Our first morning in Bryce and the DLWS staff was up and out at o’dark thirty for sunrise. It was a beautiful morning…for about five minutes, and then the sun came up hot and bright; not a cloud in the sky.
We photographed for awhile enjoying the view and then headed to the visitor center to look around. And, look what we found…my photograph on a poster in the Bryce Canyon NP visitor center. (Well, I knew it was there but the rest of the gang didn’t so, it was fun showing it off to everyone.) This photo was taken about a year and a half ago. It was a week of bright, sunny days…not a cloud in the sky kind of weather which is great for fun in the sun but not so great for photography. Our last afternoon, the clouds began to build and a huge thunder and lightning storm moved in followed by a downpour. We sat in the car at Sunset Point waiting out the rain in hopes that the sun would break through just before sunset and our patience paid off in spades. Not only did the sun came out but a gorgeous double rainbow stretched from rim to rim. There wasn’t another soul on the rim that afternoon; everyone had high tailed it back to the lodge to get out of the rain. Sometimes you make your own luck. The photo in the poster was captured with D2X, 12-24mm on Lexar 4gb CF card.

Photograph of me captured by Moose Peterson on D200 with 17-55mm, SB-800 and Lexar 8gb CF card

Well, I’m sitting in another airport. I do alot of that these days. However, I’m very excited about this trip. I am off to Bryce Canyon NP, one of my favorite locations, to teach at DLWS with Joe McNally, Moose Peterson and the rest of the staff. We always have such a great time with our students and we visit such amazing places. It hardly feels like work…but, don’t get me wrong, we work HARD so our students can learn as much as possible in our short time together. We just believe in having fun at the same time. If you are attending, see you in a few days…if you have never attended a DLWS, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
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I just received my first issue of Darkroom Magazine, dedicated to Adobe’s new Lightroom software. One more benefit of being a NAPP member…it’s free. I’m excited to be a part of this exciting new magazine as the product review writer (check out page 27). If you are not already a member of NAPP, head to and join now; it will be the best $100.00 you’ll ever spend. It includes subscriptions to both Photoshop User and Darkroom Magazines, $100.00 discount on Photoshop World attendance, discounts from major companies and three advice desks to answer your software, hardware and photograhic equipment questions. (Yours truly is the Photo Equipment Advice Desk.)

Wow, what a week! I am sitting in my hotel room remeniscing about the amazing week I have just spent at Photoshop World in Boston where I enjoyed classes taught by the best of the best in the industry like Scott Kelby, Bert Monroy, John Paul Caponigro, my good friends and fellow instructors at DLWS…Moose Peterson, Joe McNally and many more. Not only is it a great learning experience, it is a week filled with entertainment, networking and most of all inspiration. If you have never attended Photoshop World, I highly recommend it. Here is a link to the photo gallery from this week’s events. http://www.photoshopworld.com/gallery.html

Still high from the event tonight I headed out to the streets of Boston with Moose and Sharon to burn off some energy and let my creative juices flow. I made these two images from the top of the Prudential Building 50 floors above Boston. The first image is your basic city scape night scene but, it was not enough. I wanted to “think outside the box” and so came up with image #2 where I set my camera to a slow shutter speed and spun the camera in a cirlce while the shutter was open.

Both photos captured by D200, 28mm 1.4 on Lexar digital film