John and Suzi
Snap! That’s right, I’m back. The blog had a few behind the scene technical issues for a few days, but I’m back with my regular post. In the coming weeks my plan is to move my blog to another server to simplify my world a little. For those of you that follow me on Facebook or RSS feed, no worries, but for those of you who subscribe via email we might have to make a onetime change in the near future. Stay tuned. Tomorrow I plan on blogging a little bit about my sister’s wedding that I photographed last weekend. I’m not a wedding photographer, or crasher, but I must admit I had fun with this group. Today’s photo is of my sister and me playing with our walkie/talkies at our cabin in Michigan. Now I don’t know about you folks, but I have literally thousands of prints that I needed to get scanned. I started out scanning these myself. What a pain! That was until I read an article in one of my tech magazines about scanmyphotos.com. So I’m going to save you some time: if you’re like me and need to get a ton of prints in a digital format, so that you can share them with your friends, post them online or just simply manage them better, then I recommend sending them out to be scanned professionally. It cost me approximately $50.00 to have scanmyphotos.com scan my prints and send them back to me. The service did the job as advertised. I know it can be scary sending out your photos to an unknown party, so I recommend using a service such as FedEx or UPS so you can track your package. Once I received my scanned photos from scanmyphotos.com, I simply imported my scanned images into Lightroom – it was a huge time saver. Yes, it’s all about simplifying my world. So what happened to all those prints you ask? Well, they’re in a shoe box collecting dust in my closet. However, their digital siblings are getting lots of play!
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John is an award winning landscape and travel photographer who splits his time between Chicago and Montana. His work has been featured in National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole. John loves the outdoors and traveling, and sharing his images with others.
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Thank you for this info!!!
I have TONS of stuff to scan and the idea of doing it make my stomach hurt…I kept thinking that I would rather pay someone else to do it!
Thank you again for the info.
I love this shot; the contrast of the orange and blue against the snow, the offset of the two cute little kids, and the shadow of the track leading to the person in the background. Very cool.
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