Welcome to the new face of the Photos for Life blog!
After much hand-wringing, design notes, planning, designing, drawing, designing and planning, the new look for the blog is finally live. A more polished look, easier on the eyes, and hopefully easier to find what you’re looking for.
In case you’re wondering, this is what a plan for a blog looks like:

Well, part of it anyway.
Enjoy!
…Mike
I’m happy to say that I had four images place in the ISPWP fall contest
This fifth place image was taken at the NAC:

This fifth place image was taken at the Ottawa Hunt and Gold club, during Jessica and Mike’s wedding:

This one, also from Jessica and Mike’s wedding, placed eleventh in the “Pure Art” category. It was taken at the Manotic Mill.

Finally, a photo of Courtney’s dress place seventeenth in the “Dress” category:

…Mike
I got a special present for my Mom today: one of the photos I took at her wedding was awarded first place in the Quarterly ISPWP contest Location category
? Here is the award-winning photo:

This image, also of my Mom and Francois, was awarded 7th place in the Ceremony category:

Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
…Mike
I spent the last week in Boston with my good buddy Dave at Photoshop World. I’ve been to Boston before, ages ago…I think it was early 2003. Although I stayed close to the hotel for the most part, I did get around a little bit…Newberry Street was close by after all!
It’s always fun hanging out with Dave, and we were lucky enough to meet up with other photographers who live in the area or who were there for the show…Kristin, Sarah (who is way taller than I expected!), Bill and especially Melissa and Rene: it was great to hang out with you all!
As for the show itself, I was one of about 6 people in the seminar entitled “Photoshop Extensibility” aka Photoshop for Geeks, in which I learned some new stuff that I plan to put to use in Proofmaker and Autoloader.

It was also neat-o to meet some of the giants in the world of Photoshop…people like John Nack and Russell Brown (that’s Russell and I holding the Photoshop World commemorative football, and yes I still have it

It was a great time!
…Mike
Just a quick note…a series of updates to my server occurred today, rendering my mail system unexpectedly out of commission between 10am and 4pm.? If you sent me an email and I don’t reply, please do me a fave and send it again.
…Mike