This is the improved photography podcast episode number 223.

Hey everybody and welcome back to the Improved Photography Podcast.

I'm your host, Jim Harmer, and we are here to bring you your weekly dose of photography knowledge delivered straight in your earbuds.

And to do that we have Jeff Harmon, the host of the Photo Taco Podcast, and Brent Bergherm, the host of the Latitude Travel Photography Podcast.

Hey guys.

Hello.

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Well, we have some interesting topics.

We have, the first topic is really sad, super sad way to start the show talking about some ethical problems that have come up this last week.

Next, we're going to talk about some geek cool announcements of things

about scanning film and some pretty cool announcements of

things happening around the improved photography universe

in the next couple weeks.

If you've been following photography news this week, you've undoubtedly noticed a barrage of

ethics stories. This first one comes from imaging resource and it's about

photographer Salciankata. He is the owner of Shutterfest, a photography conference in St. Louis, and they had a contest at the conference, and it cost $25 to enter. And when the awards came out it turns out he won his own contest that's the one I want to enter.

That's the one I want to enter. My own contest.

I think I'm going to have a photo contest, Jim.

He won his own contest.

So he had people pay $25 an image. Now there was some confusion in the story if this

if there were if there were prizes or not because in the rules imaging resource points out there are

over two thousand dollars in prizes but Sal says on Facebook that there weren't

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