Posted 28 August, 2008 by Carol | No comments
Still Waters, Winning Photo of the DC evening group on the Scott Kelby
I WON!!
Jeff Revell chose my photograph, Still Waters, as the winner of the DC evening group during Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk! What an honor!
Last Saturday, Bill and I, and our son, Caleb, were privileged to be a part of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk, with the evening DC group. It is slated to be a yearly event since it was so well received: over 7,000 participants all over the world, not to mention those who did their own personal photo walk because their city wasn’t a host.
Jeff Revell was the host of not one, but TWO, photo walks for the metro area since there was such a huge response from people wanting to join in. So he had the difficult task of choosing just one winner for each group out of over 1100 submitted photos. After seeing the submitted photos, I did not envy him. They were all great!
Since he chose one of my photographs as a winner, I will get a free copy of Scott Kelby’s newest book about the Lightroom 2 software!! I used LR2 to process all the pictures I took on the Photowalk, and I’m already a big fan! I can’t wait to get his book and find out how to use all its features!
This also means my photo will go to the next round and be judged along with over 200 other city winners by Scott Kelby for the HUGE grand prize package!!
Hmm…can you tell I’m excited? Lots of exclamation points! I just want to thank everyone at Photoshop User magazine, http://www.scottkelby.com Scott Kelby and his staff, and Jeff Revell for having such an enjoyable opportunity to get to know other photography enthusiasts. Can’t wait for the next one!
Posted 28 July, 2008 by Carol | No comments
Today I was googling (yes, it’s an actual verb now) different photography sites, and came across a couple of links I would like to share with you.
I started drooling when I saw the Hallmark Institute of Photography’s 40-week long Photography School. I read about it on a blog that turned out to be their Mamiya Award of Excellence winner for 2008, Paul Nordmann. Check out the student galleries..they are so impressive!
I was discussing photography with a friend who said she wanted to learn how to use her camera, and I pointed her to Digital-Photography-School website as a great place to start. I love the bite-sized topics he has on his blog giving tips and “how-tos” for all kinds of different effects, as well as basic photography.
Scott Kelby, the founder of NAPP and Photoshop User magazine, and author of LOTS of photography books, has been hinting at a special event coming up on August 23rd, and he released information about it today! He is sponsoring a Worldwide Photowalk, an event where local photographers of all different skill levels get together and walk around shooting pictures for two hours, and then go and oogle over them at a restaurant nearby. I knew Bill would LOVE doing that (except for the heat), so I signed us up. It sounds like a lot of fun, and there are some really exciting prizes for the grand prize winner. More drooling.!
One more link I found recently has been sucking me in more often than I like to admit – the Wordle.net site. It is an AMAZING website where you can demonstrate the old saying, “A picture is worth 1000 words” literally! It takes any text you write (even from a website or blog) and makes a word cloud out of them, enlarging the words you repeat to emphasize them. Try it out for yourself!
