Seamless at the Ready
Any-who, I wanted a quick way to get a background
down without having to setup my backgrounds stands
all the time. This way they are mounted right there
in my office, above the closet at a moments notice. I
didn’t polish it much - just 20 min in the garage and
then quickly screwgun’ed to the wall. Works for me.
Total cost: $25 or so for the brackets and dowels. I
had a few pieces of scrap plywood lying around for
the rest. Badda Bing.
To test them out, I grabbed my nephew/neice and some
accoutrements laying about the house...
Perfect. I end up using
it like a family “Crazy Booth” that I sometimes do
with clients and my kids love it.
Cheers!
My 20 (or so) Favorite Things
So with out much adieu, or any particular order, here we go.
1. Canon 5D - this camera is awesome. Its been out for over 3 years, but it has aged well. Here are some of the likes:
- Full frame - no annoying sensor crop
- Great color - this camera’s images are so much better than some of its competition. When I started shooting with it, I had an epiphany moment. These moments have only come periodically - using Leica lenses, using my M8 and now the 5d.
- Pro build - its beefy and ready for abuse
- Great low light performance - it bests my M8 at low light. Sad but true. 1600 is totally usable.
2. Canon 24-105 L lens - awesome
lens, awesome feature set, great range. This is my
go to lens.
3. Canon 580 EX II Speedlight -
I’m new to speedlights, and this baby works great
on my 5d. Its added a new dimension (on camera or
off) to my photography. I still have lots to learn
about this unit, but it rocks.
4. Alien-Bee’s CyberSync wireless
triggers. Pocketwizards are superb and all, but
they cost a boatload of $$ and these units by Paul
Buff work great at a fraction of the cost. I
bought these after waiting in vain for the Radio
Popper Jrs to ship (they have now, too late).
5. Strobist Kit - a light, easy
way to haul some basic lighting gear around. Use a
tripod bag to cary it around in.
6. Domke Bags - I’m a huge fan of
the Domke range of camera bags. This huge bag is
my fave as I can carry my kit, my laptop and a few
extra things around easily.
7. Macintosh - yeah, I know we all
call them “Macs” these days, but I remember the
good old days and its “Macintosh” to me. I worked
at Apple and after a 7 year hiatus on Windows
(when PowerPC was sucking) and am glad to be back.
I have a Macbook Air (light!) and a Mac Pro Tower
with loads of RAM.
8. Lightroom - yeah, you saw this
coming. This is the future of photo
editing/management. Lightroom 2 really is a huge
advance over even 1.0 and puts the
knuckle-draggers in ACR to shame. Honestly.
9. White seamless paper - any
seamless is great, but white is awesome. There are
better things out there, but they cost alot more.
Zack Arias covers this well.
10. Canon BG-E4 Vertical Grip. I
shoot veritcal most of the time. Call it the
result of using 645 for years, but I see better
this way. This also gives you an extra battery.
11. Drobo - A nice RAID-like
package for all your local backup needs. It lets
you build a backup solution that expands when you
need it. The new one with Firewire is much
improved. Zero configuration, smart and easy. Nuff
Said.
12. NetNewsWire - I read a
bazillion RSS feeds daily. NetNewsWire gets my nod
because it syncs to a central server so I can be
up to date on all my computers. Sweet. simple.
13. iPhone - I was a bit late to
the iPhone thing - I hate ATT and Adobe was always
iffy about supporting them, so I struggled with a
Windows Mobile device for way to long. The iPhone
is heads and tails above any other phone out
there. Just super sweet.
14. Ilford Fibre Silk Paper - when
I have to print in-house, I use this paper with my
Epson 2400. Its sweet paper, with a beautiful
weight and texture. Nuff Said.
15. SmugMug - expecting this too?
SmugMug hired me away from Adobe this past summer,
and I’m working on a bunch of new things to make
this an even more attractive package for
photographers (especially you working pros).
Smugmug hosts unlimited images, can back up your
raw files, can serve as a commerce engine and has
a great lab for printing your stuff. It needs some
UX love, but that is what I’m on board to do.
Watch it carefully over the next year or so. And
the company rocks - great guys, great service and
very focused on their job.
16. Blogs - I love
blogging. It lets you maintain a personal
relationship (ahem) with a wide range of people.
Sometimes, like stretchy pants, its just for fun.
Blogs I love:
- Rachel Hulin
- TOP
- BagnewsNotes
- Conscientious
- Joe McNally
- Flak Photo
- Heather Morton
- Magnum Blog
- Strobist
- James Duncan Davidson
- PDNPulse
- Photo Business News & Forum
- The Luminous Landscape
- Chase Jarvis
17. Twitter - I’m a recent Twitter
addict - it is a great way to keep in touch
without having to be a stalker.
18. Moo - Moo Cards are the best.
Great texture/feel/print quality.
19. Books - I love to make books.
20. Canon 1.2 Lens on a
Leica M8 - this is a crazy combination of an old
Canon Rangefinder lens from decades ago being matched
with a cutting edge digitral Leica body. The look I
get with this lens is found nowhere else. No link
because you can’t find them very easily.
21. Finally, there are
some constants that make my life so wonderful - my
family, vegetables (I’m a vegetarian again after a
few years of lapsed carnivory), my ever expanding
book collection, my moleskine notebook, my backpack,
my bikes and the big man upstairs.
So have a great new year!
The Last Lightroom Tuesday of 2008
Its Tuesday! Huzzah!
Furthermore, its also the last Tuesday of 2008. This
little cornucopia of Lightroom tidbits started
sometime in 2008 and has become one of the mainstays
of this blog. In essence I save all the Lightroom
goodness from the interwebz and post it here Tuesday
as an homage to my favorite product - one that I
contributed to personally while working at Adobe
Systems.
- Backup solutions for Lightroom kinda suck. Yeah, I know. I really pushed the team in the 2.0 dev cycle to develop a more robust (i.e. not what is there now) solution for backup, but it just wasn’t in the cards given our development cycle time. We just had too many things to put into the app and this fell below the priority list. Understandable, but sad. So here is a nice discussion on some backup strategies. Personally? I have my catalog on a Raid drive that gets backed up every few days.
- Matt K provides a nice 2 x 2 print preset for doing a nice mini contact sheet presentation. With LR 2 you can save this as a jpeg too!
- The Epid Edits Weblog recently announced “The Epic Edits Action and Preset Extravaganza” - a project to gather together some cool presets (and photoshop actions for those of you in the dark ages) for Lightroom. The actions/preset submissions will be judged and then gathered together into a “Stylizer Package” that will be free for download. Interesting.
- Ever wondered how to use the Adobe Camera Profiles in the Camera Calibration tab? Wonder no more...
- Want to install Lightroom on more than one computer? The license from Adobe lets you put it on two computers at one time as long as they are not in use at the same time. The LightroomLab.com blog covers this here...
- I’m a big fan of Timothy Armes’ plugin LR/Mogrify. Its a great tool. He also has this other tool for HDR stuff. If you are into that.
- Accurate color and white balance got you down? Here is a two part discussion over at TOP - Part I, Part II
That’s it. A bit of a slow week - but hey, its the holidays.
For those of you
wondering about the Nikon D700 vs. the Canon 5D Mk II
- this comparison made me feel much
better. I keep hearing so much about how good
the new Nikons are at low light - and since I
shoot alot of low-light stuff - this always
tempted me (the huge cost to switch
notwithstanding).
PS. You can follow me on twitter, btw.
Portraits, etc...
Book Followup
I’m a big shot, you know, so they rushed the print
job thru for me and made sure it was delivered before
Christmas. What came was a nice change from my recent
Blurb misadventures. The books were printed perfectly
(well this is offset printing here) and they go out
to my clients today. I’m very excited to find a
vendor that stands behind their work. MyCanvas is a SmugMug partner
and they even corrected a typo in my book before
sending it off. Very professional.
For wedding shooters who can charge hundreds to
thousands of dollars for a leather bound album, stick
with the high end vendors. For those of us working
with clients who are a bit more price conscious,
these books will serve perfectly.
Now I’m off to make the book for EBT’s 2008
Nutcracker...
P.S. Buhbye Blurb
More Nutcracker
This covers all Saturday performances. I have the
Sunday performances still to do the final pass on and
then I’ll post them as well.
Today is Boxing Day - and to celebrate
we’ll be heading to the movies to see Tale of Despereaux or Valkyrie (adults to the
latter). I’m sure there will be a stop at the
bookstore as well, ladened with gift cards as we
are.
Cheers!
Happy Holidays!
New Nutcracker Galleries Posted!
Lightroom Tuesday!
Its Tuesday and that
means there is a Santa-size sack full of Lightroom
cadeau for you...
- Lightroom 2.2 is out (if you didn’t hear). One update was the final, non-beta camera profiles were released. You may have the old beta profiles installed already and they’ll need to be removed manually if the sight of them clutters your Camera Calibration tab. Here is a short video from Matt K (from Lightroom Killer Tips) on how to do this.
- Sean McCormack of Lightroom-News.com posted an interview with Timothy Armes (author of the fantastic Lightroom plugins LR/Mogrify and LR/Enfuse). He started out on a Sinclair ZX computer! Man I so wanted one of those. Curses to my cheap parents. The LR/Mogrify plugin is indispensable.
- David duChemin, a Vancouver based documentary photographer (snowed under like me I assume) posted a great article on his “Vison-Driven” workflow. Great read. Great ideas.
- TheLighroomLab.com has posted a short tutorial on using Snapshots in Lightroom.
- Not to be outdone, Lightroom-news.com has a short tutorial on the Crop tool.
- Ever used Smart Collections in Lightroom 2.x? They were a huge addition and one that I helped push into the release. LIghtroom Killer Tips has a video on how one can use them in your daily work.
- New to me: Lightroom Secrets. A blog on, uh, secrets for Lightroom. There are all kinds of tips/tricks here. Nice. Check out this one on keywording, or this one on Catalog Settings.
- Confused by Lightroom’s cataloging behavior. Here is a nice overview of how Lightroom works with your images.
- LR2’s biggest addition was the Adjustment Brush feature. It was hard work, but I still marvel every time I use it how Jon and Mark kicked it old school and delivered a huge boon to photographers. It so pwned what Aperture was weakly doing in this same space. Here is a nice discussion of this much-appreciated feature.
- As I pointed out last week - Lightroom is most efficiently driven by keyboard shortcuts. Here is a great overview of the KBSCs in Lightroom 2 by Adobe’s help gurus.
- The History panel just rocks. I tried several times to get Photoshop to do something similar in their history panel, to no avail (although CS4 did finally add one thing I asked for). Lightroom did it right. Snapshots that say snapshots and a history panel that remains a history panel. Go figure. Here is a great overview of the History Panel for those not in the know.
That should do it for this week. Have a Lightroomarific Holiday.
Nutcracker Gallery - Dress Rehearsal
This first gallery contains approximately 100 images from Friday evening’s dress rehearsal.
Here are a few of my
favorites so far...
More to come...
Nutcracker? Check!
I shot 4 performances of EBT’s Nutcracker. About 8000 images total. I’ve already taken the initial pass thru them in Lightroom (what a timesaver) and trashed 2000 of them immediately. About 1200 of the remainder are ready for a second pass - I’m going to be busy with final edits and organization over the next day or two.
I’m very pleased with what I’m seeing so far. As I tell the parents who comment favorably on my work, it certainly helps to have beautiful subject matter.
So if you are an EBT parent, its coming. Have a great Monday.
PS. On top of everything else, we got over a foot of snow. Makes for interesting times...
A Confession: LTS Is Real
I suffer from LTS, or Lightroom Typing Syndrome. For those not in the know, LTS is a terrible typing affliction that manifests itself in two ways:
1) Caps Lock Typing
In Lightroom, a real timesaver when editing thru your images is to choose press the Caps Lock key as you go thru that vast backlog of images. This does one simple thing and it does it well: when you choose a rating, flag or star, it moves to the next image immediately. This saves lots of right arrow clicks and really speeds up the process when going thru hundreds to thousands of images.
Normally, as a UI guy, I’m opposed to Caps Lock interactions like this because they can really mystify people who hit it by accident and can’t figure out what is going on or why the application is behaving “different”. It can be a problem.
But in this case, I ignore it because it makes things so much faster.
The problem comes when I switch away from Lightroom, as I unfortunately am wont to do during the day. As soon as I begin typing I get a mess of capital letters. Invariably, I end up yelling:
HEY YAH, I’M...
Doh! Then I have to erase and retype it all. How I suffer.
2. Weird Chat Interactions
The second way in which LTS manifests itself is by me randomly IM or IRC’ing the letters G, V, L, D, N and K to others.
This happens because I’m used to using Lightroom’s quick-access Keyboard Shortcuts to get quickly to the tools I want. And any time I’ve switched focus away from Lightroom (on purpose or by accident), I get these funny letters in my chats. This is partially an artifact that I have two nice big 30” monitors side by side, so I have many of windows open all the time on both, and sometimes I loose track of what application is active.
Here is an all too common example:
Paul: yt?
Wade: L
Paul: Huh?
Wade: G
Paul: Dude, you are seriously overdoing that whole texting abbreviation thing. UR not 18 U know!
Wade: Oh crap, sorry, I thought Lightroom had focus...
Yeah, it happens a lot. My poor coworkers and friends just have to deal with being yelled at and getting random letters sent to them.
PS. Quick, without looking, do you know what G, V, L, D, N, and K do?
I like Stamps. Stamping is Fun. Stamp. Stamp
Ballet Rehearsals
The Book Saga Continues!
Books are a great way for clients to take home a greater percentage of their session. Instead of having to decide on which prints to choose, I’ve been offering a “put them all in a book” option to go along with the regular print order. This really seems to be resonating, and all customers in the past month have opted for a book.
As you may also be aware, I got a shipment from Blurb last week that just wasn’t acceptable. The books had multiple issues and it took me over a week to resolve this with Blurb. As far as I’m concerned, they just didn’t stand behind their product and gave me the run around. They did finally give me a credit, but the delay put me in a bind because now I have a week till Christmas and am pushing it with delivery times.
In the end, I’ve decided to not use Blurb going forward. What was once an attractive, quality offering for people who couldn’t afford a $3000 leather bound book intended for the wedding market seems to have slipped in quality and customer service to the point where I can’t afford to offer them.
Happily, SmugMug recently partnered with
MyCanvas.com to do books,
calendars and posters. I’ve not used them before,
and wasn’t planning on it until the new year
(read: after the Christmas rush) when I could test
them out.
That changed, by necessity, so I spent most of last
night laying out several books I’d already done in
Blurb. Grr. Books take a few hours to properly
layout, and it was maddening to have to redo them,
but the resulting books look spectacular.
The nice thing is that Mycanvas.com’s offering is
really top notch - the templates and backgrounds are
quite well done and I am excited with the new choices
this will give my customers.
They even offer a live flash preview - which was
always a complaint of mine with Blurb - there was no
way to get a sign off on the final product without
sending a 300 (or greater) PDF. MyCanvas has an easy
to email flash preview that is perfect for the
intended use.
If you are a photographer, give them a try.
LR2sday!
It’s a frigid Lightroom
Tuesday in the Pacific Northwest. Brrr. Its 25
degrees outside and the ground is crunchy.
So on with the show...
- First off, the big one: Lightroom 2.2 was released today (in the wee hours of the morning actually) - this brings Canon 5d Mark II support, among other things. Worth the download. Run, don’t walk.
- Adobe is running a series of eSeminars for Lightroom 2 and Photoshop.
- Selective Coloring with Lightroom 2
- Mystified by White Balance? Be so no more...
- The Cleverest details his basic edit/correct workflow in Lightroom 2.
- Rad. Get that 80’s look. Wicked! Awesome! Tubular. And the best 80s song ever? This one. End of story.
- More film-like B/W presets - you can never have too many of these.
- Confused by the whole “non destructive edits thing?” Be so no more...
- A new Lightroom 2.0 book coming from Sean McCormack. Looks good...
- Still not sick of HDR? Then check out this export plugin for Photomatix...
- Skin Tones got you down? Michelle Moore, a Seattle-based photog, covers how she deals them.
That is about it for this week. Put Lightroom 2.2 thru its paces. Personally I’m hoping for a bit more stability as I’ve been seeing some random crashing with LR 2.1 that was slightly irritating.
For those of you
considering a Canon 5d Mark II, my buddy Ira did
a quick online review from the
perspective of a working photographer. Very
interesting. And then he has the cojones to call
me up and tell me all about it when he knows I
just got an original 5d a few months ago
I reviewed a bunch of test files
downloaded form the interwebz somewhere and the
3200 and 6400 ISO shots were wholly acceptable
to me - especially coming from someone
accomplished with Acufine and Tri-X. Oh man,
this hurts.
Did I mention it was cold
out? Russians know how to solve the cold problem.
That is it. Have a great Tuesday.
Its Cold Outside!
We fired up the wood stove and watched Christmas Vacation yesterday to celebrate. The days are going so fast, although my kids would certainly disagree. Only 10 days until Christmas.
On a related note, I spent many hours yesterday prepping photos for posting to the EBT website. Two new galleries were posted.
Gallery 27
Gallery 28
All are full of Nutcracker goodness. I’ve been employing some flash techniques recently that change up some of how I photograph these rehearsals. Lots of fun. Have a great Monday.
More Ballet Than You Can Shake a Stick At!
I found several images I’m quite happy with, and I have a pretty large gallery uploading right now.
Have a great Sunday!
Christmas comes!
Tomorrow I head back to
California for a day long meet-up with a bunch of
wedding photographers at SmugHQ. David Jay and a posse of
like-minded shooters will all be there and it otta
be fun. There are few things, besides shooting,
that I like more than talking shop with photogs.
We’ll talk Pro SmugMug accounts, Showit slideshows,
Lightroom and all kinds of goodness. Looking forward
to it.
Things of interest:
- Imagenomic’s new Portraiture Plugin is out. Very cool. The new UI looks a bit familiar. Its free if you own the previous version.
- I’ve seen people who managed to score Lightroom 2.0 for $125 at Amazon. Yeahaw. Prolly too late for you. But you should own it anyway.
- Top 10 Gifts for Photographers
- Cut & Paste for iphone? Hope so. This is a sign of SteveHubris.
Have a great Thursday!
Blurb & Customer Service
That has changed.
I just submitted a big order and all books came with
defects of one type or another. Dents to the spine
and covers. Poor print quality. Scuffs. Poor image
corner wrapping. And last but not least, these lame
stickers that say “Remove this easy to peel label”
but end up scaring the cover when you do. Yuk. I
can’t sell these.
I’ve been in a day long email exchange with Blurb
over this and they’re giving me the run around, and
it is starting to piss me off.
Lets contrast that with my recent ImageKind frame order.
My last order had framed 16x20 image in a nice black
frame. On closer examination, the print had a subtle
but noticable tweak in it! When I called, they
quickly apologized, asked no further questions and
drop shipped a new one directly to my client.
Granted, Imagekind is a SmugMug partner, and I did
mention I was from SmugMug, but they’ve reportedly
been awesome with issues across the board. I know
that if you call up SmugMug and have an issue (even
if you were the big idiot) they’ll reprint and ship
it to you asap. No questions asked.
So Blurb? What is up?
Minutiae du Jour
Photographer Phil Holland
has posted a great review of the new Canon 5D
MkII camera online.
I have the previous 5D and have loved it almost as
much as my Leica M8. This update looks like a great
step forward. Chris MacAskill (of SmugMug
fame) has been posting his 5D videos and is
very happy with the result, if not the ergonomics
of shooting video on the 5d MKII.
I’ll probably upgrade sometime next year - its a nice
camera - but I’m pretty happy with my 6 month old 5d.
Video would be nice, and I’ve been in several
situations where HD video would be great to have had,
but video isn’t something that overly interests me.
The real kicker for me is that one can get 1-2 stops
in low light. That is more interesting...
Of course, my wife keeps talking about some big
present for Christmas, but I doubt she’s that nutty.
Have a great Wednesday...
LR2sday!
Its that time again. Time
to look the ‘roomscape over and see what is goin’
down, as it were.
- Instantly hide your rejects. If you want to.
- Project Action & Preset Extravaganza. An open source way to get new looks for Photoshop (ugh) or LIghtroom (yeah). From Epic Edits Weblog.
- Speaking of that dynamic duo - you can get them together in a bundle for cheaper than separately.
- Winterscape Presets from ProfiPhotos News.
- An update to the excellent Client Response Gallery for Lightroom from TTG. Lets your clients make selections and email them back to you. Very nice. Via LIghtroomNews.
- I mentioned this last week, but PhotoNetCast.com interviewed Tom Hogarty - product manager for LIghtroom. A good listen.
- Genuine Fractals for Lightroom? Guess so. Helper apps can be very cool.
- For those who have not grocked Dodging/Burning in Lightroom 2.
- What would LR2sday be without a preset from Preset Heaven. Wednesday?
Have a great day.
Flamenco
Here are a few pictures of the lovely young ladies stomping and flicking those long skirts about.
Lightroom Tuesday approaches...
Goggle-Mainia!
Back Home
One thing waiting for me when I walked in the door was a package from a military surplus place - I’d ordered some props for portraits and they had arrived in my absence.
Here is one being modeled by my son this AM (what we did instead of get ready for school like we should have, my wife adds).
These little treasures should be alot of fun. Cheers...
More Marianne
I’m off to Southern
California in a few hours to attend a good friend’s
wedding. He’s a bit of an eccentric fella, so I
suspect his friends will make for quite a sweeping
panorama of interesting.
Camera? Check.
Have a great weekend.
Marianne
Lightroom Wins an Eddy!
Lightroom 2 wins an Eddy
award for important improvements in usability and
productivity. Amen. Congrats to all my homies on the
Lightroom team - this is a well deserved award.
Aces in my book.
Lightroom Tuesday!
I’m about to get on a plane for the Bay Area - time for a periodic SmugHQ visit - so here is a run down of the important Lightroom related happenings over the past week to keep you hoppin’
- I suppose some of you are interested in Geo-tagging your photos and are willing to walk the bleeding edge until it all “just works”. Jeff Freidl has a new plug-in for you to dance with. WRT the bleeding edge, I remember when ripping a CD into MP3s took at least 3 applications 15 steps and some real dedication. I’m too old for that now...
- Adobe has released several new camera profiles for use with Lightroom (and ACR if you are one of those hold-outs intent on doing things the hard way). In fact, using ACR is a lot like ripping MP3’s in 1997. Three apps, 15 steps and some dedication. Analogy=Perfect.
- I’ve talked a lot about books and book design. Here are a few resources for learning to design books. Here. And here.
- Apparently Tom Hogarty (Product Manager for Lightroom) is doing an interview with PhotoNutCast.com and the interviewer is soliciting questions before hand.
- This month’s Photoshop User has an excellent article on Lightroom Workflow from David duChemin. Good read.
- For those of you not sick of that HDR look yet (I kid, I kid) here is another article on HDR and Lightroom.
- JDD covers a 64-bit Gotcha when using Lightroom in said mode (hint: printing).
- More free presets! Huzzah!
- The Image-Space blog has a new Lightroom 2 ebook available for download.
- There is a new version of LR2/Mogrify. Love this tool.
- Scott Kelby tries out a new Workflow for Travel Photography.
- Paxton Prints scored an interesting, if Lightroom tangential article on aged tin-type simulation.
The Christmas tree is up.
With a flurry of boxes from the attic, a cascade of
green “needles” from the fake tree and a plethora (El
Guapo, would you say I have a plethora) of ornaments,
it was done. The kids love to find the ones they’ve
made in past years so they can chuckle at how
advanced they are. The photo ones are their favorite.
This year showed some real insight on my part: I
tested the strings of lights (purchased just last
year, I might add) before putting them up. Not one
would work. Not one out of 4 strands. So I quickly
called my wife who was en-route from the dance studio
and she purchased 7 new strands. Turns out she isn’t
like me and didn’t buy the cheapie strands that we’ll
end up replacing in a panic next year. She bought the
“good ones” with LED lights. 80% less electricity -
which is a good thing because we burn those suckas
24/7 until Jan 8th when I force my wife to let me
take it down. I sure hope so - they set me back $60
or so.
With that done, I have to figure out two things: 1)
how to keep my youngest from opening the presents
before the 25th (he’s already opened two) and 2) how
to keep him from devouring all the advent chocolates
in one sitting.
Challenges afoot in the holiday house.
New Emerald Ballet Theatre Galleries Posted
Some of the images have been featured previously here, but there are many more from the past few months to accompany them.
Enjoy...
Visiting 'Da Doc
More exciting for me, it means I get to take pictures of all the cool contraptions hanging about is office like so much steam-punk candy.
Here are a few photos from Saturday afternoon’s shoot for your perusal.
I’m flying down to the
Bay Area tomorrow for work, so I’m trying to tie up a
few loose ends here at home before leaving. Might
those loose ends involve setting up a Christmas tree
you ask? Indeed they would.
As I’ve probably mentioned before, my wife is
something of a holiday junkie. So much so that she
has trouble keeping them all straight - if she had
her way, the Christmas tree would be up mid-November.
In my book that would be a serious confusion -
holiday inflation if you will. One at a time, I say.
But now that Thanksgiving is over, its time to light
the lights and setup the tree. And yes, I had to
listen to Christmas music on the way home from our
little Thanksgiving trip.
PS. It looks like I’ve been doing the blog thing
regularly for about a year now. Wow. 258 odd posts.
Not too shabby.
Cheers!
Got the Cover!
Ha! I wish. I’m getting on a plane Tuesday to go down to the Bay Area for the week and a friends wedding on the weekend in Joshua Tree. Its going to be another hectic week, so blogging will be as sporadic as it was this past week...
While in Montana, I shot a series of portraits of my brother and his kids - I expect to have those edited and ready to review soon.
I’m pretty excited on my
latest magazine cover for City Arts Magazine here in
Seattle.
I shot the cover and the
images for the 4 page article inside. I was pretty
excited as this is a great way to highlight Viktoria
and her work with the young ballerinas of Emerald Ballet Theatre.
More EBT photography here...
If you have not gotten tickets for the EBT Nutcracker this year,
you’re running out of time. They
always sell out.
