PixelatedImage Blog

This is the first “normal” Monday in a while. It’s been go-go-go for so long I’d forgotten what the daily routine felt like. Well for now my crazy travel and assignment schedule slows down, and I’m home for a while working on final edits for the book, and the usual stuff I start the year with. We’re 2 months in and I’m only now getting around to “starting the year.”

So, a few things.

First, now that I’m back I’ll be spending more time in the Vision Collective. If you’re not a member yet, we’d love to have you there. It’s a forum, it’s free, and it’s the water-cooler for this blog. You can get there HERE and if you join, for crying out loud don’t use a name like LittleBluePill and then wonder why I rejected your membership. Use something like a real name and an email address that isn’t Russian and you’ve a better shot at being approved.

Second. I finally got the details sorted out on the Pixelated Image Blog Gathering. So. Here’s the deets, peeps: Saturday, March 14th. 2pm to 5pm at the Yaletown studio of my illustrious friend Kevin Clark. If you want to come I need you to email me – info at pixelatedimage dot com – for the address and details. Drop me an email, and if you don’t seem too creepy I’ll send you the full details. It’s a low key thing, just a chance to connect. I’ll provide refreshments. So, I really mean it this time: who’s in? Send an email.

I just got my grubby mitts on the new Think Tank Shape Shifter – it’s been pretty popular and therefore hard to get. Think Tank finally got them back in stock and I’ll do a video review of the bag later this week if I can re-acquiant myself with the technology. I want to use my G9 and shoot straight into iMovie but can’t seem to get the camera to talk to the computer. I’ll sort it out and get something made. This is a dry-run for pod-casts my publisher wants me to do. Any of you have thoughts about YouTube vs. Vimeo?

I posted the wallpaper for March and a couple comments/emails have come in saying “how’d ya do it?” If you’re curious let me know and if there’s enough interest I might walk you through the how and the why.

PMA starts in Las Vegas this week, which means lots of news coming from the manufacturers and suppliers that feed our addiction. Not the earth-shattering stuff we get from Photokina, no doubt, but this could be an interesting week all the same. If you like gear.

I’m now on Twitter, and while I’m still trying to figure out why on earth we need this, you can find me there @ pixelatedimage. Mostly it’s mindless reactions, comments, notifications, and updates on my jetlag. Good times.

This is the month that Joe McNally’s new book, The Hotshoe Diaries, comes out. Don’t forget to get in on the draw for a free copy HERE.

Lastly, it’s a sad week for fans of Zack Arias. Zack lost his father this weekend. Please be thinking about him and his family, and praying if you’re the praying kind. You can leave condolences HERE on his blog. I know he’ll be touched by the strong outpouring of support from the photographic community.