Photo Talk Plus EP 2 with NASA Astronaut Ron Garan
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If you missed the live airing of EP 2 of Photo Talk Plus, you can watch it right here. 
We had a fantastic time talking to NASA Astronaut Ron Garan on Episode 2 of Photo Talk Plus. He shared his experiences of photographing from space with us, and it was truly inspiring and educating. Thanks so much to our panelists Catherine Hall, Ricardo Lagos, and Sandra Parlow for adding to the conversation.
Thank you to Keith Barret & Vidcast Network for broadcasting and recording, and to our wonderful sponsors SmugMug and Drobo.
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Photo Talk Plus Live 8PM PST Tonight with NASA Astronaut Ron Garan
You’re not going to want to miss tonight’s episode of Photo Talk Plus. Co-host Thomas Hawk and I are so very excited to have Ron Garan, the astronaut in question, as our special guest. We’ll get to talk to him about what it was like to take photos in space and to live there in general. I can’t wait!
Tune in to Vidcast Network at 8PM PST to catch the live broadcast and join Thomas Hawk and myself along with tonight’s panelists Keith Barrett, Catherine Hall, Ricardo Lagos, Jim Sherhart and Sandra Parlow for an exciting second episode of our new photography videocast.
Thanks so much to our sponsors, SmugMug & Drobo for all their support. We’ll be announcing the winner of the Drobo / SmugMug contest from last week, and SmugMug will also be giving away a custom metallic print tonight!
Join us live tonight at 8PM PST for the broadcast by going to Vidcast Network – if you enter the chatroom on Vidcast Network you’ll have a chance to ask questions after the first hour is up. For those who can’t join live, there will be a recorded version of the video as well as audio podcast available later.
Go Watch The Premier Episode Of Photo Talk Plus!
Did you miss the live premier episode of Photo Talk Plus, the Google+ Hangout-Based Photography show I am co-hosting with Thomas Hawk last night? No worries – it’s recorded and you can easily view it any time you like at Vidcast Network thanks to Keith Barrett.
We had a great time talking about some top photography stories from G+ with our panelists Brian Rose, Chris MacAskill, Amy Heiden and Helen Sotiriadis and interviewing special guest Scott Jarvie who rocked our socks with insight and stories about his work and personal philosophies involving photography. I loved hearing about how Scott got his start in photography and what he does to get those amazing, authentic photographs we all love.
Thanks so much to our amazing sponsors SmugMug http://www.smugmug.com and Drobo http://www.drobo.com for their support and excitement, and the great prizes for our viewers. We’ll be announcing the winner of the free one year subscription to SmugMug and the free drobo mentioned in this episode on next week’s show! Speaking of next week’s show, we have a very exciting guest lined up who is going to blow your mind. Thomas announces who that is at the end of this premier episode, so don’t miss that.
And because they are just so awesome, Drobo wants all our viewers to take advantage of a special offer – grab yourself a Drobo S http://goo.gl/J5LUP , the most popular drobo for photographers, at an amazing specially reduced price – $300 off the regular price of $799 making it $499, from now until Midnight (PST) tonight only. By using the code THPHOTOSHOW on the site you will get an automatic $200 off and you get another $100 off by using the mail-in-rebate that you can acquire at this link: http://www.drobo.com/where-to-buy/index.php (right side of page) Thanks, Drobo!
Now run off and watch our show – we know you’ll have as much fun watching it as we did making it. Share with your friends!
Photo Talk Plus – Live Tonight at 8PM PST – Join Us!
Photo Talk Plus is a Google+ hangout based Photography show hosted by Thomas Hawk and myself. Tonight’s premier episode will be live at 8PM CST, broadcasted by Keith Barrett on the Vidcast Network. You don’t have to have a Google+ account to watch the show (though I highly recommend it, and if you want to jump into the hangout when we eventually open it to the public later on in the evening, you definitely need an account).
When the show goes live tonight, you’ll be able to access it at Vidcast Network. You can also keep up with announcements via Google+ by keeping an eye on Thomas Hawk, or me – Lotus Carroll.
The first 30 minutes of Photo Talk Plus will be talk about what’s interesting and hot in the Photography world on Google+ from the past week. Google+ has an amazingly vibrant Photography Community populated with photographers who are engaged and sharing amazing content and ideas consistently all day long, every day. We’ll be grabbing top stories and interesting tips and tricks to talk about. This week, we’ll be joined by photographer panelists Amy Heiden (Urbex & Night Photographer), Helen Sotiriadis (Photographer, Architect, Teacher & Author), Brian Rose (Google+ Photos Community Manager) and Chris MacAskill (Photographer, President & Co-founder of SmugMug).
The second 30 minutes will be an interview with a talented photographer who is active on the Google+ social scene. Our special guest for the first show is Scott Jarvie, an amazing wedding (and more) photographer who will answer our questions live, show his work, and let us in on some of his secrets.
“The Jarvie”
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Scott in person recently, after following him online for some time, and he is not only an amazing talent, but a big personality. This is a can’t miss interview!
Photo Talk Plus is sponsored by SmugMug and Drobo. If you’re present at the live showing, you’ll have a chance to win some amazing prizes from them. Thomas and I will both give some personal words on these sponsors, who we carefully picked because they are brands we truly believe in and can stand behind. You can find their G+ Brand Pages here: SmugMug & Drobo
After the first hour, the recorded portion of our show will end, but we’ll still be streaming live and we’ll be taking questions of all kinds from people who are present and engaged in the chatroom associated with our show on the Vidcast Network (very easy to join in). So if you want to ask questions and generally hang out, don’t miss that! By 10PM PST we’ll be wrapping up the whole shebang.
I hope you’ll tune in live! If, for some reason, you cannot be there for the live show, rest assured we’ll have a recording and a podcast, so you can listen/watch later, too.
Come Photowalk Austin, TX on Saturday the 17th!
Come Photowalk with me on Saturday, September 17th!
Another photowalk, Lotus? Yes, another one! They’re just a bit addicting, and for good reason – they’re FUN! This photowalk is right in my backyard – Austin, TX – and I couldn’t be more excited about that. It’s nice when the people come to you. *wink*
This one is a biggie! Join Dell and Google+ for a photowalk by Richard Binhammer, Thomas Hawk & Robert Scoble. Come out and you’ll also meet and walk with Googlers Vincent Mo, Chris Chabot, Dave Cohen, and Natalie Villalobos, as well as photographers Peter Tsai, Jack Hollingsworth, Alvin Toro and yours truly.
Both Dell & Google+ are involved in the ACL Festival this weekend as well. Dell is helping live stream the event in ways that have never been done, bringing the performances of big music acts at the festival to millions of fans across the world on YouTube, in real time. See more about that here. I’m going to get an inside look at the technology used to make this possible so that the the best of this amazing festival can be brought to everyone by the cooperative efforts of C3, Arts Labor, AMD and Dell over the weekend. I’ll share that with you in words and photos as I can. Exciting!
Google+ is going to be on-hand at the festival with their own stage. Anybody that hasn’t already signed up for a G+ account can sign up for one on the spot and get a portrait taken to be displayed on a screen at the festival. How’s that for cool? So if you’re there, and don’t yet have an account, it’s the perfect time. If you do already have one, go say hi and tell them how much you love them. They are SUPER awesome and nice people to meet, trust me.
And of course, if you’re coming to ACL look for me! I’ll be roaming and shooting all weekend, as Dell has so kindly given me access. Even if you can’t make the festival, please make sure you make your way to the Photowalk on Saturday. RSVP on the Plancast page by clicking this link. It’s going to be an amazing time with a bunch of really great folks, walking and photographing the sights in fabulous and Austin, TX. And a little birdie told me there will be prizes.
See you there!
Are you using Google+ yet? Here’s why you should be.
Are you on Google+ yet? I’ve been there for a couple of months now and you know what? I love it. Now, is it new and something you have to put a little work into to get rolling? Yes. (You’ll have to put some time and thought into creating your circles and adding people.) If you’re going to roll your eyes at me or bitch about that, well, then, hey. Go back to working on that thing where you’re looking for someone to wipe your own ass too.
And when you figure that out, let me know. Also, the whole doing dishes and laundry thing. Man, do I hate that shit. (Insert: worst.housewife.ever.)
But really, look. Google has created a social media platform in G+ that answers so many of the problems we’ve all had with others. I’ve been on board with SO many social media platforms in the past few years. Notably and largest: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr. (More, but those are the biggest and best of them.) I’ve heard (and had) so many complaints about these platforms over time (especially FB). The smart muthas over at Google have been sitting back taking notes, people.
You know what happens to me all the time on Facebook? I get notifications about crap I have no interest in whatsover. It’s basically spam that is not only tolerated, but supported and integrated into the system by Facebook. Oh look, someone did something interesting and I got notified! Nope, someone asked me to like the Chevy Tahoe Fan Page. Oh, look! Something in my sidebar! Oh. It’s an ad asking me if I’m a Mommy Blogger Who Wants To Go Back To School. Um. Really? Oh, look, someone posted something on my wall! Oh. It’s a request to help their cow birth a calf on Farmville.
On Google+ none of this crap is happening. On G+ I am not limited to 140 characters, conversations can be easily had on every update in comments, images are huge and beautiful in posts and on my stream, nobody tries to get me to help them water their corn or shave their sheep, I don’t have ads in my face, WetBecky8325 isn’t following me and inviting me to her nude webcam, and I’m not forced to go in and turn off email settings every time some yahoo adds me to a new group just so I won’t get spammed ridiculously. Games are there for those who love them (including Angry Birds!) BUT – I haven’t heard a single peep from them in my stream. They are in a separate tab, and you don’t have to become involved.
“Circles” allow you to share your content exclusively with certain groups of people and not with others, publicly, or just with one person. They allow you to filter the content you receive in your stream, as well. You can block OR ignore specific users, based on your needs. You have control over your content, where it goes, and what you see. Oh, that just makes all kinds of logical sense, doesn’t it?
Google+ launched in Beta with a better product because they’re overcoming issues that we’ve all had with Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr for years. And on top of that? They’re actively listening and innovating like CRAZY right now.
Google+ is especially vibrant for photographers, and that is so great! If you are a photographer, you really, really need to be there. Photo sharing rocks, the photography community is bright and engaged – photowalks are happening all the time (and being actively supported by Google Staff) and you just can’t find a better place for photographers on the web right now.
So yay for Photography on G+! But you know what? This can also be an amazing place for Bloggers, Musicians, Videographers, Crafters, etc., as well. The key is getting your community over there, testing the waters, asking for changes relevant to your community and making it happen. The community on a social network is built by… guess who? The members of that community.
The developers will give the burgeoning community the tools they need. You can believe that this time that’s true – I’ve seen myself the members of the Google+ team interacting with the community of users, asking in posts and “hangouts” (awesome video chats on the G+ platform) what ideas we have for making things better, what we want, and talking about what they’re doing. They are hungry to make this product the best it can be, and just what we want.
Feed the machine by not only signing up for an account with G+ but also if you have one USE IT. Engage, consume, interact, add content, and use that “Send Feedback” button at the bottom right to tell them exactly what you think and what you’d like to see.
I haven’t seen anything in social media as good as Google+, and I’m really active in that area, and have been for years. Get in early and help build this thing up. Circle me here on my Google+ profile, leave your G+ profile link in comments – let’s hook up there. Support your community of users, whatever that may be (blogger? Go post your content there and also engage with your peers! +1 their blog links and comment on their stuff).
And if you’re not on G+ yet – click this link and grab one of my limited invites or just let me know you want an invite and I’ll send you one. I have a bunch to give out and I want you there with me.
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