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Although Willie Singletary resigned from Philadelphia Traffic Court in February following a scandal involving lewd photos, the state Court of Judicial Discipline formally ordered Thursday that he be removed from his former job. In October, the court issued an opinion stating that Singletary was subject to discipline for his conduct. After news broke late last year that Singletary allegedly showed photos of his genitals to a coworker, the state Supreme Court suspended him without pay in January.

A gay couple from Montclair, N.J., whose engagement photo was used in Colorado political attack mailers are "innocent bystanders" whose image was stolen, and their lawsuit against the group who used it should proceed, attorneys said in a court filing. "They are not celebrities or public figures or emblems of the gay-rights movement. They did not insert themselves into Colorado politics," attorneys with the southern Poverty Law Center said in a filing in Denver federal court Monday on behalf of Brian Edwards, 32, and Tom Privitere, 37. The filing was in response to arguments by a group named Public Advocate of the United States, which said last month that the suit should be dismissed.

You may be fine with your smartphone's onboard camera software, and maybe the popular Instagram photo-edit-and-post app, but there are many alternatives to them. Here are a few. Snapseed , a photo-editing app for Android and Apple devices from Nik Software, is now free. It used to cost $5, but Google Inc. bought Nik this year and has tuned the app to work smoothly with the Google+ social network. Some longtime users say the heart of the app remains about as it was, and it happily posts to Facebook (which owns Instagram)

Billy and Renee Shindle shut the door to the billiards room, if just for a brief moment. They'd been pulled in countless directions all evening, but after their marriage ceremony, the newlyweds just wanted a few private moments together. "We were entertaining our guests and my husband said, 'Come with me for a minute,' " Renee said. Next thing she knew, she was propped up on a pool table being kissed. Then they noticed a third person in the room - their wedding photographer, Jeremy Wolfe.

You may be fine with your smartphone's onboard camera software, and maybe the popular Instagram photo-edit-and-post app, but there are many alternatives to them. Here are a few. Snapseed , a photo-editing app for Android and Apple devices from Nik Software, is now free. It used to cost $5, but Google Inc. bought Nik this year and has tuned the app to work smoothly with the Google+ social network. Some longtime users say the heart of the app remains about as it was, and it happily posts to Facebook (which owns Instagram)

This website is a handy tool you can use to build your bucket list from travel photos shared by your Facebook friends, as well as a visual portal into your friends' vacations. Name: Traverie.com What it does: Imports travel photos posted by your Facebook friends and organizes them by city and country. You can keep track of where they have been and where you hope to go. What's hot: The "Dream" mode is the most inspirational. Traverie rolls out a location across your screen with a collage of travel photos taken by your Facebook friends.

Underwater Dogs By Seth Casteel Little, Brown. 144 pp. $19.99.   A family who adopts a Lab mix that's afraid of water is especially unlucky when it comes to dogs and swimming. But Seth Casteel's book, Underwater Dogs , can fill almost any wannabe water dog owner with hope. Swimming wasn't for our old Lab mix, Peanut. That landlubber Lab departed this scary mortal coil two years ago, his fear of water matched only by fear of storms, fear of having his paws held, fear of being alone.

Pat Gallagher will never get back most of the things her family lost when Hurricane Sandy flooded the basement of their home in the Rockaway section of New York City, such as her daughter's prom dresses or her Barbie collection. So it's a small miracle that one soggy but cherished heirloom, a remaining black-and-white photo of the restaurant that the Gallagher family owned in the Rockaways for decades, is getting a second life. Almost as remarkable is that it survived because of the kindness of a complete stranger, a Rowan University professor and filmmaker who has toiled for hours on a computer screen to bring back the flood-damaged 1966 image, which includes Gallagher's sister-in-law, Rosemary, as a young girl.

On Friday, Oct. 26, 1,800 photos were submitted by Philadelphians to Philly Photo Day 2012. In its third year, "Philly Photo Day is designed to give every Philadelphian the opportunity to take charge of how they want to represent themselves and their city," said Sarah Stolfa, executive director of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. "The level of skill and the subject matter are far less important than the simple act of participating in this community-building project. " The photographs represent a range of artistic expression and serve as a diverse record of the city through the eyes of its community members, at one moment in history.

For years, even as it grew in size, the University of Pennsylvania's photography collection was largely unseen and inaccessible. More than 800 prints languished in portfolio cases on the uppermost shelves in storage until Lynn Marsden-Atlass, a year into her tenure as director and curator of Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery, decided to see what those cases contained. In the fall of 2011, she invited Gabriel Martinez, an artist and senior lecturer in photography in Penn's Department of Fine Arts, to organize an exhibition of some of the collection's notable photographs.