Monthly Archives: November 2008
Be Careful With Contests
While doing the annual purging of the tryptophan ritual ysterday I came across Photojojo, which listed 12 contests on their website. As usual, appropriate disclaimers were given as you may or may not surrender your copyrights to images even for entering the various contests. I took a look through them, and one of them struck me by surprise: National Geographic. Here is the copyright condition for participating: “By entering the Contest, all entrants grant to Authorized Parties (National Geographic Society and its licensees) a royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable perpetual, nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, display, and create derivative works of the … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Football, Turkey, tryptophan…lots of great stuff going on today. Enjoy the time with families, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow (maybe). That’s it for today, so this can be considered a “No Blog Thursday”…
What’s This – Week 20
We took a week off last week from the mystical photo posting of “What’s This?”, but I am happy to say it’s back again today. Here’s a slow pitch one for everyone as we stop thinking about photography and start thinking about Thanksgiving. WHat’s the image above? The winner, as always wins thousands of dollars in cash and prizes, a lifetime membership in all photo associations, a new car, their own private island, and of course, bragging rights here on CB. Yeah, okay, pretty much nothing but the last one can be taken seriously. Anyway, in light of the upcoming … Continue reading
Money, Socializing, and Freebies!
Hey all, welcome to the Tuesday blog post for CB – today the latest in the Canon Blogger Digital Podcast Series is up for your mobile listening pleasure. It turns out I can ramble on for quite a bit as I take a look at three distinct topics: Making Money in Photography The Value of Social Networks and some Free Web Resources that you may have missed I also take the usual spate of reader/listener questions (great ones this go around, so thanks and shout outs to Marcus, Krista, and Nick! In the future, send me links to your websites … Continue reading
The cost of doing business…
Recently I was participating in a thread in one of the photo communities that I enjoy, and the subject of the cost of doing business came up. I decided to take a serious look into the costs associated with being an event or wedding photographer. Turns out, the costs associated that I could determine made me appreciate even more the fact that I am a hobbyist/enthusiast and not a pro – I couldn’t survive on this salary and with that kind of workload! Anyway, I thought I’d share the results of my calculations here, and hear what others have to … Continue reading
Friday Format Frustrations
Recently I purchased the Canon FS-100 camcorder as I’ve become interested in trying my hand at a little videography (nothing too fancy, just some home movies for sharing with family and friends, but I admit, the idea has been in my head that the option to record things for the blog might also be of tangential use as well. When I got the camcorder, I also picked up a SD flash card (2GB) so I could play around with it and test both the recording quality as well as see how the video gets output. All in all, it wasn’t … Continue reading
Thursday Thoughts with…Jeff Revell
Recently, I had the honor of sitting down (well, emailing, but you get the idea) with none other than Jeff Revell. As most of you probably know, Jeff is a pretty well-established photographer and recently has been enjoying some notariety for his blog on Photowalking, appropriately titled Photowalk Pro (definitely one for your feed aggregators). He gave some great thoughts and insights on the state of digital photography. Thanks in advance to Jeff for taking the time to participate in the Thursday Thoughts sereies here at CB! Q: Everyone always wants to know some of the basics, so let’s get … Continue reading
Don’t Cash that Canon Rebate Check!!!
We interrupt your normal blogging routines to bring you this alert from the Canon homefront (and being the Canon fanboy, I figured I’d better report on it here…) There’s a link off the Canon home page that quietly announces this. The linked page is here: Canon Rebate Announcement You can follow the link to confirm, but here is the text of the announcement: November 17, 2008. Dear Valued Customer, This is an official message from Canon U.S.A., Inc. The third-party rebate processing company that was responsible for processing rebate claims and issuing mail-in rebate checks for Canon-brand printer and video … Continue reading
PhotographyBB Magazine Honors
Last night I got word from Dave Seeram, Editor of PhotographyBB Magazine that the latest issue of his monthly online publication had been completed! The reason this is so exciting? I had an article published in this issue. This is my second published article here and it’s always exciting to see the fruits of your labor in print. Take a moment to stop over and read the entire issue (but especially my article! ) THanks to Dave for the honor of participating. You may also notice the delay in the publishing of the daily post today – the host I … Continue reading
The creative versus the communicative process
The latest podcast episode has been published and in this week’s episode I talk about a new podcast to hit the airwaves – Digital Photography Life, hosted by none other than Scott Sherman and Michael Stein. If these names sound familiar it’s because I have talked about them and their podcast before when they used to host The Digital Photography Life. Tune in to the podcast here to listen to the details Their show notes are posted on Scott’s blog, which can be found here, and of course, their press release announcing the show, can be read here. The podcast … Continue reading
Monday Moving Blues
Good morning to one and all. Try as I mght, the fallout of the moving mania of the last two weekends has take its toll and I was unable to summon the energy to put together a coherent post for today. So, I am calling it a No-Blog Monday, and will return tomorrow fully rested and recovered with more photographic goodness for you. Happy shooting and we’ll see you back here tomorrow.
Feathered Friday…
A happy feathered Friday to all! Permit me to explain…recently the subject of egrets became a popular tangent in a photo forum that I actively participate in, and after some fun dialog, I shared a few shots from work I had done in the past in capturing these amazing animals. They really are quite beautiful, and on a whim I went through two shoots that had a lot of egret shots and quick processed theb into an Adobe Photo Gallery. Since I don’t believe I’ve shared these shots previously, here are some shots for your fine friday! (If you click … Continue reading
Thursday Thoughts with… Mike Palmer
Mike Palmer is the latest participant to agree and join me for a short question and answer session here on the blog. Thanks go out to Mike and don’t forget to stop over at his blog and share your thoughts with him there as well. He can be found at both his blog, and his professional portfolio Now, on to the Q&A Q: Everyone always wants to know some of the basics, so let’s get a few things out of the way at once here…How long have you been a photographer? A: I have been enchanted with photography since the … Continue reading
What’s This? – Week 19
It’s a little late this morning, but we’re now in week 19 of the What’s This? episode series. Last week, there were no guesses, likely because it was a super tough one. The full sized original can be found here, (it’s a tree with blue bottles hanging off knobs on the trunk). It is definitely one of the more abstract shots to begin with. Looks like the gallery of participants was stumped! So, this week, things are going to be a little easier (this should be easily guessed – I just really like the textures of this shot. Anyway, without … Continue reading
What do Photo walks and software cycles have in common?
Tune in to this week’s episode of the Canon Blogger Podcast Series, Episode #58, from either the blog or your feed readers today! I also tackle a few listener questions, and offer up a photo road tip for the listening audience. So, pick up the feed today, or stop in to the blog to not only download the show, but also to see the other content that isn’t in the daily feeds (things like the Online Photography Test, Colors and Textures Galleries, polls and more! As I tinker a little with the audio quality of the show and try to … Continue reading
Denver Area Photowalk
As some of you may recall, Scott Kelby held a worldwide photo walk a few months ago to promote his new book that was coming out on Lightroom 2. Well, since then several smaller photo walk clubs and groups have formed and begun their own outings. Denver was no exception and our first official photo walk this last weekend had a really good turnout of roughly 15-20 people. About half of us even got together afterward at a local eatery to share stories and get to know one another better. Everyone is posting shots over on the Meetup site and … Continue reading
Boxes, Bubble Wrap, Packing Tape and Stairs!
Sorry all, I hate to go into the weekend without a post to give you some things to read and/or do, but we are closing on our new house here in Colorado today, so there’s just too much to do, including packing, moving, coordinating utilities, and a whole smorgasboard of other things going on – not the least of which is the disconnection of cable/internet at our current address. Without venturing too far into an actual post today, let me just say I am pretty darn tired of boxes, bubble wrap, packing tape and stairs!
Thursday Thoughts with….Andrew “Ostman” Smith
As a proud member of Jason Moore’s “P&P Blogroll” I’ve had a unique opportunity to find and become acquainted with several photographers who I might otherwise not had the pleasure of knowing. One such talented individual is Andrew Smith, of Visual Realia. Andrew’s blog is a unique combination of photography and poetry. It is truly an amazing combination and well worth adding to your RSS feeds. Andrew agreed to participate in the Thursday Thoughts here at CB, so without further ado, here’s some great insight into his talents: Q: Everyone always wants to know some of the basics, so let’s … Continue reading
Nitty Gritty Details
The weekly podcast that usually goes up on Tuesdays was supplanted yesterday by the Election Day message. Returning to photography topics today, the weekly podcast has been posted and is ready for your listening enjoyment. I’ll have some notes related to the podcast to include at the end of today’s post. In the interests of keeping the “What’s This?” on schedule, we are now in week 18. Last week’s was in fact, the stained glass that a reader correctly identified rather quickly. So, I am hopefully going to make things a little more intriguing for you this week. Let’s see … Continue reading
Exercise your rights…go vote!
Instead of talking about photography today, I am going to save you the ten minutes of information, news, snippets and other tangential stuff, because something much more important needs your attention today. Your right to elect your leaders is before you. So…go vote! Today! This is one of the few countries in the world where we enjoy the ability to elect our leaders. You may not think your vote matters, but it does! It doesn’t matter what you believe or who you vote for. McCain, Obama, Nader, or Mickey Mouse – vote today! Not only do we enjoy the right … Continue reading
Making Money off your Photos
In the tightening economy, many of us are considering additional ways of supplementing our income, and as hobbyist photographers, we all have wondered at times whether we could parlay our hobbies into sources of revenue. For a short time I even considered this blog as a possible method for generating revenue. By and large though, I found that the blog was not well-positioned to be a significant source of revenue, for a number of reasons. So, I decided to turn the idea arond, and think about whether my photography could be considered as a source of revenue. Thus far I … Continue reading
