsland Road, the NME Music Photography Awards Exhibition is free for all to enter

Light & Land has announced a new workshop, “Filmmaking for Photographers”. Presented by remote location cameraman Phil Coates, the workshop will help clients demystify the process of shooting video on their DSLR or compact camera. It will also explore both the technical and craft based skills required when shooting video and storytelling, through the medium of moving image. Taking place on 31 March and 1 April 2012 at the Four Pillars Hotel, Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester , the “Filmmaking for Photographers” workshop is £349 per person including a light lunch, refreshments and tuition from Phil. For more information and to book your place, visit the website below.

Shaped by War is the largest ever UK exhibition about the life and work of one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers, Don McCullin. On show at IWM London until 15 April 2012, the exhibition brings together McCullin’s frontline work from conflicts all over the world including the confrontation between East and West Berlin, Vietnam and Cambodia, the conflicts of the Middle East and the intense human suffering in Biafra and Bangladesh. These are displayed alongside McCullin’s photographs of more recent conflicts such as the Gulf War and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The exhibition is accompanied by a book, Don McCullin: Shaped by War, published by Jonathan Cape in association with IWM. The 208-page hardback has an RRP of £25.

The Photo Imaging Council (PIC) has announced that its members have pledged £100,000 in sponsorship to support National Photography Month, a major new initiative to be held across the UK in June 2012.  The first such initiative of its kind in the UK, National Photography Month aims to encourage the nation both to get more involved in photography and to explore new ways to ‘capture and keep’ life’s most important moments. Organised by the PIC and Photo Marketing Association, the initiative is supported by organisations from the photographic community including the Royal Photographic Society and National Geographic.

A new exhibition from photographer Nick Danziger documenting the lives of people living in some of the world’s poorest countries is taking place at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London. In 2000, the United Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals were agreed, aiming to eliminate poverty, to achieve universal primary education, to reduce child mortality and to improve maternal health, by 2015. In ‘Revisited’ Nick presents photographs from these countries – Armenia, Bolivia, Cambodia, Honduras, India, Niger, northern Uganda, and Zambia - which tell stories about real lives, through which he examines whether these goals are succeeding or are simply unfeasible targets with impossible aims. Free to enter, ‘Revisted’ is on show at the Pavilion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, until 11 January 2012 (closed 24 December – 2 January).

Light & Land has announced the addition of professional landscape and architectural photographer, David Clapp, to its team of photography tutors. David has several years’ experience of running his own workshops and he is a regular contributor to the UK photography press as well as having a strong following for his social media commentary. His addition to the Light & Land team also sees the launch of a brand new range of photographic city breaks – including Valencia, Düsseldorf and Berlin. These 3-day long weekend tours allow for shooting architecture and cityscapes at dawn, dusk and even at night. For more information on David Clapp’s spring & summer 2012 tours, visit the website below.

As part of its What Photo Buyers Want series, PhotoShelter will be hosting a live interview tomorrow at 4 pm EST with Sports Illustrated Director of Photography, Steve Fine. The interview is open to the public and will be conducted by PhotoShelter Co-Founder, Grover Sanschargrin. Topics covered include insights about shooting for Sports Illustrated, how to assemble your best portfolio and avoid common mistakes, top skills and traits that Steve looks for when hiring new photographers, and more. You can register for free at the website below.

Epson has teamed up once again with Bayeux, one of London’s leading photographic and imaging companies, to sponsor and support the prestigious ‘Take a view’ Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011 Competition. A free exhibition at London’s National Theatre from 5th December 2011 to 28th January 2011 will showcase all the winners - including the overall winner, “Winter Field, Stirlingshire, Scotland” by Robert Fulton, above - together with other selected finalists. For the exhibition, Bayeux produced limited-edition Digigraphie prints on Traditional Photo Paper, one of Epson’s range of art media, with the Epson Stylus Pro 9900 large format printer. For more information, visit the website below.

February 2012 will see London’s Jewish Museum host its first contemporary black & white photography show since reopening in 2010. “No Place Like Home is a beautifully crafted narration of Passow’s journey through Jewish communities in England,” the organisers say. The 98 images by four-time World Press Photo award winner Judah Passow - which will become part of the Jewish Museum’s permanent photographic collection - explore issues surrounding themes of community, charity, social action, humour, faith and identity.