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

That’s right, people. Tonight, I get to talk to a NASA Astronaut and Space Photographer. Um, hi, my life, I love you.

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.

 

Photowalking Christmas Lights In Austin, TX Tomorrow Night – Join Us!

Please join Trey Ratcliff and me as we get in the holiday spirit and Photowalk 37th St. in downtown Austin, shooting Christmas lights in a jolly fashion. All is sure to be merry and bright!

Everyone is welcome, no matter what level photographer you consider yourself or what kind of gear you use from camera phone, to point and shoot, to DSLR. Come have some photography fun with us and socialize a bit.

When: Saturday, December 10th, 8PM
Where: 37th St. & Guadalupe, downtown Austin, TX
RSVP: Plancast http://plancast.com/p/8ufo

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.