Need an injection of inspiration? Polaroid's Portfolio Gallery has gobs of it.

Polaroid has announced the winners of the 5th International Awards.

There are links to the first four contests as well. In this day and age of digital, all awe inspiring.

One gripe and it's a big one – why can't one enlarge these images to see what they really look like? The postage stamps are perhaps meant to deter swiping them, but gee whiz, drop a watermark or something and be done with it.

Pop Quiz is a new interactive learning experience from Nikon and Popular Photography & Imaging where you'll receive lessons and assignments from some of the world's top shooters. After each lesson, submit your assignment and you'll have the opportunity to join a Nikon professional photographer on an exciting photo shoot!

In this first salvo, students and photography buffs can learn about lighting. Don't forget to submit your work. Deadline is January 7, 2005 for this first quiz.

Be aware, though, that the work you submit may inevitably become the property of either Nikon or Popular Photography & Imaging magazine. Read the fine print please.

Surya Sen has been recognized at the 2004 Ramnath Goenka India Press Photo Awards, in the General News Single category.

Instituted by The Indian Express Group as part of the birth centenary celebrations of its founder, Ramnath Goenka, the India Press Photo Awards attracted 2,795 entries from across India, from regional newspapers and English-language national newsmagazines, from agency regulars, sports photographers, conflict-zone junkies.

CAPTION: Sarita's former husband M. Mahendra Reddy drank pesticide and died, leaving behind a pregnant wife and a two-year old daughter. Photography © Surya Sen

Expect to see more of Sen's work here in the next couple of days.