Photo Talk Plus with special guest Joe Azure

Episode 22 of Photo Talk Plus is available to view on YouTube. Cohost Thomas Hawk and I had a great time interviewing Joe Azure, who is an all around great photographer and has taken amazing and iconic photos of the Golden Gate Bridge. He shared his experiences and advice with us about shooting the bridge, as well as other scenes and long exposure photography with filters.  Joe and our other wonderful panelists: Vincent Mo of Google Photos, Brad Sloan, Vivienne Gucwa, Suzanne Haggerty and Keith Barrett of Vidcast Network discussed a variety of topics including the new Google+ iPhone app, the NEX 7, and the top photos of the previous week.

Thanks, as always, to our sponsors SmugMug and Blurb Books, who make the show possible. Join us next Wednesday, live at 8PM Pacific at http://vidcastnetwork.com, for another episode with special guest Mike Shaw!

Photo Talk Plus, EP7 With Nicole S Young

If you missed this episode with special guest Nicole S Young, you can watch it here easily. Nicole is a successful professional photographer who makes a decent income doing food / stock photography. She gave many tips and insight into doing this kind of work. You can view all her books by clicking here.

In addition to interviewing Nicole, along with our panelists Timothy Jordan, Ivan Makarov, Gino Barasa and Kimberly Pemberton we discussed the following topics:

• Best of 2011 – G+ Photography Book
• SOPA/PIPA
• New Google+ text on photos feature
• Google+ photography related hashtags
• Trey Ratcliff s article from GigaOm on why eBooks are so successful

Photo Talk Plus EP6 with Alan Shapiro

We had another great episode of Photo Talk Plus on Wednesday night with special guest Alan Shapiro.  Alan’s a self described “Executive-Level Creative Guy” and he’s an amazing photographer with personality to spare. Check out the video above if you missed the live show this past week.

Thanks so much to our panelists Dave Cohen from Google Photos, Profesional Landscape Photographer Jeffrey Sullivan, G+ Scavenger Hunt Curator Chrysta Rae and Keith Barrett of Vidcast Network @ http://vidcastnetwork.com. It’s been such a pleasure to be able to get groups of photographers together and do these shows.

Fellow host Thomas Hawk and I talked about shooting the North American International Auto Show this week in Detroit on behalf of Ford, which was informative and very shiny! (I like shiny.) See Thomas’s NAIAS Set on Flickr here. Our entire panel weighed in on some interesting news stories including Mike Shaw‘s write up on long exposure photography and the Lee Big Stopper filter, Jeremy Cowart‘s post on a new type of camera from CES, Leodor Selenier‘s post on the photography of Kim Keever, and more.

Special thanks to our awesome sponsors, SmugMug @ http://smugmug.com and Drobo @http://drobo.com These are two companies we believe in personally and we appreciate their support!

Photo Talk Plus EP4 with Special Guest Trey Ratcliff

What a great episode of Photo Talk Plus last night with special guest Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs. I’ve grown to respect Trey a lot over this past year. We are all very complex human beings, but it’s really great when someone so talented and interesting opens themselves up on so many different levels and shares such a wide range of information. I really appreciate how much Trey contributes to the photographic community and admire how personal and open he is about most everything about himself. Check out the video above if you missed the live show last night!

Thanks so much to our panelists Chris Chabot Brian Matiash of OnOne Software (and he gave away a copy of Photo Suite 6 to one of our viewers!), and +Lili Ana, and to our awesome tech-guy Keith Barrett of Vidcast Network @ http://vidcastnetwork.com. It’s been such a pleasure to be able to get groups of photographers together and do these shows. It’s so exciting for fellow host Thomas Hawk and myself when we see people in the chat room and the hangout threads asking questions, and when we hear that others are enjoying this, too!

Special thanks to our awesome sponsors, SmugMug @ http://smugmug.com and Drobo @http://drobo.com These are two companies we believe in personally and we appreciate their support!

Photo Talk Plus EP 2 with NASA Astronaut Ron Garan

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 Extra

In this Photo Talk Plus Extra, Thomas Hawk and I talk with photographers Billy Wilson, Olav Folland, Doug Kaye, Todd Green and Helen Sotiriadis.

In this discussion:

• Olav’s aerial photography this week and his photos from a Cessna airplane of the Golden Gate Bridge.
• The San Antonio photowalk yesterday and photos from the walk.
• A new Christmas based photography series Billy Wilson has started.
• 10 photography based films for photographers to watch and review of Thomas’s personal Amazon.com wishlist for photography related items that he wants for Christmas this year.
• Photos of Helen Sotiriadis.
• Todd Green’s first hangout ever!
• Doug Kaye stops in and updates on his movie plans.
• Mark Esguerra joins us, but too late as we already were over the 1 hour broadcast mark.
• Braden makes a brief guest appearance to remind us all that he loves us. I think he looks better in the flower headband than I do. Hm.

Thanks to our +Photo Talk Plus sponsors +SmugMug and +Drobo Check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com.

He may never have a girlfriend if I share this.

I’m not sure what my willingness to show it to you anyway says about me as a mother. But let’s not dwell on that. Instead, let’s spend some time in your life that you will NEVER GET BACK together, shall we?

Braden and I like to have “Elaine Benes” dance parties together. Nobody on this earth is allowed to see what we do when we crank the music. Not even my husband. If some poor, unsuspecting person happened upon us… well. I would say that I’d have to kill that person, but I’m sure they’d find the nearest cliff to jump off of themselves, unable to bear living with the mental images of what they’ve seen.

Today Braden started busting a move and then perfected it and began repeating it over and over again, and really, what is a dedicated, tech-savvy, camera obsessed mom supposed to do? Film that shit, suckas. I was not disappointed with my decision. I did have trouble trying not to laugh, which just resulted in a squeaky, half-assed muted laugh. All in all, this video is the worst video you might ever decide to watch.

Is it finally the end? Yes. It’s a Blogher 10 Photo Montage Video Post! Part 4

Saturday night was made for parties. Sparklecorn and Cheeseburgher did Saturday proud. Behold the Party People!

And if you’re lucky enough to have Mishelle near you often at an event, you get some nice photographic evidence of the good time you had. Which you can then force other people to view. *insert evil laugh of doom here*

The following photos are courtesy of Mishelle Lane.
View her Blogher 10 Set on flickr.

I think it’s pretty clear I had a great time. Also, I may have sexually assaulted Catherine. I’m not entirely sure… do you cross some sort of line when you actually try to stick your head inside someone’s tutu while they’re standing at the bar?

If you’d like to see all my Blogher 10 photographs in one place, they’re available on flickr. Enjoy!

I hope to see you all at Blogher 11! But bring a wet suit. It’s going to be in a whale’s vagina next year.