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Adventure Time!

Lauren and friends, rock out with Finn, Jake, and a truly odd horse.

New Bikes

Well Diane and I got new bikes…Lauren’s is a hand-me-down bike from the kid across the street.

She’s growing so fast, her bikes last about 3 months.

Lauren must eat!

Lauren gave me this hilarious note the other day. I was preoccupied on a conference call, and she didn’t want to interrupt me.

(She’s not a zombie, she’s holding a strawberry the size of her head in the picture.)

Soccer, 2009

A future for JPG

Looks like JPG Magazine is back from the brink:

We couldn’t ask for a better community. In the week or so since our last email, the outpour of support has exceeded our wildest expectations. Your efforts, such as starting savejpg.com, writing blog posts, commenting on Twitter and Flickr, and generally making your voices heard, have provided exciting new opportunities for us.

We’re thrilled to say that because of you, we have multiple credible buyers interested in giving JPG a home. We will be keeping the site up after all, and hope to have a final update in the next week or so on who the acquirer will be. Thank you for making all of this possible.

Laura Brunow Miner
Editor in Chief

This is great news.

JPG Magazine Closes

In another sign of the tough fiscal times, one of my favorite photography sites and magazines has gone belly-up.

Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.

We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we’ve reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but just weren’t able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.

The one thing we’ve been the most proud of: your amazing talent. We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share jpgmag.com with such a dynamic, warm, and wonderful community of nearly 200,000 photographers. The images on the website and in the magazine were adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber. The kindness, generosity, and support shared among members made it a community in the truest sense of the word, and one that we have loved being a part of for these past two years.

We wish we could have found a way to leave the site running for the benefit of the amazing folks who have made JPG what it is, and we have spent sleepless nights trying to figure something out, all to no avail.

I was an early member and subscriber. JPG will be missed. Spawned from the Flickr community, it will live on there, and perhaps will re-emerge in another form at a later date. (Flickr JPG Magazine Group.)

Trip to Friendly’s

Via iPhone