Catching Up

Thanks to all who have been in touch and inquired about where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing over the past two months.

In late April, I fell down Alice’s rabbit hole and grabbed onto a whirlwind. Here’s a quick summary of my journeys:

• April 26, San Jose — TWIP / Smugmug meet-up presentation
• May 1, San Francisco — Speedliter’s Intensive seminar
• May 2, Mountain View — Speedliting workshop at Google
• May 3, Petaluma — co-host TWIP with Frederic Van from TWIT cottage
• May 8-9, Bethesda — two Speedliter’s Intensive seminars
• May 15, Los Angeles — Speedliter’s Intensive seminar
• May 22-24, Atlanta — Speedliter’s Intensive seminar + workshop
• May 29, Paso Robles — photo walks for Festival of the Arts
• June 5, Houston — Speedliter’s Intensive seminar
• June 12, Chicago — Speedliter’s Intensive seminar
• June 14, New York — Speedliter’s Intensive seminar
• June 15, Lake Success — Speedliting research shoot at Canon USA

If you are counting, that’s four hops across and around the county. Yes, I now have gold status with US Airways’ frequent flier program.

Update: Speedliter’s Handbook

During my spring travels, I wrote the last 200+ pages for the Speedliter’s Handbook. Since returning home (for more than 5 days at a stretch), I’ve finished the preliminary layout of all 432 pages. Now, I just have to shoot several hundred pix for the book over the next four weeks (the book will have close to 1,000 pix and illustrations) and get them placed.

I’m now working 10-12 hours a day, 7 days a week, on wrapping the Handbook. It’s become my own personal Mt. Everest, except that I don’t have sherpas or bottled oxygen (really wish I had some extra oxygen). The Handbook contains far more information than I ever thought I had to share…which is why it will have taken nine solid months to produce. Anyway, I assure you, the wait will be worth it.

New Feature On Speedliting — QQ&A

A ton of people have been emailing questions about Speedliting. I’ve been doing my best to answer them as I can. I’ve decided to start posting questions and answers as a new series on Speedliting’s How-To. So, on Monday, you’ll see the debut of QQ&A — Quick Questions & Answers.

If you would like to submit a question about Speedliting, email it to QQA (at) Speedliting -dot- com. No promises on my end that I’ll be able to answer every one, but I will do my best to post the most interesting questions.

Fall Tour — UK, USA & maybe Denmark

I will unveil my fall tour dates soon. Canon UK is close to finalizing the details for eight Speedliting events during the first two weeks of September. A few Danish Canonistas are trying to organize a couple of workshops in Copenhagen for 17-19 September. My US tour will resume in October and run into early November. If you’d like to get announcements on any of these events, be sure you are on the Speedliting mailing list — subscribe here.

Here are two dates certain for the fall

• Speedliting 5-day workshop, Paso Robles, Oct. 11-15 (details here)
• Speedliter’s Intensive, NYC – Sunday, October 24

Likely cities for Speedliter’s Intensives this fall are: Austin, Boston, Orange County-CA, Philly, Portland-OR, and Seattle.