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Happy Thanksgiving!

Diane and I wish all of our readers a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday.  For our non-US friends we still wish you a happy day of Thanksgiving for reading our site and being a part of our virtual family. Later, Mike

posted in Friends by Michael Young

Great Northern New Mexico Nambe Photo Shoot

We had a wonderful senior pic photo shoot this weekend in the beautiful Nambe area in Northern New Mexico.  This particular family had a wonderful back yard area and cool elements to mix it up on the outdoor shots… Later, Mike

posted in Photo Shoot by Michael Young

Lens AF Alignment..a couple ways.

If you want to go about checking your Auto Focus accuracy with your particular Camera/Lens, here are a couple ways to go about it.  One is free and one is not. If your camera has LiveView go to http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/cameras/1ds3_af_micoadjustment.html#AF_test_image and download the test image on his page,  then follow his instructions…the page is a little messy [...]

posted in Equipment, Share by Michael Young

Creativity – Reinvention or Style?

@zarias..my photog equivalent of the ghosts of Christmas present/future…About 29 days ago, one of my fab 4 photogs (Zack Arias) seemed to be in the middle of a twittering introspect on creativity….. “Is there anything that hasn’t already been shot?” – “Nope.” Gotta take what’s done and flip it. Somehow.” “I can hire 50 photographers [...]

posted in Thoughts by Michael Young

Amateur Photographer? It must be love….

Here is an excerpt of a great blog post I read today (go to http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2009/11/just/ for the full post)… [...]Just an amateur? Amateur comes from the same word from which we get words like Amorous; it means to love. You merely do photography for the love of it? I can’t think of anything more noble [...]

posted in For the Love of the Shoot by Michael Young

Thank you Veterans!

posted in Share by Michael Young

Web Site Reload Version ?….Too Many to Count!

For those of you that have been following my perilous journey in my latest website critique, I will engage you to think about taking time to view the new website and leave comment here.  My goal was to clean up its act… 1.  Keep it clean, simple and professional. 2.  Let the photographs and galleries [...]

posted in Share by Michael Young

Critique is Like Confession…Never Say “But…”

So as some of you know, I got the Clubber Lang knock out on a website critique of my website yesterday.  And like when Rocky got his butt kicked in the first match with Clubber (my Clubber happened to be the lovely Zack and Meghan..please Meghan, don’t think I think you look like Clubber Lang!), [...]

posted in Gallery, Thoughts by Michael Young

Step It Up Man!….Just call me Ross…

Holy crap!  I got obliterated in a website critique today.  And thank god for it. Check it out…It’s good stuff , and to say the least, I feel like Ross in Friends when he got his synthesizer…thinking I’m all cool with my website….uugghhhh….I’m the second website to get critiqued in this session….aaahhh….the inside of my [...]

posted in Reviews, Share by Michael Young