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

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

In a Reuters blog, photographer Andy Clark, who has traveled to the West Indies for 15 years now, tells us what it's like to cover "Cricket, lovely cricket..."

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

National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz captured the beauty of Bolivia in this photo gallery called The Altiplano and Bolivia's New Order.

Photo District News' pdnonline features a story and slideshow on embedded freelance war photojournalist Zoriah Miller, who was covering the war in Iraq, then asked to leave after publishing photos of dead U.S. Marines in his blog.

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

Photo District News and National Geographic Traveler have teamed up to produce The Great Outdoors 2008 Gallery.

Coming quickly on the heels of Hasselblad's 50MP H3DII-50 announcement, Phase One has today revealed that their upcoming P65+ digital back and P65+ camera will feature a 53.9mm x 40.4mm sensor manufactured by Dalsa that will produce 60.48 million image pixel photos at full resolution. P65+ products are to ship in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Version 3.7 of Photoshop Action Pack, a set of free (donations accepted) Automator Actions for Mac OS X 10.4 and later that enable the creation of Automator workflows for Photoshop CS3, is now available. The release adds two new Actions, one to change a layer's blending mode, another to copy IPTC metadata into Spotlight comments, and refines several others. Photoshop Action Pack 3.7 is comprised of 90 Automator Actions in all.

Data Robotics has announced the immediate availability of a new version of its Drobo storage device featuring twin FireWire 800 ports, promised faster USB 2.0, an upgraded internal processor, quieter, cooler operation and revised firmware.

An update to our ongoing analysis of Canon EOS-1D Mark III autofocus, one that talks about the camera's AF performance with the latest firmware installed, is coming later in July. Work on this update is ongoing, but we can't commit to an exact publication date just yet. It will cover both the EOS-1D Mark III and its higher-resolution sibling the EOS-1Ds Mark III.

Videos of Steve McCurry, Antonin Kratochvil, Vanessa Winship and others, recorded during their lectures at last month's Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism in Hannover, Germany, are now online.

Jim Reed, a Wichita, Kansas-based photographer specializing in the shooting of extreme weather, is among a small group featured in the D700 section of the Nikon Imaging global website.

Canon USA this morning has set out prices and release dates for the Speedlite 430EX II flash and EOS Rebel XS digital SLR.

Nik today has released Color Efex Pro 3.0 for Capture NX 2, its photographic filter effects set for the newest version of Nikon's image editing and RAW conversion application.

Hasselblad has announced that this fall they will ship a version of the H3DII that produces 50.14 million image pixel photos from its new, Kodak-designed 36.8x49.1 mm, 6.0μm pixel pitch CCD sensor. Dubbed the H3DII-50, the medium format digital system features a standard ISO range of 50-400 and a shooting rate of 1.1 fps.

NatureScapes.Net has recently published two interesting articles on the use of the Phototrap automatic triggering device and flash to photograph certain types of wildlife.

PTLens has recently come available as an external editor plug-in for Lightroom on both Mac and Windows as well as an image editing plug-in for Aperture on the Mac. The venerable software for correcting various types of optical distortions also ships as a Photoshop plug-in and a standalone application on both platforms.

Reuters has posted a gallery of its best images from around the world for the month of June.