The Faded & Blurred Venice Walk

On 8/21/10, we had our 1 year anniversary photo walk in Venice for Faded & Blurred. It was a beautiful day, but as always, it was tough to get to Venice through all the LA traffic. Our focus for this walk was through the canals, and then to finish off by the pier for sunset.

As usual, everyone headed off on their own to go explore. I have been in a really wierd space lately, due to the amazing amount of changes going on in my life, and all though I wanted to be there, just couldn't seem to concentrate enough to focus on photography. I felt scattered most of the day, and just never got into a groove. It happens. I did get my sunset shots though, as I was waiting at the pier, and had found my shot just prior to the sun going down. All I had to do then was sit. And wait. Be still. And that was very neccessary for me.



If you are going to be in town Labor Day weekend, a few of us will be heading to the Planes of Fame museum on Saturday, 9/4. We will be meeting for breakfast at Flo's, and then off to the museum by 10. They will have a flight demo of the YAK-3 at noon that should be awesome to shoot. Let me know below if you have any interest. Admission is normally $11, but if we can round up 20 people, they will let us in for only $8.

What's up for the weekend?

Just a quickie post to see what everyone is up to for the weekend? I'm hoping to see some of you at the Planes of Fame Paul Bowen seminar on Saturday. Here is a map to the location:
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Just finished reading David Ziser's Captured by the Light. An excellent resource full of information for shooting and lighting a wedding, even if the images feel a little dated. Next up for me is Martin Evening's book on Lightroom 3.

Just heard that David duChemin's new book, Vision and Voice, has been released and is starting to ship from Amazon. I am really looking forward to this one, should be a great read.

Just thought I'd throw in an image taken from our Faded & Blurred Hollywood photo walk. Something you'd only see there. Speaking of photo walks, our next walk is on the 24th, for Scott Kelby's 3rd annual World Wide Photo Walk. Are you joining us? Are you participating in another walk? If so, where are you going? It looks like there is already over 1000 walks, and almost 26,000 photographers participating!

Like Aerial Photography?

Hey everyone!

If you are looking for something to do next Saturday, 7/17/10, why don't you come to the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino to see legendary "Canon Explorer of Light" aerial photographer Paul Bowen. He will be giving a seminar, sharing techniques, showing his work, and doing a Q&A on aerial photography. Admission is $11, and all the details on the seminar are here. The address for the museum is:

Planes of Fame Air Museum
7000 Merrill Avenue, #17
Chino, CA 91710

If planes aren't your thing, but you like Glamour Photography, Jimmy D, a longtime "Pretty Girl" shooter, just released his new ebook "Guerilla Glamour" with tips and tricks for everything from building a great lighting kit, to working with models, to helping pose those models. Check it out, buy it, and download it, but be careful, those links may not be "Work Safe" :-)

And now a reminder. If you are shooting events, please make sure you are insured. 'Nuff said