Book Signing and Photography Seminar/Workshop at Borders and Self Portraits

Me, just in case you're from the media, here's a picture of me taken about two weeks ago. I've emailed many television stations and newspapers to let them know about the signings of "Digital Art Photography for Dummies" in:

1. Ft Myers Borders at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April Fools Day (April 1) no joke!
2. Ft. Lauderdale Borders at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 7.


Other than that, every photographer or artist should experiment with self portraits.

Here's how you do it:

1. Find a place to sit that's relatively clutter free both in front and in back. If you have to move a chair to the place go for it.
2. Check the lighting keep away from places where everything is casting a shadow.
3. Set your camera to portrait mode, look at the view finder and place the camera (use a tripod if you have to or a chair) so that it's pointing in the area where you will sit when it takes your picture.
4. Set the timer to the longest time there is. The timer shows up on your LCD screen as a clock (without a line crossed through it).
5. Place the camera where you want it and click on the shutter.
6. Quickly move to the place that you found where you will pose for a picture.
7. After the camera takes the picture look at the LCD screen to see if your head and shoulders are comfortably in the frame. If not zoom in or out to where you think you will be in the frame.
8. Set the timer again and click the shutter.
9. Check to see if you're framed well.
10. Repeat steps 6 to 9, this time practicing a pose, say leaning forward in with your arms resting on your knee (a writer's pose).

Woman of Butterflies

I really couldn't tell you why I like this subject. I took her picture in the butterfly refuge. Her whole looked interested me and I caught her just after I told her her hair was pretty (Su pelo es bonita...Puede tomar foto, por favor?)

She is an interesting photographic subject. At least to me anyway.

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UNESCO city center site in Mexico

UNESCO site, indeed. Here's the aqueduct in Morelia.

Notice how I angled the shot so that the aqueduct is most of what you see in the frame.

Good photography is focus, focus, focus.

Morelia, Mexico Colonial Style

Morelia's become quite the place. Spruced up with everything a discriminating tourist would want--coffee shops, music venues and colorful protests.

I'd give this place a 10!

Snowin' Butterflies

Elvis of the Insect World

The Monarch butterflies at this very moment are breeding high up in the mountains of Michoacan. Here are a few I caught yesterday while I was here.

FYI--This is an experience of a lifetime--actually getting to see the butterfly "snow."

There are millions of them. The "snow" is next...