Whether you are a professional photographer who wants to offer your clients a new print solution or you just have some great photos that you want to hang on your walls, our new Photos on Canvas service is going to be very handy indeed. This new feature to the Fotoviva Art Prints site is so simple - just a few clicks is all it takes to have your own image printed onto canvas. You can upload the digital file, choose your preferred size, finish and details, then we will do the rest. Everyone has holiday snaps, lovable pet photos or family pictures - so why not show them off in style by letting u

The new Nikon D700 is the second full-frame, FX-series DSLR camera from Nikon. Using the same 36x24mm, full frame, 12.1 megapixel CMOS sensor as the more expensive D3 model, the D700 also offers exactly the same incredible ISO range of 100 - 25,600. The high-speed, 12-channel readout enables the D700 to achieve a fast continuous shooting speed of 5fps, or 8 fps with the Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10 fitted. The Nikon D700 has a more compact design than the D3, and also features the same integrated dust reduction system as the D300 model. The Nikon D700 will cost £1999.99 and be available

A bit late for this but I have only just got some file copies from those nice people at Nikon. My 'Rising Swan' photograph was entered into a Nikon competition last year and although it didn't win, they have featured it on the February month of the official Nikon Calendar for 2008 :-) Must admit I'm quite gobsmacked by this but very happy, and to make it even sweeter they paid me to feature it! The print is proving very popular on the Fotoviva Art Prints online gallery and has had some great reviews by fellow photographers. You can find it in the Wildlife Art Prints section where it can be bo

A Francis Bacon triptych painting has sold for more than £26m, just £160,000 short of breaking the artist's auction record. Entitled 'Triptych 1974-77' and painted in response to the suicide of Bacon's lover George Dyer, it made a whopping £26,340,500 at Christie's Auction House in London. It set a European record for a post-war British or Irish artist, but failed to beat the £26.4m paid for Bacon's Study from Innocent X in New York last year. Francis was a Dublin-born figurative painter who died in 1992. Triptych 1974-77 was the last of Bacon's paintings created in response to his gay lo

Here at Fotoviva Art Prints we are keen to help save the environment as much as we can. We are consuming the Earth's resources 20% faster than they can be sustained, so we all have to do what we can - and as soon as we can. With this in mind, we now have our canvases made from wood which comes from sustainable forests (FSC), which means the trees are replaced by new ones and the forests, and their wildlife, are preserved as much as possible. We also use low vapour emitting sealant for the canvases which is better for the environment and your health. This sealant is used to protect the canvas

A 16 billion pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper has been posted on the internet, giving art lovers a detailed view of the 15th Century work. The image is 1,600 times more detailed than those taken with a typical 10 million pixel digital camera. Experts will be able to see segments as though just centimetres away and examine otherwise unavailable details. The posting comes amid claims a new system aimed at protecting the piece from Milan's pollution is not working. The original work is displayed in the Italian city's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Art curator Alberto Art

On the Apple site there is a great feature on Richard Walch, snowboarder and professional photographer. In the article he talks about his new found love, Aperture on the Mac. For those that don't know, Aperture is similar to Adobe Lightroom and is one of the prefered choices for professional photographers who handle, process and organise large collections of RAW shots. Apple’s Aperture software running on a 15-inch MacBook Pro is the foundation of the mobile digital darkroom that he carries in his backback — rain, shine or snowstorm — when he goes on a shoot. Aperture’s RAW-focu

Are you off on your travels over the summer, or have you been and come back with a collection of pictures you feel the world should see? Well Travel Photographer of the Year has announced that the overall winner of TPOTY 2007 will have the unique opportunity to spend up to two days photographing His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, the Tibetan settlement in Northern India. This opportunity to photograph the daily life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is part of an unforgettable visit to India, much of which will be spent in and around Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan Government i

We recently came across a website that offers an online course for bringing out the better photographer in you at Proud Photography. The 13 segment interactive course has been developed by prize-winning professionals who will give you personal feedback as they help you develop at your own pace. Once enrolled you can expect comprehensive and thorough lessons loaded with information designed carefully to teach you how to take over your camera. Online quizzes will refresh your memory from every lesson and homework assignments will give you the confidence you need to put your skills to the test

Researchers in Germany have developed the first liquid camera lens. The lens has no moving parts and is capable of switching between two levels of magnification and is considered an important step on the development of liquid zoom lenses. It works by bending light using the curved boundary between watery and oily liquids, and focuses by the application of a voltage. Although this sounds like something out of Star Trek, it is potentially smaller and cheaper to build than conventional optics and could have a major impact on camera technology in the near future. Samsung have already begun usin