There is a reason to my absence for the past few weeks. I have been busy learning about Social Media (Facebook and LinkedIn) I had attended a short introductory workshop with the intention to find out about ways I could get the word out about my book, “Essence:contemplations in image and word”.

BE careful what you ask for . Since my daughter is in an MBA program, much more information on marketing came my way. As I am working through all of that, there is obviously the question of how to implement all of the answers to the questions I am now asking. “Who are your clients?” seems a straightforward question. The answer that came intuitively – people, who decorate a (space in a) home – showed me not only how unfocused my inventory is, but also how many more possibilities I have to sell my images. The impact of just this one answer is big:

• change the galleries on my web site
• get a second site that serves as a stock image site
• get on Flickr
• begin to “work” LinkedIn, i.e participate in the discussions and build relationships.

Then, I just got the new releases of Photoshop and Lightroom. Now I need to figure out which new features in CS5 will serve my way of working with images and learn them. I am much more familiar with Lightroom, so the upgrade will not take too much time to figure out.

Between all the Art Fairs, it feels sometimes overwhelming, yet I am enjoying it. Now, that enjoyment may not be so much the case with having to thoroughly keyword and caption all the images I plan on pulling up on Flickr. There have been times when I was not consistent with keywords and there are hardly any captions. I look at it that it is better to start now than in another year when there will be even more images.

As you can see, my days are full and exciting. I will post some images to keep you appraised of my progress. I invite your comments and ideas.

Since for the next 2 – 3 month I can not get into an area where i had been photographing, I was faced with the question what to do instead. I decided to experiment and therefore learn more about multiple exposures and images where one moves the camera during the shot. Many factors play into getting a great photo using these techniques and I want to have a feel for it instead of just getting lucky every once in a while. As I progress, I will post some some images so you can see my journey.

I invite your comments and ideas. After upgrading the software, I made sure the settings are such that you can post a question and pull up an image to go along with it.

Have fun shooting!