DFW Events – Week of March 15th

Happy Monday to you all. Here’s the rundown of events around the DFW metroplex this week:

Richardson Internet Entrepreneurs – Tuesday, March 17th at 7pm – Topic will be how to increase revenue on your website.

NTPC – Thursday, March 19th at 7:30pm – Topic for the evening will be flash photography. $8 at the door.

NTPC – Saturday, March 21st at 11am – Field trip to the Dallas Aboretum to take advantage of Dallas Bloom season.

Texas Glamour Club – Saturday, March 21st at 12pm – Photography Workshop: Special Effects Lighting with guest model Rayne. $199

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DFW Events – Week of March 8th

Good morning dear readers. Here is what’s happening around the Dallas metroplex this week:

Texas Glamour Club – Wednesday, March 11 at 7pm – Dinner at Cutie Pies in Grapevine. Gang’s gettin’ together for grub & gab.

Dallas Digital Photography Group – Friday, March 13th at 6:30pm – 2009 Chocolate Fest (non-profit event). Cost is $45.

Digital Photography Workflow – Friday, March 13th at 7pm – Good for any photographers currently using Lightroom or Bridge/ACR for their digital photography. I’ll be giving a presentation on best practices, and handling questions all night. $75 in advance, $99 at the door.

GUILD – Texas Animator J. Schuh brings us Round Two of amazing things in After Effects. You may recall his stunning presentation last month, where he gave everyone a sneak peek at his Heroes tutorial slated for release on Layers Magazine.

Dallas Digital Photography Group – Saturday, March 14th at 10:45am – A Day of Chocolate & Art. Cost is $20 for meetup members.

Texas Glamour Club – Saturday, March 14th at 1pm – Come to the Dark Side… not for the feint of heart, this will be a fetish session. Nothing too extreme, so come on out if you want to add a little spice to your portfolio. Cost $99.

Texas Glamour Club – Sunday, March 15th at 1pm – Photo-Walk-a-Bout. Enjoy an afternoon taking in the scenery shooting a beautiful model with fellow photographers. No studio, no pretense, just some afternoon enjoyment. Cost $20.

Please feel free to contact me if you have future events planned, or if you would like me to add your usergroup to my community page.

DFW Events – Week of March 1st

Good morning dear readers. Here is what’s happening around the Dallas metroplex this week:

DFW North Photography Club – Wednesday, March 4th at 6pm – The evening topic will be Creative Landscape Photography. Image critiques and post-processing tips will be discussed.

DFW Digital Photo Club – Wednesday, March 4th at 7pm – Dinner gathering at Fuddruckers to socialize and see the new direction of this group.

Digital Photography for Artists – Friday, March 6th at 6:30pm – $225, Instructor Dave Kramer will help students develop photography skills as an artist. NOTE – this is a two day event. Also meets Saturday, March 7th at 10am.

Dallas Digital Photography Group – Friday, March 6th at 7pm – Darryl Briggs will deliver a presentation on Portrait Lighting 101. Cost is $20 and all proceeds go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Nikon School – Saturday, March 7th at 9:30am – $119. Intro to Digitial SLR course for new photographers.

North Texas Irish Festival – Saturday, March 7th at 1pm – $15, at Fair Park downtown Dallas.

Texas Glamour Club – Saturday, March 7th at 1pm – $99, the club will be shooting both Saturday & Sunday.

Dallas Digital Photography Group – Sunday, March 8th at 6pm – Virginia Brodie will be giving a mini-Photoshop workshop for group members. All proceeds go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Please feel free to contact me if you have future events planned, or if you would like me to add your usergroup to my community page.

UPDATE – via @falc04 the Make-A-Wish Foundation has a Race for Wishes in Irving on Saturday, March 7th. Oh, and how could I forget about the DSVC meeting Wednesday evening, March 4th?

Dallas Photo Walk Winner

I’m sure many of the city leaders will blog the same opinion, but to say choosing a city photo walk winner was difficult is an understatement.

I hope to NEVER choose a winning photo ALL BY MYSELF ever again. There were a number of excellent photos, and it was not an easy decision to pick just one. Truly, it was not. Picking winner = Not fun. There were over 450 total photos that I went through, and I could have easily made a tie between several (if that were a choice).

At exactly 11:55PM after spending most of my day, and all evening wrestling with a decision, the winning photo came from Bradley Atchison.

JFK Lives

© Bradley Atchison

If you’re looking for a great way to view a lot of photos on Flickr or any photo site, I highly recommend Cool Iris, a web browser plugin for Firefox. http://www.cooliris.com/ Not only does it render images beautifully (the upsizing of small photos is amazing), it has an image search function. I was able to pull in all 450 photos, without needing to navigate 20+ web pages.

UPDATE Aug 31, 2008Scott Kelby posted his choice for the Grand Prize Winner. You can also view all the city winners on the Photo Walk site.

Dallas Photos from Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk

It’s been a few days since Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk, and photos are appearing in the Dallas Flickr group. Tomorrow I will have to pick one photo, a singular selection amongst a collection of fine photography, as an entry for the grand prize contest. Lord help me.

There are 300+ images to go through, some of which I’ll look at today, and then I’ll make my final decision tomorrow. Won’t be easy, but perhaps that winning photo will be so obvious the choice will be a clear one. I didn’t want to be put to the task alone, so the Dallas Flickr photo that receives the most votes within the group will also get a prize donated by yours truly.

There are some amazing photos taken from all over the world. Be sure to checkout the other Photo Walk city pages. If you have pictures of the photo walk itself (group shots, other photographers) please post them to the Flickr group created by NAPP.