January 21, 2010 – 3:16 pm
Originally scheduled to post on January 7th … but due to technical difficulties, it didn’t … apologies galore to everyone …
I know, I know, I was a horrible blogger in 2009 here on Geek Notes. But I promise I was really good at blogging nearly daily on my photography business blog!
So, before I list out some 2010 goals (in tomorrow’s blog post), I thought I’d review over the 2009 ones …
1) Did fairly well at this one — if a 17 day roadtrip to Alberta, Canada and back and a weekend roadtrip to Tulsa via a portion of Oklahoma’s Route 66 counts for anything.
2) I did both of these. And guess what? 2 am on New Year’s Day 2010, I had to order another system because my Sony Vaio is a lemon (fan has now frizzled out on me twice in less than a year). Still — 72 hours after I called — waiting for the service guy to call to schedule the appointment to replace it before my warranty goes out next Friday. At least the lenses aren’t giving me grief!
3) Meh. Did semi pitiful here. Business *investment* and two trips kinda kept me from maintaining this one as I should have.
4) Still working on this one — I did two giveaways through my business — one winner was the family of a son with brain cancer who passed away less than two weeks after their session. The other winner was someone who did a kind deed for a woman with breast cancer — the winner’s session is scheduled for next month. I also joined Think Pink Photography but haven’t had any sessions yet. I also, as of Veteran’s Day, announced my own program for those serving/previously served in our Armed Forces. I’m also (unsucessfully) trying to get the local humane society to partner up on another idea — their board won’t take the time to get back with me and I’m tired of nagging.
5) Failed at this one. Its repeating as a 2010 goal.
6) Slowly working on this one, it’ll continue as a 2010 goal as well
7) Actually was pretty good at this one — the only actions I wrote were ones for my personal usage in resizing and saving files in large quantities!
Tomorrow: 2010 goals …
December 25, 2009 – 11:39 am
From Christina & the Elves, we wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy 2010.
Images pictured above are from The Roadtrip 2009 — front: Mountain Lupine at Grand Teton National Park, the Red Buses at Glacier National Park, and The Prince of Wales Hotel at Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. Back: Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
November 26, 2009 – 8:08 am
To all of my American visitors today, Happy Thanksgiving (and the international ones, Happy Thursday)!
Since today’s Thanksgiving, I thought it was the perfect day to finally share these images captured at Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas (#89 on my 101 in 1001 list). The site is one I’ve wanted to visit for many years, ever since I listened to my step-grandfather tell me about working on the crew that helped build the chapel. I finally made it there in May, although it was a very rainy day. I’ve shared a couple of other images (here and here) taken the same day in the past few months, but I’m slowly processing these from RAW to jpeg and enhancing them to take away the gloomy overcast feel they originally had. I’m just thankful they turned out as well as they did, considering the juggling act I underwent to photograph anything that day!
I’ll share the rest of the images taken that day sporadically … if you’d like to visit Thanks-Giving Square (or the chapel), here’s their website for the details.
November 15, 2009 – 11:21 am
Having now owned four DSLRs (three of which I still own and use regularly), you begin to realize after awhile that the rubberized backing on those straps that Canon and Nikon (and so on) send with the cameras will start to wear and chafe the back of your neck on hot humid days. Well, at least in Texas they do 
Solution — Camera strap covers. There’s a lot of vendors out there that make them, but my favorite is Priddy Creations. Amy’s a fellow Texan and quite the crafty woman and mom … you can visit her blog and Etsy store.
All three of my cameras are adorned with her straps — my older two have variations of her aqua/turquoise and brown damask straps and my workhorse currently is decked out with the polka dot and cream strap. I really need that polka dot with brown background strap to be honest … yes, her straps are an addiction! I actually purchased the strap for the workhorse camera before I got that camera
Her prices are great too — one of the best investments I’ve made to date, truth be told. What I love about her straps is that they come padded — many of the other ones you’ll find for sale don’t have padding. It cushions you neck, thus no chafing, and on hot/humid days when I’m getting my photog workout and sweltering, the strap absorbs the sweat and ends up cooling my neck when all is said and done.
You can easily remove the strap covers from the strap that comes with your camera to launder them — although the trick to getting them on and off the strap easily is hooking them to a straightened out wire hanger
Do I need to say anything more? Go drool over the crafty goodness in her Etsy store. Oh, yeah, Amy’s giving one away too — the winner will be picked on Wednesday the 18th, so hurry on over to enter. Don’t own a DSLR? Win it and gift it to me for Christmas
November 10, 2009 – 6:21 pm
As promised yesterday, here’s a couple before and afters using Nichole V’s actions and textures:
