Sharon & I are ~really~ looking for to heading to Vancouver for the Canadian Imaging Convention! What will I be sharing? A ton to be honest with you! I’ll be telling stories, sharing images and explaining the tools I’ve used in the last few months shooting current projects. I’ll have a laugh and tip or two to entertain so please, be sure to come by to say hello and enjoy the great line up speaker!
I am BLOW AWAY by some of the great photographs and stories that have been posted in my Share the Season photo contest. This is the last day you can enter, winners to be announced on the 31st. To inspire you, here are some more highlights and their stories! Job well done folks and thanks, Michelle, Bill, Jamal, nicely done!
(c) Michelle Thompson
(c) Bill Cook
(c) Jamal Alias
Here’s me sharing the season all the way from Singapore. We’re a small island in the middle of the equator but that doesn’t stop us making “snow”. It’s enjoyable to see everyone especially the kids enjoying the festive season. Forget about our differences, young or old or soaking wet for that matter – it’s time to celebrate! As you can see it’s a blizzard! :)
Nikon D700
20mm
f2.8
1/400s
ISO 3400
Tanglin Mall, Singapore
K&M Adventures is taking on the Grand Tetons, 9-13 Oct, 2013! This magnificent region is one Kevin & I have journeyed to and photographed many, many times. The great landscapes, amazing history and of course the critters make for great photography! We are totally stoked to be heading back and taking our Adventure to this amazing country! No, we won’t be in the Grand Tetons only, we have lots a cool ideas up our sleeves. No, we won’t be venturing into Yellowstone. There is way too much unique opportunities, we just can’t contain ourselves!
You’ll wanna fly into Jackson Hole on the afternoon of the 9th and fly out either late on 13 or early on the 14th. We’ll pick you up from the airport and escort your around until we take you back to the airport. That, along with instruction are all included for the price of $1995 (limited to 8, 5 openings). We spend from breakfast until last up together shooting, eating, shooting, digital darkroom, laughing and other things you just can’t imagine! And after those long days, you want to kick your shoes off and relax. We have killer rooms at a killer rate at a great lodge already to fill, so give the office a call 760.924.8632 and we’ll get you all signed up!
Permit Pending
I love the IoSafe Rugged Portable 1TB Drives as well! You can RUN OVER these things with you vehicle and they still running. They can get wet, frozen, vibrated to pieces and it doesn’t even phase their operation! They run on USB3, wish they updated to Thunderbolt. They are heavier then most external drives but that’s because of their built. Since they are going back and forth from the MacBook to the Win7 machine, I use Folder Sync Pro on the MacBook to backup my images files. These are great drives that for the outdoor photographer, are a must in my book!
I’ve been asked if I really see a difference using the Buffalo 1TB MiniStation Thunderbolt. I most definitely do! I have been using them with the MacBook Retina for the last four months. They easily extended the small capacity SSD I have in my MacBook with no sacrafice in performance. I load video onto the Thunderbolt and can edit them in realtime with NO delays in performance in Premiere easily! There is only one little erk I have and that’s not with the drives but using in cross platforms. In simple language, just can’t plug a drive formatted on a Mac into a Win machine and they talk. What I have found that works is format on the Mac to ExFat and then the Win machine will can read the drive. Because of this, I use Folder Sync Pro on the MacBook to backup my images files. The small physically size, the speed with Thunderbolt and ability to use with USB3 on the Win machines makes these great drive!
Ya baby, the new iMac is on my desk and hummin right along! The new Apple 21.5″ iMac Desktop Computer is simply an amazing marvel! Its Retina display, speed, ease of set up an bloody small size has made a believer out of me. For the last four months, the mighty MacBook Retina has been my main business machine and done a great job. I still have a Dell Win7 machine running our digital library but desperately needed a desktop for taking care of everything else. My bud Yechiel at B&H saved my tucus by getting first the MacBook Retina and now the iMac in my hands. And in case you’re not aware of the iMac, the entire computer is integrated into the monitor housing. The keyboard and mouse run on Bluetooth seamlessly. This is the basics of the iMac I got:
Product Highlights
2.7GHz Intel Core i5 Quad-Core
8GB of 1600Hz DDR3 RAM
1TB 5400rpm Hard Drive
nVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Graphics (512MB)
21.5″ HD LED-Backlit IPS Display
1920 x 1080 Native Resolution
802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, SDXC Card Reader
720p FaceTime HD Camera, Dual Mics
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (64-bit)
In the process of now getting it all set up and data migrated over from dead desktop. The one thing that I find inconvenient is all the USB ports are on the back side of the monitor. I simply grabbed a USB ext cable so I have access to one port from where I sit for plugging in a Lexar Jump Drive
. As I use it more and get more software loaded, I’ll post a progress report. In the meantime, it’s back to work finally with both desktops!