O.K. so I know that not everyone is a photo geek the way I am, but I love tools that make my work look it’s best and save me time on my workflow.  I’m a complete fan of all of Doug Boutwell’s “Totally Rad actions”.  I own and regularly use all of them.  From the original Totally Rad Photoshop actions to TRA 2- The Revenge and Dirty Pictures-Image Textures, I love them all.  I was so excited when Doug started a TRA Recipes site and featured one of my images.  Here’s the link to my blog post about that http://bit.ly/bxzOLm.  Well he’s done it again and the long awaited Lightroom presets are here!  Once again I am honored to have one of my images chosen for the samples on his site.  Of course I picked up my copy of the presets the moment they were officially announced.  103 of them to be exact, most of them offered in several strengths.  This will totally change how my clients see their online proofs and I’m really excited about it.  I think that Lightroom users all over the world must be doing the happy dance.  Congratulations to Doug for yet another fantastic achievement, that is besides the pilots license.

Here’s a screen shot of my image from the TRA site, a portrait of my friend Ryan looking all dapper.

I can’t believe how fast Winter seems to be coming.  Most of my leaves are down and I’m just hoping to finish my Fall clean up before our first snow.  I love Halloween.  I totally wish that I was shooting a kooky wedding today.  If I were getting married again, I think that I might consider doing it on Halloween.  In fact, if you are a bride planning a Halloween wedding for next year, give me a call.  I will definitely give you a special rate.  More on that later.  Today I went out into the woods with my new 50mm 1.2 lens.  Wow, I’m so glad that I bought this.  My woods looked like The Blair Witch Project revisited.   Happy Halloween everyone with some images from today, and a few others that strike me from past shoots.  I have to add in a bit of gore,  it being Halloween and all. Trick or Treat!

O.K. on to today’s images with my new favorite lens.

I love my woods!

I was thrilled to get an email from Doug Boutwell, the brains behind  “Totally Rad Actions” regarding the recipe that I used to create one of my images.  I then got a second email from him announcing the trarecipes.com site.  I am so excited that my image made it to the site and that it is the first image on the page.  Go check it out, spread the blog love and vote for my image.  It’s all for fun.  BTW, if you don’t own these photo shop actions yet, than I simply cannot imagine what you’re waiting for.  I can’t live without mine.

Here’s my image which is of “Just Max” in the 9th ward of New Orleans this past October.  The ravages of hurricane Katrina still very apparent.

I’ve been wanting this camera ever since Canon announced it. I didn’t get in on the first round of available supply and really thought that I’d be waiting months to catch this in stock. While checking my email last night, I clicked on a B&H Photo email and just decided to try calling again. Their website has had this camera back ordered since its announcement. Somehow when my salesperson checked, his computer finally said “Now accepting orders”. WhoooHooooooo!!! SOLD! Could be a week, could be a month, but I am really popping out of my skin over this one. Check out Canons feature on Vincent Laforet and his video short “Reverie”. I’m inspired!