Join us for EP7 of Photo Talk Plus with Nicole S Young Tonight!

Join cohost Thomas Hawk and me for the live  Photo Talk Plus videocast as we interview professional photographer Nicole S. Young tonight. Nicole is a successful food & lifestyle photographer making a living in stock photography with iStockphoto and Getty Images.  We’ll also have photographers Gino Barasa, kimberly pemberton, Ivan Makarov, and Googler Timothy Jordan present as panelists to discuss the latest in G+ Photography News.

Join us live in the post threads and get your stock and food photography questions answered by Nicole! Look for the On Air Hangout at 8PM PST in Thomas Hawk‘s stream.

Thanks so much to our wonderful sponsors Drobo at http://drobo.com and SmugMug at http://smugmug.com and to all of you who watch and support the show every week. See you there tonight!

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.

Lazy douche goes to Ultimate Blog Party, Nashville.

Have you heard of The Ultimate Blog Party by 5 Minutes for Mom?

Probably so, because you are all much smarter, more hip, and in the know than I.

I hadn’t heard about it until my lovely friend Mrs. Fussypants invited me to the physical version of one going on here in Nashville.

No offense to 5M4M, it’s just that I never know what the hell is going on anywhere until someone clues me in.  I’m a super idiot spazz braindead moron cutting edge on-the-fly kinda girl like that.

That didn’t even make any sense. But let’s pretend like it did.

Point? I’m heading over to Malia‘s house Monday evening, where the Nashville Ultimate Blog Party is being held, to embarrass myself at yet another internet-related IRL Event. And I’m forcing my husband to come with me, because I heard there MIGHT be a LITTLE wine there and if there is? I get to have some. And that means he gets to drive.

Sarcastic Mom does not endorse drunk, buzzed, or tipsy driving.

Get thy drink on safely.

You know, what I really meant to say is that if he didn’t come with me, I’d miss him a lot and be miserable. Yeah, that’s it.

And I didn’t just correct myself for fear of losing frequent foot rubs and after-dinner dish cleanup by the hus.

And by the way, it’s also totally not just so he can babysit Braden while I blab and gab and act like a super doof.

Really. It’s not.

Our bond is thick and dear and we cannot bear to be apart for even short periods of time.

Yeah. You don’t even believe me, do you? You damn people have gotten too smart.

So, Monday night I get to leave the house in the evening (*gasp*), possibly have a drink, hang out with other bloggers (score) and listen to the lovely Leslie Mills perform.

I hear tell that we are supposed to be prepared to be interviewed, so I’ll be washing the bottom of my shoes on the off chance that I’ll be sticking one of my feet in my mouth.

You laughed when I said “off chance.” Seriously. Stop being so damn smart.

This post really was the dumbest way to virtually introduce myself to anyone visiting from the UBP, but hey, might as well make it clear from the get-go that I am clueless, moronic, lazy, irresponsible, and can’t be expected to follow rules.

By the way, apparently there are prizes to be won if you follow all the rules and post something/link in by March 27.  Or something like that.  I got a bit confused.  I think you have to comment on at least 832 blogs to enter.  What?  I don’t remember, but it sounded cool.  For people who have energy and are not Big Fat Lazy Douches.

Just give me my wine, and I will be okay.