Join Us TONIGHT for a very special episode of Photo Talk Plus with special Guest Trey Ratcliff, 8PM PST
Please join Thomas Hawk and myself tonight live for an interview with Trey Ratcliff! Tonight’s broadcast will be LIVE at the Vidcast Network and LIVE on Thomas’s Google+ stream with the new Hangouts On Air feature. Learn more about Trey’s unique photography, outlook on life, and how he has been able to build one of the most successful photography businesses on the planet today with Stuck In Customs.
Tonight’s panelists include Google’s Chris Chabot, Brian Matiash from onOne Software Lili Ana and Vidcast Network’s Keith Barrett.
In addition to tonight’s interview with Trey Ratcliff we’ll also discuss some of the top Google+ photography related stories of the past week including the upcoming Google+ Photography Book being curated by Ivan Makarov as well as the upcoming Google+ Scavenger Hunt curated by Chrysta Rae. We’ll also take questions from the chat room directly for Trey so come prepared to learn more about what makes Trey tick.
One lucky viewer tonight will also win a copy of onOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite.
This will be an episode you won’t want to miss.
As always thank you to our +Photo Talk Plus show sponsors SmugMug and Drobo for helping to bring you more great Google+ photography interviews live each week. Check them out here at SmugMug and Drobo.
If you’ve missed our first three episodes you can watch any of them here.
You Slipped Away Before I Ever Got To Hold You
There’s a little something that pulls at my heart this time of year.
I don’t talk about this stuff very much any more. I talked and talked and talked about it a lot for awhile. I even mentioned it a few straggling times once I’d mostly grown quiet about it. A lot of friends and strangers questioned my resistance to healing. I don’t know if this is just something about me, an excessive emotionality that disallows me from ever really letting go of the deepest pains.
Maybe everyone is like this. Maybe you are. Maybe you aren’t.
It still hurts me at this time of year when I think about the babies who are not here, the one who was due on Christmas Eve, the one who quietly died in my womb in December and then had to be removed. Two of my kids won’t get presents from Santa this month, nothing to do with being naughty. They just didn’t make it. They never had a chance to be naughty. They slipped away before I ever had a chance to hold either of them.
I’ve always loved Christmas. I still do. But this little something pulls at my heart now too. It’s a melancholy kind of joy I feel nowadays during the holidays.
I choose to feel the happiness of the season, because most of the time, I do have a choice.
But when the tears come, I let them take over for awhile. That’s a choice, too. A mostly healthy one, I think, regardless of what anyone else might believe. When they dry up again, I hold onto all the joy I can find, and while I let the pain visit, the joy is where I remind myself to dwell.
May you all find the greatest joys and dwell in them for the rest of this year and into the New Year. xo
Weekly Winners, December 11-17
December 11th – 17th
These photos taken with a Canon EOS 7D
Photos prepared using Lightroom 3
Strange What Desire Will Make Foolish People Do
Hold My Hand And Walk Along The River, Baby
You Stood Me Up And I Cried As The Rain Fell
He Said The Ride Would Be Smooth, And She Believed Him
Where I Share My Photos:
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Lotus on 500px
Lotus on flickr
Lotus’s Instagram
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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 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.
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San Antonio Photowalk Saturday December 17th!
Join the lovely Jackie Burroughs Anderson and myself as we host a Photowalk on the famous and beautiful Riverwalk in San Antonio. Details and RSVP on Plancast here: http://plancast.com/p/8vl1
When: Saturday, December 17, 4-8PM
Where: La Vallita & Riverwalk, San Antonio
Meet: La Vallita Fountain (noted on map)
Photowalk Map: http://goo.gl/rNbiw
We’ll take photos around La Vallita as we make our way to the Riverwalk and then follow that, photographing the Fiesta de las Luminarias. When we wrap up, we can all have dinner/drinks at one of the fabulous restaurants in the area.
Anyone and everyone is welcome. Bring your DSLR, point and shoot, or camera phone and come have fun with us! There should be a lot of holiday flavor and good times will be had by all. We hope to see you all there!
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.
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