On my last Sea Otter photo tour I caught this Great Blue Heron landing in the slough with great late afternoon lighting. If I had to nit pick I only wish I caught more of a complete shadow of the birds head in its wing. Such compositional concerns are never a thought in the split second needed to capture such a photo and only surface when editing a photo. Ah the joys and pains of being your own worst enemy. [tags]Pho

The work of Mario Zanaria is the fourth of five prints to highlight from my Buying Prints from Your Favorite Photographers blog project. To be honest I got caught off guard with Mario’s photography. I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled on to Mario’s flickr photostream, but I did and I’m really happy that it happened. I really enjoy Mario’s photography and he never ceases to amaze me.

The 21st episode of PhotoNetCast is out. In this special episode the Flickr Collection on Getty is discussed. Take a listen: PhotoNetCast #21 – The Flickr/Getty Partnership From the PhotoNetCast site: On January 21, Flickr made a second announcement stating that invitations to Flickr users to start submitting the “chosen” images to Getty were being sent en masse. What does this all mean to photographers, either pros

The work of G. Dan Mitchell is the third of five prints to highlight from my Buying Prints from Your Favorite Photographers blog project. When I conceived of the prints blog project Dan was instantly on my short-list and as soon as I started perusing his blog and flickr photostream I knew I’d approach him to buy a print. As good fortune would have it Dan expressed interested in a print exchange and that is exac

The work of William Neill is the second of five prints to highlight from my Buying Prints from Your Favorite Photographers blog project. In my enthusiasm for prints I learned you have to be careful what you ask for.  For some time before the project kicked off I had been following Bill’s blog and Flickr photostream. Before and during most of the blog project Bill was marketing his Impressions of Light eBook and

In early January I kicked off a ticket giveaway to (3) three Epson Print Academy events in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The results are in from a very random selection process… namely a number on paper, for each comment/trackback to my original post Epson Print Academy – I’m Giving Away Tickets, thrown into a bowl. Duplicate entries were removed for those making multiple comments and selections

Last year’s blog project Buying Prints from Your Favorite Photographers wasn’t my most successful by comparison to others I’ve run, but it was definitely one of the more rewarding. Given my passion for quality photography prints it is certainly a project that I will be running again in the future. As an extension of this project through out the week I’ll be highlighting one of the 5 prints I p

I just received word from my podcast hosting service that my podcast EXIF and Beyond: Photography Discussions was one of the Top 5 Most Popular Podcast of 2008. It would seem that I was #2 right behind the Knit Science podcast. Knit Science!?!?! Come on folks help me reach #1 in 2009 LOL Seriously it’s an honor and I can’t wait to bring even more interesting and timely podcast episodes to you this year. O