Anne Laird Photo Acessories

I just received some tripod leg covers yesterday for my new tripod (that’s a story in itself) and was very pleased with these Tri-Pad covers from Anne Laird Photo Accessories. I like to promote  and support our local business’s when I can and Anne being one of them is located just down the road from us in Red Lodge.  Well she is a few hours away, but in Montana that still can be referred to as “just down the road”.

She also makes custom rain covers for your gear and macro ground cloths. Nice stuff. Check her out here

Photo of the Day

Virginia City.©Jason Savage

David Griffin, National Geographic

David Griffin director of photography for National Geographic, gives a talk on TED, sharing some of magazine’s most influential photographs from a handful of photographers and discusses how they impact and effect the lives of others. Great video.

more about “David Griffin, National Geographic“, posted with vodpod

Digital Copyrights

Ran across a cool article on Digital Photo Pro addressing many of the new issues photographers face with keeping track of their images in cyberspace and how to adapt to the new business model the web has created.

The article was written by Louis Lesko and gives some new ideas on how to approach unapproved use of your photos on the web without going the legal route.

It’s nice to see these new ideas popping up that allow photographers and other like minded individuals to adapt to a new way of doing business. While some are embracing these new concepts and ideas, others are kicking and screaming all the way to the end.

Check it out at:    http://www.digitalphotopro.com/studio/naked-in-the-courtroom.html

Photo of the Day

Horses. © Jason Savage

Photo of the Day

Montana Train. ©Jason Savage

Out to Seattle

I’ve been out this last week in Seattle and haven’t had much time to get to the blog and hope to get some new stuff going when I get back this weekend.

Still hobbling around on one leg after breaking my foot last month and only a few days left until that damn thing comes off!(whine). I don’t do well being slowed down, but’s it’s been OK as it’s got me to slow down and smell the roses instead of running around like I usually do, occupied with a half dozen things I’m busy with.

Seattle hasn’t changed much since my last visit, but the traffic-God almighty! Talk about crazy. I think it’s maybe close to worst in the nation. Not surprising though. Seattle is a beautiful city with great art and music scene and a certain seatown feel. Although it still rains like a bastard.

Well time to hit the road…

Photo of the Day

Missouri River,Montana.©Jason Savage

Photo of the Day

Mallard.©Jason Savage

Charles Cramer

photo by Charles Cramer

I thought I would post a quick link to, IMHO, one of the greatest contemporary landscape photographers around. I first ran across Charles’s work a few years back and was completely blown away. He is part of the Ansel Adams Gallery list of photographers (if that says anything). And like Ansel, his compositional elements are powerful and speak loudly.

He is also a master of color and having read some of his past interviews regarding his workflow, he seems to be in a league of a very few who have a high level of attention and precision that is required for fine art print making.

Here is a link to his site http://charlescramer.com

And a recent interview from Phase One in PDF format

I would also suggest taking a look at the Ansel Adams Gallery roster of photographers. There are some amazing individuals, certainly a source of inspiration to aspiring landscape and fine art photographers.