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What’s Going On…

February 10, 2011 Jason2 Comments

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

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!

The Live Learning Lab!

January 13, 2011 Jason5 Comments

For a while now, my good friend Kerry Garrison (of Camera Dojo) and I have been working in concert with Nations Photo Lab to build a new interface up at their website for a learning resource guide, which will be serving up free monthly webinars! With both myself and Kerry Garrison as hosts, we launched our first webinar yesterday with a sellout crowd of 100 people in attendance! It was a lot of fun as we tackled several subjects relating to Lightroom and how to process your images. I took on creative crop overlays and ND filters while Kerry handled the portrait retouching aspects of Lightroom.

Our schedule is the second Wednesday of every month so another will be forthcoming here in a few weeks for February. We’ll be covering a lot more than Lightroom, including Photoshop, probably some photography composition techniques, and much much more. We’re working on a guest host schedule too, so it’s worth checking out. There’s no gimmicks, no fuss, no muss – just a way for the group to collectively give back to the entire community! Each webinar is about an hour long (our first went about 15 minutes over), and they will all be accessible via instant archives immediately following the webinar too. It’s great to view live because you can ask questions as you think of them, but if your schedule doesn’t permit, the archives will be available for your enjoyment too!

Raquette Lake Rendezvous

August 17, 2010 Jason3 Comments

Every year, the men in the family (cue Tim Allen-esque Home Improvement style grunts) depart from their women and the rigmarole of daily lives to embark on a quest to re-connect with nature. We build fire, we eat man food, we emit bodily sounds not allowed in most social circles, tell jokes that are decidedly not PC or appropriate for most audiences and all sorts of other debauchery.

This year I had the chance to attend (I missed a few years due to work), and with a new generation of men-in-training to initiate, it was quite the sojurn! We also dealt with survival skills in the wild – land navigation/compass courses, intentionally over-turning canoes and kayaks to recover, and all sorts of hair-raising experiences for the single-digit aged crowd. They learned quite a bit!

In all the ruckus, I did manage to sneak my SLR into the forest for what I anticipated to be some possible chances at some nice scenery. I was not disappointed…here’s a few sample shots from said trip:

In addition to spending some good quality time with family, some “man-bonding” and such, a few decent shots came out of the trip too! Plus, with my packing list, and preparations for keeping everything dry, as well as some other trip-specific details, a few posts worth of content will likely be coming down the road later this week too!

In the meantime, don’t forget to set your alerts for the first free webinar that Kerry Garrison and I are hosting tomorrow night from our joint venture with Lightroom Dudes. That starts tomorrow at 6:30pm Pacific, 7:30pm Mountain, and 9:30pm Eastern(More are coming after that for only $20 a session…) The Denver workshop is also fast approaching , and there are still seats available. You can register for only $79 here:

Hope you enjoy the pics, and we’ll see you back here again tomorrow!