Photo.net's Best: Fashion User Galleries

Not much else to say. Top Editor picks, from photo sharing service that has probably the most "talented" the open enrollment user base (on average, IMHO...no haters please):

http://photo.net/editors-picks/2009/fashion-photography/

Cool, no?

Some Interenet Reading about Irving Penn

In my fantasy life, I thought about meeting Irving Penn. He Died this last week. He was 92. Rather than spitting out a few sentences or linking to some one paragraph obit (or a longer one here), I'm going to link you to a few longer articles and galleries dealing with Penn when he was (just recently) alive:

Some Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/01/21/020121crat_atlarge

The Mighty Penn, Vogue (work from 2007)
http://www.style.com/vogue/voguedaily/2009/10/the-mighty-penn/

Extreme Beauty, Vogue (an exibition of work of master photographers for vogue, Including Penn)
http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2009_March_Extreme_Beauty/slideshow/horizontal/

La Times Gallery
http://www.latimes.com/la-et-0912-penn-picture-gallery,0,5992571.photogallery

New York Times Gallery
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/parting-glance-irving-penn/

Exibition: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2005/penn/penn_ss1.shtm