Photoshelter Survey on Websites

At the Palm Spring Photo Festival, Grover Sanschagrin (Founder, Vice President) of Photoshelter shared great statistics from a recent survey they conducted  on website usage. They polled over 550+ photo buyers discussing what they liked/disliked in photographer websites. The focus is heavily oriented to stock...

James Balog – Extreme Ice Survey

Jim Balog has been doing an absolutely fascinating photographic project. He and a team of glaciologists have put cameras around the world and set them to take exposures every hour. The changes they’ve tracked have been astonishing – even to the most learned scientists! You’ve...

Coblogging Photoshop World XVII

Precons at Photoshop World XVII start today. We’re coblogging again. Presenters will try and make one post a day of a highlight. I haven’t even started my Epson Print Academy Precon (today from 1-5 with Rodney and Schewe) yet and I’ve had a highlight. RC...

ICC Is A Scale

During the Epson Print Academy Andrew Rodney uses many great metaphors to explain a complex subject – color managment. Here’s one. The ICC standard is just a scale that gives numbers a context and ultimately a meaning. 1500! What’s 1500? 1500 what? Meters? Kilometers? The...

Solux Lighting

For the photographer light is important from start to finish – capture, editing, printing, and display. Solux offers products designed to give you the highest quality viewing light at surprisingly affordable rates. How much does high quality viewing light affect the way you see things?...

Photoshop World – Boston

Photoshop World is coming to Boston March 25 – 27. Find out more here. Check the website for video coverage of the last Photoshop World. Download the Photoshop World PDF for a complete run down. This conference is first rate. Over 40 top notch instructors...

Rick Sammon – Antarctica

Check out Rick Sammon’s conversation with Scott Sheppard on IDP Radio where he discusses his recent trip to Antarctica. Then find out about his three new books this year. Face to Face: Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Photographing People, Rick Sammon’s Exploring the Light: Making...

Useful Island & Neko Harbor

Zodiac’s in big swell first thing in the morning. Seth Resnick and I are bouncing all over the place. We’re shooting fast and praying, laughing all the way. I keep coming back around one set of icebergs. After three times, others want to move on....

South Shetland Islands

Take the walk. Barrientos Island has two major points, a penguin nesting ground and a long strand with two dramatic columnar basalt outcrops. In 2005, we never took the longer walk to this surreal landscape. So a familiar place offered a dramatic surprise. It was...

Ushuaia – Alvear Glacier

Ushuaia – Alvear Glacier Today we (my companions Seth Resnick, Craig Perrini, and Chris Hauser) took a hike. It was the hardest hike I’ve ever taken. It was described simply as a 3 hour 7 km hike one way. What was left out was that...