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 7^th 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