What’s Going On…

A couple fun news items to share today…including some prize additions, a webinar announcement, and more!

Comment Contest

I just got word last night from Nicole that a copy of both her 60D and 7D books will be donated to the comment contest – so there’s gonna be two winners!  All you have do to is comment on the podcast post from Monday!  Yup, that’s it – no fuss, no muss – just comment and win!  Pretty generous of her and Peachpit to donate like that!  Oh yeah, and be sure to listen to the podcast, we have a great conversation about how to strike a balance in your photographic life!  All that’s available from here.

Photoshop Cs5 Webinar

The folks over at Nations Photo Lab just keep on giving!  In addition to the monthly Flickr contest (where you get $50 certificates just for playing), they’re also the sponsors of the Live Learning Lab – a free live webinar served up on the 2nd Wednesday of every month, hosted by myself and Kerry Garrison of Camera Dojo.  We just had the February one last night, and it was quite the hit!  You can watch the archived shows for free too if you can’t be in attendance – just can’t ask questions in real time.  Anyway, the archive is here

Live Learning Lab

If you’d like to participate in the March webinar – be sure to sign up in advance as we can only take 100 people.  More details are forthcoming on that shortly.

And more…

Okay, there really isn’t much in the way of “more”, but since I like to have images for every post, here’s a quickie from my own archives just for a dose of inspiration (in hopes of a Spring thaw soon!).  Happy Shooting!

Arizona Cactus

Traveling and Photography – Episode #40

So, the weekend was spent on lots of photography stuff – we had the February edition of our Creativty Workshop Series here with the Denver Photo Meetup group and that was a lot of fun.  The theme for this outing was contrast, and the group came up with a lot of great examples.  For a peek at some of the member shots, be sure to stop over there and look at the photo gallery: Denver Photowalk Creativity Workshop Series Continue reading “Traveling and Photography – Episode #40”

Just under the weekend wire…

As Friday draws to a close, lots is going on here – we’re packing up!

That’s right packing things up and rolling on outta here!  Naw, not the blog, or the podcast – always here, but with my return to a full time position we realized two things:  1.  We were kind of living beyond our means a little, and 2. The current house is pretty far from where work is for both of us.

Since Tracy is used to the RTD system now (and gets it free with her job) it just made sense that we consider looking in areas that are closer to where I am working so…the house is going on the market!  All this means that much is being packed up into boxes, furniture being moved out to give a minimalist staged look to the house.  (I guess all my photo gear “just looks like clutter” according to our realtor!)

So, the podcasting PC is being packed up, as is much of my photo gear.  I am keeping the barest of essentials, one desktop and my laptop though – so blogging will continue – once all the rest of this gets organized, boxed, labeled, and cleared into a storage facility…(man I need a studio!).  What that has meant is a light blogging week.  The podcast that I recorded with Rich Charpentier last week has finally been spliced together and is being uploaded to the folks at PLM right now.  It might not be available before midnight, but here’s the show notes anyway:

1.  Industry News

  • Apple announces the iPad – I know so last week, but we’ve got some unique perspectives to share on how it could be used…
  • Canon announces it’s now made 50 million EF lenses (we are assuming they are also including the EF-S line) – congrats to Canon!
  • National Archives is prohibiting cameras – find out why!

2.  Printing Pictures – dynamic range, papers, color spaces, printer gamuts, and lots more…

3.  Listener Questions and Answers

Check out the show over at Personal Life Media (in about an hour – so slightly after midnight)…also don’t forget the February Giveaway is under way – Rich has generously donated a canvas print for the lucky winner!  Stop over at his blog to thank him, then check out his website with some of the most amazing HDR work I think I’ve seen!  Happy shooting all, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you back here on a more minimalized and organized Monday!