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  • THE SECURITY CAMERA WORKS! I guess my dad needed something at the office because my webcam sent me a bunch of images via email telling me that he arrived, and of course the recording time of the images is…

  • WOW, THANK YOU EVERYBODY I'm getting ready to do another mailing soon, and part of the process is I go and collect all of the opt-in subscriber names I collect from the different websites and other requests to jo…

  • VIDEO OF THE ENTIRE SKI RUN ON A FUJI S20 Today I had my Fuji S20 on me while skiing and I put it on the "video" mode. I used a still camera to videotape an entire ski run that's funny when you think about it. A…

  • THE NEXT THING IN KELOWNA: LOFT ARCHITECTURAL BUILDINGS There have been so many redevelopment areas that I have witnessed unfold right in front of my eyes, unfortunately I was a kid and couldn't do anything about…

  • AWESOME! I HAVE ANOTHER MAGAZINE COVER! YAY! I just found out I'm going to be the cover featured photographer again for Studio Photography and Design. This Photo magazine is the freaking best - great editorials…

  • THE SKIING AT BIG WHITE TODAY 1/3 of Whistler closed due to no snow and laid off 800 employees. Most of the Washington State resorts are closing. But Big White still has a good amount of snow - although we lost…

  • THIS LENS BABY SPRINGY LENS THINGY! This incredibly fun lens is so addicting. Just put it directly on your SLR and instantly you have a Diana/Holga/Pinhole camera style digital camera - what is the greatest is th…

  • TEACH US DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY "Thanks Gary! You are a gifted teacher and have brought my level of frustration and fear of digital photography down several notches. I am looking forward to putting to practice a…

  • UPDATE TO MY WEBCAMS I'm doing some experimenting. Evocam allows you to put "sensor" areas within the viewing area so it only records when someone or something "moves" in the sensor area. In this image, you can…

  • THIS IS BELIEVABLE... YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS THING

  • MOONRISE OVER THE MARINA I had an early flight to Canada so this morning when I woke up in the Marina Harbor, this is what I saw. I had my S20 with me and thought this was such a cool shot of an L.A. moonrise. E…

  • MY NEW TRUCK I haven't had a MBZ in decades, I don't really like them. But I do have a car fetish and yesterday while driving around, this ML430 caught my eye, so we took a test drive and this thing was pretty da…

  • DIGITAL INTENSIVE 2005 LOS ANGELES DEMI-GRADS Meet 55 of the brightest minds in the future of digital photography! Photographers from all throughout the U.S. and even Australia convened across the street fro…

  • NICOLE VISITS THE BIG CITY Being my personal assistant sounds glamorous because you get to fly around to different cities, you get a company car and a credit card. But there is a culture shock. Nicole, my Canad…

  • I LOVE UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS!! Photography forums are becoming a VERY powerful force in the photography industry. All of the camera manufacturers, product manufacturers, labs, etc are checking all of the forums…

  • WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WEBCAM?

  • COMING SOON TO MY E-CART Another cool gadget is coming to my e-cart that will allow you to do cool stuff like this! (or even cooler, I was just goofing around the condo playing with it) This thing is fun!…

  • PICTAGE'S ILLUSTRIOUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS This is our first-ever board of director's group photo. We are a group of powerful C.E.O.'s and an ex-wedding photographer. We just got done planning where we think…

  • THE PP OF A NATIONAL CONVENTION It is a big show here in New Orleans - larger crowd than I thought. I guess my images are all over the Fuji booth since I shot the ad for their new camera. There is a huge image bann…

  • OK I'M GOING TO WRITE A BOOK A few of my friends have suggested that I write a book because I have so many funny stories. I witness the weirdest things happen constantly - oh especially in the wedding photography…

  • WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MARINA DEL REY, CA! It is going to be great today! I can't believe how nice it is. Last night when I arrived from New Orleans it was so warm I had to wear my tank top and shorts at 10…

  • KINCAID TALKS LIKE POPEYE WHEN SAILING Kincaid Krizek is hands down one of the finest human beings I have ever come across on this planet. He was my personal assistant during probably one of the roughest patches…

  • HOUSE OF BLUES PARTY IN NEW ORLEANS Pictage hosted a cocktail party tonight and it was really fun! Really! No, really! (I don't drink) Anyway, I went around and did photos like I used to do as a wedding photograph…

  • HI FROM NEW ORLEANS! I'm here deeply ensconced in my hotel room and it wasn't nearly as cold as everyone told me... "cold snap" I heard repeatedly. So I brought SO much clothes (a big overcoat too) and it's NICE he…

  • If you are wondering what is happening to the DPN Forums... Me too! I think it's a problem with infopop, because they also power my digitalweddingforums site, and that's down. What a drag. There are a lot of si…

  • KELOWNA ROCKETS AT PROSPERA PLACE, THEY SHOOT, THEY SCORE Last night we were guests at Prospera Place in the skybox of Prospera Credit Union. My banker, Marak from the Mission Park branch gave us two tickets to w…

  • THE RAVEN CREEK POLAROID BOARD! At each of my ski chalets I put a little Polaroid camera loaded with film so my guests can put up a photo of themselves. Odd thing though it is normally just my friends who take pa…

  • WELL THE SITUATION IS GETTING BETTER IF YOU READ THE LAST EMAIL! We are sending him another unit via UPS Next Day Air today. The reason these are on here is because he did a nice hatchet job on DPREVIEW and I know…

  • NOT ALL TESTIMONIALS ARE GOOD ONES! Tom from windingroadstudios.com is pretty bummed about not getting his shipment!

  • WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN A SIX WAY COMPARISON SHOOTOUT AT PPA/NEW ORLEANS? I just thought of a cool idea. I'm going to bring the following cameras to PPA Nationals: CANON EOS1DMarkII, EOS20D, EOS10D, FUJI S3/S2/S20…

  • SEE YOU IN NEW ORLEANS! Just decided to go to the PPA National Convention in New Orleans 1/16-19th. No official reason to go but I'm going to have a few meetings. So if you are going, I'll be hanging around the…

  • SNOW EVERYWHERE IN KELOWNA I've never seen so much snow in Kelowna. I know that there is record snow everywhere and I'm sure it is a big hassle for everyone. The roads are all iced over, and two nights ago I was…

  • YAY! $3,000 SO FAR AND COUNTING! I'm donating 10% of the proceeds on orders from my e-commerce cart to the WorldVision.org charity - so far this month I've donated $3,000. And then I know a lot of you are respon…

  • WHOA Today I woke up and saw this in front of my lake house. There is a lot of wind, and it's making the water choppy. First thing I thought was, oh oh, Tsunami... and of course this little lake is only 5.5 miles…

  • NEW WEBCAM POSITION: I stuck a new webcam on the imac in the kitchen of the Lakehouse. It updates every few minutes. I totally have to remember that the camera is live because I'm going to forget and lie on that…

  • APPLECARE IS SO WORTH IT When you buy an Apple computer, they'll ask you if you want the AppleCare protection plan for like $349.00 on top of the price of your computer. It sounds expensive at the time but it is…

  • LYRICS TO BEE GEE'S STAYING ALIVE Earlier I gave you the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne" well yesterday I was at the mall and they had "Staying Alive" on by the Bee Gees and these teenage girls wanted to sing along bu…

  • IT COULD'VE GONE THE OTHER WAY... I've gotten some emails from just a few of you asking when I am going to do the next Wealth Building workshop, a class I give only once a year to professional photographers lo…

  • NEW WEBCAM POSITION I'm in the study at the lake house . I updated it to update every ten minutes. As you can see it is snowing TONS here.

  • TRAVEL DAY AND REMOTE WEBCAM I was trying to do a first for me and setup my webcam but the Seattle wayport WI-FI wasn't up - bummer! It would've been so cool if the "gary's laptop" frame had the remote connection BU…

  • ANOTHER WEBSITE KNOCKOFF! I just got an email from Frank Donnino, a friend of mine from the East Coast who has a wildly successful children's photography operation. He showed me his website's "about" page which was…

  • LYRICS TO AULD LANG SYNE One of the funnest things on New Year's is watching people try to sing Auld Lang Syne because they don't know the words and they look at other people to see if they know the words. Most o…

  • WORLDVISION.COM IS ALREADY THERE I did research on the internet for the fastest way for aid to reach the affected countries from the Tsunami, and World Vision looks like the best way to get help there quickly. They…