Feet back on the ground……

When you’re out of the office for a week and come back, it all hits, dozens of phone messages on the home machine, emails that slipped through the cracks, a huge stack of mail, but hey, you’re home!!! My next assignment is speaking Saturday and Sunday at the Wilderness Wildlife Week in Pigeon Forge TN, hope to see some of you there!   The following weekend I will be at Imaging USA in Atlanta, once again if you’re at the show drop by the Nikon boot and say Hi!

If I may, let me share some random things about the next few months.

IMPORTANT  Class Info:  Jim and I have two workshops coming up in the next few weeks  and one in June:

February 20-24   Slide Show Production Workshop.   Learn how to produce your own dynamic music and image shows on the MAC or PC!  Learn all the nuts and bolts, and you will each produce your own show while we are together!  In addition the group will be my guest at the Fortney home for my famous home made Bar B Q  !Limited to 12.  $499.   5 spots available.  In Corbin, KY.

March 6-10  Old Car City & the Southeast Railroad Museum.  Two killer locations for HDR work, and extensive HDR training from Jim and Bill.  $499   Limited to 20, 6 spots available.

June 8-16  Palouse / Olympic National Park with Matt Kloskowski, Jim, and I.  Wonderful tour and workshop of the beautiful Palouse region, and one of the most spectacular National Parks, Olympic  $1,295.  SOLD OUT but we are taking waiting list applicants, expect a few spots to open up!

Classes are filling fast so if you might want to join us, please contact me ASAP!

Suggestions for Winter Education while waiting for another shooting season to begin:

Check out the following:

The Nikon School      http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Learn-And-Explore/Nikon-School/index.pag  The Nikon School is one of the oldest and best on site training programs for a good weekend of learning.  It is now broken down into several possible sessions;

Nikon School :  Session One.  Which covers such subjects as Composition, People photography, Travel photography, Life events like birthdays, celebrations, parties etc,  and a better understanding of the basic camera conttrols!

Nikon School: Session Two:  Color, Light & Technology.  Int his class you will learn How to recognize and use great light, get up to speed on your flash photography, Shooting RAW, how and why, and finally image editing and Post processing

Nikon School:  HD-SLR Video 3 Day Workshops.  Taught buy some of my best friends at Nikon, learn how to plan, storyboard, and produce wonderful videos with the advanced features in the new DSLRs!  Learn camera movement techniques, audio recording, selecting the right accessories, and capturing great interviews, and lastly how to edit your videos!  A great two day class.

Photo Editing with Capture NX2.  A great class on this terrific program with Nikon NPS field manager Scott Diussa,  A must class for those wanting to get the most out this great post processing program.

Underwater Photography.  Want to go diving in a spetacular location and learn form the best, how to shoot underwater, this is the ticket!  Held in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles!

Kelby Training  –   http://kelbytraining.com/    Simply the best place to do on line courses, on photography, post processing, video,  nature, widlife, close-up, commercial, fine art, travel, every imaginable subject!  The best bargain in online training in the world!  The best photographers and teachers offering the classes you want and need!!!

So use these cold winter months to get ready for Spring shooting!!!

Blessings,

the pilgrim