Wanna learn some Lightroom?

Now that the contract has been signed, I am pleased to announce that I will be conducting a couple of seminars on Adobe Lightroom. This new application is designed for photographers and provides a new and streamlined workflow for most of the tasks that photographers face.

The first seminar is a Super Monday event which will be held in Manchester, NH in early April. This event is open to other photographers and is $99. It is an 8 hour program entitled Workflow at the Speed of Lightroom and is a complete overview of the software. Bring a laptop with Lightroom installed for some hands-on experience.

The second will take place in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania (right outside of Harrisburg) on April 22, when I will be presenting Workflow at the Speed of Lightroom to the Certified Profession Photographers of Pennsylvania. They will be opening this program up to others, and when I find out the fee for participation I will update this entry.

Come join me and learn Lightroom. If you are a photographer, this will revolutionize your workflow.

Website Reconstruction

I am currently working on revamping the website, www.markspixels.com

It has been a long time without a facelift, and it's badly in need to improvement. So far not too much has changed beyond the home and contact pages, but I'm motivated to move forward here. Returning visitors to the site will see some fairly obvious changes, with more to come. The slideshow on the homepage is somewhat large if you have a slow internet connection. I am a bit spoiled with my FIOS connection right now and so I'm not a good judge of whether it is too big or not. If you check it out, please leave a comment here (or send an email) and please include your connection type and/or speed.

I am also soliciting general comments on the site, whether they are directed towards the graphical design, user interface, navigation, images or whatever. This is your chance to influence things! Speak up!

The Doctors

A fellow member of my Business Networking International group, affectionately referred to as Dr Phil, came by the studio with his wife over the weekend. She is Dr Jessica. They are both chiropractors and make a cute couple. We had a nice, relaxed session from which I include a few shots here. Nice people. If you have back trouble, go see them and they'll straighten you right out.

Imaging USA

We recently returned from a terrific photographic conference in Tampa, Florida called ImagingUSA. It is the largest and best photographic conference in the world, and Betsy and I are pumped. We each attended over 10 seminars, frequently splitting up to maximize our learning. It has proved to be an effective strategy as we managed to learn more together than any one person could have learned. In addition to all the great speakers that the conference offered, the show floor was packed with vendors of all stripes. It was amazing, and it's a good thing the show floor was open for three days because there was so much to look at.

If that was all there was to Imaging, we'd have been more than satisfied, but the opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones cannot be overlooked. It was great to see everyone, and the networking opportunities were staggering. It looks as if there will be additional speaking opportunities in the future as a direct result of meeting movers and shakers in Tampa. It's all very exciting.

The next few weeks will be spent strategizing how to move the business forward in a major way. We are ready to make the push, ready to bring both our photography and our photography business to the next level.

Welcome 2008!