How much do you use social networking to promote your photography? Is it useful to you? Jim Goldstein wants to know. He’s compiled the 2009 Photographer Social Media Survey. It only takes about 10 minutes (I took it last night), but hopefully the results will give some insight into usefulness of tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
Inge Fernau has returned from what must have been an exhausting marathon trip to the eastern Sierra. Here’s a detailed status report on the fall colors. Also, G. Dan Mitchell updated us on Inge’s, as well as many other fall color reports (as well as some great shooting tips for the aspens). As I said last week, its reports like this that make this a great community of photographers. It looks like peak will be sometime around the weekend of Oct 3/4; I’ll be there Oct 9-11, which will probably be on the tail end of peak, but it will still be pretty, and maybe not quite as busy. If anyone wants to meet up to shoot that weekend, send me an email.
I saw this blog post months ago, and am glad Phil Colla reposted it this week. He describes a very useful technique for getting the most out of your RAW images.
Gary Crabbe shared a great story about Galen Rowell this week. I’m still smiling from it.
The Ansel Adams Gallery announced their first National Parks Photography Contest, opening October 1. It looks like there will be many great entries.
The Santa Ana winds have been blowing this week in southern California, and true to form, we had fires this week. I’m hoping the firefighters get a break this fall. Because we’ve been baking in 100+ degree temperatures, today’s photo is from Death Valley National Park:
Crossing Paths, Death Valley National Park, California, March 2009
Have a great week!
Hi:
First, thanks for the mention in your post – I appreciate it, and I’m glad that my aspen posts are useful to folks.
I was to have met some fellow photographers at Cathedral Lakes tonight… but a poorly-timed flat tire on one of our cars interfered with plans. Think I’ll be on the road at 4:00 a.m. instead, photograph along Tioga Road early, then catch up with them by early afternoon.
Late Sunday I expect to be in the Lee Vining area for a quick bit of aspen shooting. I’ll be in the eastern Sierra the following two weekends, so let’s keep in touch.
Dan