Grand Manan 2013 Photography Workshop Details!

Here are the details on this year’s Grand Manan Photography Workshop running June 27-30th!
Grand Manan, named by Readers Digest as one of the world's 7 best small islands, is a beautiful island full of photographic possibilities! The fishing villages, lighthouses, wharves and boats. Beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Amazing shorelines. A wide array of geological features-cliffs, rocks, sandy beaches. Early summer wildflowers. Being a maritime island, the weather can be unpredictable, which can provide some interesting challenges, but also some amazing opportunities!
View some amazing photography from previous workshop participants here: http://www.learnphoto.ca/grandmanan/
Looking forward to another great trip with some great people. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me!

How About A Photo Scavenger Hunt...In Space!

As many of you know, Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield has been using Twitter to share some of his amazing shots he is taking during his time on the International Space Station.
He's got a unique view on the Earth, and the images are spectacular!  You should bookmark his Tumblr page.
If you haven't been following him on Twitter, he's @Cmdr_Hadfield

It's been great how he has been interacting through social media and sharing with Canadians.
For something fun, Canadians have been asked to take part in a photo challenge to add an image of Colonel Hadfield in his space suit by the Canadian Space Agency.

Colonel Hadfield himself has challenged some of his twitter followers to caption some of his great images, or use photoshop on them.

While I doubt he would have time for it, I thought it might be interesting to offer HIM a photo challenge or two.

How You Can Help Spread The Word About The Apps!

Hello everyone! I am excited to announce the launch of my Photography Assignment Generator apps for iPad! Get them on the app store here!
As was the case with my first launch, I need your help to get these apps out there and up the lists.  If I can get into the top 10 lists, it will be huge exposure!
I will again be offering random prize draws to try to thank you for this help.  I will be offering 5 $50 certificates towards courses.  Even if you won last time, you name will go in again. If the app goes big, I will add some better prizes hopefully!

Photography Assignment Generator for iPad Now Available!

 Hello everyone!
I’m very excited to announce the launch of the iPad versions of the Photography Assignment Generator App for SLR Photographers!

Get them on the app store here:
FREE VERSION: https://itunes.apple.com/app/photography-assignment-generator/id590955218?mt=8

FULL VERSION:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/photography-assignment-generator/id588190464?mt=8

 Here is all the info on the full and free versions, please share!

CS2 Download is NOT free...

Hello everyone.  My apologies but I'm as it appears Adobe is not giving away the CS2 Suite for free as we were led to believe by a variety of sources:

Update on CS2 and Acrobat 7 Activation Servers

Posted by Adobe Corporate Communications on January 7, 2013 4:05 PM in Creatives, Digital Media

Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers.  While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.


http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/01/update-on-cs2-and-acrobat-7-activation-servers.html

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662

So even though the download page is back up unchanged (with absolutely no mention of the stipulation) you can only LEGALLY install if you have a valid paid copy previoulsy.

Oops.

Noel

ps-thanks for stopping by, please feel free to check out some of my photo tips and my photography assignment generator apps if you like. :)
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New Years Party Tips

New Years Eve is almost here! If you are going out to celebrate and want to get some great shots, here are some tips!  

How to photograph your Christmas tree...with or without your family!

I just wanted to take a minute to wish you all a happy and safe holidays! I hope Santa Claus brings you some great photo goodies, and that 2013 brings you lots of great photo opportunities! I have a lot of to be thankful for, with the amount of support you have all given me with launch of my apps.  I hope I have been able to say thanks to you all in some way so you know that I appreciate all your help.
I’d also like to offer you some tips to get a nice photo of your tree as well as a nice family portrait with it over the holidays.