October, 2009

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Just in time for the Holiday Travel Season

Friday, October 30th, 2009

So what do you do when the airline’s baggage handlers cause $1,200 damage to your favorite guitar but the airline refuses to compensate you? If you are Canadian singer-songwriter Dave Carroll you write a song about it then make a video to post on You Tube. As both a pilot and a guitar player I just couldn’t ignore this story. I’m just glad it wasn’t MY airline.

United Breaks Guitars

United Breaks Guitars 2

So what happens after these videos hit the web? Dave becomes an instant celebrity and along with invitations to perform both songs he is invited to give talks about customer service.  So when a customer service software company asked Dave Carroll to come to Colorado Springs and give a speech to their employees, he had to fly United again…and then they lost his luggage.

Photography Simplified: Composition

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

valeriekayWelcome back to our first full Photography Simplified  lesson. Today we will begin our discussion on Photographic Composition. We’ll start with a brief overview of what composition is all about and then we will start our exploration of the tools you can use to improve the composition in your photos. I’m calling this series Photography Simplified, because my goal is to take some of the more complex or intimidating parts of photography and bringing them down to Earth.  I’m not saying that photography is simple, its not. It is a skill, actually a set of skills that take time and work and patience to learn. At its most basic level, making photographs involves just two skills, composition and exposure. So lets get started with composition. Click to continue »