Photography podcast with Scott Bourne
I was recently a guest host on Scott Bourne's wildly popular PhotoFocus podcast! It was really fun and great to share the stage with Scott, who is a seasoned pro and a wonderful educator. On this show, we took various questions about all things photo related from listeners. Scott and I agreed on most things, but find out what we disagree on...http://tr.im/FMfZ

How far ahead do I look?
I love going fast. I drive fast down winding roads (never over the speed limit of course!) I ride my bike fast, my moto-x bike fast. It's a rush. I've learned that to better navigate the fast, twisty roads and trails you have to find the "sweet spot" in the road ahead where you focus your eyes. Race car drivers do this. When you look at the road or trail just in front of you, you have less time to react to changes in the path. You're line tends to twitch and the entry or exit in a tight turn can be over-shot. When you soften your eyes and focus slightly ahead of where you would normally look, you find that your line becomes smoother, and naturally follows the curves. Your close-range periph

5 Inexpensive Gifts Every Photographer will love
Scott Bourne, who is an amazing photographer, educator, and industry insider has a really informative blog called PhotoFocus. Scott has one of the largest audiences of photographers in the industry, and for good reason - he knows his stuff and shares good info! Today he profiled a few of his top picks for inexpensive gifts for photographers...and guess what? He picked our Lightroom Presets as one of his top 5!    I always love "Top #" lists. It makes things simple. I'm going to follow Scott's lead and create my own top list for photo gadget

Whirlwinds of change...
What a day. I'm just feeling very overwhelmed right now. Anybody ever feel that way? Of course you do :-) We're in the middle of launching a brand new Dashboard™ for Photoshop®, which is totally gonna rock. You can add and control your own Photoshop actions now - including adding your own keywords, descriptions, and favorite tags. We're also in the midst of building kumu, our new studio management software. This is really going to be great. It's fun, easy to use, powerful, and full of valuable resources and information to help photographers manage their businesses. I'm also getting ready to launch

Kubota's Digital Bootcamp November 2009
A bunch of images that the Oregon Digital Bootcamp class took, after being encouraged to compete with Vicki & Jed Taufer's workshop class - who happened to be doing the same thing in Illinois at the same time!