The Beach

What a wonderful weekend! We all went to Deception Pass on Saturday and had a great time playing on the beach and hiking around the park.



Cam found some cool sea shells on the beach! He likes beach combing and I believe he hiked out with about a pound of sea glass and shells in his pockets!



Paige thought the water was a bit on the cold side but she liked the way the rocks felt between her toes.



Apparently she tried eating some of the corse sand too as you can see around her chin in this photo.



We brought our Great Dane Zoe with us on the trip. She LOVES the beach. I shot this photo of Cam and Zoe in the woods on our way out to the beach with the fisheye lens. I love the look on Cam's face! :)

April Seattle PUG Meeting

Hey gang!

The meeting last night was awesome! Here's a few shots of us at a cool little wine bar a few blocks from the library. I was so impressed with the people that own the place that we're going to have our meeting there next month. They were so nice!

I got a new 10.5 fish yesterday in the mail from B&H so I decided we could all be fishy last night... :D



We had some new people last night which is great. Here's Stefanie Arneson, Heather Elliot and Frank Melchior along with myself, Janet Klinger and Michael Good. Frank's an aspiring photographer with a solid portfolio. I think he'll be a great wedding photographer. Heather is a wedding and portrait photographer in Seattle. Stefanie is a natural light portrait photographer in Seattle.



Heather was showing off her portfolio on her ipod. :D




I can always count on Janet to liven up the party!

Melissa came up from Torrance to talk to us about Pictage's accounting system and how to read your statements. That was very informative! We also talked about Pictage's new album designer which is due out in a few weeks.

Thanks everyone for coming!

-Jeff

Apple Unveils new 17" Macbook Pro

Ack! Apple released the new 17" Macbook Pro today! I've only had my 17" Powerbook for a few months and they spring this on me?! Well, at least my G4 is speedy enough for me right now but a shiny new Macbook Pro may find it's way into my life sometime in the future. We'll see how long it takes Adobe to make a universal binary of Photoshop CS2...

Thirst Relief International

Consider the staggering statistics published by the World Heath Organization: 1.1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, representing 17% of the global population.

1.8 million people die each year of diarrhoeal diseases alone; 90% of those deaths are children under the age of 5, and 88% of diarrhoeal disease is attributed to unsafe water supply, inadequate sanitation, and hygiene.

With your help, we can change these statistics and save the lives of millions worldwide.

"The human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses"

Thirstrelief International is working to save lives. Check out their website and do what you can to help. This is a worthy organization that needs your help.

-Jeff

My Sad Little Girl

Here's a shot of my little girl Paige that I took yesterday.  She was mad because her mom went to the store without her.  So, what do I do?  ..Run up to the top of the stairs to comfort her?  No, not me.  I'm a photographer.  I go grab the camera and document the moment.  :D

This shot was taken with my new Nikkor 85 f1.4 that I picked up at WPPI.  I love this lens!

WPPI

WPPI was a blast!  It was so great to see so many of my friends there and hearing Gary Fong, Mike Colon, Denis Reggie and David Jay, Kevin Kubota and so many other great photographers speak was really awesome.  The OSP party was cool except for the crappy piano bar which Pepper Nix certaintly had strong feelings about.  :D  Unfortunately, I didn't stick around long as it was entirely too smoky in there for me.

Brian Hartman from PhotoElan shared a hotel room with me and we hung out all week going to the trade show and meetings together.  Brian is an awesome photographer and I'm so glad to call him my friend.  

Brian and I sat down for a quick lunch with Dane Sanders from Simple Photo Minute on the 12th and we talked about pod proofing and a secret project we're working on which is really going to knock your socks off!  Stay tuned for more on that front!
 

Apple Introduces Boot Camp

Public Beta Software Enables Intel-based Macs to Run Windows XP

Cool!  Coming up in OS X 10.5 you'll now be able to dual boot your mac with OS X and Windows XP!  People have been dreaming about doing this since Apple released the new Intel based macs.  Now's going to be a sanctioned reality. 

Personally, I'm just fine with OS X, thank you very much.  :D

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/apr/05bootcamp.html