Sorry – my site was down for awhile. Not good!
Here’s my free advice:
Back up everything. Always.
Not just your hard-drives. Entire website, too.

Another recent highlight was Photolucida in Portland, Oregon in April. I can’t even tell you how fun it was to hang out and sample local microbrews with a few old friends – and to meet so many talented photographers. It was inspiring to see such great work, and fun to show The Vintage Series: Scientific Inquiries" to curators, gallerists, and publishers. Special thanks to Aline Smithson for her very kind notice.

OK, I should be posting more often – and probably getting involved with Twitter and Facebook. Until I do, here’s an update on a few recent happenings:

Norwegian friends (and luminaries from the Oslo photo community!) joined my friend PÃ¥l and I for the opening of our “Vestiges of Industry” exhibition at Fotografiens Hus in Oslo (above). Special thanks to Morten Løberg, Carll Goodpasture, Arne Knudsen, and everyone else who helped us create the exhibition and celebrate the work.)

A really great group of students (and our friends Helge and Tom at StudioTechnika/Farvelabben) made the Oslo Digital Workshop a terrific experience.

Of course every trip to Norway is supplemented with a healthy dose of socializing ; ) My sincerest thanks to Tarand and Morten Krogvold for an amazing dinner at Brasserie France!

The next few day include a road trip in Norway to shoot new industrial images, followed by a brief stopover and shooting adventure in ICELAND with the crew from Mo i Rana! More soon…

This was the 9th time I’ve visited Norway in the last five years! My dear friend PÃ¥l Otnes and I had a great time teaching a sold out workshop at StudioTechnika / Farvelabben in Oslo – to an exceptionally talented and nice group.

Afterwards, PÃ¥l and I took a road trip to shoot a couple of abandoned industrial sites for our upcoming “Vestiges of Industry” exhibition at Fotografiens Hus in May 2009. I’m looking forward to posting more pictures, from both the workshop and the road trip, very soon.

I must confess, leading workshops may be the best excuse in the world to travel, make new photographs – and new friends. I am so grateful to realize how many incredible people come to mind as I think about the past few months. Thank you all for your generosity – and thank you ICP & MMW.

The two classes I taught in June at the Maine Media Workshops were a delight, and Eleanor and Herbert Peters at the Thomaston Café very kindly extended the June exhibition of my landscape photographs an extra month, into August. Thank you to everyone who made it (and almost made it) to the opening in June!

New York in summer is also pretty great. The workshops at ICP were filled with amazing people! Returning to Maine to teach a third workshop in September was absolutely icing on the cake. Happy Solstice everyone!

My dear friend Jacqui Bishop invited me a number of years ago to create a series of black-and-white portraits and photo-collages to illustrate a second edition of her fantastically useful book “How To Forgive When You Don’t Know How.”

I’m pleased to announced that publication is complete, and the book is now available via www.innerkids.net — and hopefully soon thru Amazon.com, where copies of out-of-print copies of her books sell for collector’s edition prices…

Look for a second editon of another of Jacqui’s books: “How to Love Yourself When You Don’t Know How” (perhaps with a new set of photos by yours truly) sometime in the near future.

Sincere thanks to all our friends who acted as models!

I’m very excited about what’s now possible in the magical realm of Digital Infrared. The seminar Fuji’s Brandon Remler and I did in January at at B&H was enthusiastically received, and we’ll be presenting a similar seminar, featuring Fuji’s factory-modified Is-Pro and IS-1digital infrared cameras, at SPE in Denver in March. I’ll also be leading a number of hands on in-depth 5-day infrared workshops in 2008.

(Check the “Teaching” menu at the top of the page for a detailed 2008 workshop schedule.)

Check out the two “infrared” entries below for more about infrared.

Norway in May was amazing, as usual. Great workshop, fantastic roadtrip to shoot industry in Sweden, and being in Oslo for the National Day on the 17th was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The exhibition of my landscape photographs at Fotografiens Hus Gallery in downtown Oslo was a success, and there’s talk of another in 2008.

My dear friend, master digital printmaker Amadou Diallo has just released his first book: Mastering Digital Black and White: A Photographer’s Guide to High Quality Black-and-White Imaging and Printing. The book covers everything you need to know, from resolution, to output, to aesthetics.

There’s even a dedicated website where you can download a sample chapter – which just so happens to feature an interview with yours truly ; ) Check it out!

I’m happy to report that my Exhibition and the Workshop PÃ¥l Otnes and I are presenting in Oslo are already receiving favorable attention from the photography press in Norway. Take a look at fotografi.no, the website for Norway’s best photo magazine.

“Seeing Is Believing,” a gallery exhibition of my black-and-white landscape photographs, opens on May 4th at Fotografiens Hus in downtown Oslo. There’s a reception party from 6-9pm if you’re in the neighborhood.

The prints that make up this exhibition feature images made in Norway (happily, I’ve been visiting Norway often since 2003 to teach and to photograph), as well as the US, Canada, Western Europe, and Japan. In addition to the exhibition PÃ¥l Otnes and I will be teaching a special Digital Workshop, and we may even take a road trip into Sweden to photograph abandoned industrial sites. In fact, it looks like I’ll be spending most of the month May in Norway – including May 17th, which is the Norwegian National Day; I hear it’s quite a party!

Special thanks to Tony Gomez, who wrote a feature article about my digital infrared work for the May ‘07 issue of Pro Digital Imaging Magazine. The article showcases work made with S3 Pro UV/IR and IS-1 cameras loaned to me by my friends at Fuji.

(Right-click or option-click here to download a 14mb pdf with the complete article.)

I’m pleased to announce a newly formed strategic alliance with Innova Digital Art, who manufactures and distributes an amazing line of inkjet papers. Innova is sponsoring my “Seeing Is Believing” Gallery Exhibition in Oslo, and will be featuring my work in an upcoming issue of their newsletter. Shades of Paper has all of the Innova papers – and they’re a pleasure to deal with. Tell Jimmy Doyle I sent you.

The Susan Spiritus Gallery, which represents my work on the West Coast, has a whole new website – with my work in the slide show here.

My friends at Fuji recently loaned me a ProS3 UV/IR Digital 35mm camera that I brought to workshops in Norway in September and New Mexico in October. This camera is made for forensic use (think “CSI”), but take a look at these B&W Infrared Landscapes I made with it. These pictures were shown as part of a presentation I did for Fuji at the Photo Plus Expo in NY.

Camilla Longin’s London Gallery, The Art Movement, will be featuring my black-and-white landscape photographs at Photo London. Photo London is like New York’s AIPAD show – approximately 50 world-class photo galleries showcase collectible photographs which are for sale.

The dates are Wednesday 17 May – Sunday 21 May 2006 at the the Royal Academy of Arts’ Burlington Gardens. I will be at the exhibition Wednesday thru Saturday, and I would love to see you there (booth #15). Please come by, or ask your friends in London to stop by and introduce themselves.

Thanks to the writer Morten Loberg, who attended one of my Photoshop workshops in Norway last year, several bodies of my work are featured in an eight-page spread in Fotografi Magazine, Norway’s premiere photo publication. Very exciting!

In addition, my dear friend PÃ¥l Otnes is now writing a regular Photoshop column in the magazine. If you read Norwegian, make sure to subscribe!

For your viewing pleasure the “Recent Work” section now features photos from Norway, including the debut of a couple of never-before-seen landscape images.

(The images which were previously in this section have been relocated to other galleries on the site, primarily “Earth and Sky.”)

I’m pleased to finally post new images in the “Vestiges of Industry” gallery, for your viewing pleasure. I’ve been working on this ongoing series for the last few years, often shooting work during or after workshops – in Oregon, Norway, and even right here at home in Brooklyn (thanks Leo & Phil, PÃ¥l, and Adam, respectively!). It’s interesting that quite a few of these were shot – literally – in the dark. Too dark to focus without a flashlight. 5 minute exposures at f16 kind of dark…

Who says you need “golden light?” Know of any wonderful old factories?

Supposedly we had more than 26 inches of snow on February 12, 2006. That makes this the biggest snowstorm in New York since 1896! (And the most snow measured for a single storm since they began keeping track of this kind of thing.) I thought it was a great day. Here are some pictures, just for fun:

People often ask me which digital camera they should buy. Well, this is it!
I wish I knew who the genius who created this is, so I could give credit where it’s due…

Thanks to my friend PÃ¥l, for sending this to me.

The 2006 Workshop schedule includes Palm Beach in March, ICP in NY during the Summer, Santa Fe in October, and at least three separate events in Norway.

Commercial work for Airspan and Albemarle Design may also take me to Helsinki, England, and Uruguay.

I’m also working on lots of new black-and-white pictures, for possible of exhibitions in London and Oslo this year.