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 Pål 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!

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.

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 Pål 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, Pål 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!

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.

I’m happy to report that my Exhibition and the Workshop Pål 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 Pål 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!

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 Pål 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.”)

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.