Countdown for Svalbard Norway-Invitational Photo Tours, ADP and Polar Bears International
June 10, 2011 My last trip to Svalbard was almost two years ago. Soon I will be there again and this blog post is the beginning of my report from what is an incredible land of ice, water, wildlife and sky. If you’re interested you can read about my last… Read More »
Major Hard Drive Meltdown-Lessons Learned
I thought I would share with you some lessons I learned recently with regards to protecting your pictures. About three weeks ago I had a major Drobo hard drive failure where I had nearly 3 Terabytes of images go up in smoke. Thank goodness I had them all backed up… Read More »
Yellowstone National Park with Montana State University Students
This past week I spent some time with a group of passionate young design students from Montana State University. MSU is located in my home town of Bozeman, Montana, and each year a good friend of mine Jeffrey Conger who is a professor as well as Chair of Graphic Design… Read More »
Always Looking for New Ideas & Chase Jarvis is Incredibly Inspiring
I’ve know about Chase Jarvis for about six months now. I can’t recall how he came to my attention but with 45,000 friends on Facebook he’s obviously very popular and you can find him nearly everywhere, doing nearly anything and everything in the world of creative visuals.. The guy really… Read More »
Aperture Applets~Is Aperture Coming to IPad?
One of my favorite Blogs for all things Apple is 9-5Mac Apple Intelligence. They recently posted a story about a patient application that suggests we may see the IPad running some form of Aperture in the future. Those of you who follow our Corkboard/Blog know that this has been a… Read More »
Nikon’s New D5100 SLR – A Hands on Reveiw
I recently had a chance to spend some time shooting with the new Nikon D5100. One of the reasons I requested this camera from Nikon was my desire to get my hands on one of the smallest, lightest bodies they are currently making. Also, I do get people that travel… Read More »
Introducing Aperture Applets~Tips and Tricks for Aperture Workflow
One of the most difficult aspects of the digital photography workflow is finding software that helps us process thousands and thousands of captured images. Back in the mid 90’s when the internet came alive and gave us the opportunity to present our images like never before, I was introduced… Read More »
Portia Polar Bear A Finalist in International Book Awards Contest
This morning we received our first award for Portia Polar Bear’s Birthday Wish. Several months ago our dear friend Julie Cox began the lengthy process of submitting Portia to lots of different children’s book award contests. It’s a long and arduous process but well worth while if a title… Read More »
IPad as a Photographers Tool~Update
Awhile back I wrote a piece on using Apples IPad as a device to store my images on while traveling. I had taken my IPad to Vietnam and tried using it exclusively as my sole archiving tool. For those who read that earlier post you know that I came away… Read More »
Apple’s Aperture for Digital Photo Workflow
Many of you know that I’ve been using Adobe’s Lightroom as the main photo editing software for my digital photography workflow and it’s been a great tool. However, for our latest photography workshop in Costa Rica I decided to move over to Apple’s Aperture due to it’s better ability to… Read More »