Running the remuda*
Unless an author sells tens of thousands of copies, writing a book is not going to pay the bills. Breakthrough books from unknown authors happen, but my US89 book, with its admittedly niche subject, was never intended to hit the NY Times best-seller list. Rather than just numbers of units sold, I envisioned [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Defining success, part 1
I’m with the band
Upright bass case
Ahmad Jamal’s bassist, James Cammack, travels with his own instrument, its well-worn airline case stashed behind the speakers at last night’s Jazz at the Sheraton concert. That concert series is one of Salt Lake’s secret treasures, and the Ahmad Jamal concert was one of the best ever.
Ready in the chute
Warming up at the Riverton, UT rodeo
I chose Lightroom as my cataloging tool when I fully committed myself to a full-scale Digital Asset Management workflow. Now that I have my system set up, backed up and in use, it’s interesting to see how my workflow has changed.
The new process begins with file transfers from the [...]
Ten more from 2009
Winter feeding in Sanpete County
On New Year’s Eve at just before 10 pm, I hit a milestone in the two-plus year goal of establishing a workflow for cataloguing, ranking and labeling my RAW files: all of 2008 and 2009 RAW files were backed-up with triple redundancy and at least minimally keyworded. Not the most romantic [...]
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