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 [...]
Posted by Jim on 01.29.2009 at 3:09 pm// Tagged: California, Locations, Monterey, Photography, Wildlife , Photography, Stock Photo, Wildlife
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 [...]
Posted by Jim on 01.29.2009 at 2:46 pm// Tagged: Photography , Blog Project, Photography
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 [...]
Posted by Jim on 01.28.2009 at 2:41 am// Tagged: PhotoNetCast, Photography, Podcast , Flickr, Photography, PhotoNetCast, Podcast
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 [...]
Posted by Jim on 01.28.2009 at 2:27 am// Tagged: Photography , Blog Project, Photography
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 [...]
Posted by Jim on 01.27.2009 at 3:48 am// Tagged: Photography , Blog Project, Photography
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 [...]
Posted by Jim on 01.26.2009 at 1:04 pm// Tagged: Photography, Updates & Announcements , Contest, Photography
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 [...]
Posted by Jim on 01.26.2009 at 12:01 pm// Tagged: Photography , Blog Project, Photography
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 [...]
Posted by Jim on 01.26.2009 at 12:00 pm// Tagged: EXIF and Beyond, Photography, Podcast