Landscape, Nature And Travel Photography

The past few years online have been an interesting ride and things are only going to get more interesting thanks to Social Media. We are all consumers and now through Social Media the strength of our voice and influence is amplified by the size of our networks (see my previous post 4 Metrics of Social [...]

If you’re into photo contests these three might just be right up your alley.  For each I leave it to you to review terms and rules. In my initial pass I see nothing that should warrant anyones concern. Below are the contests for your consideration:

2009 California Fall Challenge “Click Off!” 
by the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory [...]

An often unspoken component of photography is image selection. How and why are certain photos chosen over others when reviewing results of a photo shoot? I’ve received questions on this in the past and D. Travis North (Self-Editing to Concentrate Your Workflow – Part 1) has asked me to share my insight to this topic [...]

In the event you haven’t had enough of the discussion around Free here are some interesting links that I’ve found or have been pointed out to me by my blog readers. With all the “free” information out there its time for you to determine if Chris Anderson is selling the Emperor’s new clothes or not.
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The most amazing aspect of today’s transforming photography world is that it is so easy to find inspiration. The digitization of photography has placed inspiration a Google search away or even a Tweet away. While I certainly don’t have time to list a 1,000 points of inspiration I will share with you a few that [...]

Reputation management is the monitoring of how an individual, company or other entities are perceived online.  Online reputation is centered on trust. The greater the trust with in an online community around an individual, company, etc. the more often their content is to be referenced online, the more business that they’re likely to acquire and [...]

The past couple of weeks I’ve enjoyed the following articles, blog posts, podcasts and videos. I thought I’d pass them on to be enjoyed by those who check in to my blog regularly. Enjoy!
Earth Hour
This past Saturday was Earth Hour, an event to highlight the worldwide need to address global warming. Landmarks, city skylines, local [...]

First the scary…
A photo morphing George Bush to Barak Obama. I think the middle photo is the scariest and you?

original source BuzzFeed
The photo to inspire…
A 1474 megapixel photo of the U.S. Presidential Inauguration by photographer David Bergman. The photo can be zoomed into quite easily. He noted that Yo Yo Ma was taking a photo [...]