I’ve determined that I really need to not only shoot more, but to talk more on here about my photography, my inspirations, and what’s exciting me about photography. And I need to do it every day. Or at least on weekdays when I can find a little time during my lunch break or in the evenings.

I’ve been cycling to and from work the past few weeks, training up for the big Seattle to Portland bicycle attempt in mid-July, and I was inspired to take a photo this morning. I get in to work and set my bag down only to realize that I hadn’t put my camera back in my bag after yesterday’s photo stroll around Capitol Hill while waiting for my wife to get out of class. It’s the one time I don’t have my camera on me!!! Ah well… Monday’s (unfortunately) not that far away.

In other news, the LightSource Studio Photography Podcast was back this morning after a 3-month hiatus. Apparently their computer that they use for the podcasts completely died on them, which is the reason for the down-time. They interviewed wedding photographer Cliff Mautner, who has some EXTRAORDINARY work. He mostly shoots with one-light and mixes ambient light for some just stunning photos.

Also, there’s a new project by Chase Jarvis and others where you can get some free live learning on various classes that cover all sorts of photography subjects. If you miss the live broadcasts, you can pay to download the class. It’s a really fantastic business model. Check it out.

I’ve been reading a ton of photography books and I’ve been writing reviews of them over on my personal journal where I keep track of my yearly reading, but I realize that those particular books are much better suited to this blog, so I’ll do a recent-recap post here in the next few days and then I’ll start posting them exclusively here. I rate them on a Buy It, Borrow It, Trash It scale. I’m a bibliophile. My wife and I both have a book-hoarding problem, but we’ve recently started going to the library to save on space, and this has been especially beneficial for me in regards to Photography books because, in general, they’re not cheap, and this gives me a way to test-drive them to find out which ones I want to actually own. Hopefully some of you can benefit from that and save yourselves some money.

So because I failed at bringing my camera today, you don’t get to see photos that I’ve shot from the last few days so I’ll leave you with another photo from SEAF.

Have a great weekend everyone. And go out and make something special for your mothers!