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Last week, I participated in a workshop taught by Eddie Soloway at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. It was an incredibly intense week with early starts (get up at 3am to be at a location for sunrise) and late nights. On the last evening, we got to see images from all 6 workshops that were going on that week and I was highly impressed with the quality of the images.

Out of all the possibilities, I chose to train myself in using only manual metering. I have to say, it will probably pay off very quickly since I need to do so much less editing in front of the computer. Then, there are all those ideas of how to take images, that I feel will take me a while to integrate. My plan of action is to go out and work with one of them , the next time with another. So over time, I hope to eventually have them all in my ‘tool box’.

Here are some images from the week.

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!

When visiting my family in Germany, I got ‘caught in the ash’. A week later, I finally made it out. It was an adventure as I had not brought my calendar with me. I had to remember all the appointments I had made and cancel them, to ask a friend to pick up packages I had ordered with my original arrival date at home in mind. And then there was all the work waiting for me to get ready for a show. Good thing was that I had my laptop with me and at least could make the final selection of the images there and begin the process of deciding on the different sizes for images. Now the show is hung and I can breath a sigh of relief. If you want to see the images, go to my gallery El Rito Creek in Winter

Triple D Game Farm works together with a local rescue center. This provides some income for it. The raptors we got to shoot are all birds that can no longer be released into the wild. Therefore they become ambassadors.

Recently, on my way to Montana, I was driving through Moab and Green River. I spent the late afternoon in Arches N.P., seeing it for the first time with snow. Sadly the weather was not that great with many clouds around. The next morning, I continued on and the area around Green River was a showstopper. I had to pull onto the shoulder on the freeway because I could not let all the images I saw go by.

Here are 2 of the images:

Winter Sunset in Arches N.P.

Cold Winter Morning

After all the hectic with the Christmas Fairs, I finally had time to go out and take pictures. I got one Christmas wish fulfilled on the 24th with a wonderful day of a snow covered landscape. On the 25th, I got a surprise present in the form of being the first person in Plaza Blanca: no human tracks!

I wish all of you the best for the New Year; plenty and successful photography

Here are some of the images:

Last week, we had 2 days we did not break freezing and a low of 3 and 7 Fahrenheit. Naturally, I went to the creek and here are some of the shots I got.

The night of 9/23 it snowed. Though not planned, when I saw the snow in the morning of the 9/24, I decided to run up to Chama and get some images of the train in the snow. Here are 2:Then, just last Friday, they had a Moonlight Run. I was wondering what kind of images I might get with the low light I would encounter. Here are 3 of them: