http://www.aginphotography.com Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:36:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am so far behind on blogging that I'm writing about week 3 while thinking about taking photos for the week 5 assignment. Maybe I'm not THAT far behind. So week 3 was about color surprises. I had some existing pictures that I thought would be good examples but ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/08/week-3-of-my-better-photo-class/ I mentioned previously that I had taken a course in the past through BetterPhoto.com. I decided to take another course and decided on Eight Steps to More Dramatic Photography with Jim Zuckerman. We're now in the fourth week and while I have found the course material good I have ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/07/im-taking-another-betterphoto-class/ In 2004 I took a course with Better Photo. I was very happy with the experience but have not taken another course until now. Since I now have some time on my hands (due to my employment change) it seems a good opportunity to improve my skills. The course ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/06/my-experience-with-better-photo/ So.... I had a little change in my life last Friday.  My company did some reorganizing and I was left on the outside looking in.  In a lot of ways this is a good thing but it still sucks!  So I should have more time to blog about photography and ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/06/major-change-in-my-life/ Sunday was a beautiful day for taking pictures. Warm, but not too warm. Sunny, but with clouds in the sky. A free day after my wife was away all week and I had our daughter all to myself. The timing was perfect for Jeff Revell's photowalk ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/06/georgetown-photowalk/ So it's been a few days since I posted a blog entry but I have a good reason. I was in Tampa at my brother-in-law's wedding. Everything went incredibly smooth and it was great. I'm not going to go into details here about the wedding but I ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/05/my-brother-in-laws-wedding/ Last year (2007) I took advantage of our proximity to DC and participated in a Washington Photo Safari's Workshop for the Cherry Blossoms at dawn. I arrived early on a very COLD morning and had a chance to wander the monuments of DC before dawn. There's something very quiet ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/05/freezing-for-cherry-blossoms/ Part of the reason I started this blog was to post my pictures and tell the stories behind them. This is the first of I hope many such postings. In September 2004 my wife and I took a trip through southern Utah and northern Arizona. We started in Las ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/05/while-my-wife-slept/ The galleries from the old design are now working. While I am going to continue improving them they are already better than on the old web site. At the end of the day the solution was very simple for making Lightroom work with Wordpress. Don't integrate them, just embed ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/05/galleries-are-now-working/ Those of you who followed AginPhotography in the old design know that updates have been few and far between. I had no way of telling stories or making small updates. By adding this blog I am able to add postings in a very small amount of time. ... http://www.aginphotography.com/2008/05/priorities/